I thought I was gonna barf.
The 2-Belo
ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill. Bleah.
If there's anyone in Sendai reading this group, well, I hope your houses fared
better than my stomach.
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John Yamamoto-Wilson
> So last evening my building here in Nagoya was swaying back and forth like
a
> ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill. Bleah.
>
> If there's anyone in Sendai reading this group, well, I hope your houses
fared
> better than my stomach.
Being several stories up in high building made it pretty unpleasant here in
Tokyo. Just how widespread was that thing?
Dave Fossett
> So last evening my building here in Nagoya was swaying back and forth like
a
> ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill. Bleah.
It did seem to go on forever, didn't it? But I'm surprised you felt much in
Nagoya.
--
Dave Fossett
Saitama, JAPAN
Brett Robson
>
>So last evening my building here in Nagoya was swaying back and forth like a
>ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill. Bleah.
>
I was in a guitar shop with a friend in ochanomizu on the 2nd floor of an old
building. The guitars where swinging like the pendulum in a grand father clock.
The staff were joking and pretending to hide under a tiny table. I learnt the
term 'funeniyoi', sea sick.
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"1 out 2^64 is a real bitch" - Original
Matt
"Brett Robson" <jet...@deja.com> wrote in message
news:baufg...@drn.newsguy.com...
> I was in a guitar shop with a friend in ochanomizu on the 2nd floor of an
old
> building. The guitars where swinging like the pendulum in a grand father
clock.
> The staff were joking and pretending to hide under a tiny table. I learnt
the
> term 'funeniyoi', sea sick.
Don't you mean "fune ni yowai?"
--
Matt
Declan Murphy
船酔い（ふなよい）kameraden
I was sitting in my office throughout the earthquake and didn't feel a
thing - didn't even know about it until talking to Brett on the phone a
while later.
--
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International Rugby Board in its 2000 year history" - Phil Kearns on
drop goal shootouts
Matt
"Declan Murphy" <declan...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Matt wrote:
> > "Brett Robson" <jet...@deja.com> wrote in message
> > news:baufg...@drn.newsguy.com...
> >
> >>I was in a guitar shop with a friend in ochanomizu on the 2nd floor of
an
> >
> > old
> >
> >>building. The guitars where swinging like the pendulum in a grand father
> >
> > clock.
> >
> >>The staff were joking and pretending to hide under a tiny table. I
learnt
> >
> > the
> >
> >>term 'funeniyoi', sea sick.
> >
> > Don't you mean "fune ni yowai?"
>
> 船酔い（ふなよい）kameraden
>
> I was sitting in my office throughout the earthquake and didn't feel a
> thing - didn't even know about it until talking to Brett on the phone a
> while later.
Ah, thanks!
I wasn't really thinking in the first place anyway, "fune ni yowai" implies
to me more of a general inability to ride boats now that I think about
it...the person is 'weak.' The phrase shows up in my Wordtank, but as an
example for "yowai." I wasn't paying attention either, apparently.
--
Matt
Brett Robson
No, I am 'fune ga yowai' but the term is either 'fune ni yoi' or 'funayoi'.
Rindler Sigurd
'funayoi'.
Where are the natives? 'fune ni yoi' sounds incorrect to my ear, or it is
taken out from the middle of a sentence.
"I am 'fune ga yowai' " means to me something like that: "I am not so
strong... When I board a ship, I'm going to get sick soon."
Anyway, I might have a slightly different perception that a Japanese
native.:-)
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Ryan Ginstrom
> but the term is either 'fune ni yoi'
What, like deck shoes, polo shirt, and white slacks?
--
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom
mukade
> So last evening my building here in Nagoya was swaying back and forth like a
> ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill. Bleah.
>
> If there's anyone in Sendai reading this group, well, I hope your houses fared
> better than my stomach.
There was a quake of a similar size in Toyohashi in '97 or '98.
I was living near Lake Hamana on land that my neighbours called "tofu
floating on water."
Maybe Declan remembers that one. It rocked through Aichi and Shizuoka.
Mukade
Declan Murphy
> "Brett Robson" <jet...@deja.com> wrote in message
> news:baum5...@drn.newsguy.com...
>
>>but the term is either 'fune ni yoi'
>
> What, like deck shoes, polo shirt, and white slacks?
So a sample sentence could be sumthin like...
嵐の中、船に＊良い＊ひどい目に遭った。
--
The captain is brave ( Aye! Carumba! What a storm! )
The captain is brave, he's a fearless man,
And Gilligan help him all that he can.
The wheel, she break, and lose all control;
S.S. Minnow do the rock-and-roll!
Declan Murphy
Wasn't that one in '96 ? I don't think it reached 7 though?
--
The captain is brave ( Aye! Carumba! What a storm! ).
Rindler Sigurd
>
> Wasn't that one in '96 ? I don't think it reached 7 though?
>
>
Here is what I found for 1996:
Two moderate earthquakes jostled parts of central Japan on Saturday,
rattling buildings but causing no damage or injuries. The first was centered
80 miles (140 km) southwest of Tokyo in Shizuoka, and registered a magnitude
of 4.5 at 9:51 a.m. local time. The second occurred at 12:07 p.m. and
registered a magnitude of 4.1 from an epicenter in the Pacific near Kiigima
and Kozujima, which belong to the Izu group of islands.
Ed
"The 2-Belo" <the2...@removethiswave-net.or.jp> wrote in message
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a
> ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill. Bleah.
>
> If there's anyone in Sendai reading this group, well, I hope your houses
fared
> better than my stomach.
I suggest that you stay away from California. I got so good at riding out
earthquakes that these little pussy-quakes that Japan produces are like
driving a big wheel in the Daytona 500. Cute, but not in the same league.
Michael Cash
gasped and wheezed:
Brett's weak anyway, so you had it pretty much right.
--
Michael Cash
"I used to have a dog named Michael Cash."
Prof. Ernest T. Bass
Mount Pilot College
http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/
Michael Cash
<the2...@removethiswave-net.or.jp> gasped and wheezed:
>So last evening my building here in Nagoya was swaying back and forth like a
>ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill. Bleah.
When I first glanced over what you wrote, for some reason I read
"building" as "buddy" and wondered 1) why on earth your friend was
swaying back and forth 2) why you're such a puss that it bothered you
and 3) why you didn't just make him stop.
>
>If there's anyone in Sendai reading this group, well, I hope your houses fared
>better than my stomach.
The first I knew about the quake was when I heard about it on the
news.
Eric Takabayashi
I once felt a tremor of Japanese scale 4 or 5 (M 7.2 or 7.3 in Shimane where some
structures and cliff faces actually collapsed), from eight floors up. That
(perceived) only went on about 30 seconds, though. Witnesses outside said people
fell down on the street, and the buildings were swaying.
About a year later, there was a similar tremor, and I could see it from street
level. Tall buildings and suspended banners, etc. certainly did seem to sway.
mukade
> mukade wrote:
> > The 2-Belo <the2...@removethiswave-net.or.jp> wrote in message news:<3ed2af1b$0$32234$df06...@news.sexzilla.net>...
> >
> >>So last evening my building here in Nagoya was swaying back and forth like a
> >>ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill. Bleah.
> >>
> >>If there's anyone in Sendai reading this group, well, I hope your houses fared
> >>better than my stomach.
> >
> > There was a quake of a similar size in Toyohashi in '97 or '98.
> >
> > I was living near Lake Hamana on land that my neighbours called "tofu
> > floating on water."
> >
> > Maybe Declan remembers that one. It rocked through Aichi and Shizuoka.
>
> Wasn't that one in '96 ? I don't think it reached 7 though?
I could have been. It was the biggest quake I've felt.
I still remember the place shook for about twenty seconds. After the
telephone poles stopped swaying outside, I switched the TV on and the
reports said there had been a weak six in Toyohashi.
Maybe they revised the measurements later.
Mukade
mukade
> > There was a quake of a similar size in Toyohashi in '97 or '98.
> >
> > I was living near Lake Hamana on land that my neighbours called "tofu
> > floating on water."
> >
> > Maybe Declan remembers that one. It rocked through Aichi and Shizuoka.
>
> Wasn't that one in '96 ? I don't think it reached 7 though?
You are right.
There were 5.8 quakes in 1996 and 1997.
I was still in England for this one
http://www.jishin.go.jp/main/chousa/97mar3/p02.htm
This is the one I felt
http://www.jishin.go.jp/main/chousa/97mar3/p01.htm
My tofu house made it feel much bigger.
Mukade
mtfe...@netscape.net
> "The 2-Belo" <the2...@removethiswave-net.or.jp> wrote in message
> I suggest that you stay away from California. I got so good at riding out
> earthquakes that these little pussy-quakes that Japan produces are like
> driving a big wheel in the Daytona 500. Cute, but not in the same league.
Kobe?
Mike
mtfe...@netscape.net
> Brett Robson wrote:
> I once felt a tremor of Japanese scale 4 or 5 (M 7.2 or 7.3 in Shimane where some
> structures and cliff faces actually collapsed), from eight floors up. That
30 seconds is a LONG time; the Kobe quake was about 35-40 seconds.
Mike
Ryan Ginstrom
> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> > "Brett Robson" <jet...@deja.com> wrote in message
> > news:baum5...@drn.newsguy.com...
> >
> >>but the term is either 'fune ni yoi'
> >
> > What, like deck shoes, polo shirt, and white slacks?
>
> So a sample sentence could be sumthin like...
>
> 嵐の中、船に＊良い＊ひどい目に遭った。
How about:
船に良い服は、よく見えると言われたけど自分の場合は地震がない。
--
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom
Ed
<mtfe...@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:bavrj4$ilk$2...@news.Stanford.EDU...
That was definitely a biggie.
mtfe...@netscape.net
Actually, the quake itself was about the same size as the Loma Prieta and
Northridge quakes. The difference was the ground acceleration continued
for over 40 seconds (ask me how I measured it ;-))
Mike
The 2-Belo
Only half of us in the office recognized it for what it was; the other half
didn't know anything was going on until we told them. I seem to be sensitive to
ground motion or something, but the building was definitely moving.
The 2-Belo
>On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:19:45 +0900, The 2-Belo
><the2...@removethiswave-net.or.jp> gasped and wheezed:
>
>>So last evening my building here in Nagoya was swaying back and forth like a
>>ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill. Bleah.
>
>When I first glanced over what you wrote, for some reason I read
>"building" as "buddy" and wondered 1) why on earth your friend was
>swaying back and forth 2) why you're such a puss that it bothered you
>and 3) why you didn't just make him stop.
Sadly, I don't have any buddies that sway.
The 2-Belo
And a phenomenon that is also indigenous to California is the apparent necessity
of its residents to take pride in its earthquakes, as if there were awards being
handed out or something.
Travers Naran
> Dave Fossett and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
>
>
>>"The 2-Belo" <the2...@removethiswave-net.or.jp> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>So last evening my building here in Nagoya was swaying back and forth like a
>>>ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill. Bleah.
>>
>>It did seem to go on forever, didn't it? But I'm surprised you felt much in
>>Nagoya.
>
>
> Only half of us in the office recognized it for what it was; the other half
> didn't know anything was going on until we told them. I seem to be sensitive to
> ground motion or something, but the building was definitely moving.
I had a similar experience here in the Vancouver area when Seattle had
its "big" quake a couple years ago. The higher up you were in the
building, the more you noticed it. The guys on the 5th floor reported
the blinds shaking back and forth, but they didn't feel anything. On
the 10th floor, it definitely felt like a choppy sea.
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船に良い服がなくても、ライアンさんの場合は地震があり過ぎじゃない？ちょっ
と痩せたら？
--
The captain is brave ( Aye! Carumba! What a storm! ).
Ryan Ginstrom
> > 船に良い服は、よく見えると言われたけど自分の場合は地震がない。
>
> 船に良い服がなくても、ライアンさんの場合は地震があり過ぎじゃない？ちょっ
> と痩せたら？
そうだ。僕の場合は「地震たっぷり」と言っても過言ではないだろう。
--
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom
Ed
> Ed and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
>
> >
> >"The 2-Belo" <the2...@removethiswave-net.or.jp> wrote in message
> >news:3ed2af1b$0$32234$df06...@news.sexzilla.net...
> >> So last evening my building here in Nagoya was swaying back and forth
like a
> >> ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill.
Bleah.
> >>
> >> If there's anyone in Sendai reading this group, well, I hope your
houses fared
> >> better than my stomach.
> >
> >I suggest that you stay away from California. I got so good at riding out
> >earthquakes that these little pussy-quakes that Japan produces are like
> >driving a big wheel in the Daytona 500. Cute, but not in the same league.
>
> And a phenomenon that is also indigenous to California is the apparent
necessity
> of its residents to take pride in its earthquakes, as if there were awards
being
> handed out or something.
I don't think it's really a matter of being proud of earthquakes, so much as
it is being used to them.
Michael Cash
gasped and wheezed:
And you had the good sense and foresight to stay away from it.
The 2-Belo
>
>"Declan Murphy" <declan...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:3ED42EA4...@hotmail.com...
>> > 船に良い服は、よく見えると言われたけど自分の場合は地震がない。
>>
>> 船に良い服がなくても、ライアンさんの場合は地震があり過ぎじゃない？ちょっ
>> と痩せたら？
>
>そうだ。僕の場合は「地震たっぷり」と言っても過言ではないだろう。
んならこれからライアンさんはこのグループへ文章をポストしたら僕は返事として
「震度３」「震度5弱」などのコメントを付けるようにします。
The 2-Belo
>
>"The 2-Belo" <the2...@removethiswave-net.or.jp> wrote in message
>news:3ed3f799$0$32230$df06...@news.sexzilla.net...
>> Ed and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
>>
>> >
>> >"The 2-Belo" <the2...@removethiswave-net.or.jp> wrote in message
>> >news:3ed2af1b$0$32234$df06...@news.sexzilla.net...
>> >> So last evening my building here in Nagoya was swaying back and forth like a
>> >> ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill. Bleah.
>> >>
>> >> If there's anyone in Sendai reading this group, well, I hope your houses fared
>> >> better than my stomach.
>> >
>> >I suggest that you stay away from California. I got so good at riding out
>> >earthquakes that these little pussy-quakes that Japan produces are like
>> >driving a big wheel in the Daytona 500. Cute, but not in the same league.
Note: The largest earthquake in recorded US history was in Missouri, not
California.
>> And a phenomenon that is also indigenous to California is the apparent necessity
>> of its residents to take pride in its earthquakes, as if there were awards being
>> handed out or something.
>
>I don't think it's really a matter of being proud of earthquakes, so much as
>it is being used to them.
"Cute, but not in the same league."
Sounds like gloating to me. <g>
Ed
Perhaps... I guess there is a certain pride to being accustomed to something
that most people freak out about. Look what happened in Kobe after the
earthquake. You had total anarchy for a while. After the big SF earthquake
of... hmmm 89 I guess, I drove home to Oakland (and if you know anything
about Oakland, you'll know that they don't normally need an earthquake to
riot) and found a block party in progress because nobody had any
electricity. That was basically the extent of the rioting no matter where
you went. Kobe was quite different in regards to how it was handled.
Ed
"Michael Cash" <mike...@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
news:a0p8dv0uk2lu87rel...@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 28 May 2003 06:14:10 +0900, "Ed" <gwb...@whitehouse.gov>
> >That was definitely a biggie.
>
> And you had the good sense and foresight to stay away from it.
but of course.
mtfe...@netscape.net
> On Wed, 28 May 2003 06:14:10 +0900, "Ed" <gwb...@whitehouse.gov>
> gasped and wheezed:
>>> > earthquakes that these little pussy-quakes that Japan produces are like
>>> > driving a big wheel in the Daytona 500. Cute, but not in the same
>>league.
>>>
>>> Kobe?
>>
>>That was definitely a biggie.
> And you had the good sense and foresight to stay away from it.
Well, no...
Mike
John Yamamoto-Wilson
> The guys on the 5th floor reported
> the blinds shaking back and forth, but they didn't feel anything. On
> the 10th floor, it definitely felt like a choppy sea.
You've got me examining those moments in more detail. It's what you said
about the blinds that sparked it off. I was on the 5th floor, and the blinds
were swinging around like crazy.
I often get seasick, but I didn't think I was going to barf. For a moment,
though, I wondered whether this was a biggie just getting into gear and I
was going to die (melodramatic, I know, but perhaps this tendency to see
such moments sub specie aeternitatis comes from growing up in a country that
doesn't have appreciable earthquakes). It actually crossed my mind that if I
did die at least I'd sent a posting making my peace with Kaz (little did I
know at that moment that he'd put his own interpretation on the word
"recessive" and it'd all flare up again!). Then I went out into the
corridor, where one USian and one Canadian colleague were kind of nodding
their heads and saying, "Yup, it sure is going on a long while", and a
French colleague and someone else (can't remember who) were heading
downstairs and out of the building fast.
I hung around with the USian and Canadian for a while, nodding my head too,
and saying "Yup!" then headed back into my room. The blinds were *still*
swinging, just a bit less crazily than before. I sat for a minute and
watched them slowly steady themselves.
"Eyoop, lad!" I thought to myself. "Don't get nowt like that in Scoonthorpe,
dost tha?"
Which is - for those not familiar with the patois - quite a profound thought
under the circumstances.
The 2-Belo
[...]
>> >I don't think it's really a matter of being proud of earthquakes, so much as
>> >it is being used to them.
>>
>> "Cute, but not in the same league."
>>
>> Sounds like gloating to me. <g>
>
>Perhaps... I guess there is a certain pride to being accustomed to something
>that most people freak out about. Look what happened in Kobe after the
>earthquake. You had total anarchy for a while.
No one imagined there would be that much damage. It was the nature of the event.
>After the big SF earthquake
>of... hmmm 89 I guess, I drove home to Oakland (and if you know anything
>about Oakland, you'll know that they don't normally need an earthquake to
>riot) and found a block party in progress because nobody had any
>electricity. That was basically the extent of the rioting no matter where
>you went. Kobe was quite different in regards to how it was handled.
The government completely fux0red the rescue operations, yes, but here was this
"riot"? I don't remember seeing a Japanese "riot" since the leftist
demonstrations of the 70's.
Brett Robson
>
>The government completely fux0red the rescue operations, yes, but here was this
>"riot"? I don't remember seeing a Japanese "riot" since the leftist
>demonstrations of the 70's.
>
>
There will be a riot in Shukugawara on Friday night, especially if they run out
of beer and poof cocktail umbrellas.
mtfe...@netscape.net
> Ed and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
>>Perhaps... I guess there is a certain pride to being accustomed to something
>>that most people freak out about. Look what happened in Kobe after the
>>earthquake. You had total anarchy for a while.
> No one imagined there would be that much damage. It was the nature of the event.
It wasn't the damage per se; it was the total lack of response by the
Japanese authorities that resulted in over 50% of the deaths and about
60-70% of the damage.
Mike
Bryan Parker
>On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:05:21 +0900, The ...
>>
>>The government completely fux0red the rescue operations, yes, but here was this
>>"riot"? I don't remember seeing a Japanese "riot" since the leftist
>>demonstrations of the 70's.
>>
>>
>
>There will be a riot in Shukugawara on Friday night, especially if they run out
>of beer and poof cocktail umbrellas.
ONLY if they run out of beer and pooftail
umbrellas!
--
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Brett Robson
>
>Brett Robson <jet...@deja.com> said:
>
>>On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:05:21 +0900, The ...
>>>
>>>The government completely fux0red the rescue operations, yes, but here was this
>>>"riot"? I don't remember seeing a Japanese "riot" since the leftist
>>>demonstrations of the 70's.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>There will be a riot in Shukugawara on Friday night, especially if they run out
>>of beer and poof cocktail umbrellas.
>
>ONLY if they run out of beer and pooftail
>umbrellas!
>
Apparently Jinro is in financial difficulty. How can you go bankrupt selling
that to Japan?
Declan Murphy
> On Thu, 29 May 2003 14:35:17 +0900, Bryan ...
>
>>Brett Robson <jet...@deja.com> said:
>>
>>>On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:05:21 +0900, The ...
>>>
>>>>The government completely fux0red the rescue operations, yes, but here was this
>>>>"riot"? I don't remember seeing a Japanese "riot" since the leftist
>>>>demonstrations of the 70's.
>>>
>>>There will be a riot in Shukugawara on Friday night, especially if they run out
>>>of beer and poof cocktail umbrellas.
>>
>>ONLY if they run out of beer and pooftail
>>umbrellas!
>
> Apparently Jinro is in financial difficulty. How can you go bankrupt selling
> that to Japan?
Probably the same way Alan Bond went bankrupt selling beer to Australians?
Brett Robson
>
>Brett Robson wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 May 2003 14:35:17 +0900, Bryan ...
>>
>>>Brett Robson <jet...@deja.com> said:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:05:21 +0900, The ...
>>>>
>>>>>The government completely fux0red the rescue operations, yes, but here was this
>>>>>"riot"? I don't remember seeing a Japanese "riot" since the leftist
>>>>>demonstrations of the 70's.
>>>>
>>>>There will be a riot in Shukugawara on Friday night, especially if they run out
>>>>of beer and poof cocktail umbrellas.
>>>
>>>ONLY if they run out of beer and pooftail
>>>umbrellas!
>>
>> Apparently Jinro is in financial difficulty. How can you go bankrupt selling
>> that to Japan?
>
>Probably the same way Alan Bond went bankrupt selling beer to Australians?
>
And John Elliot.
It can only be financial imcompetence.