Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Alberton Proud]

There's only one sport at the Winter Olympics that's any good. The one where they ski around the countryside then pull out rifles and shoot each other....or something like that.

The 10km Deliverance

 

[Steve Dore]

Just googled as well - still no idea what this kogekitai is

攻撃隊 【こうげきたい】 (n) attack forces

Most (in)famous was the Tokubetsu Kōgekitai of WWII, aka Kamikaze.

 

[Jim Dixon]

Just googled as well - still no idea what this kogekitai is

Attack Unit

Edit:Ah, beaten to it by our own BF Attack Unit.

A useful nickname for Oliver Wines once he gets going this year too btw.

Edit 2: Japanese to English translation is notoriously imprecise- nearly as bad as Rowe- English translations.

 

[Alberton Proud]

攻撃隊 【こうげきたい】 (n) attack forces

Most (in)famous was the Tokubetsu Kōgekitai of WWII, aka Kamikaze.

Arigato Wharfie San

 

[Powerstufff]

Now you made me look Tokubetsu Kōgekitai up, only to find there are oddballs out there role-playing as Japanese fighter pilots towards the end of WWII and posting each other graphics. When they could be posting on football forums and posting each other graphics like grown men.

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[I Dont Care]

The 10km Deliverance

Is that the one where you get to squeal like a pig?

 

[Steve Dore]

.... Japanese to English translation is notoriously imprecise- nearly as bad as Rowe- English translations.

Stupid speaks Janglish at best but most of the time just speaks his native tongue, Stupid.

 

[Macca19]

Why as Australians do we fawn over criminals so much? Why in the living **** should Corby be paid $2m to hold an interview?

 

[chiwigi]

Why as Australians do we fawn over criminals so much? Why in the living **** should Corby be paid $2m to hold an interview?

The market demands.

 

[_Christoh_]

People dont stop and ask themselves why they would want to hear it. She is a convicted drug trafficker ffs. How dumb do you have to be to smuggle drugs into a muslim country? Why would anyone want to hear from someone so stupid? She is only going to play the role of a victim anyway and proclaim her innocence.

Its disgraceful she will make huge amounts of money telling a story of how dumb and stupid she was and is.

 

[Trewth]

It's not like the Indonesian judicial system is corrupt or anything, she was definitely guilty!

 

[Doctor Feel]

It's not like the Indonesian judicial system is corrupt or anything, she was definitely guilty!

She was definitely guilty.

 

[Trewth]

She was definitely guilty.

Yeah, you'd know.

 

[finbarr]

Why as Australians do we fawn over criminals so much? Why in the living **** should Corby be paid $2m to hold an interview?

It's the mythologising of idiots like Carl Williams that annoys me the most. In particular the hero worship they receive from largely white, middle class males who's privileged upbringing would mean they'd never actually come into contact with such people.

"Our gangland murderers are way cooler than your gangland murders".

Underbelly can **** off.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Yeah, you'd know.

As would you.

 

[raman]

Why as Australians do we fawn over criminals so much? Why in the living **** should Corby be paid $2m to hold an interview?

Because the market dictates that it's financially advantageous for a media outlet to pay her that.

Good luck to her, IMO, and I don't care whether she's guilty of the non-crime of carrying weed across a border or not. I hope she spends some of the money on a deed poll though.

 

[It Just Is]

Nigel Smart might actually be on to something.

Schapelle Corby... I don't care.

 

[tribey]

The First Fleet ('my great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather only stole a loaf of bread and r*ped some dudes'), the Jolly Swagman, Ned Kelly, Underbelly, Schapelle Corby.

All legends!

 

[finbarr]

The First Fleet ('my great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather only stole a loaf of bread and r*ped some dudes'), the Jolly Swagman, Ned Kelly, Underbelly, Schapelle Corby.

All legends!

Underbelly XVII - Black Market Rum Barron's Of The First Fleet.

 

[Trewth]

As would you.

That's my point, I don't know, and neither do you. But you are definite about it. I'm not saying she's innocent, but I'm also not saying she is guilty, because all we have to go on is the Indonesian judicial system, which has been proven time and again to be dodgy as ****. Saying she is definitely guilty is stupid.

 

[tribey]

That's my point, I don't know, and neither do you. But you are definite about it. I'm not saying she's innocent, but I'm also not saying she is guilty, because all we have to go on is the Indonesian judicial system, which has been proven time and again to be dodgy as ****. Saying she is definitely guilty is stupid.

Pretty young girl gets caught with her hand in the cookie jar, sooks, cries and bats her eyelids and the Australian media go on the rampage on account of dem dastardly yellahs.

If she was a middle-aged third-gen Vietnamese-Australian it'd be "tell your story walking, pal".

The vegemite belt who believe she's innocent also no doubt think Abbott's boatstopping policy will personally enrich their lives.

 

[Macca19]

It's the mythologising of idiots like Carl Williams that annoys me the most. In particular the hero worship they receive from largely white, middle class males who's privileged upbringing would mean they'd never actually come into contact with such people.

"Our gangland murderers are way cooler than your gangland murders".

Underbelly can **** off.

So much this!

 

[Trewth]

No one knows for certain, though. In my opinion the ones who think she is definitely innocent are just as stupid as the ones who think she is definitely guilty. It's pretty much the same feeling as I have toward Atheists and Christians, neither of you know for certain so stop pretending that you do.

The media and social interest however is a completely different monster, in that respect I agree with Tribes. If it was anyone but a pretty girl form Queensland who looks good on the front of the rag no one would give a shit.

 

[raman]

Pretty young girl gets caught with her hand in the cookie jar, sooks, cries and bats her eyelids and the Australian media go on the rampage on account of dem dastardly yellahs.

If she was a middle-aged third-gen Vietnamese-Australian it'd be "tell your story walking, pal".

The vegemite belt who believe she's innocent also no doubt think Abbott's boatstopping policy will personally enrich their lives.

I think Trewth's point of view is more broadly epistemological. I could be wrong.