Why doesn't someone drop a hydrogen atom bomb on Australia?

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God bless the Japanese. I hope they don’t ever get their hands on any real weapons for another 100 years.

smh.com.au/articles/2008/07/ … 41660.html

OT SO long ago Ryann Connell, an Australian journalist, happily declared he was doing his “dream job” in Japan.

Since accepting police protection against incensed Japanese patriots last week, the chief editor of the English website of The Mainichi Daily News has been more circumspect.

In the past month the 39-year-old has become one of the most reviled figures in Japan, where thousands of posters have flooded chat sites to decry the “sleazy Australian journalist” whom they feel has deliberately besmirched Japan’s image around the world.Connell’s troubles began in May with one of his now infamous WaiWai columns, which cited a Japanese magazine article about a restaurant in the Tokyo district of Roppongi where patrons allegedly have sex with animals before eating them. The piece caught the attention of a blogger called Mozu, whose angry post was soon picked up by 2channel, a massive, fractious web forum popular with Japan’s hot-headed conservative element.

…Many previous WaiWai instalments - such as the story about mothers who pleasure their sons to stop them from chasing girls at the expense of schoolwork, the article about chikan (men who grope women on trains) holding monthly meetings to trade tips about the best ways to surreptitiously manhandle fellow passengers, and the account of emotionally stunted salarymen who use lifelike mannequins as surrogate wives - have

…It is their popularity with some Western readers that has especially incensed Japanese bloggers. Many feel their country’s reputation has been “debauched” around the world. “Foreigners who don’t know the truth will believe these stories are true,” wrote one. Another railed: “Ryann Connell is a degenerate scatologist - a typical Australian.” And a third wondered: "Why doesn’t someone drop a hydrogen atom bomb on Australia?"

In an interview with the Herald late last year Connell admitted his transcriptions might have contributed in part to a lazy notion that if Japanese are not totally inhibited by their strict social codes, they are hopelessly debased by their bizarre fetishes.

Yes, the Japanese are a totally normal people. They have no strange fetishes or practices, as can be witnessed by their porn. They just want to drop a-Bombs on Australia.

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[quote=“trebuchet”]God bless the Japanese. I hope they don’t ever get their hands on any real weapons for another 100 years.

smh.com.au/articles/2008/07/ … 41660.html

OT SO long ago Ryann Connell, an Australian journalist, happily declared he was doing his “dream job” in Japan.

Since accepting police protection against incensed Japanese patriots last week, the chief editor of the English website of The Mainichi Daily News has been more circumspect.

In the past month the 39-year-old has become one of the most reviled figures in Japan, where thousands of posters have flooded chat sites to decry the “sleazy Australian journalist” whom they feel has deliberately besmirched Japan’s image around the world.Connell’s troubles began in May with one of his now infamous WaiWai columns, which cited a Japanese magazine article about a restaurant in the Tokyo district of Roppongi where patrons allegedly have sex with animals before eating them. The piece caught the attention of a blogger called Mozu, whose angry post was soon picked up by 2channel, a massive, fractious web forum popular with Japan’s hot-headed conservative element.

…Many previous WaiWai instalments - such as the story about mothers who pleasure their sons to stop them from chasing girls at the expense of schoolwork, the article about chikan (men who grope women on trains) holding monthly meetings to trade tips about the best ways to surreptitiously manhandle fellow passengers, and the account of emotionally stunted salarymen who use lifelike mannequins as surrogate wives - have

…It is their popularity with some Western readers that has especially incensed Japanese bloggers. Many feel their country’s reputation has been “debauched” around the world. “Foreigners who don’t know the truth will believe these stories are true,” wrote one. Another railed: “Ryann Connell is a degenerate scatologist - a typical Australian.” And a third wondered: "Why doesn’t someone drop a hydrogen atom bomb on Australia?"

In an interview with the Herald late last year Connell admitted his transcriptions might have contributed in part to a lazy notion that if Japanese are not totally inhibited by their strict social codes, they are hopelessly debased by their bizarre fetishes.

Yes, the Japanese are a totally normal people. They have no strange fetishes or practices, as can be witnessed by their porn. They just want to drop a-Bombs on Australia.[/quote]

2ch is the Japanese equivalent of 4chan, i.e. the cesspool of the Internet. This guy lives in Japan and trolls them fulltime on Mainichi Daily News. It’s not too surprising that someone would post that. In fact if a Japanese guy lived in the US and edited a site that depicts Americans the way Mainichi depicts Japanese, I’d expect the exact same comment from some anonymous American about nuking Japan to get posted on his site.

But I think it’s safe to assume that 2ch doesn’t speak for the Japanese government anymore that 4chan speaks for the American one.

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Isn’t 4chan full of anime freaks and japan-worshippers?

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[quote=“KingZog”]In fact if a Japanese guy lived in the US and edited a site that depicts Americans the way Mainichi depicts Japanese, I’d expect the exact same comment from some anonymous American about nuking Japan to get posted on his site.[/quote]I’d expect to read as much here on the flob.

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Excellent! Mainichi Wai Wai is a superb round up of Japan’s tabloids. I’ve also long considered Ryan Connel as having one of the best jobs in the world.

HG

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Oh shit!

[quote]July 20, 2008
Mainichi Daily News to start over again - Report on developments and apology

The Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd. continued to post extremely inappropriate articles in the WaiWai column of the Mainichi Daily News (MDN), its English Web site. We have reported the results of an in-house investigation into the case on Pages 22 and 23 of the July 20 morning edition of the Mainichi Shimbun.

We continued to post articles that contained incorrect information about Japan and indecent sexual content. These articles, many of which were not checked, should not have been dispatched to Japan or the world. We apologize deeply for causing many people trouble and for betraying the public’s trust in the Mainichi Shimbun.

The Mainichi Newspapers took punitive measures on July 20 against Managing Director Yoshiyuki Watanabe, who previously served as general manager of the Multimedia Division, and another senior official, to hold them responsible as supervisors, in addition to those who were earlier punished.

We will take the following measures to prevent a recurrence of the problems pointed out to us through the criticism and opinions received from many readers, through our in-house investigation, and as indicated by the Open Newspaper Committee of experts:

On Aug. 1, we will reorganize the MDN Editorial Department, and on Sept. 1, under a new chief editor, the MDN will be transformed into a more news-oriented site. We will translate Mainichi Shimbun editorials and commentaries by prominent figures, such as “Jidai-no-Kaze” (Sign of the Times), and post them on the site in an effort to deepen the understanding of Japan among readers overseas.

At the same time, we will set up an advisory group to the MDN comprised of Megumi Nishikawa, an expert senior writer, and other staff writers specializing in international news coverage. The group will check the MDN’s editorial plans and the content of articles in the MDN.

We are determined to try our utmost to regain the public trust that we have lost as a result of this incident and rehabilitate the English site into one that can dispatch information about Japan to the world in an appropriate manner.

The Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd.[/quote]

[quote]“It does concern me that we resort to these stereotypes all the time,” he said. “Downtrodden salarymen, slutty schoolgirls, crazy housewives, corrupt old bosses and so on. And there have been times when I picked stories of questionable accuracy to write up. But by and large I’m presenting to the English-speaking world things that the Japanese are writing about themselves.”

Defending the weeklies, as well as Connell and his collaborators, is the unflagging media critic and campaigner for human rights Debito Arudou, who wrote that WaiWai was an essential guide to Japanese attitudes and editorial directives. “Too many Japanese believe that they can say whatever they like in Japanese (‘that statement was for a domestic audience’ is very often an excuse for public gaffes), as though Japanese is some secret code,” he wrote.[/quote]

Clearly two nukes weren’t enough for the Japs.

HG

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Because we don’t want to hurt no kangaroos and we’ve already got the all Japanese amusement park there and the surfing, too.

Plus its not going to stop Japanese women blowing their kids, is it?

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:laughing: :bravo:

HG

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The Brits already did. Unfortunately it didn’t improve the place.

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I bet no one even noticed, Oz being such a big, dry, sun-ravaged, radioactive sort of place anyway. PS I didn’t know the Brits had H-bombs.

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Yes they do,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Grapple

The warheads on UK Trident missiles are apparently a UK design. Though the UK and US do share designs since then, so maybe they aren’t really.

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Then we must also nuke the offices of www.dailyrotten.com --which routinely depicts Americans as foolish, criminal, and/or perverted, otherwise merely unfortunate–because no one must know.

Sex with animals before eating them? They really do that? (I’m not judging, just Japanese culture-appreciating.) They shouldn’t nuke Australia, then. Think of all those kangaroos and elephants and so on.

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[quote=“Screaming Jesus”]Then we must also nuke the offices of www.dailyrotten.com --which routinely depicts Americans as foolish, criminal, and/or perverted, otherwise merely unfortunate–because no one must know.
[/quote]

Who’s we?
Liveleak>Rotten.com . LiveLeak is an American company.

If Americans should get mad at any aussies it should be Rupert Murdoch. Thanks for faux News you right wing retard!

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Hey! You can keep your own trash, thanks. Murdoch’s a yank.

HG

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Here are the original articles:
www9.atwiki.jp/mainichiwaiwai/pages/16.html

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Slightly off topic, but no less loaded with bigoted overtones.

There is a piece in Charlie Wilson’s war (the book) about recruiting more mules to carry weapons into the mountains in Afghanistan. The mules were essential for fighting the Russians and they were frequently targeted by Hind pilots. When the CIA wanted to up the ante they had to recruit more mules. After sourcing animals from Egypt and Pakistan, they found the most reliable source was from Tennessee. Consequently, they started importing thousands of Tennessee mules for the mujahideen. Unfortunately, even the best laid plans of mice and men can run into a few snags. In this case, the mujahideen fighters were screwing the mules before eating them. Word got back to the bible belt about the fate which awaited their State Animal, threatening supply once again.

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Wait… this coming from a nation that spawns such things as:

bukkake?

enough said.

but yea, Japanese can be quite a code sometime. The designs for the Mitsubishi Zero, that famed fighter plane of WW2 is written in Japanese that apparently cannot be understood today.

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Ha! So those sleazy bloody Japs won’t be dropping any copied fatboys from reconstituted Zeros now will they!

HG

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There’s probably more destructive power in dropping a Sumo from 25000 feet than there was in those original fatboys. Plus it would be equally surreal and something I believe would appeal to the Japanese.

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the british do indeed have H-bombs, in fact i think they’re up to J or K now.

the French already have Zee Bombe.