Japan Quake

Apparently some of the reactors have already begun to meltdown and the Japanese government is trying to avert an all-out panic (says CNN and CBC in Canada). Interesting. The CBC reporter basically hung up mid-conversation to drive down to catch a flight and get the hell out of there. I wonder how far the radiation will spread if the plants go?

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Originally Posted by Brisco Bold

Gilbert Gottfried fired from AFLAC for twittering dumb jokes about the Tsunami.

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Would have been better if the jokes were actually funny and not just meant to shock. I should give him a few tips on writing zingers.

My family and I are fine for now. Many foreigners have fled the city for Western Japan or other countries as some European and Australian embassies have told their non-essential citizens to GTFO.

The day of the quake was quite surreal. Running from table to table, hiding in parking structure entrances while avoidning any potential powerlines which could come down to climbing 22 floors to get to my condo only to see Odaiba burning and Sendai airport underwater. Seriously, this is right out of Irem's Zettai Zetsumei Toshi series.

Most of my home was fine except for the cheap ass Ikea shelves I used to house my collection. I haven't gone through all of my stuff but about 20 items (half of them LEs) are damaged including a Bio Freaks prototype PCB (yes, LOlz).

We looked at flights to leave the country but they are averaging $4000 USD a person for California. We may evacuate to Osaka when the radiation becomes worse.

Pics below of what it looked like when I walked in the door:
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg615/sca...=640&ysize=640
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg616/sca...=640&ysize=640
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg614/sca...=640&ysize=640

Here's what it looked like after some cleanup:
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg615/sca...=640&ysize=640
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg611/sca...=640&ysize=640
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg618/sca...=640&ysize=640

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

The one thing that can unite a large number of American douchebags is popping boners over World War 2.

Another common one is "you'd be speaking German if it wasn't for us." Of course, this is not actually true, because it was the Soviets that deserve most of the credit for that.

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We probably helped the countries we claim to not like more than the ones we do "like." England would have probably survived had we never entered the war. But Russia would have probably taken Germany and everything Germany was in control of. And we were much kinder to Germany than the Russians were. They'd been happy destroying the entire country, raping all their women, and taking every bit of industry. There would have been no reconstruction and all the people we pardoned to build Germany back up, would have been shot and hanged.

We were pretty harsh to the Germans. We bombed some cities into nothing. Some towns had as much as 80-90% destruction rates from our bombing. But the Russians were out for medieval level revenge.

EDIT: It should also me noted that England helped us get out of our own depression. They took out a loan for about 1 trillion pounds to buy supplies and do reconstruction work after the war. They borrowed so much money and random shit that they did not pay us back until 2006 or so.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Another common one is "you'd be speaking German if it wasn't for us." Of course, this is not actually true, because it was the Soviets that deserve most of the credit for that.

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It's more like "You'd be speaking Russian if it wasn't for us."

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Originally Posted by Shou

We looked at flights to leave the country but they are averaging $4000 USD a person for California. We may evacuate to Osaka when the radiation becomes worse.

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So talk to me about this, what are you hearing where you live? What exactly are they telling you is happening in regards to radiation and how concerned you need to be?

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Originally Posted by Shou

My family and I are fine for now. Many foreigners have fled the city for Western Japan or other countries as some European and Australian embassies have told their non-essential citizens to GTFO.

The day of the quake was quite surreal. Running from table to table, hiding in parking structure entrances while avoidning any potential powerlines which could come down to climbing 22 floors to get to my condo only to see Odaiba burning and Sendai airport underwater. Seriously, this is right out of Irem's Zettai Zetsumei Toshi series.

Most of my home was fine except for the cheap ass Ikea shelves I used to house my collection. I haven't gone through all of my stuff but about 20 items (half of them LEs) are damaged including a Bio Freaks prototype PCB (yes, LOlz).

We looked at flights to leave the country but they are averaging $4000 USD a person for California. We may evacuate to Osaka when the radiation becomes worse.

Pics below of what it looked like when I walked in the door:
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg615/sca...=640&ysize=640
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg616/sca...=640&ysize=640
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg614/sca...=640&ysize=640

Here's what it looked like after some cleanup:
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg615/sca...=640&ysize=640
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg611/sca...=640&ysize=640
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg618/sca...=640&ysize=640

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Damn. You had such a nice set up there. At least you're alright and everything is high and dry, though.

I love the way the media is like TOKYO HAS 20 TIMES THE NORMAL LEVELS OF RADIATION! But some fail to explain that's basically 20 times nothing, which is still nothing, FAR less than what you would get flying in an airplane or having an xray taken.

Different motivations. American news wants to put on a show to entertain us and make us all happy we live in the US where bad things never happen.

The japanese news wants to play everything down to limit people freaking out.

Its like two spoiled kids living together and one broke something expensive. The spoiled asshole who did nothing can't wait to rat the other one out to make himself look good while the spoiled kid that fucked up is going to down play what he did as much as possible.

I doubt it's anything so sinister.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

We probably helped the countries we claim to not like more than the ones we do "like." England would have probably survived had we never entered the war. But Russia would have probably taken Germany and everything Germany was in control of. And we were much kinder to Germany than the Russians were. They'd been happy destroying the entire country, raping all their women, and taking every bit of industry. There would have been no reconstruction and all the people we pardoned to build Germany back up, would have been shot and hanged.

We were pretty harsh to the Germans. We bombed some cities into nothing. Some towns had as much as 80-90% destruction rates from our bombing. But the Russians were out for medieval level revenge.

EDIT: It should also me noted that England helped us get out of our own depression. They took out a loan for about 1 trillion pounds to buy supplies and do reconstruction work after the war. They borrowed so much money and random shit that they did not pay us back until 2006 or so.

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This is all correct.