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Peetan

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    One or two of the F1 companies developed a diesel racing engine a few years back and wanted to use that in their cars, but they were band because during testing they left the petrol engine cars standing.

     

    I heard something about this- I thought they voted against it because-

    1) acceleration was pretty poor and

    2) the race sounded like a stampede of farting rhinos.

     

    Could be wrong though.

  2. I start to miss the UK when I smell log fires.

     

    Composting autumn leaves, bonfires, spent fireworks and cooked chestnuts. You get some of them in Japan too, but in the summer so the subtlety is different. It's more homely in the UK, but more festive here.

     

    That said, anything that says snow is on the way to Japan is very welcome :D

  3. Makes me glad that I live on the featureless Kanto plain sometimes.

     

    Until the tornadoes appear.

     

    Oh man, I actually live pretty close to Koshigaya, where the tornado hit. One of my friends uploaded her video to YouTube and it got a ton of hits. Might try and fish it out.

  4. Sadly we always seems to lose a couple of people at least, and at worst it causes a landslide. We've already had hiroshima, I remember wakayama a few years back.

     

    Makes me glad that I live on the featureless Kanto plain sometimes.

     

    This time I'm actually quite worried about te Ontake area; a lot of that very slippery volcanic ash mixed with rain does not equal a happy event.

  5. If you're happy taking the midnight bus there's a ton of stuff that leaves late evening from shinjuku station and travels overnight. Plus side is that it's quite reasonable, but of course it can be ruinous if you can't sleep on public transport (start up, me). If you take them you can even go as far as nozawa, but you do have to leave early (4pm ish) because of the journey back.

     

    Oh, of course our beloved kanetsu expressway might also be clogged to the nines.

     

    If you want a more relaxing time, shink it. If money's an issue and you don't need to be tip-top for a couple of days after, then bus tours offer a lot of variety.

  6. Some horrific and heartbreaking stories indeed.

     

    2 Friends who had to abandon their other friend after his lower leg was shattered by a rock;

     

    A family that lost their little kid through inhaling hot ash;

     

    Just too terrible. Actually very difficult for me to watch the news because of it.

     

    All innocent nature lovers.

  7. Couldn't find the 'Everything Sucks' thread...

     

    Facebook, and even more so the way it portrays my friends on it, is really grinding me down. Can't leave it for the two reasons of 1) genuinely keeping in touch with family and close friends and 2) dealing with international communications for my karate dojo. However the amount of shit-quality, uninformed political noise being thrown around on there is horrid. Regular Upworthy links to some passive-aggressive poetry, or empowering speech by someone famous, or a bunch of misquotes from someone completely taken out of context. Worse is when someone cherry picks sites for reference when the source is clearly written by some freaking hack purely out just to get money by writing what people want to hear.

     

    Sometimes I would just like to click a button to filter political fuzz and 'entitlement' posts. There are times I just want to see pictures of my family, friends getting drunk and kittens falling off tables.

     

    Eirgh.

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