Oyuki kigan

Just do what you can. I'm glad you are doing what you are. Oh, and by the way, just to be nitpicky, there are no "fish-eating" vegans, that is a contradiction in terms. Vegan, by definition, means zero animal products, including honey and leather. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism Vegetarian is used for all types of people, inclding lacto-ovo vegetarians (will eat dairy and egg), and pesco-vegetarians, who eat fish. As for the economics arguement, it is null. If there was ever a mass movement to vegetarianism for environmental reasons, i can't see how the same peo

Yeah, Sapporo is nice, for a Japanese city. Good food, ski hills that you can take public transportation to, and... KING XMU!!!!

I don't see the logic Fatty. How does a reduction in meat consumption = increase in ethonol production? And no, you are right, ONLY going vegan, or ONLY doing one thing like driving a hybrid is not going to work. It has to be plural. It has to encopass everything. I am just asking people to look at one specific area, as it tends to be a touchy subject. And you answered your own last comment. Vegans don't eat fish, partly because of that exact reason.

Well, even though i think Tubs is mixing up issues, i am a little wary about 'carbon offsetting' schemes. If you are reading this Tubs, it means you pay for someone else to work on a project to get rid of a certain amount of carbon dioxide, to 'offset' extremely polluting activities, like flying an a plane. And i agree with Tubs, it is a little sketchy, because there is not much guarantee that the trees will live long enough to sink the required amount of carbon that you claim to be paying for. They have to live at least 30 or 50 years to do thiat. Thats why i advocate living i

Trying to have a serious conversation on here is like trying to find another single in a Japanese lift line

Originally Posted By: thursday Oyuki, don't feel left out. Help yourself to some fruit i'll have the apple!

Well, what to have for lunch? Steak? Don't overdo it, i like 'em rare. Just walk her though a warm room Can i get it with a side of fries? Veal is wonderful! Don't worry, all those feces are on the outside! (Unless we make a mistake cutting her open on the conveyor line, whcih tends to happen frequently with the amount of animals we "process"). But its all good! We irradiate the meat for you afterwards! and pork chops! can't eat that without some of mom's apple sauce! Everyone knows pigs like to get dirty, right? Just another da

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver Originally Posted By: Oyuki kigan Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver No, I personally don't buy into this offsetting your carbon footprint nonsense. i hope not, because offsetting your carbon and reducing your footprint are two seperate things. Do you mean instead to say that you don't believe in global warming? No, I believe that the Globe is definitely warming, whether we are the primary cause or not I'm unsure, I can see arguements pro and con. I just don't buy into this government spun..."do this and offset your carbon footprint".....

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver Originally Posted By: Oyuki kigan You guys are about as funny as a fart in a space suit. Just curious, are you all skiers as well? No, I personally don't buy into this offsetting your carbon footprint nonsense. i hope not, because offsetting your carbon and reducing your footprint are two seperate things. Do you mean instead to say that you don't believe in global warming?

You guys are about as funny as a fart in a space suit. Just curious, are you all skiers as well?

Just in case you forgot http://news.yahoo.com/story//afp/20080826/sc_afp/lifestylegermanyclimateagriculture

Here you go Soubs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapeman

Originally Posted By: soubriquet Is that so Oyuki? (Not a challenge, it's a question). I know about the "company tours" to Bancock (soubriquette's cake ladies don't bother with these) but where are these books on sale? last time i picked one up (by accident, i thought it was a harmless normal Japanese porn comic) was a couple of years back. It was on a stand of second-hand comics about 2 meters away from the register, in full view of children at a large used book and CD store. I am sure they haven't dissapeared since then, and i guess a nosing through any porno shop will bring up many,

For all of those so upset about child porn and the such, take a cold, hard look at the porn in Japan. The majority of clientle for the Bangcock brothels are asian, and a huge amount of those are Japanese. Take a look at all the child-porn comic books. Or better yet, the rape stuff. Hell, there is even a comic book protagonist called 'Rapeman'. If you want to bitch about how awful GG is fine, but the society that many of us here live in is pretty lax about rape and paedophilia.

I'll be hooking up a new noboard this winter. Plus a spare if anyone wants to give it a go. I really want to get out there more this season. See you out there, Kuma.

"I think the people in Utsunomiya are very cold-hearted" That might have been me. But before you judge me, go there first and see for yourself.

Absinthe's 'Pop', and 'Futureproof' have some pretty bautiful shots from Hokkaido, i think. Blank Paper's vid from last year has a great section on Japan.

Apparently from the people i talked to, it was a relatively 'average season'. 30 years before or so saw consitently snowier seasons apparently, but that has slowly been in decline.

That is horrible. I can see dying by falling off a chairlift, but off a surface lift... one would think that something that dangerous wouldn't even be used. I have been on steep t-bars before, ones that would result in a LONG slide down, but nothing life-threatening.

reggae.

This brings up a bigger question of advertising and how it affects the society we live in. So when is there gonna be a limit on how much we ingest? Or where we ingest it? Guerrilla advertising is nothing new, but it has been taking on lots of new and controvesial forms the past few years. Product placement in movies and TV is one thing, may advertisiers are trying to do the same in real life, where advertising may come in the form of intentionally placed product in everyday areas of your life. We have only had mass advertising for a few decades. We don't really now what the

Oh yeah, this is pretty common. In vancouver, the biggest grow-ops are in the affluent neighborhoods, and the police have taked to using infra-red photography from aircraft to find grow-ops (because of the huge heat signature they produce).

Thursday, no-one needs to starve and die to showcase anything. The facts have been known forever that our food production/supply system is fukked. And many people have canged their food consumption based on this, without having to watch people die, or go through some kind of hardship. The world produces enough grain to meet the caloric needs of all the people on the earth. That is going to be reduced of course, as fertilizer industries and the ridiculous transportation system downsizes, but it is still amazingly cruel and stupid that we ask people to grow grain for our fuel tanks

Hydro is not bad, but i'm assuming the hydro comes from a dam. Unless the dam has some sort of technology to keep it from silting up it has a limited lifespan. But it is still much better than coal or nuclear.

I'd like to know if any resorts are investing in sustainable energy or envionmentally-concious activities. I heard that Hakuba 47 was doing a little, and they and Nozawa Onsen have stopped using disposable chopsticks, but has anyone heard anything above and beyond that?