First of all, has anybody noticed that just recently, the company has changed their name? Kentucky Fried Chicken has become KFC. We could burn these perverts at the stake and sell them off to Jeffrey Dahmer-types overseas as KFC -- Kentucky Fried Chikan. The Frugal Gourmet, Jeffrey Dahmer, did said...
About bloody time... I ain't holding my breath. NO DOGS. NO PIANOS. NO GAIJIN. (tm) - - standard disclaimer on most J-listings My third week here, I got my "welcome" to Japan. A real estate agent threw his deskside trash can at the front door when I tried to walk into his office. Then he ...
[quote="Captain Japan"] I went to Citibank with a year's worth a few years ago. They had a machine to do the counting. It worked like a charm] That machine did exist! Five years ago, the then current model of Hitachi ATM/cash dispenser at Sumitomo Banks accepted up to 100 One yen coins. Af...
Japan: 10,000 Deaths if Big Quake Hits Associated Press / Tue, Mar. 18, 2003 TOKYO - About 10,000 people would die and 250,000 homes would be destroyed if a massive earthquake were to strike central Japan, the government said Tuesday. The estimates - announced in a government survey designed to pro...
YIKES! Perhaps this KFC outfit will help me figure what to wear to the FG Party in April. :lol: Re: dilemma What will I wear??? :roll: http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/images/kfc.jpg Actually, I think this is the same charming lady that borrows a private-company garbage truck, puts loudspeakers on it and...
Note: Actually, this "Sneak Peek" link has NOT active yet, but it ought to go live later today or tomorrow. Till then play with all the other video clips at the "Creators Links" Sneak Peek of New ' Astro Boy ' Series Animation Insider - 18 March Tokyo International Anime Fair 20...
poophead Poodle's address to the House of Commons for screwing the whole TV schedule last night. :? Does that mean it was on at a later time and I missed it? :( Nope. Many shows were cancelled last night and "filler" was stuck in---you'll see the programs next week. The big "problem&...
OUCH, I must four or five sacks of 1 yen coins around my house and office . . . :? http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:aPJ4j4y0GPkC:www.asahi-net.or.jp/~KX5N-KGYM/yokohama/1yen.jpg http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:aPJ4j4y0GPkC:www.asahi-net.or.jp/~KX5N-KGYM/yokohama/1yen.jpg http://images.go...
OK, what happened to London Hearts (Blackmail, The triangle, The revengers...) last night? Compulsive and repulsive Tuesday night viewing to feed my weekly addiction.... but last night replaced by a common as muck travel/onsen/cooking program. :x Blame the poophead Poodle's address to the House of ...
It is true indeed that 'the willing' makes strange bedfellows. ... * Japan (post-war)... Perhaps Japan wants the post-war reconstruction contracts for concrete. :lol: http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:xLvKtQPlNSkC:timos.str.archi.tohoku.ac.jp/homepage/japanese/j-symbol/concrete.gif http://image...
Does Japan face 'two lost decades'? Wednesday, March 19, 2003 Japan Times After enduring what is widely perceived as a "lost decade" of economic problems, Japan still appears to lack a sense of crisis, with some of the nation's leaders apparently not taking the situation seriously and rel...
The Education, Science and Technology Ministry on Monday released its action plan to improve English skills among the Japanese, with goals including teaching the majority of English-language classes at middle and high schools in English and to have 10,000 high school students go overseas as exchange...
Puri-Kura ( Print Club ) stickers that can be made any color printer are REALLY gonna stop car thieves. Sheesh. This is just money to pay the amakudari (descent from heaven) thieves in the "government-authorized nonprofit corporation." :x Security stickers may be issued to help prevent ca...
So that makes Roh and Fat Bastard Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum? :lol: Who knows but check out this one... [url] Will Japan Become a Battlefield in War With North Korea? [/url] ...It is only a matter of time until North Korea launches a Tepodong 2 missile at Japan and attacks Japan with sarin gas. .....
I was under the impression that you have to be a Japanese national to stand for election here. Anyway, good luck to him. I assume the FG running for office is like Finland-born Upper-House member Tsurunen Marutei, who has citizenship and runs for public office every few years here in Yokohama. He r...
There's never been a cure for the flu has there? Anyway, this might not even be the flu (which apparently is a good thing) Yeah, the "SARS" bug is scaring my college buddies over at the CDC have been emailing me from their labs ALL night---nobody went home last night and they're still the...
do you mean kawaii ku nai? Ain't it cute/ kawaii ku nai? The "Goldest" link is lame and old-school/art-school body painting. The so-called "Messy" genre is more commonly called "Splashing" ... sort of an infantile-developmental stage of food-fight fetishism and not exa...
Computer bug paralyzed Japan's air traffic system Nando Times [registration required] / TOKYO (March 16, 2003 10:58 p.m. EST) - The government said Thursday a glitch in a program made by technology giant NEC Corp., overlooked by both aviation bureau and company technicians for months, led to the fa...
That's certainly true, but journalists should at least get their facts right. :roll: Now Kyodo Press is saying reporting it from VP Dick.... N. Korea nukes could prompt Japan no nuke rethink Kyodo (via Yahoo) Monday March 17, 1:04 PM U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that North Korea's de...
I tell you. I think I stuck my foot in my mouth or something is really fishy...surface to air missles.. getting them, as it appeared to me, ready for battle..... and there were 4 helicopters, what looked to be apache type I mean it looked like a Japanese high school or something... The antenna arra...
BBC is reporting that that this is going to be worse that the 1918 Flu that killed 15% of the population of major cities throughout the world. Japan health authorities on alert over pneumonia TOKYO, March 17 (Reuters) 17/ Mar 2003 / 08:07pm - Japan has put health authorities around the country on a...
... I live about 5 minutes from a J-tai facility, and they look like a bunch of cub scouts.. loosely organized, the fence surrounding the compound could easily be compromised.. I seldom see them doing much of anything, besides exercising. ... As far as I can tell, J-tai guards aren't issued any bul...
What's the age of Japan's real princess? Check out the Princess Tenko website . http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:UhYR2sAkodAC:image.pathfinder.com/asiaweek/magazine/2000/0512/as.people.jpg Illusionist to the North She's perhaps the greatest illusionist in Japan. These days, Princess Tenko is po...
What a clown: Japan has a pacifist constitution, imposed by the United States after World War II to keep Japan from becoming a military power again. That constitution does not bar Japan from having a military . It has a 160,000-strong self-defense force. Well, only the Japanese can enforce their ow...
N. Korea prods Japan into buildup USA TODAY / Mar/16/2003 6:46 PM TOKYO -- Japan is preparing to launch spy satellites, speeding up development of missile defenses, building its commando forces and expanding the range of its air force in response to what it sees as a growing threat from North Korea...
Does capaccio (spelling?) count? If so, add buffalo and kangaroo to the list... For PURE PUTIDFCATION, nothing beats Japanese shiokara (raw fermented squid guts) but I rather partial to the dread kusaya , some sort of dried fish product whose aroma is so strong it lingers in your house for up to th...