damageman

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• Commented on Laura Ling Interview from 2005
  seriously, it sucks for those two but what did they expect? I know NK is being extra hard on them and on and on, but they messed up they should not have gone there! They knew the risk they excepted...
• Commented on Congressman who's giving payday loan companies legal 391% APR loans says he's powerless to resist their lobbying
  Okay tons of our elected officials are weasels but I actually like this idea. Some economist actually support this kind of thing. Payday loans are EVIL, rather then cap fees we should raise mandatory fees to the point that no...
• Commented on Siphon Coffee: Because Single Origin Brew Wasn't Elitist Enough
  I live in Tokyo but this way of brewing does not seem to be popular at all. Who really cares how it is made I just need the sweet, life giving caffeine. There is this drip coffee place in the...
• Commented on Bandai netbook features green skin and cute, blob-like monsters
  Is there anything that Gachapin cannot do??? This time he made a computer, next who knows, chemical weapons maybe....
• Commented on About US Airways Flight 1549
  I read that article yesterday and I thought, Hummmm, there will be a crash now!! Thank god no one was hurt but Boingboing is definitely to blame for this! Actually can you write something like that article about the economy???...
• Commented on A Message To Boing Boing Readers From the Auto Industry
  Lava, Yeah but you can import a Toyota from anywhere and it will be obscenely boring. It will drive forever and ever and ever but who cares??? Give me a Neon SRT or something that is stupidly loud and breaks...
• Commented on A Message To Boing Boing Readers From the Auto Industry
  I am not defending GM and those other buffoons totally but I have to say they have built some great cars in the last 10 years. For example the focus was a great car, far better to drive then anything...
• Commented on The Work Week Ahead
  I am all for loving your job but no one has mentioned work-life balance! I love my work but I wanna be able to have time to do other things. Even if you love your job you need to have...
• Commented on <em>Manga Man</em>: a multimedia novel readable by mobile phone, via t-shirt
  QR codes are cool but I feel like they are a dead technology. The next hot thing is retro, steam punk morse code! PS, that QR code a link to Wikipedia, total bunk!...
• Commented on Ford on selling 65MPG Euro-diesel car in U.S.: Nah, Americans won't buy it
  WOW!!!!! I wanna see them go bankrupt! They are to stupid to survive, Darwin! DIE FORD DIE! How can companies be that stupid?...
• Commented on Why Japanese cell phones suck
  Yeah I think that Lisa hits some great points and I think the point she really needed to make is that Japanese cell phones are very expensive due to the feature bloat. I wish they had a better array of...
• Commented on Restaurant features "wireless service bell button" to summon waiters at your command
  Yeah this is a good Idea but I bet a busy waiter will just ignore you!!!...
• Commented on Failin' Palin. (UPDATED: As Putin rears his head.)
  Who cares????? This is really not that important to me!!! Intelligence does not necessarily correlate to being a great public/impromptu speaker. I vote on issues not on beautiful speeches and clearly Obama and Biden have the edge on the issues...
• Commented on Japan's badass new prime minister
  Living in Japan I am a little disappointed in this pick for PM. You see Aso sounds like asshole when said on the news but now that he is the PM we will hear his name more often and that...
• Commented on Boin Boin breast-enlarging tea
  boin boin is just one of many words to talk about those delicious mounds of flesh in Japanese! My favorite is kyonyu(巨乳) which means big old tits or hinyu (貧乳) which literally means impoverished boobs or tiny little tits. Did...
• Commented on Video: Another thing you can do with a Fun Float
  So FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
• Commented on Man kills 5 in gadget-district rampage
  Yeah this is a serious fuck up! well categorized! I live in Tokyo and this guy injured about 10 people and killed 7. This is really scary for me because I like to go to Akiba and it is really...
• Commented on We Are The World remade by impersonators on Japanese pop show (video)
  Marjoram I second your points about the video. I think of blackface as you do and I really think this is satirical and quite funny. Oh and yes I do think Japanese people are horribly racist. In fact I thought...
• Commented on We Are The World remade by impersonators on Japanese pop show (video)
  Don't get me wrong Japanese people are horrible racists, I know I am writing this in Japan now! However I cannot see this video as racist because of the black face. They are just dressing up like the people in...