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Good job.
Am I imagining it, or have you added weather forecasts for lots more resorts this year?
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Humankind would be forced to stand helplessly by as billions of curies of deadly radiation pour into the air and the ocean.
Billions of what?!
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Zao easy beats Appi.
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If you haven't Booked Now already, you are silly aren't you.
You can always Book Now for 2014/2015!
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I always feel hassled by it but send a minimum out to the older Japanese friends who care about these things, about 10.
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Anyone here ever make it to SSAWS?
I almost fondly remember it.
Better than IKEA anyway!
SSAWS, pronounced "zaws" (ザウス) and officially known as LaLaport Skidome SSAWS (ららぽーとスキードームSSAWS?), was an indoor ski slope in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan. The name was an acronym of "Spring Summer Autumn Winter Snow".Constructed by Mitsui at a cost of US$400 million, the ski slope opened on July 15, 1993. With a structural height of 100 meters (translating to a skiable vertical drop of 80 m), a width of 100 m and a length of 500 m, it was the largest indoor ski slope in the world at the time. The complex had three ski courses—20.1° for skilled skiers, 15° for intermediate, and 10° for beginners — and two ski lifts.
The ski slope was designed to break even by 2018 by attracting 1.3 million visitors yearly, who would pay ¥4,300 (~US$50) for 2 hours of lift time and spend a total of $70 on average. However, the opening of the ski slope came shortly after the end of the Japanese asset price bubble, and original estimates soon proved too optimistic, with the number of visitors dropping from one million in the first year to 700,000 in the second. With an annual operating cost of US$40 million, SSAWS sustained losses averaging US$16.7 million/year.
SSAWS closed on September 30, 2002. In 2003, the structure was demolished to make way for Japan's first large-format IKEA store, which opened on the site on April 24, 2006.
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It's good that shio yokan.
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I love the way you see naturists walking around wearing stuff like hats and gloves but letting all the bits hang out.
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Been watching homeland too.
And Danes is definitely annoying.
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27th December is two whole months away.
Its a bad season if there isn't much snow then.
Calm down, enjoy your life for the next two months...would be my advice.
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It's a good one that. Thanks for reminding me Tubby, will get some ordered today.
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Somehow, I think snowjunky might well have to take his own.
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Not language problems in US of A.
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Friend recommended that I dial 0033 before any ketai number from my home phone.
Cheaper, it seems.
But cheapest?
Any words of wisdom on this?
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Heck, I'll be happy if I make it anywhere this season.
Oh no, what's up MO?!
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Importantly whats the snow like?!
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Wonder how much they waste on that nonsense?
Let me think..... .actually, do not care!
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Yeah that was bad.
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Rubbish
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And gear becomes 'last season' as early as March. Perhaps even earlier some places.
NTT/Flets/OCN/Cashback... head explodes
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The whole thing does sound pretty ridiculous.