March 11th remembered

[yanpa]

Two years ago already?

I haven't got anything to say right now - the day job calls - but I'll just leave this thread here for anyone who wants to comment (any BS will be removed to a more deserving place).

[Coligny]

Still ashamed at the time it took me to realise that it was shit hitting the fan in real time... (I mean, a quake north of Tokyo that shook Toyohashi for 5 minutes giving me sea sickness, how dull you have to be not to realise that it was not going to be a milk run after that...)
Also as consequence of 1, still angry not to have made a logbook aboot it...

[matsuki]

...and faith in the oyaji's in charge of this cuntry has reached all time lows.

[legion]

...and faith in the oyaji's in charge of this cuntry has reached all time lows.

but the average citizens acquitted themselves impressively

and despite not being in the best of health himself, the Emperor did his bit and more

[canman]

I don't know if I agree with you Chokonen, there were, and still are a lot of Oyajis who really stepped forward and did what they could, especially some of the old timers at Dai Ichi Nuclear Plant. Or some of the fire and rescue guys who got called out of retirement. Not all embarrassed themselves like the bosses at TEPCO!

[Russell]

It is a day we'll always remember where we were when the news broke.

So many broken lives. So many heroes.

Japan will never be the same again, even if it tries to.

[IparryU]

I don't know if I agree with you Chokonen, there were, and still are a lot of Oyajis who really stepped forward and did what they could, especially some of the old timers at Dai Ichi Nuclear Plant. Or some of the fire and rescue guys who got called out of retirement. Not all embarrassed themselves like the bosses at TEPCO!

Ya... it was the people who were not in charge of doing shit that were actually doing shit.

I was just watching the news with my gf this morning and she was even going on about how Japan wasn't doing shit. Props to all the people who stepped up and put their life on the line to help out.

[matsuki]

I don't know if I agree with you Chokonen, there were, and still are a lot of Oyajis who really stepped forward and did what they could, especially some of the old timers at Dai Ichi Nuclear Plant. Or some of the fire and rescue guys who got called out of retirement. Not all embarrassed themselves like the bosses at TEPCO!

Ya... it was the people who were not in charge of doing shit that were actually doing shit.

I was just watching the news with my gf this morning and she was even going on about how Japan wasn't doing shit. Props to all the people who stepped up and put their life on the line to help out.

I totally agree with what you guys are saying but those are not the guys I was calling out, I'm literally talking about the dinosaurs running(from reality) Japan.

[nikoneko]

Just some pics from downtown Kobe yesterday. All bickering aside there's still a bunch up there who need help. Had the little one drop a ¥100 in every box we saw.

[Coligny]

Did someone followed what the jred cross (or was it a loosely related to the UN organisation?) finally do with the donations ?
they were a bit cocky about their use for the victims.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I've seen a more than a few gaijin who live in the Tokyo area and were not directly affected by 3/11 other than having to walk home from work because the trains were stopped and having trouble buying bottled water and rice for a few days making posts that would make you think they barely survived. I saw the same kind of thing after 9.11 in the US. I've never understood that need to be connected to something horrible that a lot of people seem to have.

[yanpa]

I've seen a more than a few gaijin who live in the Tokyo area and were not directly affected by 3/11 other than having to walk home from work because the trains were stopped and having trouble buying bottled water and rice for a few days making posts that would make you think they barely survived. I saw the same kind of thing after 9.11 in the US. I've never understood that need to be connected to something horrible that a lot of people seem to have.

I guess for people didn't speak any Japanese and were relying solely on the overdramatic reporting by foreign media (and boy was it hysterical), there was a tendency to panic, especially when you see pictures of a nukular power station exploding and are being offered iodine tablets by your embassy (or being told to evacuate, depending on degree of cheese eating). But yeah, there was no shortage of drama queens going round saying "I was a victim of a M9.0 earthquake" etc. when all that happened to them was some broken plates or whatever

[Coligny]

I have pichsure sumwhere of empty shelves in local supermarkets...

rice, bottled water, booze, cat litter(guilty as charged), batteries, profilactics... all gone...

over reakshiun was not a gaijin monopoly...

[yanpa]

Stupidity is not a monopoly of any one nationality.