They will be fined for attracting rats :P The wrong address issue could be interesting. If a letter gets delivered to the wrong house (anybody else experienced that?) then you can trash it if you hate your neighbour and he will get all your garbage....
I couldn't help smiling at the cat TV idea. I wonder if it is for the good of the cats or if it is to convince cat owners to pay more. I suspect the latter. Personally I'm against the idea of encouraging cats to be interested in birds and fish. I kno...
Would your pet enjoy a stay in a pet hotel? Generally not. The hamster can accept staying at my brother's if needed, but this stay includes her own cage complete with nest and everything so I guess it's kind of like living in a mobile home and then g...
Some of it is treated. Look at the one painted red in the end. The sides are greenish, which is the colour the wood gets when it's treated to survive being outside without being painted on a yearly basis. Painting the end is a sign that somebody sawe...
We have some here, but they have a problem catching on. The issue aren't the bikes themselves, but the insurance companies. They have all decided that they will not to ensure such vehicles at any price. The result is that if such a bike gets in an ac...
According to the dictionary Altenheim is called "old people's home". Funny enough this is something Google Translate can't handle. Looks like I beat google at translating between two foreign languages :P While I knew how to translate this I looked it...
Leaves aren't litter ^^ I saw some worker "getting rid of dried leaves" once. I really wondered about how useless his job was. He was using some sort of reversed vacuum cleaner and it was blowing the leaves away. This naturally removed all leaves but...
Are you sure it will get better with time? Getting people to stop littering is something you have to do something actively to accomplish. It will not happen on it's own.
Go figure. Even if I were littering on a regular basis (I'm not) then I wouldn't dare to litter in Singapore. The penalties are too severe to even risk it. I think it's like a week of civil service for throwing a gum on the sidewalk.
Japan probe wrote about a plumber who discovered that the toilets at a station by mistake was put on the rainwater drain instead of the sewer system. The result was that everything had ended up in the river for decades.... now that's a way to get fre...
Spirited away hints this issue. The water spirit needs to be cleaned of "bicycles and all kinds of crap" in order to become healthy again. The reason for this is that the guy who made that movie once helped cleaning a river and he were amazed by what...
I once saw a documentary about policework in USA. Basically it was just a cameraman who visited different policestations in different countries and went out with some officer for a day and recorded what happened. In one case somebody called the polic...
You *think* it's illegal to read while driving? You are by law required to drive safely and this includes not reducing your vision of the road ahead. This general description covers everything from reading and wearing glasses (if needed) to not being...
I suspect this is more like a painting with the owner's permission rather than some graffiti done during the night. Maybe the painter even lives in the house in question. I think it would be too much to paint on a hit-and-run tactic. I hate graffiti....
I didn't. I hardly knew about anime and figures wasn't even anything I had heard about. I just wanted to see who that weird stormtropper were ^^ Funny thing is that once I learned what the whole idea with the stormtropper were, then I kind of lost in...
The way your day is going I bet the obachan reported the incident and next time you are at the station there is a warning poster about a hentai gaijin, who makes decent people pass out by showing them indecent stuff :P I'm sorry to hear about the ice...
I agree. You should pick an education which gives you the needed skills for the kind of jobs you want to do. Learning a language can be done outside the education system while getting a technical degree is tricky outside the educational system -_^ Al...
Whilst kanji may seem scary at first, they are actually amazing I agree. While I'm far from able to just sit down and read kanji I do get the idea in the system and at first I hated it, but after thinking about it for a while I have grown to really l...
I have never been in Tokyo, so I can't comment on how well the train system works (I'm told it's on time, which is rare in most countries). The route planner is something I can talk about though. It's actually not that tricky to make. The whole probl...
This is actually a good idea. The brain remembers better when you get the input on more senses. If you say it, point (move/feel) you have stored your actions in more senses than if you just think it. I should use this method (unless I forget, LOL). I...
