SlowMan, weren't you the poster who claimed Japan still has designs on the Korean Peninsula, despite all lack of evidence to the contrary?

 

Gimme a frickin' break, man.  Let's see...crack is made to be addictive, and so screws up its user that they become unable to function in society.  McDonalds' arguably tastes pretty good and will kill you if you eat it continually for about 30 years and don't exercise.  Crack is illegal, McDs isn't.  Yeah, that's a great analogy you have there.  If Okinawans are so susceptible to eating fast food and promptly keeling over, they could, y'know, stop eating there. 

 

Instead, they'll blame Americans for it.  Damn you, Ray Kroc!  How dare you offer cheap food made quickly!  Who knew that the mere introduction of American fast food would kill thousands of Japanese? Where the hell was Ray Kroc in 1945?!  We didn't need the atomic bombs!

Seriously, though...I wasn't suggesting that China shouldn't be torqued because of Nanjing, especially since right-wingers in Japan keep trying to whitewash the whole thing.  However, at least two Japanese PMs and one Emperor have apologized for it, and as I said, if the Chinese want to visit the horror of war on Japan, they're a bit late for that.  Maybe melting the flesh off of people at Hiroshima doesn't quite balance out raping a woman with a katana, but it's close.  The war is over, and the people responsible for Nanjing are long dead and in hell.  While we should never, ever forget it, neither should we hold the crimes of the past over the people of the present.

Never. I don't know where you got such ideas.

 

What I pointed out is the long-runnung territorial dispute between Japan and Korea which is well documented at wikipedia at here < link >, a dispute so fierce that many experts fear that it could trigger a grand nval showdown that would make Falklands War look like child's play. < link >

Wow...

 

We have gone from a clueless fanboy saying stupid stuff about planes...

 

...to telling us that McDonalds is addictive in the same way as crack cocaine and that viewing kung fu movies is a way to predict future wars in Asia.

 

 

 

 

I'll have to ask my Japanese friends if they are suddenly seized with the desire to scarf eight Big Macs instead of going home to have a nice bowl of miso whenever they pass a McD's back home.  You should be able to hear the laughter, SlowMan.  There's this thing called willpower and personal responsibility, and contrary to popular belief, I imagine they exist in Japan as well as other places.

 

As for the next Tsushima Strait--who are these "experts" you cite and what are they smoking?  The Koreans and the Japanese aren't exactly best buds, but this is nothing more than paranoia.  It's like one mouse accusing another of plotting to grab a crumb of cheese, while the cat stands over their shoulders licking its chops.

 

And you'll excuse me for not taking your kung fu movie analogy seriously.  Plenty of other cultures have the same feelings, not just the Chinese, and while you can learn a lot about a culture through its movies, that can be taken too far.  It would be like watching tentacle hentai and assuming that all Japanese women want to be raped by demons.

 

SlowMan, you don't like the Japanese.  Established.  But if you're going to debate with people and be taken seriously, leave the bigotry at home.

@ sentinel28a



> SlowMan, weren't you the poster who claimed Japan still has designs on the Korean Peninsula

Never. I don't know where you got such ideas.

 

What I pointed out is the long-runnung territorial dispute between Japan and Korea which is well documented at wikipedia at here <link... >, a dispute so fierce that many experts fear that it could trigger a grand nval showdown that would make Falklands War look like child's play. <link... >

> Crack is illegal, McDs isn't.



Both are highly addictive, especially Big Mac and Mac Fries on people who are fed on a life-long diet of fish and miso soups.

There is one thing I will diagree with you on and that the opinion that McD's is addictive it truely isn't have you ever try to eat that shit? I guy I knew was desparate for work and ended up working in a Macdonald factory he explained that there was one side of the factory which stunk of sewage and the burgers went in all types of colours they were then sprayed with a scent and also something that made them look the right colour, in between the spraying to make the smell nice and spraying to make them look the right colour they were 'cooked' you have got to have major mental defects to like that shit have any of you ever tried making a meal with stuff like real veg, real chesse, herbs and spices?

Really if you haven't and you like 'a good old macky D' then give it a try it doesn't take long, it won't kill you, tastes a whole lot better and you save a shit load of money!!



> If Okinawans are so susceptible to eating fast food and promptly keeling over, they could, y'know, stop eating there.



Why don't you tell crackheads that they should stop smoking crack since it's bad for them. Or cigarette smokers if you find pursuation of crackheads a bit too tough.

 

> However, at least two Japanese PMs and one Emperor have apologized for it



Those apologies are seen as lip services and not sincere.



> if the Chinese want to visit the horror of war on Japan, they're a bit late for that.



Ask Chinese if they should forgive Japan. Chinese aren't Christians, and the Christian code of ethics is very foreign and alien to Chinese. You watch Chinese Kung Fu movies, and you

There is one thing I will diagree with you on and that the opinion that McD's is addictive it truely isn't have you ever try to eat that shit? I guy I knew was desparate for work and ended up working in a Macdonald factory he explained that there was one side of the factory which stunk of sewage and the burgers went in all types of colours they were then sprayed with a scent and also something that made them look the right colour, in between the spraying to make the smell nice and spraying to make them look the right colour they were 'cooked' you have got to have major mental defects to like that shit have any of you ever tried making a meal with stuff like real veg, real chesse, herbs and spices?

Really if you haven't and you like 'a good old macky D' then give it a try it doesn't take long, it won't kill you, tastes a whole lot better and you save a shit load of money!!

Having taken only the time to read through a third of the PDF referenced, I'd point to table 4.2-6 which gives sound levels in DB for the various aircraft. Now, they're quoting F18 figures as a model for the F22 after some profiling but that sucker is louder than a B1B!

 

:faints:

 

There's all sorts of reasons why the report concludes that the bed down won't hurt anyone too much over the very lightly populated areas mentioned for the tests, but the F22 is shown from that table as being between 1-8 db louder than the F15.

 

Ow...

 

Japan is rather more densely populated as well.

On the other hand, Slowman also shot himself in the foot by citing all these issues with the F22 flying over Japan, after having tirelessly campaigned for the US to sell it to the Japanese.

 

Read 4.2-6, it's illuminating on sound levels for the aircraft types. There's one typo for the F15 figures but the rest is consistent - and seems to show the F22 is LOUD.

 

Ian

 

As 40 years half-Japanese man, with a Japanese wife and 2 Japanese children, who read SP daily but post rarely, I have been trying to avoid conflict with Slowman since I realized he is Korean by ignoring his posts. At the begining I thought he was just other Chinese, nothing wrong with that, but because of the way many Chineses have been educated about Japan and the West I thought that his behavior can be excused if he is willing to listen and think by himself.

It has been more than a surprise to realize he is Korean, who is posting on SP weird and childish things, specially about Japan, to get the attention. Since that day I have not been reading his post for long time and just getting to know what is happening by reading other posters' comments on Slowman's comments.  I wonder why he can not comment about Korea, there should be many interesting things to learn about it, and why Japan is the main topic of his posts or comments. The only conclusion that I can make about it that he is just showing some of his individual prejudices. However I really want to keep the general good opinion about Koreans that I have met in Japan. 

 

Thanks to God, other posters have been giving Slowman the proper treatment that his behavior demanded. Thus taking off the burden from my shoulders to correct his weird and childish comments about Japan. 

 

I hope he changes his mind.

 

Sayonara

 

Maruben