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19.30! damn!

I have been catching Yum-cha torrents. Rebecca Wilson? is that the name of the obnoxious cow I mentioned earlier - yep she gets on the nerves very quickly. They have some good things on that show, but it needs a bit of fast forwarding. The BBC equivalent show is very good. Mantas, calm down mate, calm down, I wasn't addressing you, I was addressing the jingoistic nitwits in your country who got all sanctimonious and bombarded Ken wood with abusive phone calls etc etc. I am well aware the head of Australian swimming came out with his rational statement concerning Wood. I did say there

Originally Posted By: soubriquet It`s going well, but I miss a good cuddle at night. well shave your beard off mate... seriously now: all the best to you and your lady. she sounds like a real fighter.

Originally Posted By: thursday neandethal euros speaking of those, I see the light heavy, heavyweight and super heavyweight mens weightlifting was dominated by the by Neanderthal euros - German, Russian, Latvians, Belorussians. As impressive as the Chinese domination of the lower weight classes is and it is mighty impressive, I want to see the Chinese to take on the big boys. Rugby 7's would be great team sport for the Olympics, too bad many IOC delegates are ignorant. Anyone of dozen countries including minnows like Samoa Tonga and Fiji would be medal contenders, plus it only nee

bang on Soubs, it's like the Aussie press see him as a Robert Hansen type: a CIA agent selling highly classified documents to the Russians. Actually there have been two camps on the issue, those rapid ones calling him a traitor and those who see it as it is. On Channel 7 in Australia, the Olympic show Yum-cha, ex swimmer Duncan Armstrong said he had no problems with it, the obnoxious cow beside him was one of the rabid. They were his training plans and 40 years with experience behind them, they were not swimming Australia's plans, he is free do do what he likes with them. A

Originally Posted By: Rag-Doll Perhaps the stupidest sport at the Olympics would have to be hand ball. It just looks dumb. Sort of like a back yard knock-about game arranged at someone's Phys Ed class. One sport that I have always thought odd was ping pong, how a simple rec' room activity got so big and popular and people found ways to make it complicated is really quite amazing. Why isnt pool or darts or air hockey or foosball at the olympics too? I like Snyc swimming, yes its bizarre but it must be extremely hard to do and they must practice ad nauseum to get it right plus there

I enjoy it for the sports, I don't really care so much about the patriotism, if NZ get a gold medal then I will take more notice for a instance but, I watch it for the spectacle. I like watching sports NZ suck at anyway! Though the mens Tri' is on live now - Kiwi bloke leading out of the swim, frenchie second and an aussie third

Originally Posted By: Go Native Am I the only one who hasn't watched even 1 second of the Olympics? probably, I love the Olympics have done since the first Olympics I was old enough to appreciate in 1984, my sports loving teacher had the TV on in the classroom and everything was about the Olympics for 2 weeks. Every four years I get wrapped up in it - it's awesome. I have watched more live T.V in the past week than I have watched in the rest of the year, also downloaded lots of torrents of stuff not available on Japanese TV. The weightlifting has been fascinating, the swimming brillian

NZ wins - just got a bronze. Canada still ZIP.

The medal drought. It's slightly hazukashi that NZ has a grand total of zero medals after 8 days! BUT I also see Canada has zero medals too! now that is a lot more surprising! NZ has a good chance of some medals today in rowing - will they crack the medal table before Canada?

Originally Posted By: bobby12 Most of the chinese women athletes look like men. I watched the Softball last night - wow, the Australia team were scary! seriously.

Quote: Cinemas suck coz of those munchers, talkers, whisperers, and filthy seats. you know it's one of the great things about Japan, large clean comfy seats with great legroom, almost dead silence in the theatre - no whispering - nothing. I love watching movies here, the most considerate movie going public imaginable. pop corn? strange decision as the theatres made huge profits on pop corn. Never eat it myself though so don't care.

lip syncing? whats the big deal? we all knew China would go to any lengths for the perfect performance and in world obsessed with image does it really surprise you? I am not at all surprised. It's hardly Milli vanili.

Originally Posted By: thursday had them lasiked. Not looked back since. Best thing I ever did. amen to that brother. I HATE glasses, hate hate them. Hey Indo! - its called Presbyopia (Greek word "presbys" (Ï€Ïέσβυς), meaning "old person") describes the condition where the eye exhibits a progressively diminished ability to focus on near objects with age.

you guys never heard of Gal Sone? she is a 43kg girl who can eat anything at all and not gain weight. 40000 cal in one day once, 9 kg of noodles another time. It's unbelievable watching her demolish a feast of food.

costco sell or used to sell IMS ink refill packs. I have refilled scores of times and saved an absolute mint, printed hundreds of colour photos. nothing wrnog with the quality of the prints, get good paper and set up the print options properly and its brilliant My printer though is at the end of its life now, the black has gone haywire and the magenta too, its a Canon inkjet and it has been thrashed - I dont know if its just dying anyway or the refills did it but either way its time to upgrade, I am scouting a printer that is easy to refill. Definitely worth the risk in my book.

I have been to both too and Niseko had he better snow when I was there, though Vail's terrain is way out of Niseko's league. I had one moderately decent powder day in vail (from memory) but it got tracked awfully quick! though that was before the expansion. humidity? maybe in summer but winter it's pretty darn dry -not colorado dry but dry enough.

In many cases, people called ambulances ...t the hospital. seems the lazy incredibly selfish members of society have outdone themselves, I am shaking by head at the sheer audacity of some of these people - they should absolutely be charged the cost of the callout. Despicable behaviour. In the past I have accused the ambulances of being like taxis because the medics aren't allowed to treat, just transport you to hospital, BUT at least save the ride for those in genuine need of it!

They probably have a clause somewhere in the fine print that allows them to do this, sucks ass but such is life.

are you sure he wasnt 38 years old and in Ibaraki? Quote: Teacher, 38, arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting 11-year-old girl in Ibaraki Tuesday 24th June, 09:56 AM JST IBARAKI — A 38-year-old school teacher was arrested on Monday for allegedly sexually assaulting a 11-year-old schoolgirl in Kamisu City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Hidekazu Kojima, 38, was arrested for allegedly assaulting the girl at a hotel in February, 2007, after taking her out for a drive. In May, the girl told a friend who reported the case to police. According to police, Kojima and the girl became acq

vegetarians hard a tough group of people to be with sometimes, several times in Japan I have been at restaurants and the vegetarians in the group have made a scene, many of them my friends too which makes it 'tough'. As much as I enjoy there company it's much better to go to eat somewhere without them and you can order freely from the menu..or go to yakiniku even. going back to the original idea is this thread I too have been amazed at the ignorance to the origin of food sometimes in this country too, though saying that I used to be amazed at the % of people back home who were complet

last week a stupid old bat on a scooter ( my arch nemesis: old woman on scooters: the most arrogant, selfish and blind road user of them all) pulled out of a side street into the path of my bicycle naturally we collided, luckily I was looking and braked hard, she never looked, I watched her head, she never even moved it, she never even directed her eyes in the direction I was coming from, perhaps she looked 5 seconds earlier but then she just drove straight out onto the road, what was she thinking? was she using her non existent peripheral vision? because like so many other people here it was

I work at a well to a do private JnrHigh/High school and you would think that is a place like that the school lunches would be pretty good, but they are pretty mediocre! the 430yen lunch set is usually very bland and lifeless. Quote: it went from being quite Western style - curry, hamburgers, pasta, bread - to the other extreme almost overnight with lots of seaweed, fish and other things perhaps your school had a "metabo" issue and the nutritionist decided the latter was a healthier option?

wiki says this * Raw - Uncooked. Used in dishes like steak tartare, Carpaccio, Gored gored, tiger meat and Kitfo. * Blue rare or very rare - (37.8°C/100°F core temp) Cooked very quickly; the outside is seared, but the inside is usually cool and barely cooked. The steak will be red on the inside and barely warmed. Sometimes asked for as 'blood rare'. In the United States this is also sometimes referred to as 'Black and Blue' or 'Pittsburgh Rare'. * Rare - (48.9°C/120°F core temp) The outside is gray-brown, and the middle of the steak is red and slightly warm. * Rare plus

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