@Taiko_Oni: I'm assuming that the classes where it did work were at least cooperative, which makes it a pretty high level school in my opinion. Anyway, I'm a salaryman now and not keen on looking back.

The thing about this picture that grabbed my attention and still has me wondering is, "The guy's using Yahoo?"

@Azel: I am not even a Japanese citizen, nor have I worked for JET, but I pay my taxes here and I am bloody angry that the government is still spending tax money on that bullsh*t.

@Taiko_Oni: How the hell do you expect to do a class in all English with 40 different students of varying English levels?

The Japanese don't try to learn English. They try to memorize it. Even with conversation, they try to remember set phrases and entire conversations.

@Azel: That is not a translation error. It says exactly the same thing in Japanese as it does in English. I'm not kidding. It says to break the wall off and escape.

Maybe intelligent people take better care of their health (i.e. not fat).

Hell, the guy deserves a job at DARPA, if you ask me.

@USMarty_v.3: I can understand if a person hasn't heard of Chelmno, even though it was the first death camp (in the sense of existing primarily for that purpose and having the first gas chambers), but how could anyone not have heard of either Dachau or Bergen-Belsen?

@Goldwings: Does the Chintendo vii have a vibrating function?

Red Dead Redemption would have been so good if every single mission wasn't the exact same thing: get on your horse, ride out somewhere, shoot a bunch of people, the end.

Look, let's face it: this law is not going to be enforced. There might be a few big stings/arrests once in a while when the Metropolitan Police Department has nothing better to do, but, as it is, the police (who barely do anything when real children are involved) aren't going to do much.

Go to the store five minutes before they close and see if there are any steaks left and see if there's a 50% off sticker. If there isn't, ask somebody in the meat section when they might put a sticker on it. They'll sometimes do it for you right then and there. It's worth it.

@JKLoogie: I've always thought of it as being like Nelson's (from the Simpsons) "Hah-hah!"

Killing people = OK.

In a month, that same store will be selling copies of the game for 2,500 yen.

@FarmboyinJapan: I remember the media going out of their way to report that 1/3 of Japanese men sit down even just to urinate.

How about putting a couple of these tabs in a room humidifier. Breathe that bacon in!

Japan still has trends. It's just that they only last a week (two at most) and then nobody remembers anything about them.

Wait, so let me get this straight: the people who are in the middle