The most delightfully insane part of Chuckles’ otaku rant is how he dismisses all anime fans as Orientalists who assume that only they understand an exotic civilization because they’ve read up on it obssessively, and he knows this because he’s had the years on end of schooling you need to even begin to comprehend the alien culture of Japan so you can fully appreciate the Japanese equivalent of Doonesbury. Fuckin’ snob.
Sure, Chas, there’s a huge difference in cultures, but you don’t gotta be Sir Francis Burton to bridge them. I’m impressed that you’ve lived here so long you haven’t noticed American group dynamics from peer pressure to voting blocks to churches and unions and such. It’s a pity your Japanese studies have led you to believe it’s a country of zombie drones, too. It’s cute that you want to show off your book larnin’, but it makes you look damn dumb when you forget American history traces elements back to Abraham and didn’t magicly appear in 1602, and bragging you needed six weeks to read the Asahi News “Frank and Ernest” is not reason to brag. To sum up, Chas, in words you can understand, ook ook ooh ooh ah ah chee chee.
Ah, Mr Charles E, master of going off the deep end. He seems to indeed be an expert in
the fine art of over-reacting.
When I read his totally off the wall attack on anime fans, it reminded me of a thread I
started, in which a poster took his vast knowledge of 9 year olds and gave some really,
um, overheated advice. I remember thinking “this guy lives in some alternate worse-case-senario
universe.” This poster was Chas.E. Here’s the link:
I think he was encouraged in this thread as many posters jumped overboard with him.
Here’s my favorite ChasE. quote from that thread.
So, you see, Chas is not a tool. He knows too much-- has seen too much-- to be able sit idly by
while supposedly smart people act “appropriately”. Chas knows the truth, laugh at your own peril!
OK, Chas, we’ll all bow down to you in matters Japanese, including anything and everything even vaguely related to Japan such as (but not limited to) broiled salmon, white rice, and soy sauce.
[sub]I’m sorry, what means this word “ethnocentrism”?[/sub]
So tool was the inteded work, eh? I’ll have to remember that so I can impress the kids on the street with how hep I am.
I just assumed that it was a typo and “fool” was the intended word.
By the way, Japan is the world authority on rice preparation (with Thailand coming in second). I’m not saying the other places are wrong, just misguided.
Soooo, you’re saying that China is misguided. Gotcha.
So people like soy on their rice. So? It’s their choice; after all, they’re the ones who are gonna eat it, not you. Personally, I like a sprinkling of soy sauce and a pat of butter mixed in. Decent stuff.
As for Asshol.E, I must say I’ve never witnessed anyone else who’s sat on such a high horse and yet been so wrong about most everything. I still remember those patronizing posts when you “corrected” me about the word hitome, asswipe, and you never admitted you were wrong, even after a third party backed me up.
I’m sure the list of offenses is much, much longer than this and the other Pit thread about you, bud.
[sub][sup]That quote from Galileo gives me this fun mental image of Chas and Homer arguing over who gets to be on the cross…[/sub][/sup]
The funny thing about that comic Chas took six months to figure out is that I don’t think he got the punchline right. Of course, I only have his description to go on, never having seen it myself, but…
Chas says the joke is that the stonemason doesn’t realize that women are still going to be buried with their husbands, which doesn’t make much sense. The guy makes headstones for a living, he’s likely to know more about burial laws than the other two guys in the bar. Further, the final panel is of two headstones side by side, indicating that the stonemason is correct, that he will be making twice as much money. The joke seems to be that the practice of married women retaining their maiden names, which I’m guessing is a liberal, middle-class concern, is going to be made into law thanks to the support of blue collar workers (stonemasons) who are usually much more conservative. The humor is in the possibility of unlikely political alliances spawned by this issue. At least, that’s how I see it. But what do I know, my culture is only three hundred years old.
BTW: Six months? It’s a four panel cartoon, not Rashomon! How on Earth did you waste six months of class time on this? And is anyone else deeply disturbed by the idea that Chas E. is a teacher? I can scarcely think of someone less suited to the job short of a convicted sex offender.
IIRC I don’t the church laughed at Galileo. On the contrary they took him very seriously and as much as admitted (to him) that he was probably correct but that his views were not appropriate for public consumption.
Yeah, I did it, copper! And I’ll do it again if I hafta! And none of you can stop me! Bwahaha.
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It’s not too bad, really. I think we mostly did that when the rice was too dry, or when we didn’t have any other sauces to mix in. If I have the choice, though, I’ll take my rice with teriyaki or ginger sauce. Yum. Plain rice is just that, plain. Just because it came from Japan, that doesn’t automatically make it Food Of The Gods. (That last was for you, Chester.)
Come on people, the correct way to prepare rice, according to my fiancee’s mother (who is Filipino) is plain, with no additives, and it should be lumpy enough to eat with your fingers. Now that that’s been settled once and for all . . .
Chas is also apparently an expert in cognitive development, neurology, and teaching ESL. Is there no end to his knowledge?
His calm assurance that his limited expertise in one area makes him an unassailable expert in everything even remotely related to that area seems suspiciously similar to another poster whose supposed expertise related to a minor elective surgery made him an unassailable expert in all sexually related matters. Or is it just me?
Given the wise words that KKBattousai said above, I should probably just let this thread die. I’ll be heading to Canada for a week long vacation tomorrow, so I won’t even be able to see any responses this post might get. Chas.E has disappeared from this thread, back up his own asshole from whence he came. Maybe all this discussion has forced him to finally realize that he was being a jerk in those other threads. Or, more likely, maybe he just stormed off in a hissy fit, unwilling to spend any more time with all these “otaku” who won’t accept his every word as gospel. In any case, I don’t see any good that can come of making this post. However, it’s been simmering in my mind for a while, and I have to get it off my chest.
It has been pointed out that Chas.E doesn’t listen to other posters very well. Maybe he’ll be more willing to listen to himself. I’ve compiled a list of quotes from Chas which capture the impression that he’s given me of himself. I don’t need to go out of my way to look for deviance amongst Chas.E, it is obvious from his behavior in this thread…
Take the following definition of orientalism, from the Sailor Moon is not a documentary thread:
Now, compare it to Chas.E’s other comments from that same thread:
Next, consider the following passage, regarding orientalists:
And compare it to the following:
Nothing much to add to the above. Interpret the texts as you see fit. To close, just one more line from Chas…
