farquah
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Oh.........apparently someone beat me to it. Have to cancel my Porsche order then now!
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Invented Pennicylin
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ALso just found out they have discontinued the BReville Pie Maker....TRAGIC!!!!!
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The Breville Pie Maker I bouth over with me, but have seen one in a shop in Tokyo somewhere too, can`t remember the name, but somewhere in Kanda.
May be able to get them IN K`s Denki but don`t qoute me on that.
Pretty easy to make the pastry and you can actually buy it ready made in some food shops near me, so you just slap it straight on and stuff with filling. when making the pastry its good to get loads of air in your mixture so that its really fluffy, result is awsome crusty pastry.
Get yoruslef a Breville Pie maker and your away!! I should be getting money for this plug!!!
Enjoy!
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I bought a Breville pie maker the other day and make my own!! Fantastic and great when pissed to come up with riddiculous pie ingrediants!!
Best yet has been, Beans, curry, lager and unagi!!
Breville, the way forward!!
However is nothuing like a good old Lancashire Pie!!
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Here in JApan the Japanese guys seem to go nuts for the hundreds of Japanese Female icons such as Ayumi Hamasaki, Eiko Koike, Kanno Asami...blah blah blah devoting their lives to seeing them and finding autographs and pics, e.t.c
Theya are plastered all over magazines in convini`s for browsing whiile waiting for the train/bus and always on some kind of game show.
What do us Gaijin blokes think of them? And who is the favourite?
I would go with Mugumi at the moment seems to be everywhere and a very impressive set of front weights!!
P.S full list at web page
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Is that a no on the translation on the techno jargon then!! Thanks for keeping the thread visible though!!
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And a pay rise!!! Unless youw ere offering?!
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HAve been trying to use an old MP3 player I bought about 3 years ago back in England. Been working fine with the Compact Flash card I had from home, but recently lost it so bought a new one here, but for some reason when I put it in the player it comes up with
PMP folder not found
I have no idea what this means, can anyone enlighten me?
Much appreciated.
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Sorry the stars should say "w*nk", they wanted work but alas their spelling let them down!!
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I have just spent my entire morning laughing in histerics after being asked to check the slogan for a T-shirt to be printed for graduating Baton club girls from school!!! Check out what they wanted to write on teh T-shirts:
"**** for the team, and be covered in glory!"!!!!!!!!
I never new spelling could be sooo amusing. The look of bewilderment as I rolled about on the floor in tears of laughter were a sight!!!
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We had it at our uni bar in UK. It was constantly the source of many a mumrarred night. One particular night some friends and I drank a copius amount plus variuos other alcholic beverages on a rugby pub crawl. The following morning five of us woke up in France, it happened that we decided at 4 am to get the ferry across and carry on our night of debauchery across the english channel, couldn`t quite work out just why we had a shop manequin with us though??!!
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On the reverse words I love are Roly Poly, Chimney, and "my thats big!"
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Lobster game was in an amusement arcade in Sapporo!! Have a pic of it but can`t work out how to get it on here. Will keep trying!
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The used underwear vending machine myth:
In early September, three business men stocked around 90 vending machines in outer Tokyo with used underwear "guaranteed to have been worn by a Japanese schoolgirl." Each garment sells for about $29.
After searching the rule books, the police have finally charged the three entrepreneurs with violating the Antique Dealings Law, which stipulates that dealers need a license. Used panties as antiques? The police say that some of the underwear was bought from second hand dealers. The trio may also be charged with swindling, if it can be shown that the panties on sale had not really been worn by female students.
The Economist, page 76, October 18, 1993
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There is no doubt that Japan is Vending Machine heaven, around every street corner lies some sort of vending machine, ranging from the typical beverage dispenser to (we have all heard the story) the used school girls knickers!! What other things have you found that you would never expect to find in VEnding machines??
My top favourites have included:
Vegetables Vending Machine,
Eggs Vending machine,
and my all time favourite, chop stick and lobster vending machine!! It's based on the popular UFO Catcher games and you have to manoeuvre the yellow claw to try and grab one of the lobsters. It costs 100 yen for one try or 500 yen for six. and yes they are real live lobsters!!
Am waiting for the day when we can buy vending machines in vending machines!!
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I got upgraded to Business class with a uni friend of mine last year when flying back form New Zealand to Japan.
Given my friend is female I tried the just married tactic!! Shortly before take off i walked up to one of the flight attendants fluttered my eye lashes and explained how my "wife" and I had just recently got married and this was our honeymoon trip to Japan, and if at all possible could I get an upgrade as a present to her and surprise!! The then duey eyed air hostess hearing of such love and affection promptly upgraded us and we spent the rest of the flight sipping champagne and lounging in seats 3 times the size of cattle class!! However maybe linking our arms as we drank the champagne was going a little far!!! Unfortunately the marriage lasted the 13 hours of the flight and we went out separate ways on touch down, still nice while it lasted!!
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Japan is filled with workers who do almost nothing. You probably haven't needed a crossing guard to help you across the street since you were five years old, but you can find crossing guards on quiet streets far away from schools and playgrounds here. Operating an ATM should be the simplest thing in the world, but almost every bank has a "lobby lady" to help you with your transaction and in case you find the task of pushing an elevator button too overwhelming, there are elevator girls in a lot of the big department stores. Flag men do, of course, play an important role in directing traffic around construction sites on busy roads, but do drivers on back streets really need three or four old men to direct them, when there are already 5000 pylons around the site?
The reason for all the useless people is that these jobs are giving retired people with small pensions a way to earn some extra money, and, depending on how you look at it, the dignity of having a job (even if it is a useless one). It also keeps the unemployment rate down however here are my top five usless jobs:
1 Crossing Guards (even if there are traffic lights next to them they stil appear!!)
2 Elevator Girls (except the exceptionally attractive ones!) Apparently they average 2500 bows a day!!
3 MUSEUM LADIES
Go to any museum in Japan, and you will see an elegant looking lady sitting in one corner of almost every room. They don't do anything, they don't say anything, and they don't seem to know anything about, or be particularly interested in, the art around them. These human scarecrows just sit their calmly for hours and hours without moving, their laps covered by a little blanket.
4 99% of electronic store workers!! They know nothing about the item you wish to purchase yet give you the best and deepest bows you`ll get!
5 MOBILE LAUNDRY POLE SALESMAN
I'd like to nominate those people that drive around every Sunday in their vans, blaring their megaphones, selling laundry poles. How often do people really need to buy a new laundry pole? I think once every 5 years would be sufficient, but these people somehow feel the need to drive by at 8 in the morning EVERY Sunday in my neighbourhood.
Japan-the land of over employement!!
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Bow Ties (red and white pokerdots!)Pee Wee Herman, nuff said!!
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My car is up for Shaken soon and I can`t get over what a complete and utter farce it is that ends up costing about as much as it would for me to simply buy a new one!!!
All Japanese cars over three years old have to pass a saftey inspection every two years. The inspection is so tough that it generally costs over 1500 dollars, and often more, to get your automobile up to standard. First, there is the basic inspection fee of 35,000 yen. Then there is the weight tax of 25,200 yen (for cars under 1 ton). You also have to pay 28,450 yen for insurance and 8,000 yen for the shaken itself. Add to that the 5% sales consumption tax, several other tests, plus parts and labour for any actual repairs that need doing and you are looking at some very serious money for the safety inspection of a car that probably doesn't need it.
Is the government really that worried about the safety of Japanese drivers? Does the Shaken system save lives? No. The reasons for this wasteful, unfair, and environmentally unfriendly policy are purely economic. According to the book Japan Swings: Politics, Culture and Sex in the New Japan, the entire system is a conspiracy between the government and Japan's car industry to sell more vehicles. The author, Richard McGregor quotes a Mainichi Shimbun article in which a senior MITI official states: "Many people buy new cars because of a pending inspection. By lengthening the time between inspections, it will be even harder to sell cars...and contrary to economic stimulus measures."
Glad I got that off my chest!
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Interesting Beard fact Number 1:
An Austrian Shot Put Champion was disqualified from the Olympics when she was discovered to be approximately two fiths male in hormone levels, the giveaway came when she was caught shaving twice a day in the Olympic village!!
Reminds me of my old dinner lady!!!
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Best way to get rid of your smelly hole is to use the "bide" toilet surely!!!
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I think i may have exhausted this topic but one more before the boat sinks!
Hang a sign around your neck with the words "I hate Tractors, John Deere suck!", written on it. When someone asks what you have come as, happly retort..extractor fan!!!
Should have quit while I was ahead maybe!!
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Personally I find some of the female Petrol station attendants great value for money!!! Especially the look on their face when you wind down your window and then realise its a Gaijin behind the wheel!!