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Japan Faces New Method of Suicide: Internet Fad is Killing
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| May 1st, 2008
| Bobby Tall Horse
Posted on 05/01/2008 8:41:23 AM PDT by stillafreemind
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To: wideawake
“And, of course, the Japanese are not a species.”
Valid corrections, except that last one. :P
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posted on
05/01/2008 9:53:04 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Algore makes P.T. Barnum look like a piker.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Actually, might be more like ammonia and scouring powder or bleach, ammonia, and scouring powder.
Whatever the combination, I accidently mixed up the correct formula years ago while cleaning up the kitchen in a base housing unit I was moving out of. Realized from the first whiff of the fumes what had happened, got the windows open and the kitchen fan going (didn’t take long) and got out of there. Several hours of extreme ventilation later, I was able to return and flush the residue down the toilet.
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posted on
05/01/2008 9:56:47 AM PDT
by
Captain Rhino
( If we have the WILL to do it, there is nothing built in China that we cannot do without.)
To: brownsfan
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posted on
05/01/2008 10:05:25 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: wideawake
Japan needs Jesus. He forgives.
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posted on
05/01/2008 10:22:16 AM PDT
by
keats5
(tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
To: reagan_fanatic
LOL! That might have been part of it!
Carolyn
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posted on
05/01/2008 10:34:28 AM PDT
by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
To: steel_resolve
What is the deal with Japan and suicide?Having lived there 14 years, I believe it is a strong sense of personal responsibility mixed in with the Confucian respect for authority. There is also the strong identity to groups-- family, country, company, cause and religion for the minority who is religious.
This is not always a bad thing. One of the traits I admire most about the Japanese is their extreme loyalty and honesty-- particularly to those inside the group. Of course, this can be a bad thing if the group happens to be whack-jobs like Aum Shinri-Kyo, those who carried out the gas attacks on the Tokyo subway.
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posted on
05/01/2008 10:43:56 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
((Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud))
To: contemplator
It would be nice if they would tell us.
Carolyn
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posted on
05/01/2008 10:48:18 AM PDT
by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
To: stillafreemind
I don’t suppose you have any ammonia and Chlorox around your house, do you?
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posted on
05/01/2008 11:07:22 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: CDHart
that stuff is bad news - I ended up in the hospital after having gotten a whiff once -
To: stillafreemind
Enough people jump in front of trains to commit suicide in Tokyo that on the more popular lines for suicides (the fines that the family has to pay are cheaper on some lines than others) they can do a clean-up and get the trains running again in 6 minutes or so.
To: stillafreemind
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posted on
05/01/2008 11:26:19 AM PDT
by
Tolkien
(Another day, another 1.603 million miles around the sun.)
To: stillafreemind
India takes all the stress out of expectations for some people by calling them untouchables. In Japan I imagine the ostracism and depression from failure to achieve is overwhelming. Hence the strange goodbyes.
To: CDHart
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posted on
05/01/2008 2:39:10 PM PDT
by
buffyt
(Glowbull Warming: The Greatest Hoax Since Y 2 K !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: Mygirlsmom
I was at a dinner party where 1/2 of the attendees where chemical engineers. I mentioned the time that the ammonia truck overturned and spilled in Houston a few decades ago...
I was saying I guess ammonia fumes in your lungs could kill you...
One of the Chem. engineers said TOO MUCH WATER IN YOUR LUNGS WILL KILL YOU, TOO!
Touche`
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posted on
05/01/2008 2:40:38 PM PDT
by
buffyt
(Glowbull Warming: The Greatest Hoax Since Y 2 K !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: Old Professer
It’s not ammonia and clorox that they are using. The article said it’s a mixture of detergent and body lotion.
To: stillafreemind
detergent and bath lotion Watch out, our own Rat government will want to require ID to purchase these two items in the future.....just like they did with cold medicine.
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posted on
05/01/2008 3:42:45 PM PDT
by
SteamShovel
(Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
To: stillafreemind
Its probably HELLO KITTY.
To: CDHart
It would be nice if they would tell us. Sunpole toilet cleaner (9.5% hydrochloric acid) + MUTOUHAPPU bath salts, which contain calcium sulfide.
There's a reason for those warnings on the bowl cleaner bottles.
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:45:44 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: buffyt
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posted on
05/02/2008 4:38:32 AM PDT
by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
To: cynwoody
I read the Lime-Away toilet bowl cleaner - it says the fumes can etch metals! I think I'm going to find something else to use.
Carolyn
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posted on
05/02/2008 4:42:12 AM PDT
by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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