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Someone explained this to me once as being "avoiding the bad parts as the filter gets dirty".

2 weeks off starting yesterday.

i got sunburnt last weekend. it hurts.

Anyone know of any mazes in Japan at all? You know, like this:

Articles like that are just completely useless aren't they? (Like the "strategies" they seem to be reporting there as well). It reminds me why I don't pay for a newspaper any more, complete waste of time.

The skiers look way cooler than boarders. I thought it would be the other way round. But not.

I just saw K-19 last night - with Harrison Ford. Man, he looks tired. And a seriously suspect "Russian accent". What happened to the man?? Anyway, got me thinking about submarines. Anyone ever been on one, or even done duty on one. With my mild claustraphobia, I don't think I'd be suited to it - can't imagine being down there for however long.

Thanks to Japan's Confucian past, nastier types tend to view women marrying only after falling pregnant as little short of sluts. So their shock was enormous last week when actress Ryoko Hirosue, who has virtually grown up in front of the cameras and made a lucrative career out of her virginal image, announced she was marrying to do the right thing by the child she is bearing. And, as Shukan Jitsuwa (1/1) shows, the knives have already been sharpened for Hirosue. "She's totally lacking the ability to plan in advance. How can her agency ever trust her?" a Tokyo talent agency insi

The visuals are looking fairly true to the roots:

My copy of FHM Mag came yesterday. I got a free diary with it. In it, there is a listing of Rubbish Countries. Here's what it says for Japan: WHY AVOID IT? Unhealthy obsession with schoolgirls and their panties, most expensive country in the world, some of the worst indigenous pop music on the planet, extremely overcrowded. And do you really want your toilet to talk to you? SAVING GRACE You can get beer from vending machines. MOMENT OF GREATNESS Fooling the rest of the world into believing that standing up in front of a roomful of drunks and singing to backing tracks

Come on, it's not that bad!

In Japan, Xbox software is very very limited. Thats 1 reason.

There's nearly enough to make a snowman now in Niseko. Yipee I'm off there next week so it had better continue falling.

Stoked. Snorkels.

anyone know exactly what this is supposed to be?

I dont love em but if I have to wear one I can live with it. Decent ones only.

One time fan of Steve Martin and one time fan of the Pink Panther. But will they be good together? Hmmm

It seems, Ocean11, that you obviously have just never been on the end of that kind of hassle before.

And Vicodin?

And Sildenafil Citrate?

I hate that too, it really gets in my lungs and they don't like it. What is it for anyway?

Kill Bill! Is that serious? I always thought he was way over-rated. Whats the fuss about?

Lets hope that they continue to get it wrong then.

Anyone ever tried any ski jumping at all?

Japanese holiday (?) - but not a national holiday. I'm confused. But lots of people take time off work and go back home.