 PwndaXpress
Male, 18-29, Western US
 7 Posts
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Sunday, March 20, 2011 7:01:01 PM
Clean Up on Isle.... I'm on lunch be back later.. |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23995 Posts
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Monday, March 14, 2011 5:36:35 PM
yet they tried to hold up the stock, dedication! |
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 sssfdg
Male, 18-29, Canada
190 Posts
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Monday, March 14, 2011 9:55:08 AM
i love how the employees are desparatly trying to save the merchandise instead of getting the fark out of the building. |
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 Frankii
Female, 18-29, Europe
439 Posts
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Monday, March 14, 2011 7:05:19 AM
I don't understand earthquakes really, I get the theory behind them but my brain just doesn't like to think about it sensibly. |
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 ViiZedek
Female, 18-29, S. America
126 Posts
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Sunday, March 13, 2011 4:49:07 PM
scaaaary! ;-; |
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 bordo
Male, 50-59, Western US
378 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 7:01:03 PM
So, grocery store employees routinely wear surgical masks? |
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 Cindrum
Male, 18-29, Europe
78 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 3:28:17 PM
Hey! Not too much stock was lost considering it was an earthquake.. I heard them going straight to work at the tills shortly after the quake stopped lol! Some how i think they will bounce back :P |
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 mdg
Male, 30-39, Western US
36 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 3:00:47 PM
Almost completely off topic, but I was surprised to see that the grocery store and set-up looked identical to any ginormous chain store here in the states. I'm not sure what I expected. |
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 DarkFerret
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
2764 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 12:19:43 PM
Damn, and to think you'd have to deal with after shocks for quite a while after that... |
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 shalantas
Male, 18-29, Western US
426 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 11:23:38 AM
Best way to describe an earthquake is like trying to walk when a bus is moving, or when your on a cruise the waves are really heavy. Almost feels as if you yourself are dizzy and cant walk straight. IT's a very awkward feeling, I hate earthquakes. Stupid california. |
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lpycb42
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
84 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 9:50:27 AM
I'm guessing most of you (especially those living in Eastern US) have no idea what an earthquake feels like. Sometimes it's best to stay indoors under strong columns. Japan is a country that is prepared for earthquakes (most buildings specially in the cities, are built to resist quakes). Coming from a quake prone country, in certain cases they do recommend you stay inside and take cover under columns. Also, with a quake as strong as that one, it's pretty hard to walk.
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 Enjin
Male, 30-39, Asia
728 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 8:37:12 AM
Just to answer some of the comments here. I have been in Tokyo for almost 10 years and I can tell you there are a lot of quakes. This quake felt just like all the other quakes that we shrug off as a minor annoyance. But the problem is it didn't stop after a 10 seconds like all the others, it just kept getting worse and worse. Most people were prepared for a small shake, but honestly by the time you realize it's not stopping you couldn't even walk without falling down. Really there is not much you can do but get into some immediate cover and ride it out. So I didn't see the reactions on the video as unusual. |
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 RETARDEDBEAR
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
440 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 7:19:39 AM
"... and trying to save corporate merchandise during an emergency rather than seeking safety. Dumbasses."
Japan has earthquakes quite often. There is nothing to immediately tell you how powerful the earthquake is going to be. Besides that, they are the ones that have to clean all that merchandise up after it falls.
Anyhow, Japanese people are short so they have short shelves. |
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 handys003
Male, 50-59, Western US
2402 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 3:09:43 AM
@wunderfulbabs
Such hate out of the mouth. You need to take the 'wunderful' out of your name and put 'hateful'. Your racism is showing.
BTW moron where the freak are they gonna go? Outside in a city full of tall buildings raining concrete down. After all they were getting pounded at one time by 20 6.0 magnitude Eq's in one hour alone. After getting slammed by so many you just become numb and ride it out.
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handys003
Male, 50-59, Western US
2402 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 3:00:22 AM
Damn that MF'er went on for 40 seconds. The energy released must have been several A bombs. To think they built nuke planets near the ocean and in Eq country. Nice call Japan now your going to have your Chernobyl. Future sushi will have to be screened as well.
Yet we are all worried about global warming. I doubt the population is going to make it through the radioactive and rare metals poisoning era alone. |
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 ggolbez
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
1814 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:39:20 AM
I personally would be running outside. Staying inside a building during an earthquake does not seem like a good idea. |
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agl126
Male, 18-29, Australia
51 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:23:08 AM
that stupid frickin' mask some of them wear over their mouths
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Cartunze is right, the Japanese are trying not to spread disease. It's actual an act of consideration. |
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 Cartunze
Male, 60-69, Western US
729 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:13:29 AM
To wnderfulbabs: You hate them because of the masks and because of their loyalty to the company? You are a big hater indeed. I wondered about the masks when I went to Japan. I thought they had a fear of germs and didn't want to catch other people's diseases. It turns out that the people wearing the masks are the ones with the cold or flu and didn't want the germs to spread to other people. How considerate is that? |
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wnderfulbabs
Female, 18-29, Western US
16 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:04:02 AM
This makes me hate japanese people for two reasons: that stupid frickin' mask some of them wear over their mouths and trying to save corporate merchandise during an emergency rather than seeking safety. Dumbasses. |
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 Komarov
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
56 Posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 12:18:06 AM
And this was in Tokyo - not as close to the epicenter as other cities, where the magnitude was 8.3-8.9
Here's hoping the most people possible make it through all this. Good luck, Japan...if I could be there to help, I would. |
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 walkrunfly
Male, 18-29, Canada
117 Posts
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Friday, March 11, 2011 11:00:54 PM
QUICK! SAVE THE TENTACLE PORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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 ilfg
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
338 Posts
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Friday, March 11, 2011 10:48:43 PM
wine shelf accident? why does this look familiar? |
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 piperfawn
Male, 30-39, Europe
3165 Posts
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Friday, March 11, 2011 9:19:29 PM
SouthpawSlew
The epicenter was just 130 KM away from the nearst part pf Japan territory, is really close for sn earthquake with such strenght. If today we don't have a lot of dead peaople is just because japanese have create the best antiearthquake structures. The real killer in this targedy is the Tsunami not the eartquake. |
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piperfawn
Male, 30-39, Europe
3165 Posts
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Friday, March 11, 2011 9:11:58 PM
GParadox Going in to streeets is not the safest way cause buildings,or pieces of buildings( a window for example) can collapse on you anyway. A square would be better. The architraves like the door arch are the preferables spot where to stay during an eartquake. But this heve best efficency only if buildings are builded like in Japan. |
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piperfawn
Male, 30-39, Europe
3165 Posts
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Friday, March 11, 2011 9:05:33 PM
@SilverThread
Yes they are so cold in that situation, but you must also think they are used to earthquakes,in Japan they are so frequents that all population is trained for that. Certainly this last event go over every prevision but japanese people have shown us great civilisation. Most of people have start to take cover just after several eartquake seconds and in neat way. The real disaster is not the eartquake,in fact we don't have notices about numerous building destroyed, real damage is the Tsunami. Major part of damages are done by the water cause we don't have a way yet to stop that kind of force of nature allready. Japanese have show to the world the best anti eartquake building knowledge. |
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