tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post6331716770451751047..comments2024-03-14T07:32:30.141+09:00Comments on Marketing Japan: Gaijin Gourmet! Ladies! Beware of All Men!mike in tokyo rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977446676243085409noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-12471031268752753982015-08-27T13:22:13.472+09:002015-08-27T13:22:13.472+09:00And, * I was * going to tell my better half about ...And, * I was * going to tell my better half about this website, for the music,... ah-hem, Not. Anymore. But seriously, that's not a bad plan, the whole allowance deal. It's just that *I* couldn't do it. Or, wouldn't?<br />Anyway, my mind is on fire tonight, can't sleep, just thinking about - stuff - like this blog, and The whole of Life on the big round ball of dirt, and geo-engineering with coal fly ash, and being bitten by the Vampire Squid, a.k.a. The State, and how that advise likely would have prevented it,... - maybe - ...'cause you know, a man determined, and all that....<br /><br />In the background, ok, in my head, I keep thinking of a Talking Heads song, 'Monkey' with a line I don't even know is there or not its been so long since I heard the song (they don't play anything but the same 40 songs for the last twenty years on the radio here in the Midwestern unitedstate) the line is, 'Rat of a rat'. <br />...One of them bit me. No, three of them did, plus a fourth which was hiding, and the judge, and all the hanger-ons trying to get their piece of me. Bastards. Crap. I think I even lost my nerve as a result. You (I, at least) don't know how valuable that is, until it's gone, or crushed flat.<br /><br />I read on a bible commentary that wine in the unitedstate HAS to be a certain percent rum and whiskey. 'I did Not know that.' (Que, Johnny Carson.) Is that true? If so, that's messed Up. Plus, american't wine has (toxic) sugar added to it, unlike European wines, or so I've read. (Funny how that's not on the ingredients label) B.S. all around.<br /><br />@Andrew, after reading your bit, all I could think was: you've Got to lower your living standards if you have Nothing left over after paying the bills. Real wealth, is savings. Even IF it's just one thin silver dime at a time. You're living too large, mang, too large. Besides, how is The State (or, an ex) supposed to take from you if you have nothing to take>? (Don't answer that. Of course, "they" have their ways. Bastards.)<br /><br />'Rat of a rat'... 'Monkey'.<br /><br />P.S.<br />Chasing women IS gambling.<br /><br />P.P.S.<br />I hope the moral of the story isn't that you'll go broke if you're married. 'Cause that would be wrong, imho. I have never had so much money since I've been married, and I mean, look at mike, he has ten Bucks to spend every day on good Eats and does not have to mess around with crap tax demand papers or balancing checkbooks. I call that, rich. Especially, if she is ok with it and doesn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers? Another form of, real wealth? Seems like maybe he has a woman worth her weight in rubies. ?<br /><br />- helotAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-84584874219053054212015-08-26T23:26:07.004+09:002015-08-26T23:26:07.004+09:00I agree... which is why I control my own money and...I agree... which is why I control my own money and don't have a cell phone... <br />Of course, after I pay the bills and all that crap, there's no money left over to drink, gamble of chase women... or even to get a cell phone... <br />Maybe this only applies to men who have jobs where there is excess money at the end of a pay period. I used to know what that was like... it as also when I drank a lot and chased women. Never gambled.... of course, I was also single. <br />The moral of the story is you'll go broke when you are married. Is that about right, Mike? LOL! Andrew Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063234777548462157noreply@blogger.com