Mickelicious comments

Tokyo man arrested for putting brother’s skull out for recycling collection

As one does.

An honest politician. How refreshing.

The proportion of underweight people is higher than in other age groups,

The 50-something love of my life has an 'unhealthy' BMI of 17.5 and is super fit.

and Japan's level is above those of other developed nations.

Hardly a realistic comparison, is it?

I can't wait to get the 500 Ponta points they'll inevitably insult us with.

I seethed when they sent me an unsolicited bluetooth speaker (with its own zabuton, no less) for being such a good customer.

restraining order

Livin' La Vida Loca 101.

26℃ works just fine for the A/C.

We found a Kanto beachside car park to car camp alone in on Friday night. There was no one around, so we indulged in some midnight skinny dipping and other al fresco fun, but got burnt to a crisp on Saturday. Ouch!

Neither of these countries is over its own civil war. Grow up, the pair of you.

Well, to be more specific, we turned our eyes up to the statue, which stands 19 meters tall.

There's one in Ibaraki that's (ahem) 120m tall...

Mind your neck.

That was quick!

Pretty much this. Can you imagine if they allowed Japanese people to have foreign family names?

Nonsense! Two Japanese have Mickelicious as their family name.

This is organised rape, and flaccid, reactive measures will do sweet FA to stem it.

Tackle the bloody problem upstream and get these obscene vultures off the streets before these women have been manipulated and brutalised.

Or you could just take away the assault rifles from mentally unstable people.....

Why not chip everyone and monitor their absolute everything?

Or you could grow a pair and ban the steel phallus altogether.

Defend that one, NRA.

How's Brexit going, Boris?

Gov't to ask shinkansen operators to advance quake-resistance work

Translation: construction industry orders government to get the cement trucks rolling.

Don't worry, we haven't forgotten you, Mr. Aso.

Johnson denied that the move breached international law, saying Britain’s “higher duty” was to uphold the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace accord.

BS #1: The DUP was always opposed to the Good Friday Agreement.

BS #2: In the recent devolved assembly elections, anti-Protocol parties (despite vociferous pre-election rallies and riots) won just 37 seats. *Pro-protocol*** parties won 53 seats**.

The GFA states that Her Majesty's Government has " no selfish strategic or economic interest" in retaining Northern Ireland. Johnson, however, is acting to saving his own well-padded posterior (eminently spanked in Britain's own recent local elections) and distract from the never-ending train wreck that is Brexit.

Northern Ireland's business community welcomes the Protocol, which gives the region the best of both worlds: a foot in each of the UK and EU markets.

The anti-Protocol parties oppose it on emotional grounds, despite there having been agricultural controls between GB and NI for decades, championed by no less than Ian Paisley (Sr.) himself.

Of course, we can trust Prime Minister *F** Business! *to ignore the business benefits. Cheers, Boris!

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(*Mods, this is a direct quote of Boris Johnson in June 2018 https://www.thenational.scot/news/16310206.eu-diplomats-reveal-boris-johnson-said-f-k-business-brexit-fears/)

UK warns 'no choice but to act' to change Brexit deal

...lest they collapse under the weight of all the scandals. Tossers.

Is nothing sacred?

A suspended sentence?

Really???

Refugees can be fascinating, very intelligent people who bring much value to their host nations.

My oh my, there are a lot of Lesser Spotted Followbacks around on this site, still crying about the fact that we sent the useless and corrupt Brussels bureaucrats packing. Get a life.

Can you name just one tangible diplomatic, economic or social benefit of Brexit?

As for those beautiful, brave blue passports... printed in Poland by a French firm.

Oh, the Schadenfreude!

Copy cat?

This is a consequence of Brexit.

Brexit changed everything.

It then threw NI under a bus and implemented (a sea border) to bodge a deal with the EU.

Boris threw the DUP under a bus. There's a huge distinction. They are not NI.

They’ve actually lost a seat compared to the previous 3 assemblies.

Actually, Bob, the total number of Assembly seats was reduced from 108 to 90 for the 2017 elections.

Sinn Féin's 2011 high was 29 (27% of seats). Today it's at 27 (30% of seats), unchanged from 2017. Its first preference vote share this time was 29% versus the DUP's 21%.

What has changed utterly is that the world - especially the British public - will see a paradigm shift in Belfast's relations with London.

Pro-British Unionists and Irish Nationalists are now essentially toe-to-toe on numbers at 40% each. The former camp is ageing; the latter has a younger demographic.

The remainder 20% is malleable on remaining in the UK versus a United Ireland. These hearts and minds will shape the brighter future the island of Ireland so richly deserves.

How long before the Japanese lower jaw disappears altogether?

This cr@p makes it utterly redundant.

The maître d' is looking quite dapper at least.

This happens in all wars.

The world has been diverse for millennia. Despite the best efforts of Aryan/Han/Yamato etc., myths, people are different. Individuals aren't to blame for the inherited identities and loyalties which reflect this.

Between 1971 and 1975 the British Army arrested and interned without trial two thousand of its own citizens (1 in 800 of the region's population) in a part of the UK.

Whether labelled "special military operations" or "the Troubles," war is hell.

...said his income "reduced dramatically" following his retirement in 1999

Surprise, surprise.

I saw him around the back of the Savoy just after that first win. I've never seen someone glow so much. A sad case of the dangers of living beyond your means.

How many of Japan's old wetlands were 'reclaimed' for agriculture and infrastructure?

What about the ugly, barren concrete coasts?

Shelling Kyiv when you know the UNSG is there?

Not as sharp as you think you are, Vlad.