I've been reading the history of the inhabitation of Japan here sadly with the sole purpose of trying to answer HAG's question of why the Kamoshika was not hunted to extinction. http://www2.gol.com/users/hsmr/Content/East%20Asia/Japan/History/roots.h...

I figured the original Japanese (from Korea, after the Ainu) already had agriculture and pigs so they didn't fuck around in the mountains chasing Kamoshika, but that's not the case. The Jomon (2nd inhabitants of Japan), where hunter-gatherers ethnically different to the Ainu or the Modern Japanese (who are essentially from Korea), and they didn't kill all the Kamoshika.

There are only six reasons why large undomesticated animals still in existance are undomesticable. I can't remember all six, but scary is one, too small is one, too agile is one (which i guess the Kamoshika & Kangaroo is), but i don't think there's any animals that are too "untasty" to kill.

Kamoshika would have to be one of teh easiets animals to kill i have seen in the wilderness. I could shoot one a week just by walking around behind my house. Wild pig - very hard to find, and tasty. Deer - extict I think, and very tasty.

Anyway, I enjoyed that article. All of it was good to read. But I got a real buzz out of the impact that pottery had on development. Then later it says “More than 10,000 year after the invention of pottery…”

Could you imagine some future writings that say “10,000 years after the invention of the internet…”

It makes me excited to think of it.

Although, 'back then' it took 500 years for rice paddy technology to get from Kyushu to Tokyo. What was 10,000 years is now 10 days.

There are inoshishi on the Minekata side of Hakuba. They sometimes appear in the open down at the paddies even.

I thought I read somewhere that the Japanese were more closely related genetically to North American natives ( Navajo I think) than any other Asian peoples! SNP, is this not so?

On another note. My new deer rifle is already sighted in, and I could easily take a Kamushka from 300 yards. Got a deer with my compound bow last week. Tasty it is! Healthy as well!!!

I also learned that the Olympic Games were given to Rio! The full weight of Oprah (significant at times) as well as the "Chosen One", and the White House could not sway the judges. I am really looking forward to the outfits that the women's beach volleyball players will be wearing in Brazil!

To watch this guy loose the plot is funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maeNk2itmMk&feature=related

I have seen that preacher before and come to the conclusion that he is at best a clever atheist using satire to point out how ludicrous one can be as a biblical literalist (although if so he is doing so without any tact), or a calculating attention whore doing his best to take the most extreme view on sensitive subjects and thus get media attention and maybe even sell something on the side.

I learned that if you have massive kahones that you can do a backflip on a tricycle!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UaE_LWDDWk

This song and video are the best to relax to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kNEo8OxrT8

Yeah, goood tune - classic classic rock.

I learned
That this guy needs to wake up!

Jessh the revenge about to be unleashed has to be controlled.

now there's a blast from the past... winter 2007-8!

lol dude, you should not be posting pics of people passed out, when there is a pretty nasty one of you lurking somewhere.

tsondaboy wrote:

lol dude, you should not be posting pics of people passed out, when there is a pretty nasty one of you lurking somewhere.

Matt and I fcuked with FT one night and we have some great pics...will hunt for them

I have the ultimate passed out pic of FT. A wild band of Aussie teenagers got to him with a sharpie one night.

Hey now I didnt put up a bad picture he is just sleeping.

Don't worry buddy, it will never see the internet

feel free to post any photos I think I can take the heat.

that photo popped up on Facebook in a one of those stupid news feeds!
The cb one hanging over a pizza seems to want to be seen as well..

What I learned today, fear the teenagers they are cruel!

the one Ewok took of me? Not a bad pic, not great but not like I got F'ed with by some teenagers

I wouldnt put any up here anyways.

If you break your boots and send to be replaced, don't forget your custom footbeds in side them. It will make you angry to your self. And you have to buy new footbeds... Any way, I'm going to ski tomorrow.

ouch, that hurts. But the skiing will help the pain.

that sucks!

I never knew Forum snowboards were made in Afghanistan - per brociety.com:

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they used to be made in Austria - and they were shit even then.

I learned today that the brand "Häagen-Dazs" has no meaning whatsoever in any Scandinavian language. It is a brand that was made up by a guy in the Bronx to make his ice cream sound European and exotic. Same story goes for Motörhead, Blue Öyster Cult and Mötley Crüe.

If you look closely, Spinal Tap have an umlaut on the "n".

THAT is a worthwhile fact.
As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.

I can do without the drugs but give me sex and rock n roll! Natural highs are way better!

What I learned is; that I have to wear a stupid mask at school for about a week!
What is this paper going to do? Anyone got any facts about the actual percentage
of protection you get from a paper mask.

You cant take the rock-n-roll outta sex, anymore than you can blowjobs. Its the same thing. You might not need the music, but the rocking and rolling is sex

Almost zero. You get no protection from the commercial masks sold to prevent flu. An american company has a chemically treated mask that works for a short period of time but even so, you can contract the virus through your eyes anyway. The majority of transmissions of the flu and cold virus come from touching infected surfaces and then rubbing your eyes or mouth anyway. Washing your hands is FAR more important to reduce flu transmitssion than those stupid masks.

Try explaining that to my teachers please. I said open the windows and get some fresh air.
Ill most likely be having a 5 day holiday soon. Then some Saturdays to make up the classes missed.

I am sure they know but in order to look like they are doing SOMETHING they resort to those fukking masks. The real issue that will cause serious flu transmission is Japan's fukked up "face time" work ethic where people come to work while sick in order to show some kind of twisted dedication to team and company. This practice is excerbated by a system that lacks proper sick leave. The guy sitting next to me had a heart attack 2 weeks ago, came to work within 5 days and has heart surgery in November. I laugh about him dying on the floor but it is purely gallows humour.

heart attack and back to work just stupid.
Thats when the boss needs to step in and say go home!

Let's see today I learned that North Shore old growth forest is really quite nice in the fog and mist, that despite being given another chance, orange flavoured chocolate still just doesn't do it for me, and that the pumpkin pie at Savory Pie Company is fantastic, if a bit pricey.

www.7andy.co.jp is an online store in Japan called "SEVEN and Y", not seven people named Andy lol

The DNA differences between head lice and body lice provide corroborating evidence that humans started wearing clothes about 72,000 years ago.

Adult and nymphal lice can survive on sheep-shearers' moccasins for up to 10 days, but microwaving the footwear for five minutes in a plastic bag will kill the lice.

just say no to rice! oops I mean lice! yes thats right!

Learned about Sealand - one of the weirdest/coolest things I've come across.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

http://www.sealandgov.org/

wow... it truly is amazing what you can accomplish if you're a big enough pain in the ass. can't even fathom what the value of a soverign state with no tax laws or criminal code would be worth.

Would be tough to get around the globe though i presume as a citizen of Sealand. The mountaineering in Sealand would be shit, but i bet the golf ain't bad.

Apparently the guys that run The PirateBay (torrent site) tried to buy Sealand at one point since the Swedish government had been givng them some trouble (and still is), but the deal didn't work out.

I learned not to try jumping on a bicycle when giving your girlfriend a ride

if the youtube embed doesn't work

Holy shit, I can't believe she came up laughing after that.

AWESOME!!!!!!!

I learned that VIP seats at the International Pole Dancing Championships are worth the price. I also learned that the judges don't understand the original spirit of the sport.

for an extra 1.99 we all could have all learned that lesson. http://appshopper.com/photography/ninjacam

nice. being a pervert is getting so tough these days with all this 'women's rights' crap. now we need a 'ninja train grope' app.

Pole dancing? VIP seats? What's the deal here? I'm guessing you actually went, no? TR or a pic or 2?

If your chickens stop laying eggs when it gets cold put a little cayenne pepper in their food.