Recognise that it is not a conflict fundamentally driven by religion and culture clash. If they were only targeting the West and corrupt Middle Eastern regimes, I might buy your claim but the destruction of antiquities and the attempted genocide of the Yazidis and other vulnerable minorities tells ...

Recognise that it is not a conflict fundamentally driven by religion and culture clash. If they were only targeting the West and corrupt Middle Eastern regimes, I might buy your claim .......... My take is that it's a bit like admitting the Vancouver Canucks aren't the best thing to ever happen to ...

Recognise that it is not a conflict fundamentally driven by religion and culture clash. If they were only targeting the West and corrupt Middle Eastern regimes, I might buy your claim but the destruction of antiquities and the attempted genocide of the Yazidis and other vulnerable minorities tells ...

Islamic State claims responsibility for Paris attacks Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for attacks that killed 127 people in Paris, saying it sent fighters strapped with suicide bombing belts and carrying machine guns to various locations in the heart of the capital. The attacks wer...

I'm generally pretty neutral about horror movies but I agree that Ju-on was pretty damn creepy.

Salty wrote:We went to an onsen last weekend – arriving at about 1pm for a 3pm check-in time, and expecting to have to wait. We were pleasantly surprised to be checked in and given our room immediately. So it can go both ways….

But the point is it should always go that way if the room is ready.

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Wage Slave wrote:

Coligny wrote:I think you cannstill fuck the doll at the end of the day. The actress not so much...

Hire a golden flower of the night then. Most of them are pretty good actresses - it's a key skill.

Even better. And since he's going to die anyway he might as well raw dog it.

Since it's not a real wedding anyway, why not just hire an actress?

WS... That's quite a stupid comparison... I can collect as many cars in my bunker without paying any fee as long as I don't use them on public roads. I cann even drive them on track days or in my field if I want. Property taxe if you are the owner just mean you have one less leach to pay to keep yo...

Takechanpoo wrote:and in my personal impression, the reason ppl have a illusion that j-hospitality is superb is that there are 2 or 3 unspeakably rude countries just next to this island. to be exact, c, k and r of the capital letter.

That was actually funny.

Wage Slave wrote:

Samurai_Jerk wrote:I actually have a problem with property tax since it basically means there is no true ownership by individuals

I'm not with you. How's that?

If you have to pay taxes to keep your property, you don't own it. You're just renting it.

I actually have a problem with property tax since it basically means there is no true ownership by individuals but practically speaking I don't think it can be done away with.

Real estate is not a liquid asset. The best approach is not to tax anything till it's been converted to cash. People being forced to sell assets to pay a tax bill on the value of those same assets is pretty fucked up. OK, it's a not purely liquid asset but it is also not illiquid. But I get what yo...

This is a tangent but the US is really shitty with taxes on prizes. Win a car or a luxury vacation on a game show and you have to pay taxes on it . Wow ... that really is kinda shitty. How about the lottery? In Japan lottery winnings are tax free (at least they were last time I checked), so even if...

What I actually believe is there should be an inheritance tax instead of an estate tax and only on liquid assets. What do you mean? If an asset is truly illiquid it has no or almost no market value so it isn't taxable anyway. Or do you consider houses and land as not liquid? Cos they are liquid, ju...

Matsuki, General Butt Naked is from Liberia.

You seem to be deliberately missing the point in your eagerness to hand over the fruits of your parents' labour to the taxman. By your argument they are now taxed three times, twice by the UK, once by Japan. I already pay tax in Japan, income tax, city tax, property tax etc, and my kids will pay ta...

Anastasia Lin, Canada's Miss World, Says She's Being Targeted By China Canada's China-born Miss World contestant said on Tuesday her visa to travel to the beauty pageant at a Chinese resort has been delayed and her father has been harassed by Chinese officials because she has spoken out about human...

Why the F should a shop owner have open ended hours for customers that might or might not show up? I have found a few higher end places a touch anal about the closing time, but one thing I do admire about their lack of hospitality is that work is just that, and when work is done it's time to go hom...

Japan Actually Lacking in "Omotenashi" Hospitality British Company Owner Acquainted with Kyoto Advises Bitterly http://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/kp/topics/eng/2014dec/12-05.html Some good points in that article. Try to get a boiled egg in a hotel or restaurant in Japan. They can't do it, even if...

The Tokyo link is actually Funabashi, Chiba. I wonder why it's so much higher then all the surrounding areas in Tokyo metro.

Japan's first commercial jet in 50 years makes maiden flight Japan's first commercial jet in half a century made its maiden flight on Wednesday, in a breakthrough for the country's long-held ambition to establish an aircraft industry that can compete with some of the major players in global aviatio...

Salty, for the record your problem isn't run-on sentences.

Now even panty thieves have gone cyber. Tokyo man accused of stealing Facebook underwear photos A Tokyo man accused of accessing a woman's Facebook account and allegedly downloading pictures of her in her underwear has been arrested, police and reports said Tuesday. Ehhhh,if the pics were on facebo...

The issue isn't your criticism of Japan. It's your only-in-Japan attitude towards things that aren't unique to Japan. I think in some cases you guys are reading that into my statements, regardless of my intent. It's not what we're reading into it, it's what you're writing. You regularly unnecessari...

And yes, it does feel wrong because the basic justification for tax is the state provides the environment where you prosper enough to gain assets of value. Japan cannot say it provided support to my parents while they scrimped and saved to buy a house. And Japan wouldn't tax your parents or their e...

Now even panty thieves have gone cyber. Tokyo man accused of stealing Facebook underwear photos A Tokyo man accused of accessing a woman's Facebook account and allegedly downloading pictures of her in her underwear has been arrested, police and reports said Tuesday. In what is being reported as the ...

I had not mentioned gerrymandering until you – out of thin air, suggested that I equated it with vote buying. I'm the one who initially suggested it though not as directly. Since you said that voter suppression and vote value manipulation were buying votes it would be easy to categorize gerrymander...