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At least his reaction is an honest one. There always seems something fake about Brule's enthusiasm for Tokyo although I don't doubt he enjoys the place....It's something to do, too, with the feeling that you live here in the present -- no old buildings -- yet the past (ritual, ancient costume) and the future (the talking police sirens! the new mega-complexes!) too. And it's something to do with no longer finding consumer capitalism toxic here...Midtown is a shrine -- a shrine to bubble-style boom...Japan is booming again, just as it was in the 80s...The buzz of this city feeds me. It's constant stimulation. Daikanyama feels like family, somehow...
" wrote:This goes from bad to delusional to just plain silly...
IT'S ALL about the club sandwich. That's how you recognise a decent hotel, according to Tyler Brule writing in the Financial Times at the weekend. Mr Brule wisely dismisses the pernickety details that govern so many star-rating programmes and says that the quality of the club sandwich (apparently invented in New York in the 19th century) is the simplest way to asses the standards of a hotel.Focusing on the very basics, it [the sandwich standard] starts by sampling the quality of 10 everyday ingredients (bread, lettuce, tomato, egg, bacon, chicken, mayonnaise, butter, potatoes and cooking oil) and how well (or not) all of these can be worked up into a club sandwich.
As with many things in life, if you can nail the simpler, smaller things, then the rest tends to fall into place. This is particularly true of hotels and how they deal with toasting bread, frying eggs, arranging lettuce, crisping bacon and cooking French fries."
In Japan, where Toto controls 60-70% of the market, society is apparently subject to a kind of lavatorial apartheid. The journalist and publisher Tyler Brûlé, who hosted a symposium on clean technology as part of today's launch, explained there were two kinds of people in Japan: the Washlet haves and the Washlet have nots. "It's at the point where if you know someone who doesn't have a Washlet, or you go to a restaurant that doesn't have one, it seems odd," he said. "[It's] like the rest of the world is unwashed."
Taro Toporific wrote: But Brû] region," he writes, one of which makes "the most wonderful suits with the most perfect shoulder shape"
;)"Yeah, I've been always awkward toward women and have spent pathetic life so far but I could graduate from being a cherry boy by using geisha's pussy at last! Yeah!! And off course I have an account in Fuckedgaijin.com. Yeah!!!"
Iraira wrote:Is it wrong do have the burning desire to murder these type of idiots? And do it so they really suffer?
Taro Toporific wrote:How long did it take the young man in Italian hiking boots and trim military trousers to get his Jack Russell dog dressed in clashing plaids and Gore-Tex booties? How did the Jack Russell feel about footwear? And what about the pack of young boys and their haircuts? How many products from brands like Shiseido and Mandom were involved? Five? Nine? 15? What would happen in a downpour? Would there be a petroleum slick left in their wake?
Iraira wrote:Is it wrong do have the burning desire to murder these type of idiots? And do it so they really suffer?
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