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We're not going to see barbie until after we've seen Oppenheimer. Which Japan seems to suggest we won't be watching Barbie.

You reap what you sow.

There are many ALT's who have certificates and skills in teaching languages, but they can't utilize those skills since MEXT decrees that Japanese Teachers should be the Lead teacher, which in turn means the focus of classes is on 'getting through the textbook/curriculum' with constant interruptions for sports and music festivals. Meanwhile BOE's continue the downward spiral of awarding contracts to the lowest bidder...being dissatisfied and switching companies again at the next contract season...which in turn has bred instability as dispatch companies pay the lowest salary possible and request 'extra' from ALT's who must seek 2nd jobs to make ends meet.

@Marc Lowe....Hahaha! How/why would a lifelong musician retire? Should painters stop at age 65?? Crazy.

I know it's only Rock'nRoll...but guess what?

Hahaha, It's an odd question, because it is a fact: Summers are hotter now than when we were all children.

''.... Budkan,just lie Cheap Trick did back in the days of records.''

almost 50 years ago! Really!? WOW and LOL!! Time flies.

As for Taylor, well done. She paid her dues when she was young and had to play her guitar imo.

leo TToday 08:45 pm JST

I am talking about foreign tourists, local tourist behave.

LOL...are you talking about the same local people who leave my street covered in cigarette buts and conbini trash daily??

Trash is a real problem...but tourists (and locals) will act responsibly if they have a place to dispose of it, rather than steak dinners tax money should be spent on bins and regular collection.

It's unacceptable to pay such high city taxes and be told 'erm...we don't have enough power for you.'

Get modern, find a solution. There are dozens of 'new' energy providers waiting.

I don't think we need to count 'waves'. Covid is endemic now. In my opinion it would be more accurate for them to describe 'Covid season' is here again. Coverage and full reporting is important though. I just don't think 'wave' is quite the right expression anymore.

I'm fine with people smoking outside. What annoys me is when the addicts decide your corner parking space will be their little smoking place (tellingly just out of sight of their office), and proceed to leave butts all over the place. It got so bad our building had to set up no smoking signs to drive them away.

Hmmm...

It just feels like we are all madly trying to stuff a Genie back into a lamp.

Hmmm...I agree it's impossible to compare drivers across eras; they can only race the cars they have. But...Senna had 6 wins in the fast Lotus, and the rest with the powerful Mclaren team, So he hardly took cars that had no right to be there to the front. He eas an incredible driver nonetheless. As is Verstappen.

;)

Hahah!

Boxing is the obvious choice. Easy and quick to learn and effective. In time you'll build good cardio for going 'bop!' on someone's nose and then running away.

All the other arts take at least months of practice just to learn the basics.

Tattoos have absolutely nothing to do with how well you do your job, or the potential you have to do a job well. Employers discriminating based on body art alone, due to outdated stereotypes are fools.

@banger.....I'm guessing you don't watch a lot of stand up comedy?

People are going to tell jokes. Some are funny to some people: some aren't. That's as deep as this story is.

What we can't allow is Governments trying to limit what we can and can't say.

A tourism based city. Why wouldn’t you just set up a ‘trolley’ netwoek, specifically for tourists, like the ones in Honolulu?

Surely that’s better for everyone as opposed to racial profiling and endless arguements?

''But the city also noted that about half of its staff surveyed said they were dissatisfied with the accuracy of responses given by ChatGPT.''

But, so what right? it's something still in testing, we barely understand: it's only going to cause trouble for unimportant people anyway, Right? Right??

Hahaha!! I'm gonna use this if my boss ever asks me if I'm free for Saturday work!

'Sure, I think I'm free in 2115!'

LOL. They should fill the casino with cushions people can throw into the air when they lose a bet, like at the Sumo tournaments.

K: What’s plan?

J: Dump it in the ocean; here are your fat envelopes.

K: Cerfully answered! Let’s go eat!

Lol…they can do whatever they like. We have Haneda, no need to ever go out to Narita again.

Weird.

Why would it take 3 months?

’Are you crazy?’

’I’m not crazy! The world is crazy!!’

got him.

''since a jury last year largely sided with him''

Oh give it up already. The verdict HAD to be unanimous, and WAS. The jury didn't 'largely' side with him, they reached a unanimous verdict.

Just sayin'

It's part of the 'shift' towards a Dadaist Utopia where most forms of manual labor are performed by A.I. powered machines, and people are freed from the slavery of work to pursue artistic endeavors. The transition is slow but certain. A few more generations....

..in other news an i-phone got thrown out of an apartment window as the horrible 'Alert' ,which had been re-enabled by a software update, almost gave everyone in the house a heart attack!

I must agree with Moonnraker above.

Harassment like this is entrenched at every level of every workplace here.

Even companies that are attempting reform are filled with middle management and staff who don't comply.

It's a culture that will take one of two generations to change i.m.o.

Not much they could do when someone hurls a device. BUT what did shock me was the device didn't immediately go off and they just let a crowd gather around a few meters away until it did go off...very lucky it was just a flash-bang and not serious explosive...why didn't they deisperse the crowd...why did everyone just mill around trying to 'see'.

That was the surprising and lax part of security.

It's an interesting topic.

However the at first 'odd' answers provided are probably more to do with incomplete and confusing information that Humans, with bodies, have flooded the internet (let's call it our global database) with.

A google search for Rocks to fan fires, turn up a host of images of barbecue rocks, volcanic rocks, and....yes...a primitive and perfectly successful method of making fire using only rocks, which when you really think about is a perfectly suitable response to the incomplete question provided.

Bob...That's a Bingo!!

I must agree with those saying 'it's a personal choice.'

Really, who cares if people wear masks? Live your own lives; stay out of other people's business.