"Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4003DF37.8020400@hotmail.com...
> Brett Robson wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:31:46 +0900, The 2-Belo  ...
> >
> >>I thought the nail that sticks up was supposed to get hammered back
down. This
> >>is what the Western media drills into our heads. Where are the dreaded
Japanese
> >>Imperial Harmony-Keeping Stormtroopers when you really need them? Where
are the
> >>holy scrolls of societal rules that everyone must abide by lest they
suffer The
> >>Penalty of Shame and Ostracization for All Eternity at the Fringes of
Society
> >>blah blah bleargh?
> >
> > I don't understand at all except that it is easy to act tough when no
one stands
> > up to you.
> >
> > In Nagoya I saw one punk crossing the road stop in front of an ambulance
with
> > sirens and lights going. I took two steps and gave a kick up the arse
that Tony
> > Plugger Lockett would have been proud of, and I would have kicked a 50
meter
> > goal if it was a ball not an arse.
>
> Thats impressive. Didn't plugger normally need to kick from a 6 step run
> up? Often when he snapped a shot he kicked a behind.
>

I take it you guys are talking about the oxymoron that is Austrian Rules
Football.

My Nihonmoron sight for the day didn't involve a miscreant 20 year-old.
Picture this: just over the brow of a small hill on an 'alleged' farmers'
road that has located on it several large trucking companies' parking
garages, was a not-too-senile looking old man cutting down part of a tree
that was obviously causing offense to him or to the voices in his head.
Debris from this cutting down was spewed all over the road, just after the
brow of this hill, forcing every vehicle in the left-hand lane to stop and
cross the center line in order to continue.  The man had not placed any
'Morons At Work' signs on the road and there wasn't even anyone else minding
his back as large, Michael-like trucks sped past..

It sounds so trivial, but it's the little things like this, multiplied by
365 days, every year that eventually begin to grate. And..OMG...it's only
January 13th!  Pass me the tranquilizers and I'll wake up for Golden Week -
better make that after Golden Week - I forgot that national holidays
apparently are the signal for every middle-aged Japanese man who hasn't
driven a car in 20 years to venture out of Nagoya and Tokyo in their hired
Toyota Estimas (apologies Bryan) in search of innocent country folk into
whose back-passages they can ram their rented transmission boxes.

--
jonathan
--
"Never give a navi-system to ducks"