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Russell wrote:Repent I shall.
But it will come anyway...
dimwit wrote:So you think we should call it a swell typhoon?
wagyl wrote:This typhoon is certainly slow moving, which prolongs the mah jongg tournaments for those stuck in it.
Russell wrote:wagyl wrote:This typhoon is certainly slow moving, which prolongs the mah jongg tournaments for those stuck in it.
And it has more time to dump rain.
How much rain is there on Okinawa, Mike?
Mike Oxlong wrote:Those look like some of the space photos Taro was posting earlier. We went from 13m waves in the first half of the cat 4/5 storm of the century, to the quickly downgraded languishing tropical storm that just won't go away and leave us be...
yanpa wrote:I love [*] the way English-language media (esp. the US-based ones) go all dramatic in a deep baritone "BREAKING NEWS - MEGASTORM RONGWON, THE WORST TYPHOON SINCE THE LAST WORST TYPHOON IS POISED TO BATTER THE COAST OF JAPAN, BRINGING WAVES WHICH COULD REACH 100 FEET AND WINDS OF 1000MPH AND DEATH TO MILLIONS AND TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF DEVASTATION IF THE ABSOLUTE FREAKY WORST HAPPENS, STAY TOONED FOR OUR ARMAGEDDON UPDATES FROM OUR TYPHOON TEAM", kind of way, whereas Japanese TV is "here's a guy in a raincoat getting wet, stay clear of coasts and rivers, and keep watch out for evacuation alerts".
[*] in the sense of "am annoyed by"
yanpa wrote:I love [*] the way English-language media (esp. the US-based ones) go all dramatic in a deep baritone "BREAKING NEWS - MEGASTORM RONGWON, THE WORST TYPHOON SINCE THE LAST WORST TYPHOON IS POISED TO BATTER THE COAST OF JAPAN, BRINGING WAVES WHICH COULD REACH 100 FEET AND WINDS OF 1000MPH AND DEATH TO MILLIONS AND TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF DEVASTATION IF THE ABSOLUTE FREAKY WORST HAPPENS, STAY TOONED FOR OUR ARMAGEDDON UPDATES FROM OUR TYPHOON TEAM", kind of way, whereas Japanese TV is "here's a guy in a raincoat getting wet, stay clear of coasts and rivers, and keep watch out for evacuation alerts".
[*] in the sense of "am annoyed by"
Russell wrote:Fortunately, we have the NHK to give us objective unbiased news on a continuous base...yanpa wrote:...WORST TYPHOON IS POISED TO BATTER THE COAST OF JAPAN, BRINGING WAVES WHICH COULD REACH 100 FEET AND WINDS OF 1000MPH AND DEATH TO MILLIONS AND TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF DEVASTATION IF THE ABSOLUTE FREAKY WORST HAPPENS, STAY TOONED FOR OUR ARMAGEDDON UPDATES FROM OUR TYPHOON TEAM...
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