I can only swear with emotion in Engrish. Uh, I mean English. A thousand pardons. :rolleyes:
I say we dump eggo in the middle of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, his nuke comment translated into Japanese and tattoed to his forehead, and let the locals have their fun.
Christ, eggo, that’s not even clever. I like Japan, and even I can do better than that.
Oragami? What the hell is up with that? Folding paper? What the hell? Don’t you have anything better to do? Maybe jewel encrust and guild some eggshells or something? Folding paper is stupid!
Miso soup? There must be something horribly, horribly wrong with the entire countries’ “salt” taste buds. And maybe it’s “cardboard” taste buds too. I’m not beliving that that’s not just an equal mass of salt and cardboard, boiled until supersaturated unless someone can come up with absolute proof to the contrary!
Gee, do you think Godzilla might stop picking on you if you stopped building your houses out of paper? Didnt’ that ever occur to anyone? And maybe, if instead of sending out those little fake plastic tanks, you tried a couple of REAL tanks for a change? Or maybe just put Giddorah on retainer or something?
Those samurai movies are just totally ripping of Star Wars!
Sorry. Cracked up during that last one. Anyway, point is, if you’re going to spew recycled, 80’s style japan bashing, at LEAST have the basic decency to be a bit clever. Or novel. Or just not stupid.
In short, eggo, nan dayo omae-wa? Tottoto dete ike! Ya punk.
Not kidding about miso, though. That stuff is absolutly vile. Not quite as bad as mayonase, but way up there.
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“Not good bodyguards, but they absorb bullets reasonably well.”
Oh, where to begin. This is my first post on these boards, so it should be something profound. Unfortunately, work hasn’t left me enough energy for that, so let me jump right in and go quasi-stream-of-consciousness for a bit.
Among other things, there are typos that have not yet been made fun of, so let me bring them to light to invite further ridicule and general disapproval. “REALY” is not a word. Nor is “simpathize,” which may be why people find it difficult to do. Also, perhaps the most ironic mistake in here, is that although you hate the Japanese so much, you honor them by capitalizing every iteration of “Japanese” but essentially (so I’ve been told by former English teachers) by not capitalizing “American” (and, of course, you go the extra mile and misspell “America” and "American). Also, let me point out that Japan is not an island. It’s an island nation, but it’s made up of a lot more than a single island.
Now, my primary point being made - that I have absolutely no respect for the way you made the statements you did, let me make my other primary point (would sequence dictate this to be my secondary point? I hope not.) which is that because of said statements, I have absolutely no respect for you as a person. (I may, of course, revise this opinion later on, but as I only have your brainless rant to go on, you’ll have to forgive me. Or not.)
“All things Japanese” as you put it, encompasses a lot of territory. The vast majority of it, in my humble opinion, is beautiful, rich, and deserving of respect. I could go down point by point, but I think that everyone would agree that this post is getting rather long as it is. So let me say that their art and culture are incredibly rich and intricate, and most noteworthy because of the incredible amount of emphasis that they put on respect and respecting others (this would, I suppose, apply more to the culture than the art but, as with this entire post, I digress).
Their cars, since you bring it up, are also our cars. Meaning that they’re all over America’s roads, driven by people who aren’t Japanese. They’re finely crafted automobiles that - and this is, of course, subjective - combine form and function into a car that millions of Americans are willing to buy and drive.
Anyway, let me bring this rambling post to a close (to the relief of all, I’m sure), by expressing three more brief thoughts. 1) Go dig up Audrey’s posts on anime for my opinions of it (I believe she quoted some ICQs of mine, and the enthusiasm therein should sufficiently convey my thoughts on Japanese “cartoons”). 2) Their women are among the most beautiful in the world, both in terms of form and beauty. 3) If at any point during your ill-fated rant, you were thinking about Pokemon - which I will grant you is an influence, whether we like it or not - I dare you to watch the show and return with an intelligent response as to why it’s a negative influence on the children of America who watch it. (Note: The “evils of merchandising” does not count as an intelligent argument.)
Um, to everybody else who read this, sorry for its verbosity, but it’s been a long day, and it takes energy for me to be brief…
The samurai movies? What about every beam or energy sword that ever showed up in Gundam and the like? Oops, showing my biases again… I’ll go now…
Hey guy…first post here and already cookin up breakfast in the BBQ Pit. I think you’ll do just fine 
Though you didn’t include nearly enough references to “squicking” or “felching”…sigh 
So is Leggo-my-eggo ever going to come back to read his rightful roasting?
I agree with everyone else who has posted before me that this person is an asshole of the worst degree, the most ignorant bastard i have seen in awhile…ok i’ll stop now, since most of this has been said before…
Heh. There’s actually a quote floating around from some anime designer (It might have been the original gundam guy) that was along the lines of “That lightsaber is really cool! Lets steal it!”
And an energy sword is hardly unique to starwars, was it?
But nobody denies that SW was a big infulence on TV and movie science fiction. But loads of SW fans never seemed to “get” that some of thier icons were kinda familiar . . .
That’s why Episode One was so crappy. No samurai movie infulence.
And after about the zillionth time of pointing out that X anime bit was not in fact a SW rip off, but was in fact a samurai movie “bit”, it gets frustrating.
Sorry. I’ll take up any opertunity to argue about geek trivia. Should have warned you about that.
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“Use the Lens, luke!”
"I hate everything about that damn island."
Hmmm.
…I guess that speaks volumes about you, although I don’t know why you’d want to brag about it.
By the way, Mom had a word for someone with your hate-filled, narrow-mindedness:
“Unka-tare” (hope I spelled that right)…
Shithead.
Unko, I think. Aw hell, enilorac and KKBattousai know more Japanese than I do. And they have less Japanese blood in them than I have. ::hangs head in shame::
See, unlike my Japanese brethren, I won’t be committing hara kiri over this…
Yep 
For your information you penny-ante schweinhund, my best friend for over 10 years is Japanese. I found your “rant” nothing more than a load of bigoted diarrhea that overran your feeble brain and got splattered here. About the only thing around here that needs to be nuked is your reproductive equipment.
Go find other’s of your ilk on another board. You have just stamped “pariah” on your forehead and I doubt you will ever get another civil response from anyone on this board.
I don’t know if this guy merits any insults. It doesn’t seem worth the effort - the OP was such a pathetic, amateur rant. Which is why I chose to play spelling cop.
Granted, making jokes of large scale human suffering of any kind is the work of an inhuman waste of oxygen, but I don’t think eggo has the assassin’s heart to do something like that. I think he is just dumb. His call to nuke Japan is elementary school hyperbole, an immature response to a difference in taste. Bad cartoons=nuclear strikes? What kind of a vacuous existence do you need to lead in order for popular culture to engender such hatred?
As for his paranoid references to Japanese influence in “Americia”, eggo is as ill-informed as he is illiterate. He really ought to lay off reading mid-80’s hate literature.
Not that I ever really paid attention to it, but isn’t Vader’s helmet supposed to be modeled after a samurai-style helmet? (Also, it’s supposedly no secret that Lucas is a big fan of Japanese movies and the like.) All this is second-and though, so feel free to correct me…
My favorite Star Wars fan line is that “X is Y’s father” is a SW specific plot twist. Ever here of this kid named Oedipus? He was kinda surprised that the guy he kicked the crap out of was his dad too… And we won’t even mention his mom…
“Oedipus! What’s up, motherfucker?”
I love Japan. they gave us Asahi Super Dry, Sumo, some of the most beautiful scenery in the world, a whole load of technology, Manga, Ulysses 31 and so much more.
of course, eggo has given us nothing. I doubt that you have contributed a single iota that has enriched our lives in any way.
Japan 1
Eggo 0
…and the films of Akira Kurosawa and Juzo Itami
…not to defend a clearly bigoted OP by a true douchebag
buuuuuut…in all this knee-jerk lionazation of Japan and (almost) all things Japaneese, I have heard no one mention Japan’s legacy of brutal colonial and imperialist expansions,let’s recall what they were doing before the BOMB: colonizing other nations, just like white Europeans and Americans. The prime minister of Japan, Morihiro Hosokawa, made news with a speech to the Japanese Diet in which he apologized to Japan’s Asian neighbors ‘for the fact that past Japanese actions, including aggression and colonial rule, caused unbearable suffering for so many people’ (reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, August 24, 1993).
Japan has also recently begun to acknowledge its use of ‘comfort women’ from the occupied Asian countries, women enslaved into prostitution for the pleasure of the Japanese army. And according to news reports, evidence has been found to support allegations that the Japanese army used prisoners in China during World War II for biological warfare experiments.
Japan can rival the US for casual racism; It is still considered shameful and unacceptable among many
Japanese to marry a Korean, for example.
The Japanese,are often full participants in a
fetishization of their special ‘differences.’ There is a whole body of Japanese thinking (nihonjinron) which insists on their uniqueness, that the Japanese digestive tract is more sensitive (so they can’t digest foreign beef), that Japanese bees are more communal than non-Japanese bees, and that in all sorts of ways ‘it’s a Japanese thing, outsiders can’t understand.’ I guess this is just another one of their
quaint and forgivable cultural peculiarities. So, for example, the brutal misogyny of, say, Arab culture can be rationalized as our own misperceptions of their cultural differences: 'They don’t see it as sexism and misogyny, not even the women; it’s just their culture.
…Not to mention the seemingly insatiable taste for endangered species on Nippon’s dinner tables
writefetus, not to sound smart, but if you delve into any countries history you’ll find things like that.
But sinced we’re such saints, the wholesale slaughter of their civilians is ok :rolleyes:
I mean, it’s not like we ever went out and did a little (thinly disguised) colonialism…nope…not us.
And we certainly never tested venereal diseases or anything like that on blacks…
Every country has its share of terrible things done, in wartime and out of it. We just happen to have inflicted a nuclear one on Japan…
…no, pls. reread my post where I said"just like white Europeans and Americans." in regard to colonialism.
…and yes it is true that every nation on earth has many similar ignoble, shameful episodes in its past, I am just saying Japan does’t have its virtue unblemished either…ok?
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