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Re: Today’s Haikucandy: Yumi Sugimoto

Kaya — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:41:22 -0000

A+

Re: Idol Thought For The Day: We Have A Winner!

Melos — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:34:00 -0000

I agree with you, Feedly is the best Google Reader replacement out there right now, but it's not perfect. For instance it does not update the feeds after pulling them from the post, so if you make an edit after publishing it doesn't show up. My biggest issue with Feedly however is that there is no search bar for your pre-existing feeds.

Re: Idol Thought For The Day: We Have A Winner!

solo — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 07:02:19 -0000

I've had Feedly installed for a while now, but what really irks me about it is that in Chrome, the plugin has to be always on, running in the background even when you close (not exit) Chrome. Haven't found anything better though, and time is running out, so...

Re: Idol Thought For The Day: We Have A Winner!

Chiima — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 05:21:16 -0000

I love how you post this on the day of the results for senbatsu, and make it seem like it is a senbatsu-orientated post. You troll, Ray, you troll! xD

Re: Today’s Haikucandy: Ono Erena

Chiima — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:03:11 -0000

She is the Queen of my Heart <3 UMPH!

Re: Today’s Haikucandy: Yagami Kumi

ダリルロザ — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:47:21 -0000

Great, just exploded in my pants... AGAIN.

Re: Recommended Reading: May 31st, 2013

brian — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 17:50:50 -0000

"Does this make him the first Canadian hallyu soloist?"

There's G.Na.

Re: Today’s Haikucandy: Kana Yuuki

CJMarsicano — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:19:34 -0000

Yes, Virginia, it is possible for smaller tits to fall out of a bikini top...

Re: Today’s Haikucandy: Yamamoto Sayaka X Watanabe Miyuki

ダリルロザ — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:06:39 -0000

Listening to Charles Manson's "Look At Your Game Girl" and it just feels so right.
These goddesses~ Oh, Milky.. Gyahhhhhh GYAH!

Re: Recommended Reading: May 29th, 2013

brian — Wed, 29 May 2013 19:04:08 -0000

All of the After School members look sooo different. I'm not saying it in the PS sort of way, I just mean it's really noticeable since it's been so long since they've promoted. Lizzy and E-young stand out the most to me.

Re: Recommended Reading: May 27th, 2013

Vimay — Mon, 27 May 2013 22:26:28 -0000

Thanks for the explanation, it gives a better context of what happened, especially for those of us who aren't really big fans of football anyway.

Also, added tidbit of T-ara's hilarious Vegas performance:

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BLU...
A picture of them posing with Amber Rose (?)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/299...
Eunjung allegedly saying at the end of the vid.

Re: Today’s Haikucandy: Fumina Suzuki

ダリルロザ — Mon, 27 May 2013 20:45:37 -0000

yum..

Re: Recommended Reading: May 27th, 2013

brian — Mon, 27 May 2013 18:17:34 -0000

(Sorry for the delay)

It's easy to try to think that these boos are just drunk football fans reacting to some pop star that is overexposed. There is a lot more to this than that. The two teams (Roma and Lazio) that were involved in this match have both been fined for their fans' racist taunts and jeers in the past few months:

Lazio fined over supporters' racist chants and Spurs punished (BBC)
Italian club Lazio punished for fourth racism offense this season (CNN
)
Roma fined £42,000 for racist chants in game at AC Milan (BBC)

This a short list of racist incidents over the past few years with football and specifically the Italian leagues:

The racism aimed at Mario Balotelli and Kevin-Prince Boateng shames Italy (The Guaridan - Talking Sport Blog)
Italian soccer match stopped due to racist abuse of Milan's Balotelli (CNN)
Mario Balotelli suffers racist abuse from Italy and Romania fans (The Guardian)
Italy's culture of racism exposed by fans' abuse of black football star (The Guardian)
Racism still rife in Italian football (BBC)
Soccer Team Walks Out on Racist Fans in Italy (NY Times - The Lede Blog)

Even if someone wants to say it's related to the horribly referred game between Italy and South Korea in the 2002 World Cup (whch I think people saying as a "joke"), that doesn't make it better. Are Italian fans going to boo every South Korean that shows up at a football event then? I just want to point out that this is less about Psy. It's more about football fans and their racist taunts and jeers.

If you want to watch a good video about this, watch Samuel Eto'o's interview about racism and racism in football. He was the victim of a famous racist incident on the pitch himself.

EDIT: I just realized that the video isn't linked in the article above. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_bUu6XoWXY - not only the taunts and jeers in the video but the comments section is full of it as well (of course, it's Youtube)

Re: Recommended Reading: May 19th, 2013

brian — Mon, 27 May 2013 18:15:29 -0000

test

Re: Today’s Haikucandy: Anna Konno

CJMarsicano — Sun, 26 May 2013 14:34:40 -0000

Cowabunga!

Re: Today’s Haikucandy: Shiina Momo

ダリルロザ — Sat, 25 May 2013 14:17:58 -0000

OMG! I can definitely do the jail time. MOMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. gyaaaaaah.

Re: Idol Thought For The Day: What The Hell, Gooch?

ダリルロザ — Fri, 24 May 2013 06:27:56 -0000

This news was pretty, woah. Yaguchi Mari's pretty much the idol who got me into idols and the first idol I found myself obsessed with. So I feel some disappointment but oddly enough I find it more funny than anything. Somehow I feel that this scandal isn't too far off from the character she played, although I don't expect anyone to understand why I feel this way.

I really like this post ray, a lot. Goes into my best of Ray bookmark collection.

Re: Idol Thought For The Day: Now THIS Is An Election!

Amelliane — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:32:42 -0000

I've heard that Sasshi's wota voted earlier than normal in order to make it clear that her scandal doesn't matter. I think that's a pretty amazing move on their part, honestly I'm a bit shocked that Miichan's fans didn't do the same.
I'm hoping Mayuyu will win, I'd rather have a center who will be there for a few years . Not that I dislike Yuko, but I think that she's ready to move on.

Re: Today’s Haikucandy: Anri Sugihara

sexy_lover — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:23 -0000

This photo make Anri Sugihara looks like ghost, a pretty sexy ghost instead of sexy girl. How about her sweet girl look? Here http://www.topsexygirl.tk/tag/...

Re: Idol Thought For The Day: Now THIS Is An Election!

sexy_lover — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:57:42 -0000

I don't know about election, provide any government give me watch sexy girl and treat people like their children then i will support.

Re: Idol Thought For The Day: Now THIS Is An Election!

Verilian — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:50:02 -0000

Maybe the wota are coming out in force to show that they're supportive of Sashihara. I would dearly love for her to take the top place, though I think it's unlikely in the final election.

I find the HKT girls oddly high up in general, not just Sashihara. Perhaps they're just newly minted wota with no voting strategy who have all voted en-mass on the first day? Or maybe they really are a hit.

Still, exciting preliminary results! And what happened to Kojima? She can't rank that low - she's fabulous! :(

Re: Idol Thought For The Day: Now THIS Is An Election!

ダリルロザ — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:00:04 -0000

I don't think Sasshi will remain first... but, here's hopin' as she's my oshi. I'm really hoping that Mayu takes the center.. I've wanted it since 2010. I'm really happy that.. at least from the prelims it looks as though Sasshi's lil' blunder wont be greatly effecting her rank. I was so disapointed at the idea that... she'd fall all the way back down the ladder.

And of course, the higher ranked members like kawaei rina are, the better. Guess now we play the waiting game.

Re: Today’s Haikucandy: Ono Erena

ダリルロザ — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:17:07 -0000

This picture was so hard for me to stop looking at.... and now I've run into it again as the Haikucandy, great. Well, here goes 20 minutes. It's really difficult to look away from her necklace, but, I like that birthmark on her lip.

Re: Today’s Haikucandy: Ono Erena

number244 — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:52:38 -0000

I can get behind this one

Re: Recommended Reading: May 21st, 2013

The John — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:31:15 -0000

That Gangnam Style remix was actually pretty good, though.