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Plot gymnastics in marvel movies make me tired.

Logan was good though, because of characters.

Also, significantly, the film is a partnership venture with Dreamworks.

So sad to have to grovel for a market, and shut down other markets in the process.

I like 'KAMOFURE' - at first Ithought, '鴨フレ', especially as it all leads to the bath.

Then manzai humor, like

'あなたは鴨フレじゃないけどカモフレ鴨　－　ちがう、カも知らない。'

'やっぱ知らないね。「あひる」だろう。’ said the duck.

Maybe it is a case of keeping friends close and enemies closer.

In Kochi, it depends on how saturated the ground is in rain area.

Pretty saturated for 鏡川 to be high in pics I’ve seen.

5 years ago after 4 typhoons in 2 weeks it was like that.

it's late. Let things now fall where they fall.

Let's hope one is Johnson.

Comparisons with first half of 16th Century English political history are not overt any more.

Between Rock and hard place her situation now anyway:

resign, keep some credibility but be blamed for what happens next in the vacuum

stay follow CCP masters till usefulness is extinguished

stay and follow tone of 1China2 systems and become ‘disappeared’

Hotmail, the version by that Indian guy who sold out to Microsoft in 1998, after which it all went pear shaped.

Still have the account, accessible, unlike the Outlook version which locked me out due to a security glitch 2 years ago.

Gmail and aGoogle are a bit more savvy, customer-relationswise it seems.

Well, when capacity of carriage is up to 200%, hard to avoid many of those things

Like No.10 - yeah just pass out on the platform or some other inconvenient place to avoid such being ‘rude’ on the train. Seen salarymans being kicked awake by Sotetsu-sen staff at Ebina and Isehara: 客さん、しゅてんですよ！PLUS!

Even so, can’t wait to gauge ‘rude’ness in Tokyo in the hot middle of next year.

Timely if non-disclosed Iranians appear.

And a new source for Chinese fighter jet training footage

CCP is borish

Options to China abound - there is a world outside the Middle Kingdom

A pity the government there regularly forgets that

Premiere in Taipei anyone?

Internet started idealistic and free. Only a matterof time before it became weapon of war and different players found ways to capitalise.

Little imagination has been required to find something to do with all that data.

Just another point where regulators are playing catch-up ... till the next time and next way that players get out of hand

Wonder what those three in this photo are doing there for a story set 50 years or so before their charact re were born.

woder what has been happening to ‘Thor’s brother’ in the meantime

Problem is partly generational - ie. teachers and support garnering own school experience as deeper guide than Education study, prac, policy guidance and PD would have.

The bloody club-かつどう Regime doesn’t help though

JT’s Model with ads here and there (not really 邪魔の pop up ones so much) which do not interfere too much is good and costs me nothing - GOOD balance, and hope does not change

Thank you JT

Oh well!

At least Abbott's out and Palmer is not in.

Same old same old.

97-98% of eligible voters vote - a kind of constitutionally copulsory democracy.

Disney has a big animation portfolio just waiting ...

Anyone for Charlise Cheron as wicked queen in Snow White? Again?

Ensign Charlie Parker? Wasn't he?

The Doris Day Show comedy was always a bit funny, in the 70s I think it was.

China has an internal debt crisis coming (real estate, credit card-type, loans). How flexible and how competent is the regime to deal with that? Maybe can, maybe can't, maybe just here and there.

The US hs been like that for years but stil has mechanisms in place to deal with it.

'My tarif is bigger than your tarif' is hardly helpful, as market volatility shows, ignred at everone's peril. N fan of corproate capital laissez faire, but that is how it is. War, trade war - bad for business, bad for you.

Just another player - even if hey never wanted to be, they are now.

Better without Assange, so may become less contradictory in the future.

Rock genre - at least lots of the melodies are accessible. This assists endurability.

Hiphop - sorry, less accessible.

It took many months to find a jury for Lee Harvey Oswald's trial for assassination of John Kennedy, because so many people had seen the event on tv thereby becoming prejudiced.

The theatrics and mechanistics of the US system don't help with workability, but one comment about a simpler jury selection process in Victoria in Australia places that system ahead. Better than no jury anyway - an extra failsafe.

Juries decide points of fact (evidence and so on), judges and so on points of law (eg. including legal applicability of evidence). Still, like in Japan there are instances in jury-jurisdictions which people are convicted only to be retired decades later and freed with wasted lives.

judge Dread anybody?

I keep wondering what will become of the GOT Youtuber industry afterwards.

Another attention addict.

Please process him by the numbers - what is it, 35 days without being charged? Then the rest ...

Hmm - give some of the GOT Youtubers a bit more speculative life.

So, do we all need new drivers licences like last time?

Personally I think shiritori should be the system for choosing new era names.

Heisei - sei...

If so, I had thought 'ri' could have been an inventive final component after some of the inventive economic policy of the incumbent regime.

Good luck to 'Reiwa Tenno-sama'

I just remember lower-down and some higher-up officials deciding my middle name was my family name (ie. gaijin therefore English therefore English order therefore final part deemed family name even though it was presented in katakana in the usual myouji - shitanamae form) - even afer seeing my gaijin card.

For me it was just a time to be empathetic towards all those patient people with names from funny places who have to spell them out incessantly.

And I come from a country where its perfectly normal for nobody at work to know the family names of other people there anyway.

Mr Kono is on to something I think.

While completely removing corruption is a pipe dream, but that does not mean efforts are not made to have proper checks and balances in place

Even international bodies need to be registered somewhere - local jursdiction applies.

In principle this works if in practice it may not.

For instance the IOC and FIFA are based in Switzerland - what are the checks and balances there like?