Now all that’s left is for the funny Hokkien PC repair guy to update me on whether a power supply box transplant is needed or a motherboard transplant. But at least this means my made-in-China PC doesn’t require life support. In case you’re wondering, Lenovo is indeed made in China unlike China Wine. Speaking of made in China minus the wine...
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Dick move?
The past few weeks have been full of turmoil. Last time something big happened involving the Malay people, Pak Mat got away. Earlier than Pak Mat, Pak Lah was renamed Pak Buang after a season of political elections. So why so many Paks? That’s not important.
The question for the day is this: Which move is the greater dick move?
The answer lies in 1955 and a photo involving someone who weirdly resembled royalty.
If the Japanese guy looks familiar to you, it means history truly means something to you. In fact, the reason why I mentioned royalty is due to this man below.
From Nanjing to Sook Ching and from one half of Korea to the other, the only ones spared from his reign would be the Jews. Which didn’t mean much to the Axis Powers-that-be.
The photo triggered my curiosity for a reason. I’m no war zone journalist, but that didn’t prevent me from emulating Ronan Farrow. In Japan, there’s an ethnic minority called the Ainu. Even though they got themselves conscripted for the two World Wars, they’re most likely still known to the Japanese majority as “those big bastards”. If you still don’t know what it means, it’s called discrimination since 300 AD when the Yayoi crossed the sea and first said hi to the Jomon people. Weirdly enough, the Yayoi seemed to have no problems making peace with the Jomons. Makes you wonder how racist the descendants are compared to their ancestors.
There’s a problem, though: The Emishi and Ainu refused to play along. This was the start of conflict, distrust, and mistrust. The Emishi are no longer around. Ironically, the same goes for the Jomons considering the peaceful manner of racial assimilation. But the Ainu are still around.
This comes to mind a very vital question: What in Izanami’s Yomi was someone clearly from Honshu doing in the photo?
The photo was possibly done during the 1940s, but considering war was raging until 1945 when defeat could have easily resulted in a hanged Emperor, it could well be done as late as 1955. To shrug off the presence of a mainland Japanese in the photo would be more insensitive than Elizabeth Warren. While it’s theoretically possible for a mainland Japanese to pay a visit in the name of local tourism, going one step further by taking a photo with an old Ainu couple while holding hands with a little bear would be tantamount to racial treason and a national insult. Lest we forget, the Ainu were called former indigenous people. Simply put, that’s the jiken way of calling them the second-class minority.
So was the guy in the photo truly Hirohito who happened to have aged greatly due to whatever personal reason? The temerity displayed was far more of a two-finger salute than what we saw in that photo involving Swedes and Malays that got Shanmugam talking and tongues wagging. His willingness to pose for a photo involving two Ainu and a bear was much greater a dick move than what Rachel Chan did.
If that guy wasn’t Hirohito, he should be nicknamed The Sun Of A Gun. Otherwise, that’d explain why he got more balls than the entire Boeing boardroom combined.
Safari and Apple doing a dick move again
The inevitable has happened once again. As a result, I have no choice but to end this soon. But before I do so, I decide to point out the fact that the Ainu bear sacrificing ritual was effectively banned starting from 1955. In the name protecting animals from cruelty, no less. But there’s a problem: Animal anti-cruelty laws were only slotted into the Japanese penal code (or whatever you want to call it) in 1973. This means 73-55=18.
In other words, this was an illegal pachinko slot machine manufacturered by the majority powers-that-be. This was surely a far worse dick move than whatever we’ve seen so far involving angry Malay metalheads, Swedish rockers, Chinese Ah-Sengs from Gan Eng Seng School during the 90s, and Minister Shanmugam.
It makes you wonder whether Yamato Kamui was involved in the whole pachinko scheme.
P.S: Are things now looking up for the Ainu people starting from the year of Akihito’s abdication? Note that I didn’t insinuate who is the real Yamato Kamui.
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