me jane
-
Content Count
1729 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by me jane
-
-
It is a beautiful graph though.
-
Yamakashi,
Tried to PM you but ur box is full.
-
I don't know any places either.
Anyone?
-
Pretty new here so don't know what really happened but me 'detective' jane thinks that O11 seemed to disappear after his 'no sympathy for dead kids he doesn't know' avalanche post.
-
me jane, me like beer (and vodka)Hakuba beer?
Be cool to meet up with some people.
I'll be around Fri and Sat nights.
Where'd be good to go?
-
Three days off!!!!
Don't care if it's crowded, can't wait to go!!!
I'm off to Hakuba!!!
Where is everyone else going?
-
Agree on the bike helmet thing - my housemate when I was at uni had a taxi driver open his door in front of her as she was riding down the road. She flew over the door and landed the other side. The parameds strapped her to a board and took her to hospital. Turned out she was just a bit concussed and okay after a few hours. Her helmet wasn't so lucky & had a huge hole in it. Drs said it probably saved her life.
Ski/board wise I'm not sure. I think the benefits are pretty obvious if you ski in trees or in the park. I'd agree with the kid theory too - due to their lack of danger awareness and thinner skulls. How about for those who aren't at tree level and don't go that fast or in the park? Then again there is always the risk of someone else hitting you...
On the anti helmet side I have read that the extra weight can increase the risk of neck injury. There is also that when a helmet wearer crashes into and head butts a non helmet wearer the non-helmet wearer doesn't fare too well...
Talking about when people most need to be wearing helmets - has anone considered wearing one down the pub on a Friday night?
I haven't got one - hope I'm not jinxing myself for this weekend
-
Why do so many Japanese people not wear them?
Try using this vid in a lesson.
-
Felt in here in Yokohama too. Not very stong but seemed to go on for ages. I always wonder how you know if its going to be a big one. I mean do they hit with a sudden bang or start off gently and then build up, giving you a few seconds to prepare? Scary.
-
My boyfriend does more cleaning than me in the week but probably just cos I work longer hours. When I'm off I do it so it all works out. My (future
) J-father in law seems to help out at home. Have only been over their house once for dinner but he did just as much of the food prep & clearing away as the rest of us. -
11-9
Mr Matthews, you from Cardiff?
I'm a Swansea girl.
-
Gamera is right. I always thought it was B/S but at few years back at a house party the topic came up and we all took our temperatures (swilling the thermometer in a mug of vodka between armpits). Most of the Japanese had temps around 36 degrees but the foreigners 37. Seems us aliens are different after all. " title="" src="graemlins/cry.gif" />
Not sure about a difference between men & women though.
-
xxx - yep we'll be doing the marrying thing at some point.
It's a difficult one though. We both want to live in the UK - problem is when. He is a bar owner (hmmm... I wonder how we met?!) so it kind of depends on his business. We set a rough date of 2007 - Planning to go to law school & get a real job!
What do other "international couples" think? Why have you decided to stay in Japan? Jobs? Snow?
-
Me boyfriend dreamt he was being attacked by a giant cicada last summer. He lashed out at it, hitting me across the face. That made me sit up pretty quickly - woke up to my own scream and the taste of blood. Had a fat lip for a week!!
-
Agree with kjj - J-guys grow on you. Thought I was going to be in for a long drought at first but once you learn how to look there are quite a few fit ones out there!! Changed my perspective & things started looking up...
Been with my J-boyfriend for the past 3 years.
-
Wales!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
Will do! I'll write it up in my journal in the next day or two...
-
I like docomo because of the reception too. Had to phone to be rescued off the top of Mt Fuji in a typhoon a few years back (but that's a story for another day...) and the only phones with any reception up there were Docomo mova. How does Foma's reception compare with vodafone?
-
Naeba! Finally I'm going! First time this year... been so excited that I packed last Tuesday!!
-
Don't know about that but my friend told me her shampoo froze.
-
You can change the encoding by just right clicking (almost) anywhere in the browser window, then click the encoding option & it will bring up a list of languages.
-
Haven't heard that. Mova is better though. Hope they don't.
-
The patrol at GALA was pretty useless last year when my boyfriend broke his arm (one bone slid up over the other one). They took ages to get to him and when they did arrive they didn't seem to know the first thing about first aid - trying to take his backpack off by pulling it over his shoulder rather than releasing the strap, producing a sam splint but just kind of balancing it across his chest with a loose trig bandage. After a few minutes I couldn't watch any more and helped out (read "took over"). They stretchered him down and when we got into the first aid room they didn't even give him a chair. He was standing in the room with one J-girl pulling at his glove trying to get it off his swollen wrist while another J-girl tried to get him to fill in an accident report and draw an x on the map of where he had fallen. Eventually J girl no 1 decided to hack at the glove with a blunt pair of scissors and J-girl no 2 realised that I would be just as capable of drawing the x on the map. We took a taxi to the hospital which despite looking like a scene from a the Rocky Horror Picture Show with beds with leather wrist & ankle straps in the corner of the waiting room, turned out to be fantastic. The doctor obviously realigned several bones a day and the whole process was relatively painless (although everyone in the waiting room was pretty freaked out by the scream that came from behind the curtain when the Doctor pulled his bones back into position). Word of warning though - always take your insurance card with you and plenty of cash. They didn't take credit cards and as he didn't have his insurance card we had to find 80,000 yen to pay for it all - ended up having another friend take a taxi to a cashpoint.
To be fair though, I had another friend fracture his wrist at Nanae in Hokkaido. As it was New Year the hospitals were "closed" but the ski patrol did an amazing job of wrapping him up. I guess it varies from resort to resort. Anyone else have any good or bad experiences?
Toque, skiboarders don't have any blind spots!
-
I think half of them are old numbers of people who have left Japan though " title="" src="graemlins/cry.gif" />
Sprinklers
in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
Posted
A few weekends back, onsen-ed & changed into dry clothes for the drive home... then got blasted by the buggers in the Naeba Prince car park.
Got to admit they do seem to work at keeping the car parks clear though.