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mokgohan
Guns n' Bums
Bums n' Guns
and Guns shooting Bums...
Posted in: Current affairs
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mokgohan
Hooray for death!
Look Islamic extremists- we've rebuilt this city... on Rock & Roll!
So... who's next?
Posted in: Celebrations
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mokgohan
My thinking as well Mittsu: Smile and run like hell!
Getting really tired of Tokyo "talents" coming up here to spend the weekend "cheering up" the coastal regions with the sentimental-saccharine-bittersweet j-pop and photo op/TV interview. Telling everybody to do their best and that their not alone; then sprinting back to Tokyo to be interviewed about their "volunteer heroism".
Save the trip up north and send the money you would have spent on it to the Red Cross.
Posted in: Rie Hasegawa launches 'Smile and Run' event for tsunami victims
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mokgohan
Liked their first album which had a lot of fresh ideas that mostly worked.
"Battles stripped Braxton’s contributions from the tracks, and brought in guest vocalists."
Well, anyone who bolts on their band during mid-recording deserves at least this; and it means more Yamantaka Eye- one far out cat.
Posted in: Battles debuts new disc at Tokyo’s first big post-quake festival
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mokgohan
Here we go
Ok. But then you go on to say...
Has it? Folks- hit the JT Picture of the Day archives for March 17th. Notice the Sendai people? 2Klien's "community" which he has been attacking people like myself for apparently "fleeing in sheer terror" from? Do you think they would agree with his assessment of the situation?
If you say so, then it must be true...
...then you come back again to give some stats that can't even be assessed since the school year doesn't start up until May. And when the numbers for those who officially left for good are finally crunched... well, for that entire flimsy arguement I have this to say- the history of foreigners taking off and leaving the Japanese in the lurch is only slightly shorter than the history of the first foreigners arriving in Japan. You can call those people flyjin- and I will too.
I've been looking at your past history- over 15 pages since the quake! Alot of it in the mid-morning and afternoon; those are prime time volunteer hours Yo! Shouldn't you have been out y'know doing all those things you chastised myself and many of my friends for avoiding?
JT readers and posters, I'm 39 years old, I've lived in Sendai since I was 25. I took (not fled) my wife, 5-year-old daughter and 9-month old son out of the zone and to Canada 8 days after the quake to not be a burden on a strained area by contributing to consumption (along with many other reasons). I care greatly for the community I live in and it was not nearly as easy to leave it as JKlien portrays in his numerous posts. I returned 2 weeks and one day ago. These are truths and if you're wondering who to believe, well I've called him out directly 3 times now on 2 different stories and (although we know he's reading because he's resonding to others) he has yet to respond to me. Who is really "fleeing in sheer terror"?
Moderator: Readers, enough of this sniping at each other.
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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mokgohan
No it wasn't, unless I've got the meaning of the word "plentiful" wrong. I saw line-ups around the block at the downtown supermarkets as my bus pulled out of Sendai 1 week and 1 day after the quake. And they were still rationing to 10 items each half a week later according to my mother-in-law; this is why we left, not fled. While you continued to contribute to the problem. Which you amusingly try to justify as your integral obligation to your community.
C'mon man, I've lived in Sendai 15 years. No Japanese really care if we left or not and you know it. This was all started by guys like you pulling out cheesy Robert Frost quotes about "taking the road less travelled".
How about this one from Bob Marley- "Judge not, until you judge yourself".
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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mokgohan
I've responded to your opinion concerning this subject before Klien2 and I've gotta call you on your utterly arrogant and self-gratifying comments yet again. Here in Sendai my Japanese relatives and co-workers were the ones that, after a week convinced me to take my family and leave; Expressing concern for my children (5 years and 9 months old) and that I shouldn't waste an opportunity they didn't have. My Japanese co-workers are right now chuckling over your comments about how I left them in "iminent danger".
The truth is, the government wanted people here to stay indoors as much as possible and take care of our own. Must've been nice with the teachers going door-to-door: we contacted ours by phone, as some of our students didn't have any doors to go to. You admit being told to evacuate but you immodestly state how "extremely important" it was for you to attend a ceremony. Well, don't know where you're at but ceremonies here were cancelled and a friend still in town said people were sitting on their hands staring at the walls. Maybe I should've volunteered eh? except I checked into it and was dissuaded from doing so as there were much more than enough volunteers already. So any foreigner handing out onigiri, cleaning tatami in the shelters, shovelling mud out of houses- ANY of them could have left and been replaced by a local Japanese (probably without a house themselves) doing the same job and the only difference would have been that the area would have been minus 1 consumer (and no human interest puff piece on the news "look at the gaijin chipping in!")
I'm sure you feel your efforts were honorable and although you attempt to make it seem like you're not patting yourself on the back, you end up almost twisting your arm off and sainting yourself by your 3rd rant (its a rant: just look at how many people agree with you after). Check your ego at the door and swallow your misjudged pride- you were a consumer who had the choice but refused to leave in an area that you admit was deficient of supplies. With bravado-induced help like that, who needs help? So you were unwittingly part of the problem and have the gall to come on here and start bashing people that were part of the solution but were, according to you, leaving out of "sheer panic"? Not really, more like sound logic.
tKoind2 said it right- self rightous condemnation indeed.
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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mokgohan
When not dousing critical nuclear reactor accidents the Putzmeister 70Z likes to spend its time pumping patrons full of beer at Oktoberfest. Call now to rent the Putzmeister for your next fraternity Keg party!
Posted in: Pumped up
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mokgohan
I just returned to Sendai last night from 2 weeks in Canada so my kids and wife could chill and my parents would be relieved. What a welcome home! It knocked down everything in our house that the first one did and lengthened the cracks in the walls. It felt almost as strong as the first one but very abrupt- starting quickly and finishing quickly, whereas the 9.0 on the 11th started slow but grew and grew. At work now- place is a mess; lots of plaster, brick, flooding and even a wall that fell down.
B.T.W. Anyone want my T.V.? After doing face-plants during both quakes it now projects a psychedelic, vivid rainbow display that flows in waves across the screen. Pretty cool but hard to look at for more than a minute without getting an eye ache. I'll trade you for flashlight batteries.
Posted in: 4 killed, 141 injured after 7.4 quake hits Miyagi Pref, vicinity
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mokgohan
I love jokes but this is my town anglootaku and I don't find your comment funny in the least. I was downtown all afternoon and I guarantee you none of the people in this picture would find your comment funny either. Not one.
Posted in: Stocking up
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mokgohan
Looks like a ventriloquist act. Is Depp sitting on his knee?
Posted in: Deppendable
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mokgohan
His cover tunes include Beastie Boys' Lookin Down The Barrel Of A Gun,
Tupac Shakur's All Eyez On Me and Can't C Me,
Snoop Doggy Dog's You Betta Recognize,
OutKast's When I Look in Your Eyes *and *Buggface,
De La Soul's Eye Know,
Eminem's Business,
and then he finishes with Public Enemy's Don't Believe The Hype
Posted in: Making a spectacle of himself
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mokgohan
Tanoshingo, enjoy your 15 minutes buddy, your about 7 minutes in- you'll know the shtick has dried up when they do the prime-time tearjerker bio of your repressed, in-the-closet upbringing.
Whiskeysour, I think you've just spent your ration of exclamation points up for the month; I can sell you some of mine if you want.
Posted in: Ramen on the phone
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mokgohan
Don't know if anyone's mentioned this but the real measuring stick would be if they released a DVD of men calling out to their younger sisters and see how well that sells.
The only time my younger sisters ever called to me when I was young was when I had to take out the garbage or if I left the toilet seat up.
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mokgohan
I can't buy dope in this country without going to prison but I could buy this at, I'm guessing, any conbini.
Surprisingly, the Company's first CD release of anonymous old ladies calling out to their sons (who have moved to the big city and never call home anymore and neglect them because they're too busy watching their imaginary "sisters" DVDs) did not sell quite as well.
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mokgohan
Wait, you need to understand plot to direct major motion pictures? Someone forgot to tell Jerry Bruckheimer. Also, these days Charlie Sheen could be watching AnPanMan and think it's a snuff film.
Posted in: All’s fair in blood and gore for special effects maestro Yoshihiro Nishimura
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mokgohan
Wouldn't be surprised if Hollywood comes knocking in a few years; Some of today's most in-demand directors (James Cameron, Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson) had rather gory starts.
Posted in: All’s fair in blood and gore for special effects maestro Yoshihiro Nishimura
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mokgohan
By the beard of Odin! Thor's in Japan early to promo his new movie.
Posted in: Power of nature
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mokgohan
Being unemployed does not always mean you're lazy.
Posted in: Mother held for allegedly drowning 12-day-old son in bathtub
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mokgohan
They'll exert extreme effort towards making it as bad as they possibly can... without anything actually happening in the end.
Posted in: How bad do you think the tension on the Korean Peninsula is going to get?