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Thai Boxers in Japan
This article is interesting as hell because I’ve heard many, many times about how weak Thai boxers/kickboxers are used to prop up their Japanese counterparts, but never actually bothered to…
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I traded my 100Mbps FTTH for mangosteens and monkeys…
…And I think I made the right decision. This article by Robert Cringely hits home, though. My theoretical download speed is now 1/50 of what it was last year in…
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Tuna Boat (?????)
Right around the time I finished university in Japan, I was in a bind. I had no money and limited prospects finding a job I wanted to do – I…
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USB sushi, eclipsed
Humping Dog – “USB Meets Love” Via g-man, who says, “Yo, the Japanese have too much time on their hands to be inventing shit like this…”
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Same same, but different (Japan dub)
I loves me some unadon… Goodbye, unadon. But, I hates ekimae ryugaku… Goodbye, ekimae ryugaku. (Via the ever-adorable Fucked Gaijin)
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Two things I miss
I actually get better chicken in Thailand, though. So I guess the two things would have to be rear wheel drive and the SR-20DE engine. Don’t get me wrong, the…
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Social Insurance Operation Center (Japan)
This is a heads up to anybody trying to get in touch with the ?????????? (Social Insurance Operation Center) from overseas. The old telephone number listed on all of their…
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Nam Opened for Yoshimoto!
Well, this was certainly unexpected when I said we were going to see Yoshimoto perform in Bangkok this past weekend: This story actually belongs to Nam – so let her…
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Yoshimoto Entertainment in Thailand
This time we’re off to see Yoshimoto perform in Bangkok at the Imperial Park Queens Hotel. The organizer is an old friend of Nam’s and he came to our wedding…
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SDS-WAVE??? (Super Discount Shop rip off)
I ordered a Coolpix for a friend through an online electronics shop a couple days ago after finding the cheapest price on kakaku.com. These are the fuckers in question: http://www.sds-wave.com…
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Would you like some ketchup on that shit sandwich?
No? How about a tasty glass of water from the Yodogawa? The Osaka municipal government’s Water Bureau plans to sell bottles of highly purified tap water from Yodogawa river in…
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Japanese Hospital Suckage
Would it suffice to say that I spent 7 hours today waiting to get treated for a common cold, then got overcharged, and then got written the wrong prescription? Or…
