sushilover comments

Pass me a blanket, darlin'...

Hats off to the Bike Man of Japan. Hope he's soon back in the saddle again.

Aso is too overwhelmingly intellectual for me.

What a moron. Fools and their money.

Last year I flew on KLM from London to Tokyo. I love a few drinks on a plane, but KLM won't let you get another drink till you've finished the first one (unlike British Airways where I always order 2 beers at a time). This means that you have to wait up to 30 mins. to get another drink on KLM, an intolerable situation. So, noticing my discomfort, two kindly (teetotal) obaachans sitting next to me started ordering all kinds of drinks and giving them to me surreptitiously, forcing me to drink copious amounts until, somewhere over the Urals, our cunning wheeze was rumbled by the head purser who must have wondered why these two old girls were still remarkably sober; that plus the fact that my seat pocket was overflowing with empties- I'd run out of hiding places. "Ve know vot you are doing!" growled said purser as she (I think it was a she) fixed me with her steely exocet stare. "Its a fair cop, guv, hic" I confessed and drifted off to sleep with a smile on my face that lasted from one side of Siberia to the other, forever grateful to my two guardian angels.

Is anyone surprised by all this? Nobody knows, nobody wants to know, nobody cares. Head in the (contaminated) sand.

Keep that red wine well chilled, all ye connoisseurs..

Still got my bootleg cassette of Bob at Blackbushe airport '75, recorded on my old (then high-tech?) portable cassette recorder. Hippies' graveyard? All those rainy day women; Happy days indeed.

Shoulda locked his door. Duh.

A nation of herbivorous mummy's boys.

I'm not the praying kind, but I'm praying for this poor child now. Whatever your God, say a prayer.

Plus: Avoid eating with your mouth closed. Never eat silently. Always start talking after putting food in gob. Never chew before swallowing. Spit everywhere. Smoke between courses, at the table, blowing smoke in people's faces. Never say please or thank you in a restaurant, or look waiters in the eye. Or leave a tip. ... etc etc.

I'm bringing up my kids to follow all these excellent civilized manners. (Irony alert. Duh)

Ding dong merrily on high..

Get yer ya-yas out!

That mascot looks just like your typical Japanese salaryman. Oh, er, hang on a minute...

Laughing stock

Stupid moron. Sue the c rap out of her

failed to notify diners they had injected beef with fat to make it juicier

So, if they had printed on the menu "This super-yummy beef is injected with fat to make it even yummier!", everything would be ok, right? Silly billys. Fancy overlooking that.

Let the bowing begin. These geezers remind me of falling dominoes.

pushed a button

WTF? Thought I'd been asleep for 6 months and woken up on April 1st.

Ringo, I suspect he did a little more than lick and sniff...

"What toppings would you like, sir?"

"A bit of spit and a couple of bogies please."

"Certainly, sir. Coming right up."

in his 20s, dressed in black and wearing a white face mask and black-rimmed glasses.

I'm sure I spotted a bloke just like that the other day...

One is distraught at this tragic news.

This has put the shits up me. Where am I gonna read my newspaper from now on?

24 degrees here at Butlins in Bognor Regis. Zero humidity. Got me knotted hankie, just in case. Heaven. Gloat.

European Court of Human Rights, here we come. This ain't gonna go away, Mr. Cameron. This is totally wrong. Punishng your own citizens, just because there's nothing you can do about the playground bully, the EU?

The strength of feeling on this, by British people married to Japanese people, seems obviously to be very strong. Is there anyone out there who is savvy with organising pressure campaigns - online petition to UK govt., petition to the British Embassy in Tokyo, letter to the British PM, even a peaceful family-friendly march to the British Embassy in Tokyo..??

Should I go back to MY country, with my BRITISH children, and my Japanese wife, who has a Masters degree from London University, TOEIC 990, Eiken level 1, GCSE in English, and just passed the (racist) LIFE in the UK test with a 100% score (she knows more about UK than I do! I couldn't pass it!)?

Or should we get on a boat and head for Australia...? (I have visions of the UK govt putting all non-EU or non-Commonwealth immigrants on an abandoned oil rig in the North Sea (the closest we can get to Christmas Island))

the UK government are hitting families from outside the EU so hard is that it's one of the only migration categories that they can actually do anything about.

Edmund,

I've thought this all along; the irony of targetting people from a "rich" country like Japan to keep out, married to BRITISH citizens, while having to let in everyone/anyone from poorer countries with no connection to the country other than being in an artificial entity called the EU. Sooo British. Thanks, EU.

Come on Mr Cameron. Think of something morally defensible, please.

And, Chibachick, many thanks. I'll buy you a pint in the Dog 'n Duck if/when...

Surely, as soon as the uk govt wakes up to the Surinder Singh loophole, they'll just close it!

chibachick, edmund, wipeout, zichi, et al... you seem to know what you're talking about. Do you know any websites, organisations, advice phone lines etc where you can get information/advice on specific individual scenarios?