So, nobody is bothered by the fact that she's a 13 year-old girl who kills people in brutal ways? Just making sure...

Is your mother only looking for European brands or are you saying that even local brands of toothpaste and soap barely exist in Asia?

You can go shopping for sundries after checking into your lodgings. You pack a bag with things that aren't consumable—like clothes.

I have never understood why people pack things like toothpaste, tooth brushes, soap and other daily necessities when they travel. Just about anything can be purchased on arrival and going to a supermarket or convenience store in a foreign country is one of the fun things about going to a foreign country. If you're…

It's not enough just to give these women knives. They need to be trained in how to use them in an actual combat situation. If a woman doesn't know what she's doing with the knife, it'll be easy for her attacker to get it away from her, and he'll be angry.

I think that authors should use vaguer, more subjective terms when describing characters. For example, instead of describing height and weight and skin/eye/hair color, they should say something like: "She looked like a girl fresh out of college, her face eliciting in the people who saw her the same emotions as one…

It doesn't say "The number of shoppers is small" where you say it does. It says that the numbers that they order (the shipments) are small. Though to be fair, it does say that there are few users in parentheses further below, as an explanation for why they're too afraid to order large quantities.

Insider trading? This is corporate espionage. The SEC is the least of your worries if you do something like that.

They probably didn't catch it because it's not spelled right.

I wonder: did her employment contract specify whether she could moonlight and what kinds of outside work she could do? Did it mention and define personal conduct?

The law specifically requires the victim to press charges before an arrest can be made. This means that the onus for policing is on the copyright holders. It's no wonder there haven't been any arrests.

Yeah. In retrospect, I don't really even care about that guy owning a bunch of porn. It's not really that big a deal...I just thought his family might feel a little awkward, but that's hardly a big deal, either.

Yes, awkward. That's the word I've been using since the beginning. It's all very awkward for everyone.

Wait a minute, I get it now. Looking through your comments on other threads, it's all so clear to me now. You really are a troll. You are trolling on purpose aren't you?

You are the troll, man. You started all of this. You started the insults. I was very patient before I started insulting you, but you were insulting me from the very beginning because of something you imagined I had said.

I'm sorry; I had assumed that I was speaking to a native English speaker. I think that this whole problem stems from misinterpretations of the nuances of my statements. I just want to say that I did not intend to say, or in fact say, the things that you think I said. If you had said from the beginning that English was…

Do you even realize that this story took place in Japan? Did you even read the story? I am telling you, DVDs do not cost $10 in Japan, even if they're used. Believe me, I have been to porn shops in Japan. Have you also considered when DVDs came into common use? He had about 15 years to assemble that collection.

He probably did have enough money to do what he wants and sustain his family. Could you possibly explain to me when and how I said that he didn't? Could you also explain why you believe that he was rich? Also, you do realize that a person can be "not rich" without being "poor," right? When I say he probably wasn't…

I don't really like Hollywood movies. I like Korean movies and I wish that American audiences were willing to watch Korean movies as they are instead of trying to get Korean filmmakers to make Hollywood movies, which are almost always inferior. That's what I meant. For me, an international director who is hired to…

So what's your point, then? Keeping in mind that I never said anything to the effect that he couldn't afford it.