Japanese Two Story Transforming RV Takes Road Trip Across Japan Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
Anybody with a set of XY chromosomes dreams of ditching everything after high school or college, and taking an RV with some buddies to travel around the country in a massive road trip adventure. Few follow through on this dream of dreams, but these guys from Japan decided to build a two story, fully outfitted, transforming masterpiece of travel to do just that.
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Oprah Takes A Road Trip And Lives To Tell About It Posted: 3 years ago by musicgirldani
Read on for her account of life as a regular person who can't pump their own gas.
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Made Of Japan Posted: 1 year ago by BernardBlack
No, not made in Japan. Made of Japan, or at least made of Japanese blogs. The site taps into 150 blogs each hour, analyzes the colors and brings them together to make a shoe. What you can do then is to click on any of the elements of the shoe and see what it is and which blog it comes from.
Could be nsfw, you never know...
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Pricey lunch lands free trip to Rome Posted: 4 months ago by nateebiinature
A Japanese couple has turned down a free trip to Italy after they were hit with a $1,200 lunch bill at a Roman restaurant.
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Melody Road takes Driving Music to the Next Level Posted: 2 years ago by mitzuzake
From the "only in Japan" file comes the Melody Road, three stretches of Japanese highway that turn your car into a mobile music box.
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10 Cute (and Addictive) Flash Games From Japan Posted: 2 years ago by wookiee
The Japanese are probably the best when it comes to creating cute characters.Here is a collection of simple but fun little puzzle games made in Japan - of course, if you willing to kill a few hours!
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Thousands Donate Hair to Fix Myanmar Pagoda Road Posted: 5 months ago by suebe
The campaign _ led by the Buddhist monks overseeing the upkeep of the remote Alaungdaw Kathapha pagoda _ will use proceeds from the sale of hair to repair sections of a road and build bridges leading to the popular pilgrimage site which is said to contain the remains of one of Buddha's disciples.
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History Of Left- And Right-Side Driving Posted: 3 years ago by Kitsune86
The reasons that countries around the world drive on either the left side of the road or the right side of the road are outlined chronologically.
A table of countries lists every country and whether they drive on the left side of the road or the right side of the road.
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17-Month Trip In Solar Taxi Ends Posted: 12 months ago by punthe
After 17 grueling months, Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer's around-the-world trip in a solar-powered car is finally over. Altogether, he traveled 32,000 miles and across 40 countries.
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Building Their Own Road Posted: 3 months ago by 2manyusernames
Frustrated villagers in northeast India have been waiting 20 years for the government to build a critical road to the main city. The villagers decided to take the matter into their own hands.
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College courses via cell phone now available in Japan Posted: 2 years ago by mitzuzake
Is Japan's futuristic cell phone culture too cool for school? Not according to Softbank, a Japanese cell phone service provider who just began offering college courses on the company's cell phones.
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Men on road to extinction Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
Men are on the road to extinction as their genes shrink and slowly fade away, medical students heard today.
A researcher in human sex chromosomes said the male Y chromosome was dying and could run out within the next five million years.
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Secrets of survival during a New Year trip Posted: 3 years ago by femina
Successful New Year trip makes a holiday really happy. To the contrary, spoilt vacations can not only sadden holiday memories, but also cloud the whole future year. So you need to foresee everything.
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Ten Weird, Wild & Wonderful Japanese Cars We Never Got to Buy Posted: 2 years ago by mitzuzake
Some of the best Japanese cars never made the trip across the ocean. After seeing this list, you'll wish they did!
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All aboard! Mother swan takes babies under her wing for trip across the pond Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
This doting mother swan has really taken her babies under her wing.
Six tiny cygnets could be seen peeking from beneath her feathers as she floated on the pond at the Bicton Park Botanical Gardens in Devon.
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How the dolphins being massacred to satisfy a food fetish are poisoning the Japanese who eat them Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
Over the coming months, thousands of dolphins - some only a few days old - will be hacked to death.
The dolphin meat is so toxic because the seas around Japan have become a soup of industrial wastes. These poisons become concentrated in fish, which the dolphins then eat. And when the Japanese eat the dolphins, they progressively poison themselves.
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Teacher Suspended For Assigning Story On Masturbation Posted: 3 weeks ago by suebe
A popular high school English teacher has been suspended after assigning his 11th-grade students a short story about masturbation by "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk. The short story, "Guts" details three increasingly catastrophic masturbation attempts by teenagers with props including a carrot, a candle, and the water intake at the bottom of a swimming pool.
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Japanese Cute Ambassadors Posted: 9 months ago by bingo
These three girls are the first official ambassadors of cute for Japan. In an effort to compete with China and other world super powers, Japan has decided to exploit their status as one of (if not the) cutest countries in the world.
Do you really think cute ambassadors will help Japan compete in a world market?
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Crews rescue man after road melts Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
A 19-year-old man had to be rescued after his lower leg became stuck in melted tar on a road outside his house in Greater Manchester.
Graham Merrington's foot and shin disappeared down the hole as he tried to cross Angleside Avenue in Burnage.
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Iconic Beatles zebra crossing faces axe Posted: 4 months ago by Bingo
The zebra crossing which featured on the cover of The Beatles' Abbey Road album should be removed because fans are causing too many accidents, politicians have claimed.
Local councillors are proposing to move the crossing altogether over fears that the number of people posing for photographs in the middle of the road is causing accidents and holding up traffic.
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Newborn piglet rescued from road Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A newborn piglet was rescued from an untimely death on the road -- and the slaughterhouse -- when a driver found it in central England. Staffers there said they believe it was born in a truck that was hauling its mother and then rolled off.
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