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Old 08-17-2017, 07:45 AM   #61 (permalink)
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What makes you think I hear about them on the news? There are tons of websites, forums etc.
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Old 08-18-2017, 08:24 PM   #62 (permalink)
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Absolutely not. You should know by now, I'm just a figment of your deranged imagination.
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Old 08-19-2017, 12:21 AM   #63 (permalink)
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Old 08-19-2017, 02:28 AM   #64 (permalink)
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It's been raining here for pretty much a week straight, which is unusual for August. In a country where most people depend on the sun to dry their clothes, this is a real bitch. Especially with as many kids as I have.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 08-19-2017, 02:34 AM   #65 (permalink)
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Old 08-19-2017, 05:04 AM   #66 (permalink)
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Old 09-04-2017, 07:43 AM   #68 (permalink)
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Old 09-07-2017, 07:02 PM   #69 (permalink)
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...I'm kind of out of touch since I finished undergrad 20 years ago and graduate school 15 years ago. But I just looked at that advert and thought, "no wonder the Japs aren't having kids! They can't afford them. How the hell are you supposed to not only pay back student debt but try to start a family?"

Just my thoughts about Japan today.
It's not that different here, tbh. Even in Canada, a post-secondary education can run into six figures.
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