Random Thought Thread

Yeah, my (extended) family lives in Fukuoka but my お婆さん & her siblings (which for some reason I also call お婆さん, but only following their names like "Sachiko-obaasan & Humiko-obaasan"?) were all from Osaka previously so it might be that

I don't know which I like better, because I just noticed five years ago when I had to list my favourite Japanese foods I ended up with a list of foods with yaki somewhere or other in the name

Also, do you consider 鍋焼きうどん as something that starts or ends with yaki?

It's my favourite soup, currently

Too much of a hassle to cook myself though—all the steps & precooking

 

Nah, I started using hiragana/kanji and he just replied in kind

Don't know why I sometimes use Romanji and sometimes Japanese characters

 

No problems, they come standard on my western keyboard as well (and if not I always have google translate).

 

Shooby dooby doo wop...Shoobop shoobop.

Exotic crunch donettes with chocolate milk,
then hopefully some writing.

 

Horse racing gets my vote for the most inefficient sports broadcasts. Today is the Kentucky Derby. The race itself takes about two minutes. The broadcast is nearly five hours long.

 

That is because American's require 300 goals to keep their interest. They are incapable of enjoying real sport.

 

We need time to look at the hats!

 

Name a real sport.

 

football, rugby, cricket, formula 1.

 

Interestingly, or perhaps not, I watched Joshua, Klitschko at the weekend. Well done Joshua, he needs some work thought.

 

The original Gladiatorial Colosseum games.

 

Just as I thought. A guy whose avatar is Musketeer monkey riding a panda dog doesn't know sports. Cricket is not a sport; it's a cocktail party with matching V-neck sweaters and, apparently, a lot of time spent relaxing in hammocks. Nobody knows when it ends. Anthropologists theorize that the original cricket game is still ongoing, with the participants gradually evolving into a distinct subspecies of the human race. The umpires gave up and left generations ago. Their descendants all died searching for the Northwest Passage.

 

Strangely, most of the world knows exactly how to play it, just America that doesn't

 

When I think of "cricket", it's those insects that bred in droves on my college campus (in the old days) during fall. I'm partial to "American Football", er, football

 

Yeah, American Football has its moments.

 

Hockey. Any sport played without blades strapped to the players' feet isn't really a sport.

 

America has a hammock shortage. With sufficient hammocks, America would start two teams (New York and Chicago, most likely), they would play a game, and we in America would call the winning team the World Cricket Champions. That's how things are done in America.

 

Donkey basketball.

 

I'm a big time lawyer in the city and yet I'm addicted to donkey basketball. All I think about. Is this okay? It started as corporate fundraiser. We had a gym reserved and a company provided us with the donkeys. It seemed innocent enough, until game-time, when everything seemed to slow down and I became entranced with the game. Every aspect of it seemed logical and right. When the final buzzer sounded I'd thrown up the game-winning shot. Buckets! My teammates rode over to me to congratulate me and I had never received such euphoria. That night, I could not sleep. I think about it during meetings and it's starting to interfere with my homelife. And I'm even a Republican! I am thinking about getting professional help because I see no solution. I do not wanna stop thinking about it, but I also do not want it to further hinder my life. Across the city, they have another charity function and I'm thinking about going, even though I am not invited.

 

If we could train the beasts to skate, donkey hockey would be awesome. Polo on ice. Or maybe donkey curling, eh?

 

I can see it now. 4 burly men shoving a donkey on its belly across the ice. How comical it will be.

 

On the other hand, donkey MMA probably wouldn't work at all.

 

*ain't no friends of mine. If you want to match the original song.