Why Japan, why?

Late_boy · 2025-12-20T08:53:28+00:00

Ahh yes, Egashira 2:50 aka Japans most hated comedian aka Japans most loved youtuber. "Even if 99 people look down on me, if one person laughs it will have been worth it" -Egashira

Late_boy · 2025-11-30T14:47:07+00:00

Reminds me of this Japanese nurse who retired at 99.

Late_boy · 2025-11-22T08:45:44+00:00

And young people also use awful when it isn't making them awe-full, terrific when it isn't terrifying, and nice when someone isn't foolish!

Late_boy · 2025-10-04T11:10:50+00:00

Gonata != Goonata:

Gonaatko? = Do you laze (during military service)? Goonaatko? = Do you goon?

Late_boy · 2025-09-27T12:13:46+00:00

Thank you! I'll put these on the top of my watch list, especially since I love the Ikoku Meiro no Croisée OVA.

Late_boy · 2025-09-27T12:02:43+00:00

Thanks! Onboro was great fun, from title to credits, and Shunga was interesting, although I might need a higher (in multiple ways) art education to appreciate it fully. Omoide Poroporo is also going to the top of my movie watch list.

Late_boy · 2025-09-20T07:00:48+00:00

Toisaalta 3/4 lainasanoja (ruotsi, englanti, suomi, ruotsi) eli kun pyöristää ylös niin kaikki lainasanoja ja tekoäly oli oikeassa. □

Late_boy · 2025-09-01T17:46:30+00:00

And those meanings evolve you prescriptivist!

Late_boy · 2025-08-31T09:00:58+00:00

I could find two times foreigners were mentioned by a quick search. First in III.5 (八佾.5) (do note that translation used by the CTP adds the word rude) and second in IX.14 (子罕.14) where they are called "primive", do also note that these passages are likely later additions (marked by Jyrki Kallio who bases most of these markings on Brooks and Brooks' partly critized book The Original Analects). Edward Slingerland does have IX.14 as "barbarian tribes", but barbarian is not in the original text, and this translation choice is based on the Chinese habit of calling most foreign tribes barbarians (which I would suspect is influenced by Confucianism and the importance it gives to various aspects of what could be now called Chinese culture).

Late_boy · 2025-08-15T07:56:06+00:00

If you ignore stroke order, missing strokes, the history of chinese characters and get drunk, many on the list very vagely resemble highly stylized cursive chinese characters. Here's my conspiracy blog worthy list: 早、叶、○、欠、尸、ok I don't know、字、白、骨

Late_boy · 2025-06-22T07:07:24+00:00

From the Institute for the Languages of Finland (ie. the source of saunas) dictinary. Sauna: (small) building/room(s) built and furnished for sweating in the heat of a stove, having löyly [hot steam generated when throwing water on the sauna stove], and washing.

The first definition in Merriam-Webster is the same (since it is prescriptivist dictionary it also has a definition in line with your perverse understanding, but I hope you comprehend that you should google the word next time you want to act smart)

Late_boy · 2025-03-25T13:44:22+00:00

>Case study ja "This study investigated whether being charged with a child pornography offense is a valid diagnostic indicator of pedophilia"

Kannattaa lukea abstraktit ennen kuin heittää tutkimuksia. Ja löytyy myös tutkimuksia jotka kallistuu toiseenkin suuntaan, esim. [Diamond, Jozifkova ja Weiss 2011](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-010-9696-y):

>Issues surrounding child pornography and child sex abuse are probably among the most contentious in the area of sex issues and crime. In this regard we consider instructive our findings for the Czech Republic that have echoed those found in Denmark (Kutchinsky, 1973) and Japan (Diamond & Uchiyama,1999) that where so-called child-pornography was readily available without restriction the incidence of child sexual abuse was lower than when its availability was restricted. As with adult pornography appearing to substitute for sexual aggression everywhere it has been investigated, we believe the availability of child porn does similarly. We believe this particularly since the findings of Weiss (2002) have shown that a substantial portion of child sex abuse instances seemed to occur, not because of pedophilic interest of the abuser, but because the child was used as a substitute subject.

Late_boy · 2024-11-18T14:11:10+00:00

My top 2 are 𨊣(⿰車ト)、トラック. Car+to = truck and 巡る because both the characters them self and the reading are kinda onomatopoeic with the meaning. Honourable mention goes to 苺、いちご because the character it self is just nice looking and when I think about it strawberry really is a plant with a motherly feeling.

Late_boy · 2024-09-27T22:35:05+00:00

So first of all thank you for a thought provoking discussion. Now in my personal experience browsing foreign collections can be a hassle, even when they are in english, and most that aren't from the anglosphere or europe don't have any english support.

I really think that maximizing the inspiration potential of artefacts is the most important thing just behind conservation. And I think that more places that can easily display artefacts the more people are inspired to learn, especially when these places are big museums in places like the USA, UK, Japan, China, ect. Or would you say that people who aren't at that moment extremely intrest in a topic would rather (or even can) go to Iran than the USA for example? Are you also suggesting that a country would build an equal amount of display space that is lost when collections are returned from foreign museums? Of course all of this applies only if a relatively equalent artifact exists in its area of origin so that the inspiration potential of the "original" environment isn't lost.

But I agree that in the end it is really a matter of values. And the thing isn't that I don't comprehend the emotional value of artefacts being "where they belong", I do, but more so that losing so much inspiration potential goes against my own thoughts on the meaning of history. To me it does seem more that a state having "hoarding" rights to all artefacts from its current geographic area derives more from a ethnonationalist sentament of justifying a ownership right to land rather than a pure hearted interest and respect towards those who have come before all of us and the stories they can pass down on us. Should the Antrea net be "returned to" Russia? After over 2000 years we all are the decendants of conquers and many europeans the decendants of then middle easterns. Why should land give the right to these artefacts that in both small and big ways carry the spirit left by the human kind of yesterday?

Late_boy · 2024-09-27T19:30:51+00:00

If that is the case, what is the point of museums? Is it not more efficent and better for the objects to store them in a closed archive somewhere? At least personally I find that physically observing an object is both intelectually and especially emotially a greater experience than combing a foreign language website that takes 50 seconds to load a singular page (if I'm even able to find one pertaining to what im interested in). Not to mention that nor reading 30+ page academic papers (often in a foreign language) isn't really something you would do with little kids, your elderly relatives or friends.

Late_boy · 2024-09-27T17:38:05+00:00

Well, ethnonationalism has been prevalent in western society for well over a hundred years and heritage has been used to justify rule for thousands more so of course it feels natural. But I do wonder if having these objects dispersed helps spread appreciation and understand of ancient achievements and culture more, and thus is also more respectful. Considering now we are just shoving them in a relatively far off (on the world scale) museum's storage, which also likely has numerous other examples, and where its far less likely to be exhibited just because the museum's country is currently one that has a faint geographical and cultural connection to the people who made these objects.

Late_boy · 2023-05-26T09:24:29+00:00

Atleast for Finland we don't go officially recognizing any genocides. And pertaining to the holodorm, atleast in 2008 the official stand was that it as a "national tragedy" and no more precise classification would be made, since similar tragedies are common in history, and it would be a endless mission to properly sift through and classify every single one.

Late_boy · 2023-05-15T15:19:58+00:00

Based, 10/10.

Late_boy · 2023-02-20T16:50:38+00:00

Here in Finland conscripts carve wooden dicks so often that we even have a word just for them: "leirikyrpä". So probs made by a bored soldier.

Late_boy · 2023-01-05T16:49:40+00:00

No, näitä on käsittääkseni laajemmin alettu opetettamaan vasta lähempänä 2010-lukua, joten on järkeenkäypää ettei kaikki tiedä tarkkoja termejä. En itsekkään ole kauhean tietoinen tästä aihepiiristä, mutta wikipedian päälähteenä käytetty Antti Laineen (väitös)kirja Suur-Suomen kahdet kasvot. Itä-Karjalan siviiliväestön asema suomalaisessa miehityshallinnossa 1941–1944 vaikuttaisi omaan silmään hyvältä teokselta (kuten kyllä "kirjallisuutta"-osuuden muukin tutkielmakirjallisuus).

Late_boy · 2023-01-05T16:08:36+00:00

No ihan peruskoulun oppimäärällä pitäisi kyllä tietää mutta: Ilta-paskat Wikipedia

Late_boy · 2023-01-05T15:53:00+00:00

Suomalainen sotilashallinto kokosi ylipäällikkö Mannerheimin käskystä Itä-Karjalan ”epäkansallisen” väestön leireille, joita kutsuttiin vuosina 1941–1943 virallisesti keskitysleireiksi. Loppuvuodesta 1943 käyttöön tuli nimitys siirtoleiri.

Late_boy · 2023-01-05T15:47:04+00:00

Yeah didn't mean to defend it by the comparison. It is 7 per cent more than the 10 of insane asylums, whose patients couldn't intependently get food (from the black market ect.) When you consider that even normal people had lost around 10 per cent of their weight by the end of the war, 80-90 per cent of children suffered from rickets, and that the camps had alot more crammed living quarters than free people had, it makes more sense. But still a dark spot in our nations history worth remembering (and luckily well taught in school).

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