The Off Topic Topic

[Razgovory]

How long would it take for the justices to pretend to consider the arguments presented before revealing the decision?

Talk smack all you want to jude, you're going down.

Dguller is going down on Jude?  Who's Jude?

[mongers]

Tomorrow my sojurn westwards begins.
First to Tokyo then an overnight bus to Hiroshima- at first it was planned to be some special bus with super reclining seats but the lady-woman changed it to a later, more normal one for some reason....gah.
There shall we see the sights. I shall have to wear my Sweden football shirt when we go to the atomic museum to reiterate my non-Americaness. Miyajima has me more excited than Hiro TBH.
After Hiro its to Okayama for a day. A dull prefecture apparently which my co-workers are surprised I'm even giving a look. But its en route and there is apparently a pretty garden and a decent castle. I shall stay in Okayama alone a night as my friend returns to Tokyo for worky purposes.
Up early in Okayama then on the shinkansen. To Himeji in Hyogo I shall hurry. The castle is apparently under rennovations and not the impressive sight it is meant to be. Which fills me with sadness. But investigate I shall, it should be good for 2 or 3 hours.
Then its back to the station and on the train to Osaka. I believe I will stop there for 2 or 3 hours again. Purely to see the big impressive building, the name of which I forget, by the station. Osaka was not in my plans but I have a train exchange there anyway so...might as well stretch it out longer than necessary. Osaka proper is on the drawing board for an epic Kinki trip at a later daye.
From Osaka I will dash to Kyoto where I am to stay the night. I shall enjoy the sights and lead a brief 2 hour or so expedition to Shiga so that I may gaze upon Lake Biwa. I will only have one full day in Kyoto before my night bus back to Kofu and then into work on Friday- luckily my office should be empty then so perhaps I can nap or even just show my face then go home.
In Kyoto I think I will only really have time for the imperial palace-castley area.
I am nervous. Travelling makes me nervous. Well. Planned travelling with bookings and reservations does. I'm looking forward to travelling in summer more when I can just go as the winds take me, sleeping beneath the moon and generally having good crack- cursed Yamanashi and its lack of an eastern exit.

Are you channelling Lettow with that style ?

If so it isn't a very good pastiche/copy.

Anyway, have a fun time, sounds rather interesting and I guess it'll up your Orientalist score; catching up with Timmay and HisB, whilst establishing a buffer ahead of those that are yet to travel (IDE and Lettow).   

[Eddie Teach]

Dguller is going down on Jude?  Who's Jude?

Wrote the prequel to the Book of Revelation.

[Josquius]

[quote author=Tyr
Are you channelling Lettow with that style ?

If so it isn't a very good pastiche/copy.

Anyway, have a fun time, sounds rather interesting and I guess it'll up your Orientalist score; catching up with Timmay and HisB, whilst establishing a buffer ahead of those that are yet to travel (IDE and Lettow).   

heh. while writing i was thinking 'hey...this is going slightly lettowish.....' but not my intention no. no planned writing style, just tipsy splurging.

wish i could travel more but its hard

[mongers]

[quote author=Tyr
Are you channelling Lettow with that style ?

If so it isn't a very good pastiche/copy.

Anyway, have a fun time, sounds rather interesting and I guess it'll up your Orientalist score; catching up with Timmay and HisB, whilst establishing a buffer ahead of those that are yet to travel (IDE and Lettow).   

heh. while writing i was thinking 'hey...this is going slightly lettowish.....' but not my intention no. no planned writing style, just tipsy splurging.

wish i could travel more but its hard

Weird isn't it, elements of languish infecting us.   

Certainly sounds a lot more interesting than what I'm doing this week. 

[Sheilbh]

How long would it take for the justices to pretend to consider the arguments presented before revealing the decision?

Talk smack all you want to jude, you're going down.

Who bet what on what?

[Ideologue]

I think my bet was safer.

[Sheilbh]

Can someone explain Hunger Games to me.  Mainly, how did this happen?

I like Harry Potter.  I enjoy the Twilight films (I tried the books and couldn't get past ten pages).  But I don't understand how kids/teen books got from that to the point where they're about a post-apocalyptic future in which children are forced to kill one another for a reality TV show.  It weirds me out

I've heard the film's better than it should be too. Anyone know?

[CountDeMoney]

Can someone explain Hunger Games to me.  Mainly, how did this happen?

I'll go find a tweener and her Soccer Mom to explain it to you.

[FunkMonk]

But I don't understand how kids/teen books got from that to the point where they're about a post-apocalyptic future in which children are forced to kill one another for a reality TV show.  It weirds me out

In my day we read Encyclopedia Brown. 

[Lettow77]

 Battle Royale makes hunger games old news.

I think I am going to Japan this summer, one way or another- either as a student or a hiking traveller on a VISION QUEST TO THE EAST.  I look forward to it.

[Josquius]

i now greatly regret not taking my chance to be a student at tokyo u. money wouldnt have been a problem afterall in tokyo. gah.

[Lettow77]

 Hey tyr, how long will you be in Japan, again? Maybe we could meet

[mongers]

British Summer Time starts.   

[katmai]

British Summer Time starts.   

About time you yokels caught up to us.