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09 Dec 2008, 3:11 pm

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But have you seen the hentai porn? Japan is home to so much weirdness ...

Three words: Tentacles, Blood, and Bondage.

Eww ... just, EWW! :eew:



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09 Dec 2008, 7:17 pm

Well, my blind faith in the Land of the Rising Sun just dropped a few notches... not enough to cure the blindness, though. The Japanese are still epic, it's just the one as*hole who somehow gets elected to office. I mean America has them, why not Japan?


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09 Dec 2008, 7:56 pm

Thats nothing surprising. EVERY politician actually says stuff like that behind the scenes and rarely get caught in western countries.


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09 Dec 2008, 10:05 pm

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Thats nothing surprising. EVERY politician actually says stuff like that behind the scenes and rarely get caught in western countries.


When Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California in the same election in which his hapless predecessor was tossed out, he quickly threatened to terminate his political career by the number of dumb comments he made. He then learned that at least in America, all a politician has to do is humbly apologize to the voters, promise to never do it again, then do it again. Lather, rinse, repeat. He handily won reelection, despite the fact that his own party hated him. Meanwhile, Obama's comment that people cling to guns and religion because they have no possibility for improving their lives since there are no jobs and no way out, got the far right echo chamber jumping all over him. The fact that it was, you know, TRUE seemed not to matter. Eventually, Rush Limbaugh flat out suggested that Obama wasn't jingoistic enough for "real Americans", the type who loved Sarah Palin's thinly veiled race war rhetoric.



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10 Dec 2008, 10:23 am

I was amazed when Bill Clinton committed adultery while in office, lied under oath to cover himself, and was not impeached. He's still active in today's politics, which is amazing also. Why does he still he have credibility after the Lewinsky scandal?



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10 Dec 2008, 12:00 pm

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Is Hentai the pornographic anime that has prepubescent charactures of kids uh....:?


Hentai (literally: pervert) is what erotic Japanese anime is called in the west. It's just an umbrella term. Hentai contains all genres. The specific term you're looking for is "lolicon". Lots of controversy in the west regarding it, nothing wrong with it as far as the Japanese are concerned.

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10 Dec 2008, 12:04 pm

Roxas_XIII wrote:
Well, my blind faith in the Land of the Rising Sun just dropped a few notches... not enough to cure the blindness, though. The Japanese are still epic, it's just the one as*hole who somehow gets elected to office. I mean America has them, why not Japan?


Not to mention we poor bastards in Canada
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10 Dec 2008, 1:02 pm

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I was amazed when Bill Clinton committed adultery while in office, lied under oath to cover himself, and was not impeached.

Erm...Clinton was impeached:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachmen ... ll_Clinton



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10 Dec 2008, 1:09 pm

pezar wrote:
history_of_psychiatry wrote:
Thats nothing surprising. EVERY politician actually says stuff like that behind the scenes and rarely get caught in western countries.


When Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California in the same election in which his hapless predecessor was tossed out, he quickly threatened to terminate his political career by the number of dumb comments he made. He then learned that at least in America, all a politician has to do is humbly apologize to the voters, promise to never do it again, then do it again. Lather, rinse, repeat. He handily won reelection, despite the fact that his own party hated him. Meanwhile, Obama's comment that people cling to guns and religion because they have no possibility for improving their lives since there are no jobs and no way out, got the far right echo chamber jumping all over him. The fact that it was, you know, TRUE seemed not to matter. Eventually, Rush Limbaugh flat out suggested that Obama wasn't jingoistic enough for "real Americans", the type who loved Sarah Palin's thinly veiled race war rhetoric.



Exactly my point, though you put it much better.


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10 Dec 2008, 3:26 pm

YowlingCat wrote:
slowmutant wrote:
I was amazed when Bill Clinton committed adultery while in office, lied under oath to cover himself, and was not impeached.

Erm...Clinton was impeached:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachmen ... ll_Clinton


I don't mind being corrected on that.



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10 Dec 2008, 3:45 pm

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slowmutant wrote:
If you're curious about Japanese attitudes towards women, just have a look at their hentai porn.


^^most porn movies ,which 90% of them are produced in western countries, disgrace and objectify women in general , not only the hentai porn.

I enjoy japanese porn, especially BDSM.


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10 Dec 2008, 7:43 pm

Khan_Sama wrote:
MissConstrue wrote:
Is Hentai the pornographic anime that has prepubescent charactures of kids uh....:?


Hentai (literally: pervert) is what erotic Japanese anime is called in the west. It's just an umbrella term. Hentai contains all genres. The specific term you're looking for is "lolicon". Lots of controversy in the west regarding it, nothing wrong with it as far as the Japanese are concerned.

Peace.


Oh ok, thanks..

There's so many anime terms that I don't know what is what. I guess I ran into that one by accident..... :oops:


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10 Dec 2008, 7:43 pm

Chibi_Neko wrote:
Roxas_XIII wrote:
Well, my blind faith in the Land of the Rising Sun just dropped a few notches... not enough to cure the blindness, though. The Japanese are still epic, it's just the one as*hole who somehow gets elected to office. I mean America has them, why not Japan?


Not to mention we poor bastards in Canada
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Fair point...


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11 Dec 2008, 1:59 am

WHen did they inmsult me?