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rootabega wrote:Try begging for money for Japan without the invective.

"Invective?" Try familiarizing yourself with a word before you make yourself look stupid by misusing it, Sparky.

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Everyone, the people of Japan need our help. If you can afford to donate anything — any amount , no matter how little — please do so. There are many reputable charities, and they're not hard to find. I'm a poverty-stricken college student, and even I have managed to scrape up $50 to donate (which I ...

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One who swallows.

{And before anybody whines about that answer, I'll point out: I have NOT said anything vulgar; and if you're adult enough to understand the reference, then you're adult enough to deal with it.}

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Chinese hackers appear to be readying for an attack on the West scheduled for April 19. It appears the basis of the attack is based on the recent, and very public, pro Tibet coverage in Western media organizations… The Red Alliance have traditionally required very little in terms of direct motivati...

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CNN offered the apology as a courtesy , not because they were obligated to make it. They will not be firing Jack Cafferty, no matter how much noise anyone makes about what he said. Furthermore, please rest assured that the laughably ridiculous $1.3 billion lawsuit filed against CNN will be thrown ou...

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First of all, Cafferty's criticisms about shoddy Chinese manufacturing standards were entirely valid and accurate. Suggesting otherwise is simply delusional. Secondly, his remarks about 'goons and thugs' were very obviously not directed at the Chinese people , but at their tyrannical government — an...

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I would like to apologize in advance to all americans for what I'm going to write now. :unsure: I'm Austrian (Europe) and we get a lot of TV shows from the US in Europe of course. And especially these shows running on MTV where incredibly ignorant people show up in incredibly dumb reality shows to ...

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Just finished watching this, and I've gotta say… good GOD, could it have been any more boring? What were they thinking when they made this two-hour yawner? They had a fabulously taboo subject like incest, yet the best they could come up with was a couple of brief kissing scenes – for a grand total o...

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I think I may have found the word: Mitamaya.

Can anyone tell me for sure whether that's correct?

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In TV shows and movies, I have often seen Japanese people praying in front of a small wooden box that contains a photograph of some important ancestor(s) -- usually a parent. Can anyone tell me what the word is for that shrine / altar? Is that the Butsudan? Or is it called something else? I thought ...

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japanese sucks. I think you mean "Japan sucks," or maybe "the Japanese suck." If you're going to spout prejudiced nonsense, you could at least use correct English so you only sound like a racist idiot, rather than an illiterate racist idiot. they are all monsters. "They are...

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Depends on WHY my parents didn't approve. If it was over something stupid like race — which my parents would never do anyway, but let's say hypothetically that they did — then I'd tell my parents to suffer and deal with it, because I'm getting married and they're going to have some half-breed grandc...

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lol thanks tao i no im asian american but i wanna no the specs if im chinese,vietnamese, or 100% chinese Well, what language do your parents speak? (I mean primarily, since I imagine they probably know several.) If it's Vietnamese, you've probably got a good claim for being "Vietnamese-America...

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i was always get confused whats the difference between nationality and ethnicity... "Ethnicity" and "Nationality" are mostly the same thing, except that the former term includes your ancestors while the latter term applies only to you. The primary definition of "ethnic"...

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"European" is not an ethnic group. "German" is an ethnic group. "Norwegian" and "Italian" and "Greek" are ethnic groups. Even on a broader geographic scale, there's a hell of a big difference between a Scandinavian European and a Mediterranean Europe...

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Japan Otaku wrote:anyone watch Sora Kara Furu Ichioku no Hoshi?

Only the episodes that have been soft-subbed (1-6) -- but it's really good, so far…

There are still seeders on it, if you want to grab the whole series in one batch:
A Million Stars Falling From The Sky

And you can get the subtitles HERE.

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I am using the original BT program. Is there a better one? Yes: I strongly recommend µTorrent -- which is also sometimes (correctly) referred to as "MicroTorrent," but is also very often (erroneously) called "UTorrent." [ * ] You can find it here: µTorrent Home Page [ * Irreleva...

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Looooooooooooong. The longer, the better. Ideally, it should reach the small of her back. If she can just barely sit on her own hair, then it's perfect. The only way it could possibly be too long is if she's stepping on it. There are indeed many women who look just fine with relatively short hair — ...

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"Which of these Japanese actresses is the most sexy?" :blink HA! :lol Sorry, but the question is almost impossible to answer. Every one of them is incredibly hot, and I wouldn't kick any of them out of my bed — err, I mean, uhhh… the objectification of women as sex objects is offensive! Ye...

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Long story… My father was in the U.S. Air Force when I was a kid, and I got to live in Taiwan for a year — and in case any of you are thinking, "Hey, the U.S. doesn't have any bases in Taiwan anymore," it was a looooong time ago, and we did still have bases there at the time. While there,...

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SOFT , always. The various benefits ascribed to hard subs -- such as pretty fonts, colors, etc. -- are all completely irrelevant. They're eye-candy, nothing more. And they're annoying eye-candy when you can't ever turn them off, and even worse when (as is often the case) they contain spelling or gr...

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I have a dvd player that plays divx files… Will your DVD player also play XviD files? I have been told that anything capable of playing DivX will also play XviD, because the codecs are very similar (or something like that), but I have no idea whether that's true. It doesn't sound likely… but then a...

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Yutaro is a little annoying, isn't he? Or am I the only one who wanted to smack the crap out of him when he made Hiroko cry…? :x ( "Dude! What is WRONG with you? How can you be mean to HER?" ) Well, at least he redeemed himself by defending her later. I suppose it's early in the story too,...

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The fact that it's not mainstream where I live is one of the reasons that I like so much. Excellent point, and I agree wholeheartedly. The reason I disovered J-Pop in the first place was that I got sick and tired of hearing the 'Top 40' crap that's all over MTV and the radio here in America — so on...

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It's not the appearance of the singers or musicians that matter. It's not even the music. It's quite simply the language barrier. Most Americans are not the least bit interested in listening to songs that aren't in English, no matter how good the music may be. I used to work in an office that had a ...

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Ahhh… thanks!

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What is the "OMS" drama to which several of you have referred? I gather it's got Takuya Kimura in it, but I can't find anything called "OMS" (or even using those initials) listed among his credits on JDorama.com...

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Episode 8 should have come with a Spew Warning: Because I nearly spewed Dr. Pepper all over my monitor when Sakurai-san did his Densha impersonation, complete with whiny stuttering.

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I haven't seen nearly as many J-Dramas as the rest of you, apparently. I only started watching them recently, after discovering (and very much liking) the show Hero, on the JPopSuki site -- which made me want more J-Drama, which eventually led me here. The complete list of everything I've watched so...

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BTW: According to "Kodansha's Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary," the verb 来る is irregular, and conjugates as: kuru - informal nonpast affirmative konai - informal nonpast negative kimasu - semi-formal nonpast affirmative kitai - informal nonpast affirmative desiderative kita - informa...

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dunno why but my japanese input has taken a crap on me. It's not "uru" which you typed, but kuru Whoops. I did intend to type 来る。That was a typo, which I didn't notice because (on my screen) the font size is small enough that 売 kinda looked like 来. I should have looked a little more close...

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Ahhh… so it's the Informal Past Affirmative of 売る…？I should have guessed it was something like that, based on the -ita ending. Now I get it, though. Thanks! And thanks for the explanation of how the expression developed. That's the sort of thing they don't usually put in the books. And I'm not sure...

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Here's a Japanese language question for our resident experts: What is the origin of the expression キター? ("KITA") It gets used on Densha Otoko pretty often, and it is translated as "Yes!" in the subtitles; but it isn't listed in any of my Japanese dictionaries (which isn't necessa...

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That intro song is growing on me too. It sounds so 80-ish (maybe it is? *shrugs*) Yup. 1981, to be specific. The song is called "Twilight," and it's the second track on the album "Time," by Electric Light Orchestra. They showed a commercial for the CD at the end of one of the ep...

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Otaku Trivia Test: How many people besides me caught the Kamen Rider reference at the beginning of Episode 2? It's when he's imagining reasons why she isn't answering the phone, just after the little scene from the movie "Ghost" that he imagines. Anybody who did catch it, and recognized i...

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I'm assuming that our hero will grow less and less wussy as we go along. It's presumably going to be about 10-12 episodes long, yes? So we've still got plenty of time for him to grow a spine. And think how much greater the payoff will be when he finally does something truly brave. Anyway -- for thos...

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I discovered D-Addicts through a link in the forum at JPopSuki . Although that tracker's main theme is music, someone had posted a torrent for the J-Dorama "Hero" (Takuya Kimura, Takako Matsu), which I downloaded out of mere curiosity... and since it was excellent , I decided to try some m...

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