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Even if that is true, for me it looks extremely ugly. Unless there's an 'invisible' decorative cover.

Well, only saying what the showroom guy said, and he seemed to be generally well up on things. Basically, I'd rather not see a great big huge pipe in the room, i think they are ugly, so the pipe in the outside would be my ideal choice.

No, I'm not keen either. You can choose to have the 1m or so of pipe inside or outside, here's when it goes directly outside If inside, the pipe has insulation (?) in it or something and doesn't get hot, so there's no heat lost by doing the outside version. Apparently. If you have the pipe on the outside as well, you can get the stove closer to the wall rather than sticking out.

newer ones are definitely much more hit and miss than earlier ones. Have their moments though, with some almost totally unfunny.

Good question Mr Wiggles and actually the one thing we are knd of waiting on to find out. But apparently if we need to, it is fairly simple. Would like to believe that. If stories of a possible 50,000 yen from the town are true, I am hoping that we might be able to get it done installed and up and running for around 60 man. Still a lot, it's a luxury, but I think a nice one.

Groundskeeper Willie's one of my fave Simpsons characters, along with Krusty when he's on form.

After lots of thinking and research, think we might be going to get one of these in autumn. http://www.rika-japan.com Decided we didn't want a wood stove for a number of reasons. Want a modern looking one rather than antique looking. The Rika ones seem to give a very natural looking flame and aren't noisy either. If we can negotiate the price down a bit

Last night this was on one evening program. Funny thing was, they were basically reporting that overseas media were reporting this - rather than the licking thing itself.

Which reminds me..... anzen daiichi!

You're right, I think I'd prefer less money than have the hassle and stress of dealing with people like this, aint worth it.

Some people seem to only have an annoying mode, ne. I have this one customer, who I almost wish would go away, who never ever ever pays up on time. Sometimes I need to ask 4 or 5 times over a period of a few months to get them into action and pay up. This morning, after I asked them a fourth time for a payment due in January, they had the cheek for frikking complain that the invoice was out of date and question whether they should pay such an old invoice. THE REASON IT'S OUT OF DATE IS YOU DIDN'T PAY UP!!!!! Arrgggtghhhhhhh

I sense an upcoming contribution from our friend pie-eater.....

Onsen tamago, iPad wants to call you onsen tamagotchi!

She really shouldn't have had sex should she.

That Hashimoto is such a slimeball. I hope his popularity takes a big dent.

Sad story to see, whatever.

Abenomics-san mo gambatte-iru yo!

I've seen a few Japanese people do it.

There's definitely a bit of humidity creeping in now. Oh well, we did well out of the cool temps this spring.

It actually goes over and under the expressway. Interesting!

Difference is, they are often funny when 'other people' do them.

Your turn Metabo Oyaji.

New one

Here's the list of resorts in Gumna, Tubby http://www.snowjapan.com/japan-ski-resorts/prefecture/gunma Hotaka Bokujo and Snowpal Oguna Hotaka are different skijo