Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post02.iad!post01.iad!news.shared-secrets.com!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:04:59 +0900 From: CL User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100411 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: GLORIOUS NIPPON is now out. References: <3p1l265dp46rpcr3s0n0jjgnkk206s635k@4ax.com> <4c2bf81f$0$5557$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4c2dc89e$0$5515$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> Organization: Unknown X-Complaints-To: abuse@shared-secrets.com Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169355 On 07/02/2010 08:44 AM, The 2-Belo wrote: > We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that CL has > exploded. Flight director confirms that: >> The school also has an Olympic-sized outdoor pool, but it doesn't get >> maintained because the stuff you have to use ruins clothing. I don't >> know of any school in Japan that has a clean outdoor pool because the >> parents won't do it nor will they contribute enough to the PTA to have a >> professional cleaning service come in. > > I suppose it's because they think they're forking over enough money to the > school in the first place? I think the Olympic-size pool boondoggle was one of those "fiscal stimulus" jokes the LDP played in the Seventies or Eighties. They passed around money to build the things but didn't leave any money in the kitty to clean or maintain them. Every single school out here has one. Most stand next to the separate gymnasium that got built in a different period of bribing the farmers. All of them are in poor repair. In my travels around the country, I don't think I have ever seen an elementary school that does not have a pool ... and I don't think I have ever seen a clean one. The one on the roof of the Osaka school alongside the JR-sen, between Imamiya and Namba comes to mind. It's amazing how many different colors and shades of algae and moss grow in and around chlorinated water. -- CL