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Sounds like that might be expected.
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Farmed snakes?!
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Be aware there's no train from Yamagata to Zao. It's bus time.
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I've already touched this season's snow!
(at 2600m)
Did you eat it?
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What do you do in response to the 'I can't or won't understand you' look that sometimes a gaijin gets here in Japan.
You probably know the one.
The one where you go into a shop and confront a petrified not-too-bright shop person, speak some understandable Japanese clearly*, and they look at you as if you just spoke Klingon. Refusing to accept that they can understand what you say. Really annoys me and yesterday I got quite irritated by this guy who was resorting to the nervous laugh and bowing to apologies for pretty much everything. Grrrr.
Anyone got a good way to deal with this kind of thing, one that works. One that just isn't getting pissed off? How do you ask for someone else?
(*correct words, grammar, decent accent, clear)
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Wonder how many of them were actually written seriously, and not just in a playful Top Tips kind of way.
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GT developers while certainly very talented give the impression of being stuck up their own bottom.
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Was thinking something similar gg.
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Love the fact that that bus is '10 bucks' for the season. You'd think they could have taken a bit more and still be way cheap!
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Anyone know what the laws are concerning buildings from another era that are just wasting away and getting into disrepair.
There's so many round where I live. They look awful. You'd think they posed safety issues, with broken glass and weaker structures etc.
How come they stay up and aren't brought down?
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There's still the 'remains' of a few of the noisy kind around where I live.
They do look very out of place.
Always wondered what the laws are regarding buildings that are finished and falling into disrepair.
Actually sounds like a thread.
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What's 'the air drop option', BM?
Airdrop allows you to send files to another ios users through bluetooth. If for example you open a picture, click on the share option and it will come up.
Hey didn't know about that.
Will have to check.
Generally though I like it. The previous one was getting a bit old.
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So is there actually a peak for Aussie visitors then?
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I'd be mad well chuffed with that in yen, never mind GBP.
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Do you like it?
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This was posted by rach in the Important news thread, think it's brilliant:
Cold-call victim gets his own back
Leeds man sets up personal 0871 telephone number and makes 10p a minute from businesses and cold callers
Cold-call victim Lee Beaumont has taken revenge on his telephone tormentors by turning his home number into an 0871 premium rate line – and has so far made more than £300 from the calls he has received.
Beaumont, 25, was getting fed up about the number of nuisance calls he was receiving, particularly those offering to help him claim for mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI), so he started looking at ways to stem the tide. Then he realised there was money to be made.
In November 2011 the self-employed designer paid £10 plus VAT to set up his personal 0871 number, which sits on top of the normal Leeds 0113 number used by his friends and family.
He bought an 0844 and an 0871 number but said he used the latter "because it's more revenue for me".
Calls cost 10p a minute from landlines, from which he receives 7p.
"I was getting peed off with getting PPI calls when I was trying to watch Coronation Street and Heartbeat," Beaumont told the Guardian. "Originally I got the 08 number to get them to stop. But when I started making money I thought 'this is better'."
He acknowledged it was satisfying to have turned the tables on the cold callers, and indicated the move had succeeded in cutting the nuisance calls he received. At the beginning he was making around £7 a month, so the number paid for itself in less than two months.
However, as news of his unusual venture has spread, and with media outlets keen to speak to him, his phone has been ringing non-stop – sending more money his way. "Over the last three days I've had literally hundreds [of calls]." Beaumont said it was very easy to set up the premium rate number: he found a company online – which he said he had been advised not to name – and paid a one-off £10 plus VAT, with no other fees or charges.
On a Which? online forum, Beaumont – who has a website that carries the 0871 number – said: "I look for ways to get companies to call me." When he opens a new bank account, switches energy supplier and so on, and the company asks for his home number, he gives them the 0871 number.
"Sometimes they ask why. I am honest and say it's so I make 10p per minute when companies call me ... Three days ago I had a problem with my Ocado shop. I tweeted them and they asked me to call an 0845 number. I refused and asked them to call my 0871 number. I posted this in a open tweet so if cold callers pick up on that number, it will help me make a few more quid if they phone me." Ocado did phone him on the number and sorted out the problem, he added.
Beaumont is not alone in taking action against cold calls – in October 2012 Richard Herman told how he had won cash from a claims management company to compensate him for wasting his time with calls.
The premium rate service regulator, PhonepayPlus, has issued a warning to others thinking about copying Beaumont, saying that people could land themselves in trouble.
"Premium rate numbers are not designed to be used in this way and we would strongly discourage any readers from adopting this idea, as they will be liable under our code for any breaches and subsequent fines that result," a spokesman said.
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Any other good strategies?
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The little buildings here..... closest to which skijo?
Bringing it over
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Haha. Can we see what the difference is?
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Is the Japanese for both くるみ?
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One can just make out the company name ニュージャパン on the white sign board, from which a bit of web searching led to the answer.
Got much better eyesight than me!!!
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Hakuba 47: 36 (-)
Hakuba Goryu: 17 (+)
We might not ever get it done
Morning Greetings!
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Why does Friday need to be my meeting day.