In Japan, cell phone ringtones help cure hangovers, we're told...
The Sun's staff reporter should maybe learn the differenze between a "craze" and well-directed marketing hype, methinks. Sloppy, shoddy 'journalism.'
via thesun.co.uk
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...
via cnngo.com
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! \(^_^)/
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!
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...
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...
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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