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19 Responses to “Audio Blog #88 - Freak of Nature”
Wednesday at 6:30 pm
みなさんこんにちは、美樹のブログです。
みなさんはホテルのカードキーの裏や飛行機のチケットの裏についている黒い磁気について考えたことはありますか?私はどうも、この磁気と相性が悪いようです。
銀行のカードや通帳の裏にもこの磁気はついています。お金を下ろす時や振込みをする時など、これらを使う機会は多くあるのですが、私のカードや通帳は三回に二回くらいの割合でしか機械に読み取ってもらえません。
新しいカードや通帳に取り替えてもらうと、最初は使えるようになるのですが、しばらくするとまた使えなくなります。磁気が弱くなっているらしいです。
この他にも飛行機のチケットの磁気が読み取ってもらえないこともよくあります。その度に空港のスタッフから怪しい人扱いされます。この間なんて、持っていたパスポートを取られました。
ホテルのカードキーが使えなくなることもよくあります。その度に部屋に入れなくなってフロントに行かなくてはなりません。
こんなに何度も同じことがあると、もしかして私は磁気をだめにする何か特別なパワーを出しているんではないかと思ってしまいます。
変わった地球人の代表として、宇宙人に連れ去られる日もそんなに遠くはないかもしれません。
みなさんの不思議な体験を教えてください。
それではまた来週!
Wednesday at 9:52 pm
ひさひぶり!
I have fallen way, way, wayyyyyy behind on the Lessons, but I know they are all here waiting, like Christmas presents waiting to be opened later! (I went back to Beginner and started over, hoping to gain a deeper understanding of structure and grammar.)
BUT, Wow!! Have you tried rolling the mouse over the pictures on these lessons? (A little bird told me about this
) Maybe it’s been mentioned in the Comments before?
Anyway, take a look!
Start with this picture!!
Nice going, Marky-san! This light-heartedness and playfulness has always been a hallmark of Japapnesepod101.com
Never stop!!
Wednesday at 10:06 pm
Perhaps the X-Men will recruit Miki-san. Her anti-magnetic powers could help them in their fight against Magneto.
Wednesday at 10:59 pm
Lizさん、お久し振りですね!
And you’re right, the lessons are there waiting for you! Not sure how far behind you are, but we’ve had some real doozies lately!
ありがとうございます!
美樹ちゃんはフリークじゃないと思います。本当におもしろい女の子ですよ!
Thursday at 2:21 am
Try keeping your bank cards etc away from your cell phone. A hotel clerk told me that if you place magnetic cards near your cell phone the radiation from the cell phone will inactivate the cards.
Thursday at 3:12 am
Miki san stories are getting better and better
Thursday at 3:33 am
Lizさん、
Thanks for the advice about the pictures !!! LOL !
Markさん,
I’m 100% in favor of getting 美樹さん accepted into the X-men (come to think of it, there’s a Japanese mutant in this week’s “Astonishing X-Men”, but unfortunately her name isn’t 美樹…)
宇宙人がいるかどうか分からないけど、信じたいです。高校生の時にX-Filesの大ファンだったし、FBIのMulderさんの事務所にある”I want to believe”と言った看板が大好きで買いたかったです。Star Trekの大ファンもですし…
美樹さんのように不思議な体験がなかったが、私はテレビについて呪いと言うことがあります。好きなテレビ番組を偶然に見たら(例えばイギリスの“The Persuaders”という番組は)いつも同じの挿話です…その結果は、暗記した挿話があって、まったく分からない挿話もあるんです…
Thursday at 3:40 am
機会も機械も使ったことでちょっと混乱した。
宇宙人が僕の駐車された自動車も置いた鍵も違った所に動きます!!
Thursday at 4:22 am
I’m writing from a computer that can’t write in Japanese. Gomen ne.
I had a friend once who would use up watch batteries in much the same way and Miki-san “uses up” magnetism on cards. Most of us change watch batteries every few years; he had to get new batteries every month! I wonder if it’s the same kind of phenomenon?
Anyway, I really enjoy Miki-san’s blogs, and no I don’t think she’s a freak.
Thursday at 4:28 am
磁気のカードは携帯電話の近くに置いたら、利かなくなる可能性があると言われます…
それとも、美樹さんは本当に特別なパワーを出していますか。
美樹さん、がんばってください!!!
カルロ
Thursday at 7:16 am
扱われます?
扱いされます?
違いますか?
Thursday at 9:41 am
俺はコンピュータのキーボードを指で一本触って、割る事ができる。
Thursday at 12:42 pm
プチクレアさん
僕もいると信じたいです。たぶん、宇宙のどこかにいるはずです!
プチクレアさん、「挿話」はepisodeの意味ですかね?日本人は、挿話より、エピソードとよく言います
Neilさん
「僕が駐車した自動車も置いた鍵も違った所に動きます」
→それは怖いですね。宇宙人がしたのでしょうか?!
「扱われます?
扱いされます?
違いますか?」
→「扱われます」と「扱い(Noun)をされます」は同じ意味ですよ
Mawiewawaさん
それは、そうとうなパワーですね!!笑 この前はオフィスで会えて良かったです
Thursday at 2:18 pm
雄一先生,
勉強になりました!
Thursday at 6:21 pm
雄一先生ありがとう!
Friday at 1:25 pm
これは、秘密の!
The following secret has been heavily guarded and handed down from generation to generation. May the good community at 101 keep passing the torch of wisdom on.
According to ancient foreign(er) folklore in Tokyo, if you kiss someone with supernatural spider-like powers many times you’ll forever be happy and your magnetic cards will work like a charm.
So it is written.
Amen
Friday at 1:47 pm
Kanji for Yuichi is not雄一, but 祐一 ですよ。
Thursday at 7:30 pm
僕はこの前BBC Newsの記事に載っていた研究者の意見:
“My personal view is it is way too arrogant to think that we are the only ones living in the Universe”
に大賛成です。
日本語に訳しますと、こうなるかな。。。
“自分の個人的な意見では我々が宇宙の中で唯一な存在だと考えるのが傲慢です。”
Thursday at 11:40 pm
僕も磁気にダメな気がする。通帳が何回も磁気がなくなった。 コメントすごい遅いけど。
あ、宇宙人に関してはノコメント
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