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Sounds like a bright and happy moment in his life before the gloom of the Imperial Household closed in around him. Hope he enjoys his time in the UK. Perhaps he can go for a quiet pint, if he can slip his minders and handlers!

As circumstances change she should have adapted, down played the Muscovite empire angle and highlighted her Ukrainian origins and made a point of selling Ukrainian products.

This is just bad business management, when the market moves for whatever reason a business must adapt or die. She didn’t.

Meiyouwenti

The U.S. and UK start a war

In what perverted and twisted alternate reality does an unprovoked, genocidal invasion by poo tins rabble of rapists, thieves and torturers passing its self off as an army becomes a war started by 2 countries uninvolved save in assisting the lnnocent?

The entirety of frozen assets should be handed over to Ukraine to assist in their defence against a fascist aggressor, not just the income, but every little helps.

Russia infrastructure is a target

Any country has the right when invaded by an illegal aggressor like the Muscovite empire, to strike back at the aggressor to destroy their military and degrade their capacity to prosecute the illegal invasion.

Ukraine is hitting military targets unlike orcs who for 28 months of the 3 day invasion have deliberately targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure.

Western governments and especially the USA should never have tied Ukraines hands behind their backs in regard to western weapons, they should have been destroying the muscovites military in their own country since day one.

Good, glad they are safe. Should never have been held captive by cowardly Hamas in the first place. Let’s not forget how they ended up as hostages, the murderous butchery of civilians and children in a Co-ordinated and long planned rampage of murder, torture and rape.

Hamas must go, not because we can’t live with them, but because they can’t live with us and seek genocide.

The mindset of some people is beyond comprehension. I can only question his mental capacity as no one of full mental capacity would think this a normal or rational thing to do.

Sounds more like projection, orcs and their despicable collaborators always accuse others of what they are doing them selves.

killed 22 and wounded 15 people, Moscow-appointed governor Vladimir Saldo said.

Well there is a trustworthy and reliable source of lies, whoops, I meant to say unbiased information.

the ex-mayor of Kupiansk, Hennadiy Matsehora was in “critical condition” after he was attacked in Russia’s Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine.

Always good to hear when traitors and collaborators get what they deserve.

Selling a product under a deliberately misleading name, taking money from customers for something promised but not delivered is apparently not fraud in Japan?

A lot of US food is illegal in both the UK and EU because of the dangerous chemicals allowed in to it and the farming practices.

The quicker they eradicate the Hamas terrorists and end it the better for all.

Good god, all the above!

Didn’t respond to this as there were far too many to recount. I had a very happy, nonviolent childhood. My father never used violence, as an intelligent man words were more than enough.

Singapore doesn’t take too kindly to that sort of behaviour.

I have seen recently an instance where a civilian drone approached a designated no fly zone in the USA, when it hit that limit an inbuilt algorithm immediately and automatically returned it to its start point.

So it isn’t that difficult to ensure every drone held or sold has such a limiter installed. Add effective detection and capture and the problem goes away.

It’s about time the US, UK, EU, Japan and every other country that doesn’t want to be bullied by the CCP, jointly and simultaneously recognised Taiwan as an independent nation and required they have a seat at the UN. Number eleven can froth in to apoplexy but even he can’t threaten the majority of the world.

Never understood why grown adults read/watch what is basically a children’s comic?

Certainly his behaviour was far from adult and prosecution for assault is the least he should get. Utterly amazed he wasn’t at least suspended or fired.

Why on earth would someone like a tax investigator be living in a dormitory? For that matter why are the tax authorities providing accommodation of any kind for their employees?

Someone in that position with debts is a red flag to start with. More surprised he wasn’t caught extorting money from those he was investigating, would be harder to prove.

Add in tourists jaywalking back and forth 

Does Japan have the same ridiculous laws as the US on crossing the street. I didn’t think any other country was as daft.

As for the Dentist, he is entitled to peaceful occupation of his property, he would be sensible in the circumstances to block it off and charge say ¥3000 per photograph. That should discourage them.

Lawson’s car park is also presumably private property, charge them for entry a hefty sum repayable in the store if you are a local.

The street is the police/local authorities problem.

Wot, no bangers and mash? ;)

rejected the established theatrical modes then dominating modernizing Japan that were mostly Western, middle class and well-behaved

Very 1960’s, very much in the zeitgeist of the times. Expressed in a way relevant to Japanese culture, but typical of much of the period. In philosophy.

All of which is good, and I am all in favour of independent, free countries working together to fend off encroachment from the imperialistic, dictatorial CCP but what does the Philippines get out of it at least until Japan changes its constitution?

All of which confusion highlights how kanji is simply not a good fit for the Japanese language. Adopting a writing system created for a very different language might have been the only solution over a thousand years ago but if it needs the addition of furigana for people to be able to read and understand it then there is a fundamental failure of the purpose of a writing system.

The city of Hitachinaka has even done away with kanji altogether and just presents its name in phonetic hiragana characters

Perhaps that is the solution?

Ramsey's Kitchen

Gotta love this. For years J govt expert economists were spouting the BS line saying stagnant prices / deflation was the cause of J-consumers not spending and were hailing inflation as the economy saviour. Now they finally have their precious inflation and their excuses have done a complete U-turn, lol. Hopeless as ever.

Economics isn’t a science, it’s at best a handcrafted art form. Ask 5 economists a question, you will get 7 mutually different answers.

Inflation and deflation are both bad or good but for different groups. Politicians, Banks and exporters love inflation, importers and ordinary people hate it but benefit from deflation.

Tourism is also part of the economic mix, if that is what makes you money, go with it. What politicians complaining about over tourism never realise is that it is their failure to properly manage it they are highlighting.

Redemption

No reason tourists should not pay the insufferable 10% sales tax. Take the good with the bad.

Petty spite, cut your nose off to spite your face. By giving a small benefit tourists end up spending more thus boosting the overall Japanese economy, to the ultimate benefit of all. Also Japan is in competition with other tourist destinations who offer the same, in the UK it’s a 15% benefit

This is an aspect of Japan I have never understood.

Paddington, the patron saint of Marmalade!

Haven’t made any for years. I must dig the jam pan out of the shed next year when the Seville orange are available Note to self.

On the whole I tend to prefer the classic thick cut marmalade made from Seville oranges without any additions. The contrast of bitter and sweet that the Seville’s give is perfect, and I do like some texture to my jams and marmalades.

While he technically passed the alcohol test of his fitness to fly, his behaviour does bring in to question his mental state and psychological suitability for his position. Not to mention behaviour bringing disrepute on his employers.

I am sure we can stretch to a steak & kidney pudding and a pint of ale for each of them, followed by spotted dick and custard!

All joking aside this is part and parcel of the ongoing and developing relationship between the two countries that can only of benefit to both in these times.

The opening ceremony tends to define how people remember it, Peking was a display of state control of the masses, London was spectacular and humorous, Rio was sad and highlighted how little they could afford to host it, sorry Japan I can’t even remember the opening ceremony, which is a shame as I thought they would do a good job of it.

To hold it on the river is in modern times novel, though if you go back in time large public displays were often carried out on the water as it provided the best view for the populous. Be it the Doge marrying the sea in Venice, or the Lord Mayors show on the Thames.

This as it should, has become a regular activity. No longer really a newsworthy item, just the I’ll informed trying yo stir up discontent.

Fiat currency is only backed by a politicians promise.

Classic example, when the UK was on the gold standard one sovereign was one pound and in those days there were 240 pennies to a pound. Fast forward to today, to buy a gold sovereign you would pay about £480.00 so a modern pound due to inflation is worth about a halfpenny coin!

Gold is a store of value over the long term.