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15km from Tirana Albania. 577,744 hmm getting a little sloppy. when I was a kid, I used to read atlases, spend hours staring at the maps, love maps. I knew it would come in handy one day!

was that a turtle?

It's an external link to the "Traveler IQ Challenge" which is on facebook. Cool idea to be able to play it without being on facebook. On facebook there are many more cool and addictive time wasting quizzes related to this one: flags, specific world regions, football teams - you name it. my score is 598,952 level 12 FWIW - the top score on Facebook is 708,498 - which is insane.

Originally Posted By: Fattwins Shrink your pictures down so that they can be viewed easier. About half the size of these ones will be a better TR. actually FT, they fit my screen perfectly. I have the right column turned off so they fit nicely. They are the perfect size the way the are

sleep apnoea is suprisingly common....it sometimes happens to me, if I sleep on my back. I can stop breathing for up to 10 - 15 seconds and then spurt back into breathing. It freaks my wife out. It started happening a few years ago. I like sleeping on my back but I cant anymore, I have to sleep on my side or stomach which case I sleep like a log. On rare occasions now I wake up super tired in the morning I know I have rolled onto my back in the night, but now that I know its almost like I have a sensor in my brain stopping me from rolling over, I frequently wake up it the exact some position

Originally Posted By: spook Originally Posted By: SG dude - go. life is too short to stuff a mushroom. i'm not even sure what this means, but it's my new favourite saying! that saying has been floating around for years, I have always liked it, its perfectly succinct. I just googled it and it was coined in 1975 by the English writer Shirley Conran who published the book Superwoman, aimed at busy women, and used that saying in it. doing spontaneous crazy things every now and then is what life is all about, sitting around stuffing mushrooms.....nah. Have a blast in Hawa

Originally Posted By: Creek Boy SG, I keep trying Kansai style Okonomiyaki and am let down everytime. If somebody knows a "great" place, take me please cuz everywhere I have tried has been poor. maybe that why I dont really rate the stuff, I havent had the good stuff yet. I will keep an open mind if the chance to eat some famous oko' comes up.

Originally Posted By: Creek Boy WTF is the difference between Ramen & Okonomiyaki VS. Nabe and Sukiyaki? the taste: Ramen and Oko lack the full flavours that good nabe and sukiyaki have, for me they are bland in comparison. I love foods with to ooze with flavour - Thai food for example. I dislike straight white rice - too bland and boring for me, at the very least give me some umeboshi, or even furikake to give it flavour - yes I know I am a heathen. Boring meat and flavourless three veg as a child will do that to you! I dont dislike them (Ramen Oko' et al), but th

AK I totally agree mate, its a pretty decent cheap meal - cheap stodge as you like to call it but not oozing awesome flavours like other foods, most people have to smother in it sauce, mayo, aonori, katsuobushi to give it more flavour Same with ramen, cheap basic meal again. its a decent filler but thats it. Okonomiyaki and ramen are good 'low end of the spectrum foods' you cant compare them with sushi et al - not in the same league. just like a good meat pie, or a well made Taco. p.s I guess I must have to try some genuine Hiroshima style Oko' as the stuff I have had in Kansa

Originally Posted By: RobBright walk - man thats being generous! I would hop, screw or pretty much doing anything to see them.... hey! taking local roads it would be over 600km! like the pretenders said "I would 500miles....." Led Zep live yep, that would be quite something.

dude - go. life is too short to stuff a mushroom. Led Zeppelin, hope they tour later this year, I would walk to Tokyo to see them play.

that rule is poos! any chocolate is good chocolate in my book, if someone gives me chocolate I dont care the reason! its chocolate! I feel like Homer in the land of chocolate!

wow, Crashed ice, those guys are supremely skilled, it would take years of skating to even consider trying that.

getting back on topic: the Goryu South Face ridgeline avi. I guess what people want to know is was there someone we know involved in it? i.e a forum member or an associate of forum member? It could have been local gaijin, out of town gaijin or overseas gaijin or it could have been local Japanese or out of town Japanese. The radio silence 5 days later would indicate its someone we don't know or perhaps if it is someone known they want to keep the incident a private matter? The details of the incident would be useful to anyone who goes back country to add to their brains database of in

heh, last week my inlaws 'went to tripping' so I had the honour of walking the dog (black lab)...she is a pain in the arse to walk, she knows every dog in the area so wants to sniff every square inch of the road and rice fields, she just about rips your arm out of your socket sometimes. A sniff every now and then and doing the business is fine but every 5 metres gets rather tedious. I love it and she hates it when I ride the bike and she has to canter along beside, no time for sniffing then.

I am having a lot of trouble viewing SJ.tv site, it buffers every 5 secs for about 10 secs which makes it unwatchable. I on the fat pipe (hikari) so there is nohing wrong with my connection, anyone else having troubles???

I just saw the NHK BS news, they didnt really know except they are missing

Originally Posted By: bobby12 ...I do have some baked beans though, nasty too-sweet American ones from COSTCO, almost inedible. you British people are weirdos , not everything made in Britain is the best stuff on earth. The Van Camps ones at costco are ok enough, I wouldnt call them nasty by any stretch and are quite edible. p.s. Walkers "Crisps" are mediocre at best

"south face of Goryu" last time I was there there were the remnants of a huge slide piled up in the valley at the bottom of that area. Scary stuff. Glad to hear that everyone is still breathing, take care fellas.

SerreChe's close shave video from another thread

Originally Posted By: Mamabear Nup - not trading in my commercial coffee machine for any drip bags - nah-uh! . snob

I have to pay 3man for my oldest son to go to hoikuen and its a only a mediocre place, but then again my city is corrupt and in debt, sigh.

Is that a desparate Nagoya ploy to encourage people to live in that area? or are they Nagoya Local govt just really family friendly? thats insanely cheap, the only people paying that little around around here are the buraku,

Originally Posted By: spook seriously - is anyone actually awed by fireworks? mate,you obviously have never been to PL fireworks in Osaka: the worlds largest annual display, you would have to have no pulse not to be awed by it. You cant compare the standard pissant fireworks displays in Western countries to ones like it. Some of the fireworks are more like like bombs, they shake buildings nearby, you feel major shockwaves through your body. It really is awesome.