Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<41430091.7010905@hotmail.com>...
> 
> Google is brilliant innit? Not only did it translate Ryan's post into 
> English, but it also translated your reply into Japanese, so that I 
> could then reply to it and after google translates it back into English 
> for you all is cool. If only I could afford to buy some more stock.

Quite. (As in very.)
 
> > I was suprised to find few references to earthquakes or typhoons on
> > Japanese boards. Why is that?
> 
> For the same reasons that on English boards there are quite as many 
> references to rain as we here in Japan would expect. Though of course 
> there are a lot more earthquakes here each year than there are rainy 
> days in Old Blighty. (Those last two words are supposed to mean England, 
> not sure if google can translate them).

I think you got that wrong this year at least. Earthquakes in Japan
are as common as thunderstorms here in England. There are a lot of
forums and one newsgroup on usenet dedicated to British weather.
(uk.sci.weather)

Do you have a newsgroup for people with strange (or at least
unconventional) beliefs about science? Alt groups perhaps?