What are you listening to right now?

[Patrick]

Man, I remember being a kid - I used to pray for bomb threats. They were great! You got to just hang out with your friends outside and there was always the unlikely but possible chance the school might actually blow up.

Its not so great when all your stuff is inside and your praying the school won't explode since your parents just bought you a brand new clarinet.  

I'm listening to "Humdrum' by The Corrs.  My favorite band. Splee!

[PastMember]

Oh, I just love this song: "Finding Out True Love Is Blind" by Louis XIV and I'm listening to it right now.

And how do we not have a danceing smiley? We've got smilies having sex... but none boogying.

 :sad5:

[Mikel]

Oh, I just love this song: "Finding Out True Love Is Blind" by Louis XIV...

Hasn't he been dead for a few hundred years?

[Vix]

Oh, I just love this song: "Finding Out True Love Is Blind" by Louis XIV...

Hasn't he been dead for a few hundred years?

You've been around for that long, so you'd know.

[Mikel]

Man!  That Louis could Rock!

[PastMember]

Oh, I just love this song: "Finding Out True Love Is Blind" by Louis XIV...

Hasn't he been dead for a few hundred years?

You've been around for that long, so you'd know.

[Eimi]

Well, I don't think they have bomb threats in Japan, and unfortunately I've found it very hard to call in a typhoon or an earthquake threat.  For some reason they just never buy it...  Besides, half the time where there's a typhoon we still have school anyway  :geek:

[PastMember]

Well, I don't think they have bomb threats in Japan, and unfortunately I've found it very hard to call in a typhoon or an earthquake threat.  For some reason they just never buy it...  Besides, half the time where there's a typhoon we still have school anyway  :geek:

So, if someone calls the school and says there's a bomb in the school, they just let the kids stay in their classes and maybe get blown up?

[Eimi]

So, if someone calls the school and says there's a bomb in the school, they just let the kids stay in their classes and maybe get blown up?

Oh no, but, this is Japan.  They'd have to follow proceedures.  There are no set proceedures for a bomb threat as yet.  So they will probably have to have a meeting with the teachers to discuss the threat, then they would have to contact the prefectual office to ask what they will need to do, at which time THEY would have a meeting to discuss it, they'd have to wait for the reporters of course and pose for pictures, then they will have to call the PTA to inform them of why they will be taking their children out of the school.  Then they will need to draft a memo to all the teachers and have a meeting to discuss exactly what the prefectural office has decided.  Of course, there will be paper work that will have to be submitted and the principle and vice-principle would need to put their official seals to it.  The homeroom teachers will need to draft a memo to all the students parents explaining in detail why it is unavoidable and therefore they apologize that they will not be able to teach their children during the time of the bomb threat, but assure them that they will have Saturday or Sunday classes to make up for it.  Then they will have the practice drill in which they explain in minute detail to the students exactly what is to be done in the event of a bomb in the building.  While they are doing that, they will have to find a unique sound that can be the alarm for a bomb and record a woman's voice sweetly saying in Japanese "The building is about to explode.  Please evacuate if you would be so kind."  Letters to the neighbors apologizing for the inconvenience this will pose to them, both for the noise and traffic problems, will have to be drafted.  The teachers will have to dig out their official school hats so that everyone will know they are part of the school and they would also need to find the neon green crossing guard flags to help the children cross the street safely.  They would then have to practice the drill once and return to the students to their seats so they could have the ACTUAL evacuation of the building, probably following an opening ceremony in which the principle and one of the students give speeches.  Then they will wait for the police to show up, though that might take a while since they have never seen a bomb, wouldn't know what to do with a bomb, and the one and only bomb squad in the prefecture is probably stuck at every red light since in Japan even the police must follow traffic rules.

[Dana]

Wow....

[Patrick]

Wow am I glad I don't live in Japan, I probably would have punched someone in the face waiting for people to actually DO something about the bomb.  And Police officers following traffic rules?  Thats a new one.  And I can't believe Japan has never had a bomb threat, your all such a technologically advanced country, and you don't have BOMB Threats?  Thats odd.

[Eimi]

No, unfortunately the violence in Japanese schools tends to be much more malicious and twisted and usually directed at one person, not the school as a whole.

But, yeah, Japanese police... hmmm... They're GREAT and giving directions... Not much use pretty much anywhere else.  I remember reading in the newspaper once about a car-jacking, or a kidnapping, and the police where persuing the car they were in, and the car stopped for a red light and police car stopped right behind them, and the policeman got out of their car and walked up to knock on the window to ask them to surrender and much to their great (though I personally think misplaced) surprise, the perps hit the gas and ran the light.

One night my friends were having a great time watching a motorcycle gang in their town race their bikes down the street at 3am.  Of course it was deserted so the gang would speed down these streets.  The police started to chase them, but could never seem to catch up to them, since they had to stop at every red light.

But even closer to me, one my best friends woke up to find a man with a knife in her room.  Instead of panicing, she very calmly asked the man what he was doing, and why, and God bless her, she talked the guy into leaving her apartment without any incident.  Of course she was shaken and went directly to the police and they listen to her story and they nodded and said, "Boy are you lucky."  And that was the end of their investigation into the matter.  Needless to say she moved very soon after.

Yeah... I don't have much faith in the Japanese Police...

[Devin]

Right now, Passions is playing on the tv. Yeah I watch that when I'm home on weekdays. What? ;)

[PastMember]

I can't hear about Passions without thinking about Spike from BtVS. I just can't! lol

Right now "Strange" by Built to Spill is playing and over that I can hear the sound of IT guys chattering amongst themselves over some sort of server issue.

[Patrick]

Now I'm REALLY glad I don't live in Japan.  Glad your friend wasn't hurt no matter how long ago that was, Eimi.  I would move away fast too if that had happened to me.