Dokumanju
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whoa mogski, those black armoured buses are the UYOKU, japan's very own nazi's. They are the extreme right, the xenophobes who hate everything that is not japanese, especially gaijin. I once waved one of those buses over and gave them the finger - a guy came out and yelled at me with a loud speaker, but get this, the dude's wearing a brown stormtrooper outfit complete with knickbockers and jackboots. Don't get the left confused with the right in japan. Most of the people in the worker's union (roudoukumiai) and the left wing teacher's union (nikkyousou) that i've met r actually down to earth, nice people. The biggest racket they ever make is their annual mayday demonstration - a march down to the town hall and then off to have ramen. The two r completely different.
As for noise pollution laws in japan. There aren't any. Ironically is has to do with free speech, so basically everybody is free to make as much racket as they please. Until sumone complains at least but where it goes from there is completely dependant on who's involved. The complaint will go nowhere if the uyoku/yakuza are involved cos of the fear factor. Just as an example of how fearful the authorities in japan are of the uyoku, my mate put the 16 petalled chrysanthenum mark(the imperial seal, u'll see it alot on uyoku busues) on his car and parked in front of a train station for 3 days and the police and everybody else avoided it. No traffic ticket or anything.
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hey guys,
thanx for all the leads, keep em coming!
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Been listening to too much Cocteau twins and it's depressing the heck out of me. Anybody got any good suggestions for new (or old, doesn't matter) music?
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not to make peeps paranoid or anything but just a word of warning. Don't get caught! duh u say, well, the legal system in japan is prolly different to what u might expect. for example, there's the 99% conviction plus u can be held up to 20 odd days without being charged. Don't believe it? well, here's the link where i got the info from.
http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~edjacob/qjindex.htm
i've never seen cops break up a party or anything before (altho i saw heaps circling round the rave in their patrol cars) but i've noticed that j-dudes selling drugs don't do it as openly as they used to. Before they would just plain ask random people if they wanted anything. now, i see guys doing it all hush hush like putting the pills in their mouth and "kissing" their customers. dunno if this means anything but i imagine getting busted in japan would be a pretty big downer.
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5 hours in the car for me, from Izuhantou to Hakuba with about 3 conbini stops on the way.
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Yeh, i don't think it's a solely burton thing. I think there's been a general decline in binding quality, i mean there was a time when most ratchets were made out of metal and the straps were made of leather. Alas, that time has long gone tho...
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hey plucky -
whoa, r u saying ur mate didn't have car insurance? could be dodgy man, 2 kiwi mates of mine slid into the car in front at about 30 k's. The bumper ended up scratched and they had to fork up 17 man. 17 man for a bumper!
all the best for your mate. keep us informed about what's going on.
cheers
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hey plucky,
the system here is an old one based on the system they used to have in england i heard(dunno how true this is) - it's assumed every party is at fault in an accident and percentages are given based on how much fault each party is responsible for. From the sounds of your situation the insurance company might try to make u accept 10 or so percent. U could always try playing the big angry gaijin card and just refuse to take anything but 0 percent. There was an ALT who did this, he made a big show of it with his girlfriend holding him back and exclaiming "i just can't control him when he gets like this!".
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funny bout this thread, i just spent two nights out of three sleeping in a van in hakuba. i had all the usual stuff, heaps of blankets and my 3 season sleeping bag and i slept pretty well. I agree with IM here, the tuke makes a huge difference.
There are cheap/free places where u can crash, 24 hour onsens for example. The "echolandnoyu" in hakuba(just down the road from the 7-11 near happo) costs only 600 yen to spend the night there. Sure it's noisy as ****(ie people snoring like there's no tomorrow) but the plus side is the room upstairs is heated and the lights are turned off plus u can go and warm up in the onsen too. Bring your sleeping bag too cos sleeping on tatami mats isn't the best thing for your back. oh yeh, if a guy hassles u for a thousand yen more(apparently it costs 600 to enter and 1000 more to sleep there), just tell him u've already paid and he'll leave u alone.
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47 is called 47 cos there's 47 runs there (altho i seem to remember most of them overlap so there isn't as many runs there as u might think). Personally i think there's way to many cats at all of the hakuba resorts except for maybe cortina. i'd rather go the little extra distance and get to myoko, only about 30 mins further out from nagano city by car - not as steep as sum of the places in hakuba but imho the snow's just as good and there's an 8 k run that leaves ya legs shaking when u get to the bottom. give it a try if u've never been there.
l8rs sk8rs
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deebs, sorry to hear bout ya spill. I'm with everyone else here - u're prolly better off without the FLAD on the highback. I"m assuming u got burton bindings, i got a pair too and the FLAD, altho doesn't **** me off too much, is pretty annoying. it doesn't really do anything but convince people to buy the next model up from the freestyles. I think the worst is when u go to hill where the lifties won't let u onto the lift without folding the highback down first. I have let it cling clang flap around too when i'm riding and haven't noticed anything particularly different.
if ya bindings r still under warranty e-mail burton and get them to send u a replacement pair of flads - that way when u come around to selling them there won't be any probs.
l8r sk8r
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here's what i did, i went down to the gardening section at cainz home and bought a 30cm potted conifer. not much but better than nothing eh.
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figures about the neversummers - the only one i've seen here is my mate's which he bought over from canada.
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hey deebs,
hmm...where do i start, there's so many. I guess the song that symbolizes the best times i had would have to be "wizards of the sonic" by westbam vs red jerry. i used to listen to that song 24/7 for about a year.
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hey amandanism,
last time i was in jimbocho, there was a place i found which had alot of last years (and beyond's) leftovers - usually in all the crazy colours that nobody wants. it's pretty easy to find - go out the exit with the marunouchi subway, head down the hill towards jimbocho, u'll go past lotsa guitar shops. Just b4 u get to all the snowboard shops proper there'll be a shop on the left, all the outerwear is down in the basement.
hope this helps
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snowboarding - 1 collarbone 2 ribs once scraped the skin off the bottom of my chin
skiing - none
skateboarding - sprained ankle
being an ass - various
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hey deebs,
ur stealing the cheeseman's thunder!
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Me and my fiance have been living together for a year now in japan(we lived pretty well together for a year in oz too). The dad's cool with it, in fact it might be cos he's a pretty cool dad. Her mother on the other hand...she's not too about it but there's not much she can do about it cos her daughter is with me on this one = )
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Hey guys,
looks like I'll be ditching da Shiz and moving up to Hakodate. Can anybody fill me in on what resorts are close by to Hakodate? Also, if anybodys been up that way, what's the town itself like?
cheers
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hey barok
where did u get a never summer in japan???
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hey yuki's pash,
i broke 2 ribs (plus my collar bone) 2 seasons ago. It didn't take very long for them (the ribs, that is) to heal up tho, prolly about a month i remember. don't worry, i don't think u'll be out of action for too long, especially if it's just a fracture.
hey deebs,
doodle...now there's a word i haven't heard in a long time...= )
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hey, is akakura the tiny resort behind myoko-suginohara? if it is deebs, u might be disappointed. A friend of a friend designed the BX course there 2 years ago. He had to live on site there for most of the season and he didn't have many nice things to say about it - i think the main thing was that it was a tiny,tiny resort.
I was looking thru sum of the bus/lift/accomodation packages earlier today - there's definately a few doosies in there so be careful about where u book.
l8r sk8r
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oh man, just finished my telephone interview. I think i talked waaaaaay too much . They'll get back to me on monday or tuesday so i have a nerve wracking weekend ahead of me. i've never been religious but it can"t hurt at a time like this - please god, GIVE ME THIS JOB!!!!!!!
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Since coming to japan or before, what's the most intersting thing u've had in your mouth?
let me start this off. Deep fried fish sperm. and i swallowed.
what's everybody listening to now?
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spent the last few weeks hunting down alot of the tracks people have posted about. I'm getting into Deltron 303, J5, automator. On the less hip hop side of things Dashboard Confessional is doing stuff for me too.
Props out to everybody for the great suggestions. Now I can keep my ears busy on those long train rides.