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Ten days. Ten days. The no campaign suddenly realise that they cant just expect conservatism and the fear of the unknown to carry them through. People keep talking about Quebec as the reference point, but its that first election of Obama they should be checking. The idea to be a part of genuine history and change is an overwhelming ego-trip. Compare that vision with the chance to keep things as they are. Did we learn nothing from Braveheart? Now that its plausible and it could actually happen, youll find people come off the sidelines and think "**** it, lets do this". It'll be close. But

Hello September. Hello knife edge.

Ooh, that does remind me. A gnarly as shit course is the straight whisky course on Goryu/iimori. Im sure its fine and all that, but purely from its proximity to all the green runs in the general vicinity, and the fact it doesnt LOOK all that bad, it really ****s the beginners up. I speak from the experience of one of the many thats come a cropper on it. Its those mountains lurking under the dust that get you. Its a rare day when you dont see someone cartwheeling on it. Which also reminds me (because it almost broke my ankle), that champion course can be brutal. It tricked me into t

Watched the first series of Utopia. Incredibly arresting telly. And only six episodes long. Do yourself a favor, read a review or two (or better yet, watch the opening scene of the first episode) if you can handle the blood levels, (its hyper stylized to be honest so i dont think its honestly that bad), and enjoy it in a single sitting. Well worth the bother. Dont spoil it though.

That was my assumption as well. Seems not. THAT BEING SAID though, ill definitely stop taking them a week or two before my contracts up. Dont want to accidentally trigger a piss test. There has been mention of synephrine (the main ingredient beside caffeine) triggering false positives. To wit: Bitter orange has recently been substituted as an ingredient in many "ephedra-free" dietary supplements used for weight loss. The primary active ingredient in bitter orange is synephrine. Previous reports have documented false-positive results from ephedrine with urine amphetamine assays. Because of

Im cheating my ass off. Doing gym stuff as ever. If i carry on as im doing (no real diet), then ill probably hit around 81kg by winter (from peak of 85 in March). Instead, playing with supplements. Taking lipo6 black to speed things up a bit. Only been taking it since wednesday, and lost about three pounds of (i assume) water weight. This is expected and anticipated, but a few years ago i crash dieted for a month (about 6-800 cal/day), assumed first few days was water weight. That was nice. But it kept going. Im hoping this does something similar. A few things to note... on the bad:

I tell thee what! ive not loved Tianjin. In fact, ive kinda disliked it. Nothing really personal, its a big city (13 million people), and i hate cities generally. Give me mountains, countryside students and just a peaceful life any day. But damn! This place is DESERT dry. Rainy season has come and gone and i reckon we've had about 10 days of rain. And even then its on and off (mainly off). Ive thoroughly enjoyed skipping rainy season this year. Considering last year in Trat was pretty much every day monsoon (and thigh deep wading to school in flip flops), i reckon this is karmic payb

I am a ****ing boss! This was nova at the time when you literally had to have a pulse to score the gig (and when they were charging pie in the sky idiots 60,000/month in rent to stay in one of their apartments with some random dude youd never met in you life before). Ah,pre scandal nova! how i could have done with thee at least once. Interac im putting entirely down to desperation creeping through every pore of my skin in those last two weeks in Japan.

Uni has been incredibly important to me. In fact its been the defining act of my life thus far. Like Tubby though its done **** all for me in relation to my subject (philosophy). But lets see: As a high school drop out, i left school at 16. Bounced around enjoying my dole check for a few years. Dropped out of a BTEC in Music Technology twice, started hanging out with a bunch of space cadet upper middle class oiks dossing in Newcastle (yes, im a class-conscious prole!), ended up moving in with them. Raved like a bastard for three years! Loved the surrogate uni life and realised id s

If youve got the money of course and arent a cheapskate like me, then theres ski in/out options all over the shop. If not though the only two REALISTICALLY with ski in/out on a budget is Ryuoo and Yomase/Kosha. Black box. Google etc. Akakan also does the black box, but the two times ive used it i was in the exact same hotel and its a bit of a shank down the hill Akakan also has the most awesome ski in/out place ive seen to be honest. Its right out of the shining! As for the gaijinz... shiga will be relatively gaijin free. No gaijins either on the two days i spent on Kosha. If yo

Just literally made this post over SBforums. Dunno if its a help, but heres some ideas. The dude wanted to go shiga kogen, its a good idea of course. Definitely not going to find too many gaijins up there. But heres the other options from an iiyama and yudanaka perspective. I should add that my choices were based on him being in a group with 4 mates and all of them being beginners. I guess i COULD tailor it more to your preferences (very close to the ropes, more japanesey), but maybe ill leave it as is for the moment. Its long enough Base yourself around Iiyama for example and you s

Woohoo! my first run in with Gangsters. Can you say 13 hired goons coming round in broad daylight to our school clearly intimidating and harassing the staff and students resulting in the worst ****ing police on planet earth standing around and letting them carry on loitering right ouside the GLASS DOORS of the office entrance intimidating a bunch of 9 year old children. ****ing disgraceful stuff. Oh yeah, and also being threatened by one of the aforementioned goons RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE POLICE IN THE POLICE STATION and no one batting an eye lid. I was genuinely under the impression that t

I like colour

Im well up for dying on the job. Well, not ON the job. But at home while im still in my working life. Work gives me a routine. Im kinda chaotic, lazy and insular. Its not that i particularly love work, but i know that if left to my own devices i will slip into awful habits. I remember distinctly this program that was on back in the UK (before or after Japan, i forget?) I dont remember anything about it to be honest except for this one image: It was a 70 year old dude (or thereabouts) who just sort of slipped from the common weal. He was living in a house filled with garbage bags of rubbis

ill be honest, i didnt measure it. I took a wild stab at it based on my HOLLLLEEEE FUUUUUUUCCCKKKK!!!! careening down an icewall

Dude, still in China. Contract ends mid october. When i move to korea, there will be a 48 size font party in this thread! Youll know! I wont shut up about it for the whole week the rosy tinted goggles are on. After that itll be back at the millstone and whinging about nothing at all

Hooray! im finally debt free! And hooray! i almost got an official warning from my boss today for being a cheeky scamp (theyve been nipping at not just me, but everyone all week and its a smallish office, so hard to avoid each other and just do my job in peace). Pulled out a mae culpa apology upon realising i was nowhere near ready to tell them to take their job and shove it. Damage is done though. Got three months left on my contract. Got at least all of July and August working at the main juku/hagwon in close proximity to the boss fellas. Im going to snap soon enough and my pride is gon

Same as pie i guess. its just a style of cooking thats become more synonymous with one thing over the other.

Yeah, going with this over Ryuoo. That thing is not only steep as shit, its also windblasted. Its a 40+ degree ice skating rink with bobbles of frozen plants and rocks peeking through it. Its genuine Gnar. Round the back though is awesome.

Always the 1am games for me.. which is gonna suck at the semis and final. China = 1 hour ahead, so its really midnight kick off and 2am sleepy time which aint toooooo bad. Four am game is an impossibility though. No chance.

saw the stats. It sort of spoke for itself.

steven. anyways, saw all of 12 minutes of the game. Gutted to see the US go out. Its testament to the team and to Klinsmann that id even utter those words. Brilliantly annoying 12 minutes mind you. US pushed and pushed but just couldnt take it to penalties. Apparently the rest of the game was just as fun. Bradley, by the way, was all over every attack in those 12 minutes. Good to see him rise up

My uncle Sandy used to play for Ayr United when Ally Macleod was the manager. I think he was even the captain back then. Alec Mcanespie. You can find his wee picture through google. His kid ended up playing for Raith rovers and scored in the penalty shoot out against my beloved Celtic that won them the Scottish league cup around 20 years ago. Another interesting fact, he was stuck on a roof and almost died when the levies broke during Hurricane Katrina. He was on the coaching staff at New orleans or something like that. Lovely guy, but we drifted apart when he got good at football and i became

You might be right.....cheering against Egland gives me an interest when my own shit excuse for a team can never make it. Whatever it is I can't be arsed watching Only reason for me is that im back on the morning shift so cant really justify staying up after 1am. Im still peachy keen on watching the USA game. No idea why. I think ive adopted them by accident

What the ****! it turns out i have to get a proper nights sleep! this is an OUTRAGE!!! PS, i have a pingu tattoo, its mega sexy!