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I'd very happily send my kids to Japanese elementary school. The kids there seem to actually enjoy it on the whole and it seems to be junior high when they start getting their character drained from them.

Interesting this http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/japan-railway-harvests-passenger-energy-for-fun-and-profit/ "harvesting passenger energy"

Learning basic kanji can be really fun. Look on it as a fun learning process when you set about it. They are actually very interesting.

Really? Damn. Remind me not to go to hospital You'd think they'd look after ill patients with good food.

Did anyone get busted for being bad after the fact or was it all brushed under the carpet so to speak?

I reckon there's been some sex going on.

Some heroes and villain stories from the cup http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/internationals/article1180198.ece

They are probably used to you rigor - I found that sarcasm didn't go down well at first but they are used to it now. Strangers often don't get it. The less than perfect Japanese surely has something to do with that of course.

I know what you mean muikabochi - those lines are just monstrosities and cutting through the mountains is just so sad. I remember when I first saw the one in Yuzawa and thought wtf?!

I see France limped through, shame...

If you say you are going to be going to Shiga Kogen, then you basically will be staying at Shiga Kogen.

Sweet pics and report again.

They must be brickin' it.

I'm not a Japan hater at all, but I want them to lose. Got a bet on it too.

I'd be interested to know how the tetras aid erosion.....?

How does a word like that come about? Anyone know?

Yahoooooooo indeed. I bet it didn't take long for them to get rid of it and the silly name.

And nannies. Better still... lock him up.

The big ones in Europe.

With you on those comments snowglider. Fairly decent to watch but have seen much better.

Yeah I just noticed that. Fool.

Where I work, people do their own cleaning up - guys do their own. They even make the green tea for some of the ladies from time to time. (Though I think that is to try and impress them more than anything else )

I don't think it's supposed to actually be funny, rach

1 £1.2m worth of Swarovski crystals are embedded in the huge disco ball. 2 1,000 hours of rehearsal over 12 weeks were needed to fine-tune the show. 3 There are 27 performers, including Madonna. 4 The Michael Schmidt belt Madonna wears weighs ten pounds and has 4,000 Swarovski crystals in it. 5 The four stages total 5,000 square feet. There is a 40ft turntable on the main stage. 6 Madonna’s eight broken bones are displayed on video screens during Like A Virgin — X-rays and MRIs taken after the serious riding accident she suffered last year.

What are those things called in nihongo?