Bill Murphy comments

Posted in: Andrew Garfield says he's gay 'without the physical act' See in context

Marriage without the physical act?

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Posted in: University student saves abused child after chance encounter in the rain See in context

Hear! Hear!

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Posted in: Silicone Sally: Japanese men find true love with sex dolls See in context

Millions of 'angry' young men don't make for a civil society.Where making love (even with a machine) may prevent war then I know which alternative is preferable......,

Neither do millions of young men on "sex meds" make for a civil society.

Fun with Sally is just the latest method of male self-medication for growing social isolation. It is social self-obliteration and an understandable adjunct of rampant self-isolation facilitated by Internet voyeurism.

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Posted in: Silicone Sally: Japanese men find true love with sex dolls See in context

I actually bought one of these dolls when my marriage broke down several years ago. However, I eventually found out that when I went to work she was having an affair with my microwave. She's now living with a paraffin heater in Sendai and we never communicate.

Don't blame yourself, Sid. Your Sally just wanted some hot romance. Just playing the field. Maybe she's just an airhead. Maybe unstable. If the paraffin heater tries to get too close she might blow up.

How's the new model by the way?

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Posted in: Silicone Sally: Japanese men find true love with sex dolls See in context

If his wife files for divorce, on what grounds could it be? adultery? is this possible ref mannequin?

No, not adultery. Maybe Idolatry or Adollatry.

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Posted in: Japan considers detaining some asylum seekers to curb abuse of refugee system See in context

I'd like to know what Masayuki intends to do when he tires of Sally. Will she turn to glue sniffing? Will she be passed around from man to mannequin ? Low paying modeling jobs? Are there any support groups out there? Well, she at least should be eligible for palimony.

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Posted in: N Korea claims to have tested its first ICBM, reaching altitude of 2,802 km See in context

Are you implying that Kim Jong-Un has a right to launch missiles in the direction of Japan?

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Posted in: Silicone Sally: Japanese men find true love with sex dolls See in context

I hear that Sally dumped mannequin when she found out he was a trans-mannequin!

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Posted in: Japan reveals plans to put a man on moon by 2030 See in context

Real useful. Maybe Japan could bid for the 2032 Olympic Games and hold them there.

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Posted in: Silicone Sally: Japanese men find true love with sex dolls See in context

His wife should buy a mannequin and arrange for him to be in a compromising position with Sally to be "caught" by her husband when he returns from work.

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Posted in: 28 injured in shooting at Little Rock nightclub See in context

Did you actually read what I wrote? I stand by the statement that they wouldnt have put it in there if they knew what would be happening now.

Sorry, Yubaru, but that just wasn't a well thought out statement. If the people who were responsible for writing and approving the constitution had stopped to consider every eventuality, nothing would have gotten done.

Allow me to make a similar statement and then tell me it isn't nonsense as well: "If they knew what was happening now, they would have required that everyone be armed."

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Posted in: Japan begins introducing English road signs ahead of Olympics See in context

"Lest" (for rest stop), 

This is obviously an admonition: "Lest (you) stop (you may become fatigued and cause a traffic accident)".

Who wouldn't instantly understand this? (The sign, that is, not this ... )

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Posted in: BOJ policymaker praises Hitler's economic policies See in context

Another thing which Harada fails to mention is that Germany largely intended to repay the debts incurred by it's massive deficit spending by looting the wealth of the territories it conquered, which it did to a great extent until it was stopped.

Could you go into this "repayment plan" in more detail? Repay? Repay whom?

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Posted in: Jizo statues See in context

Truly part of the national landscape. Read "miscarried" children broadly.

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Posted in: Wheelchair user crawls up plane stairs in dispute with Vanilla Air See in context

Hammerhead wrote:

Since when was being able to fly a "human right"?

Good point. Not very decent of the airline, but a "human right"?

Hammerhead, I'd like you to pursue the same vein of thought. What other conveniences are not actually "human rights"?

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Posted in: Okinawa marks 72nd anniversary of fierce WWII ground battle See in context

First, thank you for your comments, Hammerhead. I hope they were widely read.

In the case of Okinawa, I think 150,000 out of a population of 500,000 would clearly constitute a genocide.

First of all, it is important to agree on terminology. I would agree with the following definition of genocide: "Acts committed with INTENT (emphasis mine) to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group". (UN Genocide Convention, 1948)

While the death toll among Okinawans was huge, it was not an act of genocide. 

(It seems that some people would make a case for Okinawan independence based on victimhood rather than on the will of the Okinawan people as expressed in a plebiscite.)

The purpose of the Pearl Harbor attack was a response to the American seizure of Japanese assets and the breaking of trade agreements that would have crippled Japan both domestically (economically) and overseas.

I think you are referring to this sequence of Roosevelt Administration actions:

(1) 1939: US termination of 1911 commercial treaty with Japan;

(2) July 1940: US Export Control Act (embargo on essential defense materials and later aviation fuel and scrap metals)

(3) (effective) October 1940: embargo on scrap steel and iron excepting Britain and the Western Hemisphere;

(4) July 1941: Japanese assets frozen in response to IJA occupation of French Indo-China

(5) late July 1941: embargo on export to Japan of all grades of oil.

(source: Robert Higgs, Independent Institute: "How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor")

These actions would indeed severely hamper Japan's ongoing military campaign in China.

The purpose of the Pearl Harbor attack was a response ...

"response"?

The purpose of the Pearl Harbor attack was not a prod to reopen trade negotiations or punish the Roosevelt Administration for putting the Empire of Japan in an "untenable position" as Foreign Minister Toyoda wrote at the end of July 1941. It was to gain time to secure Japanese conquests against counterattack.

Some will argue that Japan had a right to build an empire. Hadn't western nations done just that? If one accepts this reasoning then isn't one therefore recognizing the right of any nation to empire? Unless, of course, one believes that one sort of empire is more beneficial and compassionate towards the conquered than another. Rubbish whether it's Japanese, American, British and whomever.

What on earth has the Hirohito comment got to do with anything?

You mean "Emperor Hirohito", don't you? The point of mentioning him in my posting is that, ostensibly, the Government's, IJA's and IJN's actions were in accordance with his will. Necessary fiction if the military and industrialists were to enjoy the glory and wealth accrued by empire building. That's the whole point of empires, isn't it?

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Posted in: Okinawa marks 72nd anniversary of fierce WWII ground battle See in context

utorsa:

Given that America genocidally slaughtered over a quarter of the island's entire civilian population it is understandable that the people of Okinawa want to kick the U.S. military out.

"Genocide" you say? I suggest you consult a dictionary before you use that word again.

America initiated military action against Japan before Pearl Harbor. 

As for the AVG, a.k.a. the "Flying Tigers", yes they did arrive in the Chinese theater of operations before the attack on Pearl Harbor. However, they arrived (1) three years after the start of the Imperial Japanese Army's "annihilation campaign" in north China which, by the way, was approved by Emperor Showa (Hirohito). (2) That was followed by another such campaign in 1940 against the Chinese called the "Three Alls": "kill all, burn all, loot all".

Have you opened your dictionary yet?

One major difference between the AVG and the IJN's attack on Pearl Harbor was this: the former was in a country occupied by an aggressor, Japan, the latter directly against the territory of a sovereign nation. The purpose of the Pearl Harbor attack was to cripple the US Pacific fleet so it could not intervene against the IJS's planned seizure of SE Asian resources.

I heard your arguments nearly 40 years ago in Japan. They were rubbish then and they are rubbish now.

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Posted in: One dead, 10 injured after vehicle rams into people leaving London mosque See in context

I agree with Ike. What is presented as "news" is much of the problem.

Main stream news services and the alternative media of this "informational" Internet Age that state or imply that a perpetrator is representative of a group are responsible for preparing the stage for such incidents. In many cases the perpetrator turns out to be someone with serious mental problems which were overlooked or dismissed by relatives, friends and, if reported, by authorities.

Restraint by all media is what is required. It is not suppressing free speech, but a call for self-discipline. I do not expect this to be demonstrated soon, but the biggest players might lead by example rather than wait for government censorship.

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Posted in: Do you think a man holding a door open for a woman, holding her chair for her when she sits down, or giving up his seat for her are outmoded gestures of politeness or do they still have their place in society? See in context

Holding a door and giving up a seat are actually much different from holding a chair.

The first two gestures are often made - and in my opinion - and should be made no matter the gender of the recipient as a "chivalrous" gesture and even obligatory if there is evident need.

The chair business normally doesn't involve strangers so a man may hold the chair safely. Whether it is a gesture meant to show respect or merely to impress depends on the people and situation.

Finally, I'd like to see more gestures like these in Japan, but I think they are still considered a mark of eccentricity.

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Posted in: Couple arrested for setting up groper on train in Osaka See in context

some of the people posting are simply honest perverts looking for fun. 

Posting... here?

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Posted in: S Korea's Moon calls for official apology over 'comfort women' See in context

And ... was there not Dschingis Khan who once came to eastern europe slaughtering people? I guess they have to ask the Mongolian Government that they apologize.

Hmmm... "Ask the Mongolian Government..."

Hmmm.... That proposition is worthy of a new, truly genius con.

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Posted in: One dead, 10 injured after vehicle rams into people leaving London mosque See in context

The "root cause" is human nature. Humans enjoy anger and inflicting pain. "Homo hominis lupus est". How are you going to eradicate that? Remember that God is dead and the only replacement is ... man.

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Posted in: U.S. student who was returned from North Korea in coma dies See in context

If only Kim Jong Un had known ...

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Posted in: Comic Bill Dana, who won fame as 'Jose Jimenez,' dies at 92 See in context

Bill-Jose, were funny in a way many people today just wouldn't appreciate or understand. Vaya con Dios, amigo.

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Posted in: Yuba: Japan's most nutritious and versatile food skin See in context

Isn't it an option on the Gusto morning menu along with natto and an "onsen" tamago?

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Posted in: U.S. student who was returned from North Korea in coma dies See in context

Kim Jong Un acted on his humanitarian instinct none too soon. Pity it took him a year to locate it.

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Posted in: Muslim teen assaulted outside U.S. mosque; found murdered in Virginia See in context

Anger and fantasizing about violence strangely enough are often satisfying or haven't you noticed (buy a movie ticket). We live in a world of nearly instant communication that amplifies violence and makes it seem immediate (when for most people it really isn't) which probably overwhelms whatever constraints some people have. As long as these conditions continue don't expect such acts as the murder of this poor girl to abate.

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Posted in: 7 crew missing, 3 injured after U.S. Navy destroyer collides with merchant vessel off Japan See in context

"It also states that power gives way to sail. But there are many instances when that does not make sense, like a small sailing yacht on the starboard side and a huge tanker on the port which should give way to the smaller yacht."

Reminds me of a question put to my sailing instructor in San Diego years ago. A student said he would have "right of way" if he encountered an aircraft carrier in the bay. I almost had to slap the instructor to get him to stop laughing.

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Posted in: Republican lawmaker shot, others wounded in Virginia See in context

That house whip Scalise was shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter is no surprise. Didn't their violence at the DNC last summer not foreshadow this?

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Posted in: Republican lawmaker shot, others wounded in Virginia See in context

Is the script for the "in the Park" version of Shakespeare available?

If it follows Shakespeare's, the wrong man was murdered. As MA said, Caesar was ambitious, but he was about to start delivering on reform which a large segment of the Senate vehemently opposed. So, rich and ambitious but man-for-the-people Caesar was murdered by the 2%.

If the "in the Park" version follows the original... those who cheer the assassins are not only ignorant of history but, in Caesar's language, cunni  as well.

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