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Japan’s pollen solution: Spite hay fever, cut off your nose...

It's Friday, so it's time for me to play it straight and get down with the CNNGo guys. Revisiting the good old hay fever nose blockers this time. Yoroshiku, ne...

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It's come to this, has it? Damn you, hay fever and your dignity-robbing ways...

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I've had Yaki Soba sandwiches before, but never like this...

The sub roll type is normal (and usually vile) but this odd arrangement from SunKus was really rather good. Call me strange all you like! \(^_^)/

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Diamond and platinum Nokia Supreme phone - yours for just £100,000!

 

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C of E priest pelted with pasta after encouraging parishioners to avoid starving to death

Isn't this all the wrong way round? Busybodies worrying about folk so poor they have to steal to eat, thereby risking a criminal record, instead of addressing the problem that puts them in that position? Weird.

Oh, and it's so very British that the pasta (spaghetti and ravioli) is all canned garbage. Mama mia!

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Japanese scientists working to stop train carriages stinking like wet dogs

Bit of a geeky post this one, but we all know how certain train carriages smell decidedly peculiar, particularly during Japan's rainy season. That old upholstery just gives off a stink once the heaters fire up that's not conducive to hanging around.

Consequently, it's something the white coats at the Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) just up the road here in Kokubunji are working to eliminate.

Check out Tamami Kawasaki's paper in the December edition of the RTRI newsletter - the good stuff is in the PDF at the fourth link on the list (or right here). I particularly like the 'Smell Sampling' machine, complete with a place to rest your nose during the test...

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Chinese snooker champ wins his weight in meat pies, donates them all to UK charity

Ding Junhui is pretty well known in the UK and, we're told, a star in China. He'll have some new fans among the homeless of Sheffield now, it seems...

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Shibuya Pee Wine Bar: shurely shum mishtake?

They say Japanese attempts at (grape-based) wine taste like piss, but this is surely a micturation too far...

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Japanese dogs get their own sexy lingerie now...

Sex up your pooch (not literally, 'K) for just ¥682 from Best Ever.

PS Scuse the poor photo - them things sure are shiny...

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Tokyo women wearing underwear as outerwear in public?

I feel a little bad both for taking and posting this train shot, but when did it become ok to wear what is essentially lingerie in public?

Must be that 'getting old' thing the fogies talk about...

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