inkochi comments

In the old days, yes, anti vilification laws got in the way of free speech.

Nowadays, no, such laws rein in people (or should do) whose access and use of increasingly varied media and whose lack of self-control have made free speech get out of hand.

In the future the balance MAY swing back again.

Such questions do my head in actually

The dress though reminds me of a headrest in a Japanese taxi.

She makes a head rest into a place where you really want to rest your head.

Can't keep up with the releases any more.

And binge-watching is sleep depriving.

Still prefer just a movie or a book. Thank God I never got into gaming or gambling. Suppose TV is more interesting than them though (except free-to-air ワイドナショー of course).

Looking at the picture, girls, yes, band together with solidarity against gender inequality.

Then if you are serious about gender inequality, stop banding together and stop banging on about it..

Equality - if you want it - can begin when we can move on from the inapporpriate behaviour and discriminatory polemic.

Personally though I think that women are oppressed and men are evil, which is how it ever was, is and always will be.

Virtual currency is just that, virtual.

ANyway, though it looks nice when the market is rocketing up, it fluctuates far too wildly.

Then there is always the threat of an EMP.

Hmm - 'Better to be paid in gold ingots', he wished.

The customary current confusion of reality and expression (I would like to say 'fiction', but the film is based on real events).

Spacey is quite charismatic and attention-grabbing in perfromance. I have seen only one interview, and he came across the same - that is the basis upon which people need to consider what it would be like with old Kev with the door closed.

Come to think of it, there is a measure of bad taste there - now!

In contrast, Travolta (clean) in the title role of 'Gotti', who was far from clean, but no problem (despite movie crashing). In this case maybe it would only be Travolta wanting to erase 'Gotti' from his resume. Or that from now he can give up any dreams of headlining productions again.

Money, marketing decision and investment return are primary.

The Nintendo court victory is one thing, but on seeing the pic, it makes you wonder where a line of speeding buses is in Tokyo when you need them.

Tokyo is just a huge yet cold but unpleasantly good place to make money with a gargantuan natural and human catastrophe just waiting to happen.

Kansai is just more human, still big. At least there, Kobe in 1993 is still in living memory.

Haruka Mera is inspirational.

Not everyone is so smart and balanced (and of course focused) though.

Mera is one of the individuals in Japan (or anywhere) who can or could get what they wanted or dreamed about, to reach that level.

So, yes, it is possible, but logically not everyone is going to get 'there', nor even be that way inclined.

Geez!

Imagine carrying that assumption into the onsen!

Hmm - just thinking, but rather than roof, windows might be a good idea, say on west sides of buildings

Good idea anyway though.

If I 'could' ...

Sydney - beautiful, nice food and multicultural (but expensive, bad traffic and too much tax

SOme coastal places in Japan - quite pleasant and convenient, but sadly a bit too much necessary concrete along waterlines and coasts

However, not Kochi

Some place in the Med - Sorrento, Nice to Cannes, Spanish coastal cities - nice food, wines, climate, etc.

Better off where I am now though

iPhone don't like to adapt for other apps providers, and so on.

Android has Google back up, which makes it easier in that sense.

But being IT-dumb, I am just used to iPhones, though I do not use or need 80% of the applications.

There is a user friendliness with iPhones that various Android makes collectively do not have (I have had both).

iPhone now is a euphemism for sumaho now anyway, and in a sense that says enough

Well, people are resourceful and can find alternative ways to do what they need or otherwise have to do.

Congratulations to the mainland Chinese government for encouraging the underground.

A few people in China are going to be burnt before this regime is finished.

Of course in the ad focusing on the wife/mother is purposeful, as she is likely to influence thepurchase decision more than husband/father. Not surprising in the least this ad

Otherwise, yeah, generic streotyping of aproned mother doing chores and dad just popping in to comment. Not so much these days as 20 or 30 years ago, and of coursee going to draw comments form people who think they see reality when it is just an ad with a deliberate marketing strategy.

Bad news for Ewan McGregor - he could be as old and alive as Alec Guinness wehn they come around to making an Obi Wan spinnoff.

Epitome of a desired household culture, rightly or wrongly, I think.

It can happen thus: He cleans dishes. She says, 'もう！まだ洗ってないないだよ。ほら見てよ - こことここ‼もうあんたはチョーへたくそ。あたしやるわ。もう、あちイケ! (What? You haven't washed them yet!. Look! This bit's dirty, here too! You are SOOOOOO hopeless! Let me do it. You, just get out of my sight!')

Does this happen in your blissful 'MyHome'? It does in mine, often.

Personally I agree with

the commenter who, perhaps based on the husband’s frequent invisibility and ethereally white wardrobe, offered this possible explanation:

“The dad is dead. That’s just his ghost checking in.”

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What if from now Moon takes Kim, say, down to a golf course on Cheju?

Could Trump be sidelined? Hell, no! Trump could buy it first, or they could just name it after him - for the day at least.

Trump would like that, as it just might satisfy his attention-seeking urges.

Not sure the relevance of the header pic of the chick on the bike in Yamanashi-ken or wherever, but the article was a refreshing look at an old issue.

I think Anisa would succeed most places she would go anyway.

In Kochi, I realised we are all the same as we all come from somewhere and there is nothing we can do about it. A bit zen, but it helps me cope.

Comes from a different age - best comparison is The Odd Couple, Oscar and Felix - they had their chicks. Come to think of it though, Felix was a bit fey but Oscar what like a proto-Homer Simpson with an IQ and a good job.

Now that is a thought: anyone in Hollywood want to resurrect that one? Admittedly though it would be pretty hard blending all the stereotypes they could come up with these days.

German trains made in France. How 'European'! Makes it easier for them to get the technology out there, which I think is the real point.

The lady with the original drone umbrella comes back.

Dick Van Dyke, who starred in the original film, appears as the retired chairman of the bank.

Gees!

Fair decision.

It was odd at the time, and the supportive talk to may have been subconsciously what Kyrgios has needed. But Lahyani was the only person there who was not allowed to do and say what he did.

Volunteers don't get paid by definition. Still in Japan, こうつひ (transport money) is customary, maybe bento and maybe a souvenir of some sort is fine and fair.

At the Sydney Olympics, which at least locally was renowned for volunteerism, volunteers who bought or paid for their own lunches, were given funky if tasteful colourful coats to identify them.

Afterwards, it was announced they could pay $50 or something like that to purchase and keep them (a bit of money then).

The Sydney Olympics broke even eventually, but that was an act of typical New South Wales penny-pinching bastardry.

I hope Tokyo organizers don't pop up retrospective surprises for volunteers like in Sydney

If it is not the North Koreans who are intransigent, these days Trump's America has been doing a good job at that too:

The U.S.-led United Nations Command, which monitors activity around the DMZ, blocked plans for the North and South to conduct a field study of the North's railroads last month. The plan was to run a train along a railway linking Seoul to Sinuiju.

The command reportedly refused to approve the plan because Seoul did not supply enough details.

Officials in Washington have also expressed concern that Seoul may be moving too fast and undermining support for trade sanctions that the U.S. sees as one of its best means of keeping the pressure on Pyongyang high.

The Iran business has been a bit like that too.

Good luck to Mr Moon though - he needs it.

Interesting random list of Williams's movies and TV series.

Isn't the speed limit on that road 80?

Life is difficult when your Porsche gets written off and bursts into flames.

At least the guy got out though.

Wingers and whiners, black or white, are still wingers and whiners.

The Williams family has always been sensitive and protective anyway, which at times has tended to just fan flames. If the cartoon had not appeared in Australia a similar one would have appeared somewhere else (and probably did, though has not come to light).

Serena's outbursts and moaning about being a mum and so on were out of place in the last set of a Grand Slam tennis final. She has won a lot, so she really should have known better. Reminds me of Tonya Harding with her foot up on the judges' bench years ago. They made a movie about her so maybe now they will make one about Serena.

At the same time her record of 24 wins can never be taken away from her. One more and she would have beaten Margaret Court's record and be regarded as, sort of, the best ever or something. Bad luck - she missed out.

Pressure! Pressure cooker final! Anyone notice the spat dummy next to her racket? Finally it was so sad hearing her feel sorry for herself so publicly. Did she deserve the cartoon? Well, attracting so much negative attention to herself, of course a cartoon and social media firestorm was just waiting to happen, and deserve has nothing to do with it.

Are Australians racist? Anyone who bangs on about race is racist. And the PC crowd all over the world were the first racists to put their hands up this time.

And Naomi Osaka, well, she is going to get a whole new world of racism in Japan now she has hit the big time. Stay way on tour, Naomi, or they will do your head in.

Lots of water under the bridge since 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.

No less contrived than Marvel productions. An original tilt however.