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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 were two lines of thought in the situation.
The original reports I read in the paper and online where quite condemning of Wood, I just looked again and most of the stories have been toned down and traitor angle has been dropped.
When it first broke it was made out to be the end of the world.
Never mind. Australia had a pretty good campaign in the pool, apart from Phelps - not too many others got a look in.
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Originally Posted By: soubriquetIt`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: thursdayneandethal 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 needs one stadium and two days to complete - perfect for the olympics.
And yes, say good bye to the horses, but they wont as its one of the most popular events especially with females, huge television interest in it. -
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.
Australia has employed foreign coaches and got help from abroad before.
Suddenly it goes the other way and there is hysteria
The Chinese swimmer actually trained in Australia with him earlier this year and he was offered a what has been quoted "big money" for the training plans, he was a private coach not employed by swimming Australia.
They were training plans, not a magic elixir, obviously the Chinese girl trained harder and applied the plans better than Schipper and won, Its clear to me with same training, the Chinese girl smoked the Aussie and that is what hurts the most it seems.
Schipper is Ken woods protege and star student, he was gutted to see her lose but at the end of the day she was not good enough and though to appease the rabid he has said he didn't want Lucy ( his nickname for the Chinese girl} to win, deep down he must be proud that someone using his training methods is Olympic champ and world record holder
Get over it Australia (the rabid ones going nuts) , these things happen, arguably the best rugby coach in the world (Robbie Deans of NZ) is the current coach of the Wallabies - oh no! he has taken all his secrets over to Australia, what are we going to do?! shock horror!
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Originally Posted By: Rag-DollPerhaps 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 are some very fit bodies and if you are a leg man there is plenty of that on show.
The Chinese twins, tingting and wenwen today, yup!
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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
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Originally Posted By: Go NativeAm 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 brilliant.
Who said Table Tennis? the channel change instantly when I come across that, there is so much more interesting stuff on.
Luckily the Olympics coincided with summer vacation,
after the end of the olympics life will go back to normal. -
NZ wins - just got a bronze. Canada still ZIP.
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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?
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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.
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Originally Posted By: thursdayhad 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€ÏÎσβυς), meaning "old person") describes the condition where the eye exhibits a progressively diminished ability to focus on near objects with age.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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They probably have a clause somewhere in the fine print that allows them to do this, sucks ass but such is life.
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are you sure he wasnt 38 years old and in Ibaraki?
Quote:Teacher, 38, arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting 11-year-old girl in IbarakiTuesday 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 acquainted with each other through a mutual friend.
The local education board held a press conference Monday to apologize for Kojima’s behavior. They said that the school principal had heard rumors about the incident at the time and had asked the teacher about it. But Kojima denied the allegations.
After police raided the school on Monday, Kojima and his father called the school admitting the allegation and apologized to the girl.
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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 completely oblivious to the origin of gelatin, people thought I was lying when I explained how they made the stuff, I put one family friend off ice cream forever when I told her icecream was made with it among other things.
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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 not functioning.
She then had the audacity to stare at me and give me a dirty look, as to say "what were you doing there"...well I was on the main thoroughfare and had right of way, being on old bat on scooter doesn't make you a goddess of the road with impunity from road laws....I just rolled my eyes and held my tongue, she wasn't worth the effort.
.....three slobbish schoolboys (from a bad high school no less) were sitting side by side on train last week, slouching on the seat and all glued to their PSPs, the train stopped at the next station and an extremely old frail woman with a cane and and another old lady holding her other arm for support staggered onto the train, she must have been close to a 100 and clearly needed a seat, the PSP muppets didn't even glance up, they sat there oblivious glued to their plastic girlfriends, I really wanted to walk over and smack each one of them hard across the head and no one around them said boo, luckily a high school boy on the opposite side of the carriage (from a prestigious school naturally) noticed and jumped up to offer his seat, good lad at least some kids have manners and 'look'
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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 thingsperhaps your school had a "metabo" issue and the nutritionist decided the latter was a healthier option?
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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 - The outside is gray-brown, and the middle of the steak is mostly red and warm, with some pink. Often ordered by those who prefer medium rare and don't mind rare but worry about overcooking towards medium.
* Medium rare - (52.2°C/126°F degrees core temp) The steak will have a fully red, warm center. Unless specified otherwise, upscale steakhouses will generally cook to at least this level.
* Medium - (57.2°C/135°F degrees core temp) The middle of the steak is hot and red with pink surrounding the center. The outside is gray-brown.
* Medium well done - (62.8°C/145°F degrees core temp) The meat is light pink surrounding the center.
* Well done - (73.9°C/160°F degrees core temp) The meat is gray-brown throughout and slightly charred.
A style exists in some parts of North America called "Chicago". A Chicago-style steak is cooked to the desired level and then quickly charred. The diner orders it by asking for the style followed by the doneness (e.g. "Chicago-style rare"). A steak ordered "Pittsburgh rare" is rare or very rare on the inside and charred on the outside. In Pittsburgh, this style is referred to as "black and blue" (black, i.e. sooty on the outside, Blue rare on the inside).[citation needed]
In Taiwan, a number system from "0" to "10" is commonly used to specify steak doneness, with 0 as raw and 10 as "well done."
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damn!