snobee
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Hey Indo - sent yu a note but box is full.
Stayed in a great place in Hirugano (nice quiet town) only 5 ~ 10 mins to Takasu, called Green Gardens.
It's a small Japanese hotel, which also has a few log cabins spread around nice grounds.
We stayed in Cottage C - good for a family. Clean, comfortable, good bathroom & kitchen, floor heating...etc
Really friendly helpful owners.
3 nights was about 5~ 6 man all up which is not too bad for the space, independence, privacy, facilities etc.
Only good memories.
Good Luck.
And we will all need that if it don't start snowing soon - not that I'm worried - but.....
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Mao the untold story
by Jung Chang & Jon Halliday.
Halfway thru.
Bared.
A good read.
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OC - As I recall in John Irvings raving book "The world according to Garp" Garps father was exactly that -
A comatose dude with a boner - who was promptly set / sat upon by a wishful women who was duely rewarded with the Garp.
Also saw a movie a whiles aback about a bastard, arsehole Columbian(I think) drug lord who wantonly killed and treated the locals as less than shite.
But what goes aroun' comes aroun. Speeding on the jungle road. Accident. Flung out of car. Motionless. For all intents dead 'cept he can hear & see. Local villagers, find him & steal everything. As one can imagine he's quite distaught about this. He's taken to the hospital / morgue and treated as dead.
All the while his silent cries of distress fall on unknowing ears.
As he lies on the slab a local who was particularly picked on by the prik, notices a tiny tear drop from his eye. Aha - this bastards not dead yet.
So it's payback.
Final scene - autopsy on the dead guy to the background of nightmarish Please, Please, Oh NO, Oh NO ...etc.
Moral: Be Good.
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THe Milk Eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom
A little deviation from the mob.
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OC - I don't know about that!!!
I'm sometimes generally game.
And so's my wife.
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I'm not a park man but I think FT is on the money.
What I've seen at Takasu & Dyna appear to be the goods.
Well laid out, variety, big (to me) and s-p-r-e-a-d out.
Mid week was not crowded at all and the park pigs were wallowing.
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I know a stylish woman - you know late 30's head turner - who rips it (skiing since 3yrs).
She wouldn't leave her room if she wasn't made up.
AND she just wants to ski hard.
Makeup is just part of some peoples daily bits & pieces.
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Spud - now that's good.I agree with you.
What the hell is stardom and why do we have to be bombarded with all of it's banal trappings???
And I wouldn't stop at just screen stardom.
Royalty and all it's god-for-saken baggage, Plasticine Politicians, Sports Heroes ad nauseum.
OC - producer or no producer - I'm not sure whether good ol' Stevo would be alive today or not. His days were statistically numbered from dot. Operating at mega-pace mixed with elements of danger & tom-foolery will always put the odds against you.
No diff to the Xboarders & skiers or in fact any who thrive living on the edge.
Nice old guy near me, has never been on a highway and will never - you'll die on them. Doesn't drive and only uses public transport - because your chances of injury are less. His words. And I don't condemn his approach 1 iota, but there are just so many roses one can smell in ones lifetime.
Crazy thing, g'ol Stevo wasn't actually doing anything Crazy when he got struck. If he was trying to feed a chook to a white pointer - sure!
But got zapped through his wetsuit by the rays stinger not on the arm, not on the leg, not on the stomach - right smack into a tiny vulnerable window in his chest and bang into his heart.
Bit like the guy here a while back riding his bicycle and swallowed a wasp, stung him in his throat, instant swelling dead minutes later.
So I reckon those out there DOING IT, precautions to the hilt, are kidding themselves if they think it aint gonna happen to me.
And body-weary me is slowing down, so I hope I can avoid the unforseen nasty stings of life for a while more.
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Aww - come on guyz - don't stop now.
OC - the adversion to drink comes from years ago when he went on a binge with a kangaroo, woke up next day in the middle of the bush coughing up fur-balls.
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Spud - that WAS the chilled out version.
Just trying to de-laminate(sno-talk) the discussion.
You know - peel away a few layers.
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So what about Dr. John's prattle.
He has his views & ways - bless him.
Animal exploitation is hardly a NEW issue in any shape or form.
Celluloid reeled it in with lassie, cheetah, flipper, Mr Ed and 1,000's of other unpaid extras.
Sure he has the creds but he lost me when he said the animal world would be better off with Irwin dead.
Grizz got up his arse I think.
And if the "Real Authorities" on Wildlife want to put some focus on the true horrors of animal suffering en masse -ie. humankinds inhumanity to animalkind - start with the bloody halls of abbatoirs or dens of chicken farm hell.
Don't give me this woe the poor bears bit, when millions of "Oh not so cool animals" are tortured daily.
That's the stain, the shame.
So friggin what about a few crocs threshing for a few moments.
It's not my idea of entertainment and method but who am I to adamantly state Irwins work was all negative.
Fcku the Bears - Save the Cows.
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OC- I guess it shook pretty much in Matsuyama.
Anything fall?
Here in Takamatsu I was lying in bed wondering if my recent 日曜大工さん concrete & brick work would stand the test.
No Worries
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Been away busy since yesterday and didn't even know who won till this eve.
I guess I dips me lid to ya Bushy.
Sounded like a real game.
Gonna watch the replay tonite.
The consolation for me is my next 2 fave teams - eagles & swans are playing off for the biggie.
Carn the birds.
G'luck.
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Indo - sorry for milking it!
Yeh sure will be tough. Potentially the game of the season - but anything goes in finals - heh!
Bushy knows that.
And may the better team(crows) win
Good Luck!
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Bushy - Is that ex pic showing the crows flying above the grounded eagles???
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Indo - simple solution.
DON'T READ THE POST.
RESTRAINT IS A VIRTUE
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Indo - I promise I won't write the match result on here after the Crows Win tomorrow.
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Yes the lack of variety is quite noticeable.
A couple of kinds of peaches, a few types of grapes, 1 or 2 watermelons.......etc.
And the sizes are often WAY too big - just to please the unknowing consumers who think big = better. Most cases you're buying extra water with the delicate sugar balances thrown akilter and flavours diluted.
I've had delicious fruit here, but hardly the stuff to be championing on about - given the raw conditions.
A$50+ is not uncommon for a melon that frankly would have nought on any home grown number in Australia. And on melons - wow the dearth of varieties!
Spread the topic to include vegetables and woe.
And I don't mean exotic rare stuff. Pumpkins and squashes! Potatos! Tomatoes! Cucumbers! Beans!
Hell you'd think there's a conspiracy or secret govt directive to grow just the same ol 1 or 2 kinds.
Or maybe it's the length of the Japanese intestine or whatever.
But frankly in my humble one, fresh fruit & veg here is nothing to crow about.
As suggested earlier your best bet is, if you can't grow the stuff - get onto local farmers markets or make friends with a farmer. Then you can at least taste the real thing, even though if your choices are limited.
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L'spud
Short Answer - I think you missed the point.
Long Answer - The point that you missed is think, I.
methinks
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OC- How about Attenboroughs beatin-it-fication?
Worthy of a few hail marys(ies) for devotion to seriousness and doin the rite fing.
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Now OCee - I'm sure you could find that lil' bit if only you tried.
Got to the mirror and look deeply and it'll appear. Don't give up. You'll know when you see it.
Breathe.
L'spud - now you're tarring us with all the same brush.
Us Sou'Ozzies are NOT descendant from the convict rabble that spewed forth.
We is civilized.
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Too Bad Bushi.
Must have been a heart stopper.
1 point!!!!
The 2 westies playing next week.
I can sit back for 13 days.
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Hey Indo - Don't worry! I was referring to the crowz as in "The crows go past my window fast"
You know "WOW, Go Crowz"
I think the ozzie rules crowz lost by 39 points.
What's the trend at ski slopes this season?
in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
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White!
You know for those blackouts!