(cache)Being Tokyo - ceabaird on Twitter: "One of the joys of commuter rail traffic updates, balanced against the problems of English translation. The imagination soars at the possibilities of "Obstacle thing".… https://t.co/k4dL1SIuwo"

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1. Justin Negrón‏ @JNegronBK May 10
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1. Alfie Goodrich‏ @AlfieJapanorama May 8
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  One of favourites. "Person Entry" is terrible to see but is a weird way of describing the fact someone's on the tracks. 'Antelope Collision' made me almost spit my drink out with laughter the first time I saw it. Yeah, but Obstacle Thing is a classic. :-)
  
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1. Stephen David Smith‏ @sds_net May 10
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  My favorite is “person relief”
  
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1. c0ri‏ @c0ri May 9
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  rofl
  
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1. Tokyotronic‏ @robotopia May 9
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  Alas, poor obstacle thing! We hardly knew thee
  
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1. Dean L.‏ @saintdle May 9
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  my favourite one when I was out there was simply "lightening on track" it lead me to think of thor landing on a commuter train and track by mistake and causing havok.
  
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1. K8‏ @NomuraKate May 8
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  It’s a euphemism for ‘human body’
  
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1. Rangeela Desi ‏ @RangeelaDesi May 10
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  Someone threw a plastic wrapper on the tracks?
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1. Budhaditya Pyne‏ @budhaditya13 May 9
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  Lol
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