Ahoy! Typhoon's a comin'

[Big Booger]

Batten down the hatches.. shimmy me timbers.. here comes another typhoon.. the biggest in a long while...

[Taro Toporific]

Batten down the hatches.. shimmy me timbers.. here comes another typhoon.. the biggest in a long while...

Aye, aiye , Matey!
Me belooooves the brisk wind that cleans out the foul smell of these Orient environs!


((National "Speak Like a Pirate Day" is coming up on November 19 - do not miss it this year!))

[cstaylor]

200yen it bypasses Kanto.

[Taro Toporific]

[japslapper]

.....since I live near Shionomisaki (Southermost tip of Honshu).....I get a direct hit from virually all typhoons - when this happens its great - a day or two off work and stiil get paid!




The Japanese make such a thing of these typhoons - I mean the USA gets Hurricanes and that IS trouble.........Typical Japan and "Safety Culture"

An old lady was killed in a typhoon near here last year - but what do you expect hanging bed sheets (paragliding?) out on you roof balcony mid typhoon!

[Taro Toporific]

.....since I live near Shionomisaki (Southermost tip of Honshu).....I get a direct hit from virually all typhoons - when this happens its great - a day or two off work and still get paid!

The Japanese make such a thing of these typhoons.........Typical Japan and "Safety Culture"

What, doesn't this picture strike terror in your heart?! I mean just think of all the wet bicycles. Oh the horror!


As far as that "a day or two off work and still get paid! " ... I get paid for missing work for weather-cancelled air flights. My boss whines that I must do my secret Mountain Ute Rain Dance just before the end of every vacation trip returning from the States.

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Caption from TokyoTimes:

A truck rests on its side and a telephone pole sits on top of it, victims of powerful winds as Typhoon Maemi hit Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture

I love to hear that a truck is so laid back it can have a rest during a big storm. And the post has a place to sit down.

[GomiGirl]

Japanese typhoons are storms in a teacup compared with the cyclones that regularly hit Australia during Summer.

The most famous one was Cyclone Tracy* which flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974 and killed 65 people.





*don't anybody start - I have heard the jokes all my life

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Japanese typhoons are storms in a teacup compared with the cyclones that regularly hit Australia during Summer.

The most famous one was Cyclone Tracy* which flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974 and killed 65 people.





*don't anybody start - I have heard the jokes all my life

I saw the film!!! But I dont think it would make it to my top ten list.

[kurohinge1]

Japanese typhoons are storms in a teacup compared with the cyclones that regularly hit Australia during Summer ...

Oz Report: All clear here for now ...

[cliffy]

Cyclones don't usualy hit Sydney, but it has it's own wild storms. Living in Far North Queensland Cyclones are a part of summer life, scares the living shit out of of the tourists though

[AssKissinger]

Far and away, the deadliest Typhoons have been in Bangladesh. Check out these statistics:

Bangladesh Cyclone, November 1970.
The greatest tropical system disaster this century occurred in Bangladesh in November 1970. Winds coupled with a storm surge killed between 300,000- 500,000 people. These cyclones usually cause the most misery, loss of life, and suffering in low lying areas in Bangladesh and coastal India.

Bangladesh Cyclone 02B, April 1991.
Another cyclone struck the Chittagong region in Bangladesh in 1991 killing over 138,000 people and causing damage in excess of 1.5 billion dollars. The tropical cyclone devastated the coastal area southeast of Dacca with winds in excess of 130kts and a 20 foot storm surge.

The most famous one was Cyclone Tracy* which flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974 and killed 65 people.

65 deaths probably wouldn't even make the news in Bangladesh.

[GomiGirl]

65 deaths probably wouldn't even make the news in Bangladesh.

Flattened a major Australian city overnight (Christmas eve no less) and left all the residents homeless on Christmas morning.

sure this is not news in Bangladesh, but it was horrific to Australians at the time.

[AssKissinger]

http://www.yahoo.com/homer/?http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030913/ap_on_re_as/skorea_typhoon&cid=516&ncid=716

Typhoon Maemi Kills 42 in South Korea

[Taro Toporific]

[Caustic Saint]

[Taro Toporific]

Tropical storm heading for Japan
September 19, 2003 /AP

A POWERFUL storm was headed toward Japan's southernmost island chain Friday, threatening to bring strong winds and heavy downpours to the region over the weekend.

Tropical storm Choi-wan was packing winds of up to about 90 kph (60 mph) and moving northeast toward Okinawa at about 25 kph (15 mph) while gaining strength, the Meteorological Agency said.

It was about 110 kilometres (70 miles) south of the Okinawan capital of Naha late Friday morning and was expected to reach the island and part of Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu by Saturday....

Choi-wan is Cantonese for colorful clouds.

[Big Booger]

The US just went through a hurricane in SC.. it was all over CNN yesterday.

[Caustic Saint]

Tropical storm heading for Japan
September 19, 2003 /AP

A POWERFUL storm was headed toward Japan's southernmost island chain Friday, threatening to bring strong winds and heavy downpours to the region over the weekend.

[Rocket J. Squirel] Not again! [/Rocket J. Squirrel]

[Steve Bildermann]

[Taro Toporific]

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Gangstah vs Pirate

fo'ties / bottles o' rum

bling bling / booty

Yo! / Avast!

Homey / Matey

Bee-atch / Scurvey dog

Pop a cap in yo ass / Make you walk the plank

Word / Arrrrrrrrr

Beat down / Keel haul

Wack MC / Land lubber

Playah / Swashbuckler

Mack Daddy / Cap'n

Jacking / Plundering

Rap / Sea Shanties

The joint / The brig

[Big Booger]

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Gangstah vs Pirate

fo'ties / bottles o' rum

bling bling / booty

Yo! / Avast!

Homey / Matey

Bee-atch / Scurvey dog

Pop a cap in yo ass / Make you walk the plank

Word / Arrrrrrrrr

Beat down / Keel haul

Wack MC / Land lubber

Playah / Swashbuckler

Mack Daddy / Cap'n

Jacking / Plundering

Rap / Sea Shanties

The joint / The brig

Funniest shizit I've seen all week.

[kurohinge1]

Avast ye mateys - here lies me namesake:



From the Japanese game of the same name - where you poke little plastic daggers into a barrel and listen to the little blighter yelp and whinge until he finally leaps out of the barrel.

We were using it as a drinking game.

[Taro Toporific]

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Gangstah vs Pirate

Methinks Capt'n Steve's stuff was grrreat booty!

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However, we gonna get spanked-n-planked 'cause they was no Japanese content in this thread. So as a public service, I must interject that Japanese PIRATES were refered to as the "Monkey Thieves", he, he.

Cool Japanese PIRATE thread here
http://isfogailsi.kielenn.net/archives/000238.html#000238

[American Oyaji]

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Gangstah vs Pirate

fo'ties / bottles o' rum

bling bling / booty

Yo! / Avast!

Homey / Matey

Bee-atch / Scurvey dog

Pop a cap in yo ass / Make you walk the plank

Word / Arrrrrrrrr

Beat down / Keel haul

Wack MC / Land lubber

Playah / Swashbuckler

Mack Daddy / Cap'n

Jacking / Plundering

Rap / Sea Shanties

The joint / The brig

Word Homey.....er...um...I mean

ARRRR Matety!!