BF2S Forums 9.0 Earthquake in Japan (March 11, 2011)

Great, now I'm paranoid about everything around me giving me radiation. My house?! Ffffuuu-

Kmar wrote:

You shouldn't be if you checked the bottom right graphic.

lol

Well what has it been a week and a half? They are still bitching in New Orleans for shit they never deserved or earned 6 years later, and that the govt. still has not written them blank checks for life. Is any raping and looting and murdering in Japan yet?

Now that personal responsibility and individualism, along with the fact that I am not from Rwanda, has been ruled out as reasons for the raping and looting and murdering in New Orleans during a hurricane. Can we discuss the social phenomena of dignity respect and honor displayed by the Japanese during an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown at the same time while New Orleans, did not and still does not display any such behavior 6 years later?

Last edited by lowing (2011-03-21 13:54:23)

How does a country begin the cleanup process of such a disaster? In Japan's case, I'd assume they would need to sort through the wreckage and "recycle" the metals, and throw the rest away? Then maybe uproot all the plumbing and electricity to start everything from scratch?

Whole villages have been wiped out. It's a good chance to start over and make improvements, from a city engineers point of view, no?

-Sh1fty- wrote:

How does a country begin the cleanup process of such a disaster? In Japan's case, I'd assume they would need to sort through the wreckage and "recycle" the metals, and throw the rest away? Then maybe uproot all the plumbing and electricity to start everything from scratch?

Whole villages have been wiped out. It's a good chance to start over and make improvements, from a city engineers point of view, no?

and they will.

Jay wrote:

lowing wrote:

Stubbee wrote:

nah i think that debate is over.
now if you want to talk about japan without comparing to your favorite pet peeves, go for it.

I am talking about Japan. Unlike any other "civilized" nation facing this sort of thing, (if any other nation faced this sort of thing before), the Japanese have carried themselves with dignity honor and respect for each other. New Orleans is the closest thing to it, and their actions were a disgrace to our nation as a whole. I want to explore an explanation as to why Japan is so honorable, and one of cities of the leader of the free world acts like the pile shit they proved themselves to be, facing a hell of a lot less crisis.

So move there gaijin if you envy them so much.

doesn't address the question now does it?

-Sh1fty- wrote:

All the Japanese people (Not just physically Japanese, but mentally) that I know are outstanding citizens. very honorable, family oriented, and polite.

If this happened in L.A. I could not imagine the sh!t that would be going down there right now.

I lived on Okinawa and I left with the same impression of the Japanese.( okinawans )
you wouldn't have to imagine, you could look at New Orleans and see exactly how the entitled would act.

by the way, look what LA does to itself, when the entitled do not get their way, let alone from mother nature

Last edited by lowing (2011-03-21 17:11:07)

Shocking wrote:

We did this already. It's a cultural thing but you refuse to believe that, so I'll give you the answer you want;

You appease to the weak and don't punish criminals hard enough. New Orleans strayed from what it means to 'be American'.

ummm personal responsibility, individualism and me not being from rwanda are hardly the answers to the question.


Also, if it is a cultural thing, this exact same thing woulda happened EVERYWHERE else Katrina devastated, or every town tornadoes wipe out every year, or every hurricane that Florida gets nailed with. It does not happen. So if you claim a cultural reason, which culture do you refer because it isn't an American culture in general obviously.

Stubbee wrote:

hey lets nuke new orleans
or revoke their citizenship (they are semi-french anyway)
or replace them with quake victims from japan

dude we get it. we agree some people from New Orleans are terrible people.
you have a really broad brush though and not just on this topic.
let
it
go
the pompoms are getting ragged
you want to talk about Katrina or New Orleans , revive the thread about it or create one.

Ok so you don't want to talk about the reasons New Orleans instinctively acted like a bunch of douche bags compared to the Japanese instinctively acting with dignity and honor?

How about the notion that this is "American culture" compared to "Japanese culture"? Can you explain how this is only "American culture" in shit holes full of liberals like New Orleans or LA, or SF while not so much in the midwest towns nailed by tornadoes and floods, or Florida nailed by hurricanes? Keeping in mind that there is no reason to believe the Japanese behavior would not have been the same regardless of where the crisis hit?

Are these not observations worth discussing?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree … -fukushima

lowing wrote:

Stubbee wrote:

hey lets nuke new orleans
or revoke their citizenship (they are semi-french anyway)
or replace them with quake victims from japan

dude we get it. we agree some people from New Orleans are terrible people.
you have a really broad brush though and not just on this topic.
let
it
go
the pompoms are getting ragged
you want to talk about Katrina or New Orleans , revive the thread about it or create one.

Ok so you don't want to talk about the reasons New Orleans instinctively acted like a bunch of douche bags compared to the Japanese instinctively acting with dignity and honor?

How about the notion that this is "American culture" compared to "Japanese culture"? Can you explain how this is only "American culture" in shit holes full of liberals like New Orleans or LA, or SF while not so much in the midwest towns nailed by tornadoes and floods, or Florida nailed by hurricanes? Keeping in mind that there is no reason to believe the Japanese behavior would not have been the same regardless of where the crisis hit?

Are these not observations worth discussing?

Really no.
Leave politics/culture out of it. You really need to find an antidote to the Viagra you are on. You are supposed to seek medical attention if the hard-on lasts more than 4 hours and as far as I can remember your hard-on in regards to libs/dems has lasted at least 4 years.

Stubbee wrote:

lowing wrote:

Stubbee wrote:

hey lets nuke new orleans
or revoke their citizenship (they are semi-french anyway)
or replace them with quake victims from japan

dude we get it. we agree some people from New Orleans are terrible people.
you have a really broad brush though and not just on this topic.
let
it
go
the pompoms are getting ragged
you want to talk about Katrina or New Orleans , revive the thread about it or create one.

Ok so you don't want to talk about the reasons New Orleans instinctively acted like a bunch of douche bags compared to the Japanese instinctively acting with dignity and honor?

How about the notion that this is "American culture" compared to "Japanese culture"? Can you explain how this is only "American culture" in shit holes full of liberals like New Orleans or LA, or SF while not so much in the midwest towns nailed by tornadoes and floods, or Florida nailed by hurricanes? Keeping in mind that there is no reason to believe the Japanese behavior would not have been the same regardless of where the crisis hit?

Are these not observations worth discussing?

Really no.
Leave politics/culture out of it. You really need to find an antidote to the Viagra you are on. You are supposed to seek medical attention if the hard-on lasts more than 4 hours and as far as I can remember your hard-on in regards to libs/dems has lasted at least 4 years.

Lowing has a good point and you're dismissing it, Why?