# My Day at the Hiroshima Day Party **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 5, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435 "2002-08-05T14:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/1 "2002-08-05T14:12:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Moto \* > \*\*Wasn’t Sunday your day of whining, **Halo**? How did it go? \*\* As the SDMB roving reporter, I was lucky enough to have an interview with someone who went to **HALO** ’s little Hiroshima Day party. Me: Can you tell us, Halo-esqe person, what happened during your Hiroshima-Day Party? HALOesqe-person. Oh, it was just _lovely_! First, we chanted AMERIKA SUX! fifty-one times. Once for each state, and once for Guam, a province I don’t particually care for. Then, we built a paper-maiche cannon (like the ones that fired those nukular missles at Hiroshima?) and put some flowers in the barrel. It was sooooooo moving. Then on to cupcakes and juice! 🙂 Following that, our spirits renewed after our long, arduous struggle by the yummy carob-and-no-refined sugar cupcakes and all-natural cabbage juice we listened to whale songs. (Whales don’t build nucular weapons, 'cause they’re smarter than us.). I wept openly at the beauty. Following that we held hands and sang the the Whoville chant from THE GRINCH THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS but we changed the lyrics to make the _REAL_ Grinch that stole Christmas for millions of Japanese people who were victims of an AMERIKAN war of agression. I rewrote the lyrics! The real lyrics are something like “Baho-dooray, baho-moray, welcome Christmas welcome all!” but that’s culturally imperialist and redolent of Dead White Males! My version goes AMERIKA SUUUKS AMERIKA SUUUKS AM-ER-IK-A SUKS A LOT for 43 verses. People got very emotional. We then had an encounter session. I expressed my guilt at being me. Everyone agreed and said they felt the same way. This made us feel better. The exhausting pace was grueling, so, in honor of the poor people starving all over the world, we had a pre-lunch snack of plain brown rice to raise our awareness of their plight. I cried, _cried_ openly. Then we had a light lunch of brie, omlettes and a nice fruit salad. After lunch we had naptime. So MANY people don’t realize the value of getting plenty of rest while changing the world and raising people’s conciousnesses! Next was tea and cookies. They were yummy and reinvigorated us for our hunger strike which was to last from 1:55 pm to 4:30 pm. We then had speakers. Oh it was electric! The topics ranged from AMERIKA! IT SUKS! to AMERIKA FASCIST INSECT NUCULER OPRESSORS, so all viewpoints were given a fair chance. One small sour note. Some evil racist brought up the utterly irrelevant point that lots of nations (India, Pakistan, etc) also have nucular weapons. Of course we denounced him as the racist he was. Luckily, he didn’t “bring us down” too much!!! Next we went to our anti-war love-in. In it, we all agreed that war was bad and never solved anything or helped anyone. Ever. And if only people were as enlightened as us, there would never be any war ever again. Even if someone was being oppressed or something. No-one can stand up in the face of non-violent resistance. Can you imagine how ashamed Hitler would have been if Ghandi had simply sat down in front of his armies? If Ghandi had been as enlightened as _us_ World War Two would have been over in minutes. We all agreed on that. We then stopped for a pizza break. Made with FULLY ORGANIC WHEAT! I’ll bet _that_ showed those multi-nationals! We ended the day with a non-denominational prayer to the higher powers (or plea to humanity , 'cause of the athiests) for peace. Oh Diety, if you exist, or Humanity in General (if you don’t) Why can’t you be (or make people be) more like us? We are the enlightened ones. We college students are worldly wise and spiritually enlightened. Everyone else is an ignoramus. We’re thinking thoughts that _NO ONE_ has ever thought before. If only people would stop their cultural imperialism and be more like us, things would be _soooo_ much better. We hate the gutless We hate the lowlives We hate the ignorant We hate the twisted And most of all we hate the haters. Oh yeah: and…Amerika Sux. Amen. Fenris, your roving reporter ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/2 "2002-08-05T14:16:53Z")
I don’t get _anything_ anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/3 "2002-08-05T14:19:36Z")
Uh… huh. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/4 "2002-08-05T14:23:37Z")
Here’s the [link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=128244&pagenumber=1) for the thread being parodied. **Fenris** , as always, I take off my horned helmet to you, O mighty sun-devouring wolf! ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/5 "2002-08-05T14:47:59Z")
> [@](#): > > originally by Fenris > We then had an encounter session. I expressed my guilt at being me. Everyone agreed and said they felt the same way. This made us feel better. _That_ was a true line of beauty. With your permission, I may even use that as a sig line (with proper attribution of course) ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/6 "2002-08-05T14:54:34Z")
> [@](#): > > originally by Fenris > We then had an encounter session. I expressed my guilt at being me. Everyone agreed and said they felt the same way. This made us feel better. _That_ was a true line of beauty. With your permission, I may even use that as a sig line (with proper attribution of course) ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/7 "2002-08-05T14:59:37Z")
I’ll only use the line once, I promise. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/8 "2002-08-05T15:08:00Z")
That reminds me of some people I knew in college… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/9 "2002-08-05T15:14:22Z")
Wow. Lotta NoVa people here. That was truly wonderful reporting, **Fenris**. **Halo13** couldn’t have done it better. Really. I’m still anxiously awaiting his account, though. Like I said before, I have to cross the demonstration lines tomorrow. I shall give a full account afterward. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/10 "2002-08-05T15:15:41Z")
It reminds me of a lot of people I know at college right now. Especially the naptime, tea, and cookies. 🙂 Nice job, **Fenris**. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/11 "2002-08-05T15:15:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\*Here’s the [link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=128244&pagenumber=1) for the thread being parodied. > \*\* Sorry about that. I’d meant to do a link and didn’t copy and paste correctly! Thanks though! Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/12 "2002-08-05T19:21:26Z")
can I make fun of **Halo13** also? Thanks. I may missspppelll some words but AmeriKKKa SuKs! You speldd AmeriKKKa wrong. Personally, I am glad that kid found The Straight Dope. I hope he sticks around. He makes it interesting, and will get more out of it than virtually anyone else hanging around right now. At least he seems curious. I regret overly slamming a similar kid called **curious george**. Haven’t seen him in a while. I don’t miss his cut-and-paste arguments however. Note to **Halo13** , just keep posting in the Pit for a while. Your posts are pretty much destined here. Remember, there are no stupid questions, just stupid people who ask questions. Dictionaries: know them, learn them, live them. ---
**Author:** ![Sparc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Sparc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparc)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/13 "2002-08-05T21:46:55Z")
As we type tonight a child is wandering helplessly in the shadow of ignorance. A halo of innocence crowns this pup’s troubled brow. S/he is troubled for s/he has been endowed with the seed of doubt. Blinded by the flash of reason so strong that the light of atomic bombs seem to pale to a mere bedside lamp this child has forever been disillusioned. Yet s/he marches on in a futile attempt to hold on to the juvenile delusions that were of such comfort only days ago. S/he marches because it is ‘That Day’ today and tries to muster unquestioning force for the Kumbaya refrain, but as this child holds the clammy hand of yet another pimple faced protester in washed out blacks and sagging piercings the voice falters and s\he wonders; “Could they be right? Did I get it wrong?” It will still be years until reason takes root, but one day s/he will wake up in a bolstered middle class home and sigh at the sight of little Halo13 Jr. typing away angrily at a keyboard, and s/he will think of us and chuckle silently while s/he walks out to the driveway and the Volvo station wagon that s/he will drive to a comfy middle management job in a plush downtown office. Ah! The days of intoxicating addled youth that are so fleeting. Sparc ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/14 "2002-08-05T22:04:59Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\* > After lunch we had naptime. So MANY people don’t realize the value of getting plenty of rest while changing the world and raising people’s conciousnesses!_\* And what’s wrong with a nap? As a sales-person, I realize the capitalist value of ending my day about 3 or so, taking a nap, and working through the night updating my database with my calls through the day. I don’t use no pink blankie when I nap–I do it to improve my productivity for the corporate machine. Naps are the Invisible Pink Unicorn’s way of saying that s/he loves you. ---
**Author:** ![Halo13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Halo13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Halo13)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/15 "2002-08-05T22:15:36Z")
**Captian** don’t misquote me, YOU said “America is evil”, NOT ME. Well Sunday was Hiroshima Day and it was a success. Hundreds of people were able to march and hear speakers from various Universities, anti-nuclear groups, and Human Rights advocates. Talking to many people on the day makes me realise just how ignorant some of the responses above have been. Regardless of the ‘Hawks’ in here trying to derail discussion of Hiroshima, we have seen so good responses. Don’t allow the load mouths in this thread to distract you. We are supposed to be discussing a topic, not having a back forth. **Sparc** and **Fenris** , your bigotry has no place here and viewers do not appreciate your high jacking of this thread. I think it is clear your arguments on this topic are exhausted, so do us all a favour. ---
**Author:** ![Wabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/16 "2002-08-05T22:22:08Z")
**Halo** , can I be the first to say that I think you’re a comedic genius? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Sparc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Sparc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparc)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/17 "2002-08-05T22:30:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Sparc and Fenris, your bigotry has no place here and viewers do not appreciate your high jacking of this thread. Genius, sheer genius! The meltdown continues. I am in stitches! You do realize that this is Fenris’ thread and all that… but never mind. Sparc After being labeled as a pesky radical European liberal by december I can now add to my accolades a reactionary bigot label from Halo13. Living the trials and tribulations of the reasonable moderate is so much fun. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/18 "2002-08-05T22:35:21Z")
**Sparc & Fenris** _bigots_??? and on the same side??? into what bizarro world have I wandered ? ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/19 "2002-08-05T23:06:35Z")
So hundreds of people came. Like, 200? I think my university’s D3 basketball games drew more. 'Course, we were NCAA champs in 2k1. So, it’s to be expected. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435/20 "2002-08-05T23:21:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Hundreds of people were able to march and hear speakers from various Universities, anti-nuclear groups, and Human Rights advocates. 'Course, that was ‘cause all them mean ol’ hawk types kept the minions of totalitarianism at bay long enough for you to grow up–an event that will probably occur _some_ time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-at-the-hiroshima-day-party/122435.md?page=2)