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Yes nice and responsive here. Good work!

Woman ‘pregnant’ with 12 baby squid A woman became “pregnant” with 12 baby squid after eating calamari. The shocked 63-year-old felt a sharp pain in her mouth as she bit into a portion of whole cooked squid. She immediately spat out the sea creature — along with its internal organs — but could still feel “small, squirming organisms” in her mouth. Doctors in South Korea examined the woman and found 12 squid spermatophores attached to her tongue, cheek and gums. A “spermatophore” is a sac of semen that implants itself in the female squid before a mechanism shoots out sperm and fertilises

Here here! Make them all free on the days I want to use them. Simples!

That tower thing made me think of Nozawa... but we only just had that? A sly trick perhaps? NOZAWA!

June-September can be trying, let's hope it's not too bad this time round.

All for a good cause though!

Very strange looking thing that. Kind of spoils the prettiness of everything else that is there.

Not usually into that kind of program, but I find the Apprentice somehow addictive. Interesting to see who comes over as smart -- and the opposite. And how even smart people can say really dumb things.

Supernatural - good tv show that btw

Aren't they all busy making iphones and ipads?

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeee's back! Japan's prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, faces a potential threat to his leadership after Ichiro Ozawa, a rival and powerful figure inside the governing party, was acquitted of breaking political funding laws. TV networks broke into scheduled programming to report Ozawa's acquittal by a Tokyo court on Thursday morning. The decision has reignited speculation about a possible challenge to Noda's leadership over controversial plans to double consumption tax to 10% by 2015. Although he has never been prime minister, Ozawa is known as the "shadow shogun" for the

Ishihara seems to like doing this kind of thing just to piss people (esp. sweet if it's gaijin!) off. What's going on with this lot?

Experienced the same Gary. Got to wonder how many of these special priced ones they actually release..

This looks like a must buy A pre-order for the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Barbie dolls has sold out in the U.S. Tagged the 'William and Catherine Royal Wedding Giftset,' they were released on February 14 which meant it took less than two months for eager fans to exhaust the giant toy company’s stock. The set of Mattel's two plastic figurines, which will be released in stores on April 29 to coincide with the royal couple’s one-year wedding anniversary, costs $100.

Will still happen even if he goes this weekend

Great stuff. What lift tickets did you buy muika?

muika- and toka-bochi ---- please do remind us in advance next year!

Sorry here it is that muikabochi posted http://www.snowjapanforums.com/index.php/topic/21402-tokamachi-snow-festival-niigata-17th-february-2012/

Interesting. Kind of dampens my enthusiasm. I like the ones in that Tokamachi thread as well. Not on the same scale it seems - anyone been to both?

It's not a clip from 24 or a movie!

Happy with the set up this year SJ?

I bet Arnie'll like this! Tokyo Electric Power Co. injected boric acid into a reactor at its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to prevent an accidental chain reaction known as re- criticality after temperatures rose in the past week. The temperature of the No. 2 reactor was 70.1 degrees Celsius (158 degrees Fahrenheit) as of 6 a.m. today, according to preliminary data, Akitsuka Kobayashi, a spokesman for the utility, said by phone. The reading fell from 72.2 degrees at 5 a.m. this morning, and is below the 93 degrees that’s used to define a cold shutdown, or safe state, of the reactor.

Obama plans to sing to win http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_UsOQvVdd0

Suddenly my google seems to have been replaced with something that seems to be calling itself Babylon search. WTF?! Can anyone help me get rid of this imposter! Cheers