On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:32:11 +0900, The 2-Belo  ...
>
> Louise Bremner and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
>
>>Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson <knicolson@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> She replied by telling me about Japanese thunder, where you get the rumble
>>> >> first, then the lightning.
>>> >
>>> >Typical... Not only is Japanese snow "unique", but so is their lightning.
>>> 
>>> Go on, tell me what's unique about Japanese snow - does it form seven-
>>> instead of six-sided shapes, or what?
>>
>>I don't think it was ever specified just how it was unique; just that
>>foreign manufacturers of snow gear couldn't produce equipment suitable
>>for it.
>
>It's supposedly slushier and less defined than the fluffy powder of higher and
>drier European locales because of the increased humidity associated with being
>an island situated along warmer Pacific currents and blah blah blah. Which, at
>least for the Gifu and Nagano Alps, isn't too far off the mark: it's pretty
>heavy, dense snow up there.
>

Like Australian snow. The Europeans have a name for it "spring snow", except
they say it in a faggy French accent.





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