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badmigraine

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  1. That sounds great! We'll be over directly for a cup of joe at the cappucino corner! Get out the blender and we'll make some frozen cocktails! I've got work tonight so I am dreaming the good dreams. My girlfriend's from Okayama and when I was down there last month I had a look at some ads for apartments and it was even cheaper than what you describe in Osaka. Almost the kind of prices you'd expect in Walled Lake, Michigan. For nice newish places with parking too! My gal said you don't usually pay key money in Okayama, and the security deposit is normally just 1 month's rent. That
  2. Haw haw haw haw haw Good one Mogs! About the only thing I do 6 times a night is get up to pee.
  3. What you are asking for is very expensive and large for Tokyo. I think the rent on a place like that would be about $12,000 per month. I am not joking, as others will confirm. There's an expat at my former company who lives in a 3BR place in a newish building near the ANA Hotel (Akasaka), and I heard that his rent is 1,600,000 yen per month. That's over $13,000 at current exchange rates. If you give up "modern" and "living room" and go down a bedroom or two, you can probably find a nice place for about $4000 - $9000 per month. And don't forget these inescapable costs, in a
  4. Gotta agree with Ocean on this one. The biggest financial mistake I have made in my life is renting for years and years in the same city, when I could have owned a place and had mortgage payments about the same as my rent...except they would be tax-deductible and also I could have painted the walls any color I wanted without asking the landlord's permission. Rented in L.A. for 6 years. I should have just bought a one-BR condo then sold it when I moved. I doubt it's that easy in Japan, so let's just say that this post is all about me and my issues.
  5. They're rather like foam breast implants with a roasted meat brain at the core. Quite delicious, actually.
  6. Due to the lack of snowy mountains in Singapore, we assume that "boarding school" means a school where you have room & board. Not a snowboarding school. Right?
  7. Ocean, I recommended amputation but for his own selfish reasons Mogski decided that a new pair of boots might resolve the issue. It could be that the boots merely aggravate a condition he acquired at work: kicking around useless prats who won't do their jobs! Good thing I was on a different floor or I would have been one of the kicked.
  8. Skiing and boarding are not exactly health-promoting sports. They subject your musculo-skeletal system to many unnatural, sudden and repetitive stresses and torques. The kind of skiing/boarding to which we tend to aspire as our ability improves is even less healthy. Jumps, pipe tricks, incredibly steep descents, moguls, tree skiing, booze on the lift and stupid "watch me" tricks when legs and arms are tired and judgment is cloudy. Fun as this may all be, from a medical point of view the cost of these activities may not justify the benefit. The poster-child pros of today ha
  9. For those seeking knee damage, I can recommend following Mogski down the mogul run on a snowboard at Naeba. Worked like a charm for me!
  10. If you like extreme, then you might enjoy Japan's extremely high prices. Most of us here are "extreme spenders".
  11. For me, the funniest thing about SkyP is the way the bill keeps coming to me every month like clockwork, even though there is hardly anything I feel like watching in all those 900 channels. The World Cup soccer coverage was excellent, but there's little else to amuse. And whatever happened to Samurai Jack on Cartoon Network? Used to be on all the time, now I think it's only once per week, late at night. Think I'll go rent another vintage Bond DVD and zap some "Movie Butter" popcorn in the microwave.
  12. http://www.metropolis.co.jp/tokyofeaturestories/394/tokyofeaturestoriesinc.htm
  13. Freshman year in college I saw Subway and had a bad crush on Isabelle Adjani that made all the local girls seem like dowdy little nothings. I stalked her as far as the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, which led me to an archived issue of MacClean's (a Canadian mag) where I found an additional photo of her and was well satisfied. Four years later I was teaching English part-time at the Berlitz School in Oxford Circus. I met a German guy who worked as a makeup artist and specialized in wounds, mutilations and death for horror films. Somebody's got to do it. One evening he was
  14. Sorry Scoobs and thanks Ocean for getting to the query.As for me and Mogs being the same person, the reality of that would be too much to bear. Good one though!
  15. You're right, Mogs! I better chomp some dairy products to soothe my innards. Cheeseman, eat your heart out!
  16. Nice one Mogs! I've just popped in to answer the call of nature, but I didn't expect to see a full moon.
  17. Look, we'll be stuck in that car for several hours, so tonight make sure you don't eat any beans or Mexican food please!!
  18. Scooby, it begins to cool down right when I open my first beer around 6 p.m...
  19. The great thing about NHK fees is that whether or not you are legally bound to pay, there is no legal or other procedure by which NHK can force you to pay. Thus payment is in some sense "voluntary". This is unlike other taxes which, if unpaid, could be levied against future income with penalty and interest and so forth. My position is that taxation is theft. When you add up the national, state, municipal, sales, luxury, utility and other taxes that I must pay, over 50% of my income is gone. I'm not going to pay any of this tax money if I don't absolutely have to. Now, putti
  20. I've been a registered user for almost 2 years, and have always had cookies enabled and my IE browser security level set to "Medium"...but I have never seen the red folders! Neither at work nor at home! They sound like a great idea! I wonder what I am doing wrong...
  21. Mogs, I've never ever had red folders. What are they and how do they work? I've always used the most current version of Explorer (currently 6.0).
  22. Every year for many years a certain group of snowboarders visits Taos, New Mexico, where the slopes and pow-pow are excellent, but where boarders are verboten. As they do this every year, it's gotten harder and harder to pull it off. Three seasons ago one of this crew managed to dupe the patrollers by going up on a Voile split board...they thought he was a free-heeler. Then when he got to the top, he ducked behind a bush, snapped the planks together and busted out on his board. They weren't able to stop him until well past halfway down, and had to use the radios to do it.
  23. Interesting observation, NoFakie. I've got a latex fetish party coming up, and I'll look to Yoda for hints on how to apply CG to my costume. "Drink not that triple shot of Malibu, or you will be blind to the golden shower of the Force!"
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