Nippori Nick comments

Here is a tip for smokers in Japan. Quit and regain your health.

“Having to choose one or the other is the root of trauma for native people,” she said

Why would this be traumatic?

I don't see what's unusual about unmanned vegetable/fruit stands. Plenty of them in my home country, but I do admit they are in rural locations. In a big city they likely would be cleaned out .

But very much tougher on the poor.

How many presidents have been friends of the poor that country?

Lydon previously told The Sunday Times newspaper that Jones's 2016 memoir "Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol" was extremely "disrespectful".

Um, the whole career of the original band was based on being disrespectful. Bit late in the day to be whining about in now.

So, a rotten decision in Lyndon's mind?

On the disgusting food scale, it's nowhere near the top. I had heard of its bad repuation, but when I finally tried it , it wasn't so bad.

Not a big fan, but I would eat it if given to me as part of a breakfast meal. I would rather eat that than certain types of bony/oily fish.

Very creepy. I sure would not want to find those on my doorstep. Only someone deranged would do something like that.

Maybe already sold to a scrap metal dealer?

Just another car. A dangerous fast moving metal box.

It is actually a small bus

Kinds of hard to go to NZ these days.

Glad to see this.

Certainly better for them that sitting around drinking coffee and gossiping.

. Basically, any sport where the professionals make over $1M/yr through any related means, including endorsement contracts.

So what you want is Oympics, but with not the best athletes.

That's not going to sell a lot of TV ads and tickets.

oh please, apart from Japan and the US nobody else really plays baseball

Off the top of my head you are forgetting Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuala, Panama, Puerto Rico

"In a hundred years' time, in 200 years' time, kids are still going to be falling in love with Amy Winehouse."

Oh, come on now. That's just not going to happen.

I would never want to live around Tokyo Station. Sterile beyond belief.

Kita-Senju-that I could do

How about Kamata? A little down trodden but I like it there.

I actually feel sorry for any Japanese person who would have to relocate to Glasgow. The food situation is dire and even if he speaks English he will have one heck of a time trying to decipher. the Glasgae patter.

Sounds like Eliza, the Rogerian Therapist computer prgorams from the mid 60s

Get the hint, folks? VIPS, politicians and dignitaries.

The common folk? Not a chance.

Remember G Orwell-all are equal, but some more equal than others.

The people marketing this should do some research into what blue bottle means. Calliphora vomitoria.

So true...first think I though of when reading blue bottle was that horrible fly. Can't stand them and would not order any drink with that name.

might be posing a serious threat to the nation's neighbors including Japan.

Actually the whole world thinks that China is a serious threat to freedom.

He is dying, they had to let him out to save face.

Not at all. The US system is not about "saving face". I think you are confusing the US with another country...

10,000 yen. A lot of money. You can stay in many hotels for that price, or you can buy a watermelon.

In my home country and ad this week is for watermelons, 5 kg average weight for the equivalent of 355 yen and no tax on top of that.

He may have been freed from prison, but his reputation is ruined.

I would imagine the young lady's parents or significant other would have been extremely worried about her being confined with a guy like that. Hope she recovers, but it will likely leave mental scars.

the War of Northern Aggression

Is that actually what some people call it?

Why on earth would you send someone to jail for a $63 shoplifting offense?

Give him fee weekends of community service if you want to , but jail is not for offenses like that.

At present, we can see no particular impact,

You would have to be willfully blind to make that statement.

Safeguards, there you go. If it was so clean and simple, why would you need safeguards? And who defines these safeguards, and can they be abused or not. Certainly if euthanasia is an easily available and promoted option, you yourself would feel a bit obliged to use it, would you not?

You are putting words in my mouth. Everything has safeguards..examples would be cars, elevators, trains.

Who defines them? The government of the country in conjunction with public input.

Would I feel obliged to use it? Obliged is a strange word to use for that, but no I would not feel "obliged". I would however like it as an option.

Euthanasia is a moral dilemma

I don't see it that way at all. I am thankful my native country allows assisted death (subject of course to some safeguards).

If you have a terminal disease, you don't want to suffer in agony waiting for death. We treat dogs and cats better than that.