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never said it did?? that was another particular hotel, where the manager said 80% of his customers were from Australia.
NHK had a 5 min piece, there must be a bit of worry there, or a boring news day.....
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Wednesday night NHK news 9 . Long story on the impact of the High yen and the crumbling Aussie dollar, empty booking sheets in hotels that have 80% Aus patronage
condos that were going for a mint, being dumped and unable to sell.
Pretty interesting story.
The massive ( and gawdy) brand new Hilton, in Niseko looks to be at the very minute, a horrible white elephant in the making.....
anyway else see it?
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Originally Posted By: Creek Boyewok, you read your keitai mails?
probably about as often as you read your web mail
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in the real rugby that was on at the weekend, The Welsh stared down the All Blacks haka and then refused to move afterwards, they all just stood there staring, so the AB's didnt move either - a stare down, it was awesome. The ref had to plead with them to get the game started!
p.s I really dig the Welsh anthem and the passion that they sing it with - players and crowd.
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Originally Posted By: KumapixSo all in all, I rode 7 hours of pow non-stop with 1 epic noboard top-to-bottom run - it was a good day!
you wankers! all of you!
I am seriously envious, glad I only found this out now, after working all 3 days of the long weekend, though my only consolation is the fatass paycheck coming in December......
Still must have been sweet as nectar out there, living vicariously sucks!
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When I worked at Keystone I got a Vail Pass for free - 4 Mtns (Keystone, Breckinridge, Beaver Creek and Vail) + for a mere $10 you could also get A-Basin pass.
Yours to use as much as you pleased, except if you called in sick that day in which case you pass was "hot" and you were in deep doodoo if you were caught using it.
No stupid rules about uniform.
That's the way it should be. Why can't Japan get their proverbial into one sock?
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working boths day....building up the cash reserves to be able to put in turns when the snow is rocking....not full of rocks.
Good luck if you heading out, get your rock skiis out.
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Quote:I think this pattern is common in Japan
sigh, how about thinking for youself for once, break the mold...
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Originally Posted By: Mr WigglesDaikon is best in thick slices stewed in dashi oden style. The proper way is to cook it in starchy water from washing rice to get the bitterness out. Do not confuse with dodgy oden cooked in instant dashi in the conbeni.
I am very opened minded with food and eat almost everything, but cooked Daikon in Oden is one of my all time dislikes, the texture and bitterness are just awful, though reading about the starchy water and removing the bitterness, I am willing to give it one more try to see, but it must work miracles to improve the taste if it works.
I get daikons given to me all the time from many different people so being able to eat it in Oden would be a good money saver, the good wife stews a pretty mean Oden.
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Originally Posted By: gerWhoa, that looks cool! Wonder how fast they're going when the hit the bottom..
45mph
A dude who has done it before had this to say.
Quote:“You really, really fly downwards because the flat-bottomed hull just aquaplanes. “You are a bit like a flat stone skimming across a pond but you have to use the paddles to get the right line.
“If you do not land straight you are going to suffer severe spinal damage. At the bottom it will be like being tossed around in a car accident. To ensure you land straight you have to use the paddles but there is a 45mph to 50mph wind as you skim downwards.
“The only sound you hear is like a machine gun going off in your ear as the boat shoots at speed across the ripples in the water. I nearly lost my paddles coming downwards because the drag effect took them from my hands but I managed to stretch out and grab them back.
“If I had lost my paddles I would only have been able to put my hands out to straighten the kayak and that would have meant losing the tops of my fingers because of the friction with the concrete. It would be a decision between being paralysed at the bottom or losing your fingertips.
“Right at the bottom I found out to my horror that there is what is called an anti-scour ridge which is a razor sharp length of medal. Out of sheer luck I bounced when I landed and jumped right over it.
“Unbelievably I came out of that ride with no injuries at all but I am completely serious when I say to anyone tempted to do it, don’t. This run is deadly.â€
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why even touch it when you take a slash? it's pretty easy to do, pull the top of your boxers/y-fronts/briefs down, jiggle it out, let your old fella rest on the top off your briefs, shake it and then manoeuvre it back it in. The whole time holding on to your underpants - you haven't touched 'it'.
That said I only do that in public toilets that have awful facilities.
I am usually pretty good with washing my hands, whenever I come home I wash my hands thoroughly and gargle.
When I arrive at work I do the same thing - gargling is very useful to reduce your incidence of cold and flu especially if you travel on public transport.
One thing that makes me laugh is people who dip their hands briefly in water and say they wash their hands. They are almost worse than those who dont wash at all.
sinks like this would get blokes washing
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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
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just like the first line of this song, the Bali F%&$#its have been taken out with the trash.
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IMO its overused and isn't special anymore. I fast forward it if its recorded or if live use the time to grab a beer or go to the toilet.
In the amateur days it was different, in professional Rugby the haka has become somewhat anachronistic.
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a regular map coloured doesn't do the victory justice.
a proportional map shows it much better
338 - 158. I'd say thats a landslide win
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Originally Posted By: pie-eaterFunny seeing all those Ferrari mechanics going wild thinking they had won
that was massas pops on the right
cynics are saying Glock slowed deliberately to allow Hamilton the vital 5th place. nevermmind he was on slicks on a wet track
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Mr Wiggles - nail > head > hit. I was reading that Brand was the sideshow to the main attraction - Ross. Had it been Brand and some unknown doing it, it wouldn't have been news. The fact that it was Ross as well got the media in a frenzy to slash away at 'tall poppy' #1 at the BBC.
I myself had to rack my brains about who Brand was, I had only ever seen him once: the end of year quiz show special, and I thought he was a weirdo at the time.
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Originally Posted By: BagOfCrispsQuote:2 people who heard the broadcast live complained about it at the time - two.
I highly doubt that, but you obviously know it to be fact.
Only two complaints were made following the actual Radio 2 broadcast, said the source, with the majority coming after the Mail on Sunday's front-page story and the subsequent media coverage.
from the Guardian.
also Guardian
As scoops go, the Brand and Ross phone prank row had a rather undramatic birth. Mail on Sunday reporter Miles Goslett was simply, as millions do, listening to the Russell Brand show on Radio 2. Having noted the somewhat risque nature of the call Brand and his guest Jonathan Ross made to Andrew Sachs's answerphone and the subsequent phone calls, Goslett waited to see how the papers would follow the story.
He waited several days before putting calls in to Sachs's agent. It seems it was not until the Mail on Sunday asked how Sachs felt about the now notorious line "he **** your granddaughter", that the actor's agent, Meg Pool, was alerted to the broadcast. Reports from inside the BBC yesterday, however, suggested that Sachs had "reluctantly" approved broadcast of at least some version of the phone call.
Still, according to sources at the Mail on Sunday, Goslett could not believe his luck. Was no one else listening? Or did no one else think it was a story? Put another way, how did an incident that occurred 14 days ago and which no one appeared to have noticed for over a week, claim the scalp of one of the country's highest profile presenters, leave the future of another hanging in the balance, while at the same time reigniting the debate over the purpose of the BBC?
Only because of one reporter from the Mail on sunday, did this become what it has, had he not heard the live broadcast and then perservered with the story for a week, we wouldnt be discussing this now.
Undone by a tabloid hack scrounging for story that turned out to be gold, funny old world.
Well if Rosses show is done and he is sacked, then at least he went out with a great guest last week: Tony Curtis -
here is a 5 year old thread on dogs
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/156638/Dogs.html#Post156638
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The Poet T.B Macaulay once said "that there is nothing so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality"
2 people who heard the broadcast live complained about it at the time - two.
The newspapers whip it into a frenzy and even the PM wades in (likely to avert attention from his own woeful performances) 20000 people have now complained to the BBC.
The "Satanic slut" granddaughter Ballie gets lots of publicity, her grandfather who made his name offending the Spanish is quite embarrassed of the mountain that started as a molehill and has graciously accepted apologies. Brand takes a walk and Wossy is silenced.
Jack Straw, the Lord Chancellor, jumps in to cash on the popular opinion by condemning the BBC's "appalling lapse in standards" and saying Ross and Brand should have been promptly fired.
yet on the other hand the frenzy may be partly driven by "salary envy and shadenfreude", a senior BBC executive said today (in the Independent).
Radio 1 Newsbeat editor Rod McKenzie highlighted "synthetic" anger over the incident, insisting the corporation was being attacked by its "usual critics".
I like Ross, I often download his show and watch it, I look forward to seeing it again.
In light of the scrutiny on "standards" at the BBC, Jeremy Clarkson must be sweating...
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Originally Posted By: JAWhy bother, unless you are doing something you are ashamed of??
because you want to access content in other countries that is "region specific" I did so during the Olympics and am not ashamed of it. It's like wanting to watch a region one DVD...
During the last US election Dubya's website was blocked only to US connections, I had a gander through a US proxy to see: there was nothing to see (naturally).
If your school, uni, work blocks sites like hotmail or facebook and you want to see them.
Not a lot of shame in checking one messages you know.
There are many uses for anon surfing, it's not for kiddly fiddlers who want to surreptitiously download some kiddie porn etc. -
yep, lets de-pod
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Quote:WOW! How low must a person be to manufacture a knock off nil nutrient baby formula
how low must a company be to own a 43% stake in the company that made the dodgy powder...oh, that would be Fonterra - New Zealand's largest company: a massive co-op of NZ dairy farmers controlling handling over a third of all international dairy trade. Fonterra have been very aggressive in expanding their market.
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Quote:Each year, 22,500 cemeteries across the United States bury approximately:
30 million board feet (70,000 m³) of hardwoods (caskets)
90,272 tons of steel (caskets)
14,000 tons of steel (vaults)
2,700 tons of copper and bronze (caskets)
1,636,000 tons of reinforced concrete (vaults)
827,060 US gallons (3,130 m³) of embalming fluid, which most commonly includes formaldehyde.
from http://www.naturalburial.coop/
Quote:With a typical modern funeral, the body is laid naked on a stainless steel embalmer’s table, bled out, and pumped full of noxious chemicals to keep the body fresh. Following the viewing, the body is sealed inside a metal casket or lacquered wooden coffin lined with plush satin and adorned with beautiful brass accessories… which is then lowered into a concrete vault and buried.The reinforced concrete tomb is covered with a ton of dirt, and planted with a monoculture of grass which is kept artificially green with pest and weed killer. Above ground, the local cemetery may look pastoral and natural, however, below the surface; it serves to all intents and purposes, as a landfill of hazardous wastes and non-biodegradable materials.
The whole operation will take less than a week and cost your heirs and family more than the price of a new car.
Across North America millions of people are given this standard, funeral home send-off each year. Outfitting each of them demands the extraction and consumption of vast amounts of resources and leaves a trail of environmental damage in its wake.
A ten-acre swatch of cemetery ground will contain enough coffin wood to construct more than 40 homes, nearly a thousand tons of casket steel and another twenty thousand tons of concrete for vaults. Across North America enough metal is diverted into coffin and vault production each year to build the Golden Gate Bridge, and enough concrete is used to build a two-lane highway from Toronto to Montreal… and back again.
Formaldehyde, the primary ingredient in embalming fluids and a potential carcinogen (on the European Union’s list for possible banning) is another concern. We bury nearly a million gallons of embalming fluid every year in North America, some of which eventually leaches out and runs into surrounding soil and groundwater. Not enough research has been done to make definitive judgments about formaldehyde’s effect on the environment; however its effect on members of the mortuary trade is clearer. Numerous studies have shown that embalmers and funeral directors exhibit a higher incidence of leukemia and cancers of the brain and colon, among other ailments.
Alternatively, a natural burial takes the concept of “ashes to ashes, dust to dust†to heart with a simple, natural, and meaningful alternative to the wastefulness and extravagant consumption of the traditional funeral.
A natural burial it’s about completing the circle of life. What could be more beautiful than to become a part of nature? Perhaps a molecule from your body will ends up in a berry that a bird eats
traditional burials are so incredibly wasteful, anyone else would be prosecuted dumping all those chemicals in the ground.
Cremations arent even that great, they require huge amounts of energy and release large amounts of CO2 and other pollutants.
They way forward is natural burials, shallow grave wrapped in a shroud in the woods with a nice tree planted on top, thats the way for me. Now to decide what tree to have planted on top, perhaps a Cabbage tree, cabbage trees rock
REALLY cold in Hokkaido!
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insulation and toothbrushes - why the aversion Japan? they are both useful things that improve our lives...
I thought at the very least Hokkers would have some a little more than the norm, but no? wow that is surprising!
My friend in the Yukon has walls in his house 2 feet thick!