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Vodafone Quitting Japan
dimension6 writes "Reuters is reporting that Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone operator, is quitting business in Japan. Vodafone has been having a difficult time since they entered the Japanese market, a result of many blunders such as introducing Nokia brick phones where flip-phones are the norm and being slow to adopt 3G technology widely used by its competitors. Vodafone claimed that being part of the most advanced mobile phone market helped boost their sales elsewhere, but few Japanese-market phones have made it to other countries. The Japanese Vodafone division is likely to be bought by Softbank, the largest ISP in Japan."
Just about all Japanese handset makers are quitting the European market because their small, sleek, feature-packed phones designed for Japanese customers don't jive with the large, clumsy phones that typify the phones of European manufacturers. (Except Sony-Ericsson which seems to still have a finger in the European pie.)
I'll post some of my experiences with elastrator play again. I did this before the system was hacked so some of you have alredy seen some of this. Also, let me add that I don't recommend some of this and some of it could be dangerous, it's just some of my experiences with banding.
I've had my testicles banded many times over the past 4 or 5 years. The longest I have gone is 3 to slightly over 3 hours. Most of the time it's between 1 and 2 hours with 1-1/2 hours being done the most. The first few times doing a banding, it got extremely painfull as many of you know from experience. Twenty or thirty minutes was all I could stand. Then I made a discovery. Ice water. After my balls were banded, I go and crush up some ice very small and put it into a small Tupperware container filling it up part way and then adding water. When the pain starts to get unbearable, I submerge my balls and sac into the ice water. The first time I did this I almost stopped. The pain got absolutely unbearable. I mean it hurt bad! However, after a couple of minutes the pain quickly goes down. i don't remember if the pain went away completely thie first few times I did this but I added one more thing and now the balls become 100% numb. You may be asking what I added. Salt. Just plain old table salt. This reduces the temperature of the salt water to below freezing. Don't ask me about the physics of this but I discovered it years ago by adding too much salt to a cooler full of beer and froze the beer. Anyways, the balls go completely, 100% numb this way. A person can poke at the sac with something sharp, squeeze the balls, etc. and not feel anything. However, the more a person does at this point, the sorer the balls and things will be later on after the banding.
One twist to this. Do not add too much salt! I found this out last November 2005. I think it was on the 12th of the month. I did the usual banding, this time using 2 bands. Then I mixed up the salt water/ice mixture and did the usuall thing. I did this for a couple of hours. Two anyways but I don't think I went three. Eventually I cut the bands off, did the usual jumping around for a couple of minutes from that dreaded 'snap' and then hopped into the shower. Things were obviously sore down there but the skin seemed especially sore. I found out later that I had something unexpected down there...Frostbite.
Yep, I had frozen the sac and balls too much an dfound out a day or two later as sores appeared on the sac that I had frostbite. This turned out to be a very painful experience believe me. The sores started to appear on the area of my sac that had been on the bottom side of the bands. Eventually there was basically a huge area that was a huge (relatively speaking) scab. It doesn't end here though. We all know how things move around down there when moving, walking, etc. Well, that still happened which lead to the scab(s) breaking apart and bleeding. Then the broken parts would end up adhearing to my underware. Anytime I had to pull my undies away from my body for urinating, bathing, changing, etc. would lead to pulling parts of the scabs off of the sac which lead to more bleeding, more adhearing, more tearing....I'm sure you all get the idea by now. It was he** for about two to three weeks and took about four week to heal pretty much completely. It's kind of amusing to look back now and get a chuckle but it wasn't then, except for my wife perhaps who got a few out of it. I will add that when I dumped the ice water/salt mixture out that day, there was salt sitting in the bottom of the container so the water was 100% saturated with the salt.
Ok, back to a few more basics. When my balls are banded and chilled, before cutting the band off I use warm water to bring everything back up to temperature. This eliminates very cold blood from all of a sudden trying to get back into circulation. I also take a couple of aspirins to possibly help thin my blood and avoid any blood clots. Does this help? I don't know but it's the way I do it. Also, to help reduce the stinging of the ban
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