They must have gotten the idea from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. They had a story where they made fun of how pointy chins are in shojo manga by showing the main character's chin growing longer and longer with each frame.

I think that a lot of the problem stems from the islands being uninhabited and close enough to being in between the two countries to make it difficult for either country to say, definitively, that they "owned" the islands before the modern age. It becomes a matter of "Where does the Okinawa archipelago end and another…

Oh, yes. Because everyone knows that Russia just loves China so much because they're both "Communist" countries. They've loved each other since Mao and Khrushchev had all of those friendly policy agreements back in the 1960s. Seriously, read a history book.

What the hell has Japan done? I don't see any Japanese protesters/mobs acting like children.

That depends on how much you use the

Yeah, maybe I was reaching a bit on the example with Texas and, to be honest, I was using "the West" in place of "America," though I probably shouldn't presume to know where you're from.

Taking offense at something doesn't make a person an extremist. I think that it's hard for people in the West to understand what a territorial dispute is like.

Which country is being an asshole and which country has a legitimate claim to the islands are two completely separate issues.

I'm not talking about extreme voices; I'm talking about giving the appearance of supporting one side or the other in an article that is otherwise very neutral.

You might want to put quotation marks around "Diaoyu" if you're going to put them around "Senkaku." That's how sensitive this issue can get...

Translation: Good, but not so good and actually kind of bad.

In that sentence, "chicken-foot garnish" is being used as a compound modifier and therefore doesn't need to be plural. You wouldn't say "He is a PC games player;" you would say that he is a "PC game player," regardless of whether he plays one game or more.

This is exactly the reason why we have this little thing called "contracts" so that two "parties" to an "agreement" can clarify their respective "duties and obligations" to each other before "accepting airplane tickets and going to another country." I feel bad for the bloggers because of what happened, but you need to…

Hey, men have to give blowjobs for good jobs too, you know. (I'm kidding.)

Google really pisses me off by doing that. People in France are perfectly capable of typing in google.fr if they want to see the French version of the site. Redirecting automatically makes it needlessly difficult to access the version of Google you want.

Infinity isn't a number; it's a concept.

Every day I go to the bank and I withdraw 30 dollars all in pennies. Then I shove them up my ass—one at a time, of course—and then spend them. I've beeen shoving pennies up my ass for 9 years, so whenever I see somebody who intimidates me, I just think that he's probably handled pennies that have been up my ass. That…

Actually, he wouldn't have said that because he wasn't married to her yet. He would have said, お嫁 for a wife to be.

Here's a crazy theory for you: I think there might be some kind of connection to Totoro being on TV last Friday and this story appearing just now...