edlib Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Yo... I AM trying to hook a brother up... Me! I'm trying to hook myself up. Hands off! That's the one I drove home Thanksgiving night. She lives 5 minutes away from me... and she just friended me on Facebook. The one on the left is the girlfriend of the other guy in the picture... and the one in the middle is my buddy's wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Go ed. Advice: Never bring her here. Reason: I'll probably say something insensitive about the Japanese. Work continues to drone on. Just bidding my time until I'm released from retail and into Field Services. God save not working in retail ever again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 oh dear crackel bar... @your comment.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 I've been watching the Desert Bus for Hope webcam since I got home from work... After 72 hours of playing the world's most boring game they've raised almost $50,000 for Child's Play Charity, and they've still got at least (driving time increases with donations) another 48 hours of driving to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Go ed. Advice: Never bring her here. Shouldn't be a problem. Actually... while it's a great fantasy: I am well enough aware of my history with the female of the species to know that I probably have less of a chance with her than an ice cube does on the surface of the sun... even if Hell were to suddenly freeze over, twice... and she and I woke up one day to learn we are the very last 2 people alive on planet Earth. Still... now that I have ways to contact her, I guess attempt I'll see if she is the slightest bit receptive. She tracked me down online, after all. Maybe that's a good sign... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 oh dear crackel bar... @your comment.. lol, it's not that I hate a Japanese person, it's I hate the nation. Still a taaad bit bitter over the Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula from 1929-1945........... ok, that's a severe understatement.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Hmmm... No offense intended, dude... but: While that was indeed a bad time filled with undoubtedly horrible atrocities, I'm wondering how long one can continue to be so emotional over events that ended decades before any of us were born? But... on the other hand: here it is, 2008... and we still as a society often talk about the Nazis, the Civil War, and slavery as if those were all still fresh wounds. I'm part Native American Indian... I guess I could have a few things to say about national occupation and genocidal atrocities if I chose to revisit history in that way. Of course: I'm actually as, if not more, related to ancestors who are guilty of committing those same human-rights crimes... so I'm not exactly sure who I could be ever angry at... so it's a wash, I guess. Anyway: Last night - 5 back to back gospel bands. Yikes! Started out loud... got progressively louder as the night went on. I foolishly didn't have any earplugs down at the board... and now I'm paying for it today with ears that are ringing. Oh well... I probably didn't need to hear those frequencies anymore, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Been playing some Doom II. Still the best FPS ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 I started playing RS again. Me and my sone got about 10 missions under our belt when he accidently delete our scores....again....... So we started all over again.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Still a taaad bit bitter over the Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula from 1929-1945........... I didnt realize you were that old................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Ed/Zargon; It's more of a thing that history kinda of washed over that, and the Koreans kinda got the short end of the stick in the post war era, and we never really look into what actually happened during those years. Yeah, the Japanese beat the Chinese into a bloody submission to the point even the Nazi's went "Holy S*&t that's messed up yo." but history sees one instance of pure brutality when there were several others. Add the fact the Japanese were NEVER punished as bad as the Nazi's for pure political reasons, it's rather upsetting. Germany does in a very small way recognize that their leaders in that time were horrible human beings capable of horrible acts against human kind. Japanese textbooks gloss over World War II as a passing thought. According to Japanese textbooks, all that happened was two extremely powerful and large bombs got dropped on them after a 10 year long conflict that's largely glossed over. I'm not that old, but national pride comes forth and when people speak of the atrocities that were commited during that era, we always forget what was going on in that part of the world. And the Japanese never ever seem to show any remorse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 I didnt realize you were that old................ he's not. although, i question the resentment, but i sorta understand. on the flip side, there is still alot of Japanese still resenting those two little things that were 'specially delivered' to their people about 60 years ago before the end of WWII... edit Also to those music fans who can remember or those who dont: band members to System of a Down had relatives to the Armenian Genocide 1915-17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Ed/Zargon; It's more of a thing that history kinda of washed over that, and the Koreans kinda got the short end of the stick in the post war era, and we never really look into what actually happened during those years. Yeah, the Japanese beat the Chinese into a bloody submission to the point even the Nazi's went "Holy S*&t that's messed up yo." but history sees one instance of pure brutality when there were several others. Add the fact the Japanese were NEVER punished as bad as the Nazi's for pure political reasons, it's rather upsetting. Germany does in a very small way recognize that their leaders in that time were horrible human beings capable of horrible acts against human kind. Japanese textbooks gloss over World War II as a passing thought. According to Japanese textbooks, all that happened was two extremely powerful and large bombs got dropped on them after a 10 year long conflict that's largely glossed over. I'm not that old, but national pride comes forth and when people speak of the atrocities that were commited during that era, we always forget what was going on in that part of the world. And the Japanese never ever seem to show any remorse. honeslty I understeand and was being sarcastic I find people here that talk about slavery like that still...I find that sorta....rediculous I have never heard much of anything about what happened in Korea during WW2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 It was brutal slave labour and abuse of Korean women as "playthings" (the nicest way I can put it) for Japanese Officers and Royalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 I do actually understand too... but I also have always had trouble finding fault with someone alive today for something one of their ancestors might have done. I mean: There are even things my own government is currently doing in my name that I simply don't approve of, and that I really don't want to have to take the credit for... let alone things that might have happened before I, or even my parents were born. I'm just saying: you have every right to dislike the situation that happened, and choose to not forget... but is it fair to lay that on the heads of people living today that had nothing to do with it? Even the current government authorities for something their predecessors did? And that whole "Institutional Apology" thing has always seemed symbolic, but useless. There's nothing that can be done for the people who lived through those horrors now... and the people that committed them are probably all long dead and gone, or so old that they are beyond caring what happens to them... so all you can really do is saddle a current generation that had nothing to do with it with the feeling that they should be guilty for the way their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents may have thought or acted. I dunno... It just feels to me that if we choose go back far enough, we will all have dirt and blood stains on our family trees... so what's to be the statute of limitations in these cases? 50 years? 100? There are probably a LOT of history books that would have to be amended and re-written if we going to be 100% accurate and truthful. I suspect that what I think I know about American and European history has been altered from the unvarnished dirty truth. I'm not saying what the Japanese are teaching their children is proper... but they certainly aren't the first to attempt to gloss-over and cover up a shameful period of the past,.. and sure won't be the last. In this case, the accurate truth is actually out there, and I'm sure many, if not most well educated Japanese citizens are already aware of what happened, even if they don't ever talk about it. But that's just how I personally feel. I obviously don't have your national background, or one really like it,.. so perhaps I just can't emphasize to the extent I should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Odin Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 not much, got married Friday, not much else going on Congrats on getting married. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Finished Gears Of War 2. Epic ending... but obviously there will be a 3 now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 not much, got married Friday, not much else going on Welcome to the club, Zarg! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Cracken, it is stupid to hold a countries inhabitants responsable for horrors that occured before many were even born. Every country has it's skeletons, we just need to remember in hopes it will not be repeated. btw.. it looks like my kitty has become possesed... only took a week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 And a happy humpday to everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildstar Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 We're past the beginning of the last month of the year, and we're over 2,300 posts. I think 2,500 posts by the end of the year is a possibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Hmmm... that might be pushing it a wee bit... but it's a worthy goal. OK everybody: POST MORE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 hahahaha I'll try thanks for the congrats everyone she put her car in a ditch last night shes shaken but not stirred, car is a bit uglier but still driveable. We were going to get her a new car this weekend anyways and get rid of mine still will, but im back to driving an ugly turd again...oh well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 POST MORE!!! POSTING MOAR SIR!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 old habits die hard eh scar?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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