Japanese TV loses contest to keep strip show on screen A TV programme in Japan has been told off for featuring a game where the loser has to strip. The Gokuhin Namida Musume ga Nugu (Extremely Poor Crying Girl Gets Her Gear Off) segment in Zenigata Kintaro was criticised for "commercialising s...

If I get another computer and use Linux, can I use any of my other programs (which are for windows, which I have up the ying yang, and which I have spent years getting reasonably proficient with). Or do I have to buy/download new soft and learn all over again? You could Windows in an emulation wind...

Plus, I like supporting the company that single handedly spanked NTT's ass. YBB originally didn't have phone support, but I think they do now.. GJ I've heard YahooBB support is almost zero... And of course there's NOTHING in English: it's all Japanese application forms, a Japanese install CD, Japan...

Sorry Taro buddy - actually YahooBB stands for Yahoo BroadBand not bulletin board. I said it's MISS named "BB." The established dictionary definition (in both English and Japanese dictionaries) of the acronym "BB" was bulletin board. To name their service product "YahooBB&q...

These screaming banshee theories have been popular throughout history. Ah, but it's great way to make money in book sales. It's a possible scenero with the refuse-to-anything-to-save-themselves-from-themselves attitude in Japanese have now. Maybe the "screaming banshees" are of some value...

What is Yahoo BB? "Yahoo BB?" It's EngRish of course! The brainiacs at Yahoo Japan (Softbank) misnamed their ADSL broadband service "BB" even though BB means the outmoded Bulletin Board tech from the dark ages before the Internet. Yahoo BB has been surprising Japanese consumers ...

More news as it develops. Here's the Rest-of-the-Story as Paul Larvae would say... Shoot-out near Tokyo Stn leaves gangster dead, another wounded Tuesday, November 26, 2002 at 06:00 JST TOKYO --- A gangster was killed and another seriously injured Monday in a shooting on a street in Tokyo's Chuo Wa...

I am after a used or very cheap laptop for between 6-80,000. HH The all BIG computer stores offer trade-ins, and thus they have a used computer section burried waaaaaay in the back of their stores. My favorite is PC Depot 'cause they offer a a guarantee on their used stuff http://www.pcdepot.co.jp/...

Gee, I feel old . . . Global ageing edges world to brink of crisis The world stands on the brink of a crisis with old people likely to outnumber the young sooner than anyone thinks, fewer babies born and pension costs soaring as economies slow, a population expert [Richard Jackson ] said on Monday.....

Beware of the Killer NABE! Right now, 7:45, Fuji TV (Ch 8) is is showing how sharing a communal pot of NABE with shellfish can kill---SRSV attack of projectile vomiting on primetime TV! SRSV (NORWALK_VIRUS_AND_SMALL ROUND STRUCTURED VIRUS) is associated almost exclusively with outbreaks of diarrhoe...

just like John Waters' scratch-and-sniff Odorama movie "Polyester" But ya gotta love gimmicks, like the 1981 'Odorama' scratch-and-sniff card for the 'art' film, Polyester... http://www.peacheschrist.com/thumbs/odorama_thumb.jpg http://www.monroecc.edu/depts/library/poly.jpg [/img]

bikkle wrote:

Taro Toporific wrote:...no ficking way does is New York the US.

:confused:

And no fricken way does my typing equal accuracy.

Real smart kids . . . 'Fainting game' back once more An adolescent "game" popular in many countries, at many times, has resurfaced in Japan with dangerous consequences. The latest craze with the kids is called the "shisshin game," or fainting game. In this incarnation, one kid pr...

Crispy wrote:Whenever Japanese take Texans' behavior as typical of rest of the US, I am quick to correct them. Texas is Texas, the US is the US.

I always remind Japanese people that: "Paris may be France just as Tokyo is Japan, but no ficking way does New York equal the US."

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:GlQLrxwmZdYC:members.tripod.com/NuitandBast/denial.gif In today's Bloomberg News... The first step in Japan's road to recovery: confronting denial The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation last week urged Japan once and for all to admit defeat and m...

Today's print edition of the the ITH/Asahi announces NTT's Smello-Vision and Feelies"for your 3G phone... just like John Waters' scratch-and-sniff Odorama movie "Polyester", or the Smello-Vision and "The Tickler" film experiments of the 1950s. " NTT planning a touchy-fe...

Will the Neon Lights Go Out in Tokyo? If they're unlucky, Tokyo residents could be huddling for warmth under blankets this winter. If they're really unlucky, the city's bright neon lights may dim .... The capital of the world's second-largest economy could face a power crunch in coming months as it...

Nigeria calls off Miss World show the bloodshed which left at least 100 people dead and 500 injured in Kaduna this week. Hey, it continues . . . Nigeria Riot Toll Jumps to Over 200 Sunday, November 24, 2002 updated 4:44 a.m. PT LAGOS, Nigeria -- The death toll in rioting between Muslims and Christi...

bikkle wrote:Bug was living in my back
No mud shrimp posts please.

BEWARE of the dread "MUKADE", the poisonous centipede of Japan ---Outbreaks of the Parafontaria laminata can be dangerous to your young ones . . .

When madness lurches this way I think the opening scene says it all . . . http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Nov/200211238616268113334430.jpg To gain an sense of the film's politics, you can see that ALL the HTML labels use rightest labels like the "National Line".... but wait, i...

bikkle wrote:It was probably a Titanium.

Nah, the PowerBook Titanium whines more than Boeing 777 filled with Japanese PTA mothers. No guy could survive the noise , let alone the heat.

I Since then I've never had any other problems at Immigration, either. Different personel. Even the OYAJIs are friendly and helpful. Sometimes I wonder if I'm living in a parallel universe!! 8O It was the proper PHASE of the MOON . Actually, to answer my own question...to quote Terrie Lloyd in his ...

Here's one for ya. Right in our backyard.. Which do you prefer: Saitama murderers, or Kanagawa cops? GJ Ok, here's a better one: Murder suspect escapes en route to trial Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 08:30 JST YOKOHAMA-- A 31-year-old Chinese man on trial for murder and robbery fled with handcuffs...

bikkle wrote:Ellen Feiss ad disappears?

Here it isn't.

"Pee, pee pee pee, pee..." like she's baaaaack.

I prefer Will's ad where he says, "...all ya can do is eat it and goop it out."
http://technojunkie.org/berniec/ferrell_switch.html

bikkle's news article wrote:...the growing problem of internet addiction - with more than a third of web users thought to be at risk of dependency.

Me?

I Since then I've never had any other problems at Immigration, either. Different personel. Even the OYAJIs are friendly and helpful. Sometimes I wonder if I'm living in a parallel universe!! 8O It was the proper PHASE of the MOON . ANYTHING is possible with the random folks at Immigration, Hell, I ...

Kanagawa cops? Police officials could not hide their shock. Only gaijin cops could do such a thing!! GJ "KANAGAWA KEISATSU' ---Kanagawa Keystone Cops: that is the only thing you need to say to a Japanese person to evoke a smirk and knowing snicker. They're famous for being Japan's worst. Ki wo...

Mongolian sumo wrestler beat down such renowned Japanese sumo masters as Yokozuna Musashimaru Did Asa wrestle Musashi!!?? I thought Musashi pulled out because his wrist is injured.. Is that article BS? GJ Nah, that's just an old undated article. The HTML source code says it is from July, but no yea...

.today is also Mongolian INDEPENDENCE DAY, literally. Asashoryu wins his first Actually, I'm pretty sure it's the 26th.. Yeap, your right! I guess only the NHK announcer said it was Independence Day. Actually, the Mongolians are party animals according to the Mongolia Today website: July 11-13 Inde...