{"id":186170,"date":"2014-04-18T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/18\/what-is-japanese-for-assholes-who-should-have-been-drowned-at-birth\/"},"modified":"2014-04-18T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T23:26:00","slug":"what-is-japanese-for-assholes-who-should-have-been-drowned-at-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/18\/what-is-japanese-for-assholes-who-should-have-been-drowned-at-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Japanese for &#8220;Assholes Who Should Have Been Drowned at Birth&#8221;?*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just wondering because some members of the Japanese Diet, upset by the ruling of the ICJ banning the Antarctic whale hunt, have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/04\/17\/japanese_lawmakers_protest_whaling_ban_with_a_whale_buffet\/\">done up a whale buffet as a F%$# you to the civilized world<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Japan may have called off its annual Antarctic whale hunt in deference to a ruling from the U.N.\u2019s International Court of Justice, but the country\u2019s whaling industry has yet to give up the fight.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span>  <span style=\"color: blue;\">As a show of defiance, hundreds Japanese officials, politicians and other pro-whaling allies gathered Tuesday for a buffet featuring, what else, whale. According to the Associated Press, the group feasted on \u201cCutlets, sashimi, steak and other dishes made of whale meat\u201d and shouted a one-word toast: \u201dWhale!\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span>  <span style=\"color: blue;\">Meanwhile, Al Jazeera reports, a Japanese parliamentary committee unanimously passed a resolution calling on the government to fully investigate its options, saying that the court\u2019s decision was \u201ctruly regrettable\u201d but \u201cdoes not necessarily prevent Japan\u2019s whaling, which is a unique tradition and culture.\u201d Among Japanese consumers, the AP notes, whale meat has been declining in popularity.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Japan literally had <b>decades<\/b> of whale meat in freezers, and these guys are throwing a tantrum.<\/p>\n<p>Wankers.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Google Translate gives, &#8220;\u51fa\u751f\u6642\u306b\u6eba\u308c\u308b\u308c\u3066\u3044\u308b\u5fc5\u8981\u304c\u3042\u308a\u307e\u3059\u308d\u304f\u3067\u306a\u3057,&#8221; and translating <b>that<\/b> back to English gives, &#8220;Bastard that must have been drowned at birth,&#8221; so it&#8217;s probably pretty close.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just wondering because some members of the Japanese Diet, upset by the ruling of the ICJ banning the Antarctic whale hunt, have done up a whale buffet as a F%$# you to the civilized world: Japan may have called off its annual Antarctic whale hunt in deference to a ruling from the U.N.\u2019s International &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1079,1188,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-japan","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}