Made in Japan?

[Viking Don]

So where are all the jokes? Do they have some kind of diplomatic immunity? Is it too soon? Am I too sick? Do I really need to ask that question?

Sorry for the people, but hope their industry is f**ked.

[BobG]

They look like they're going to be struggling for the next 10 years don't they? The cost of refurbishing is going to have a bloody enormous impact on national finances. That'll be good news for some and downright bad news for others - most of us included I suspect.

Can't think of any jokes just yet though Don. Sorry.

BobG

[Viking Don]

Don't know about ten years Bob, as always we don't get to know until ages after. I can remember sitting in the park hotel before a game on Boxing day a few years ago when the news was that 200 had been killed by an earthquake in Indonesia. Look how that turned out.

I don't think that finance comes into it, other than the fact that anyone who just bought Japanese goods will be sitting on a fortune.

Nuclear power stations all over there, they're not going to let on that this may be the end of the world in that area. Remember Chenobyl, no information whatsoever came out until years after, still hasn't probably. Half-life of these materials is far longer than we'll ever live.

As REM would say...

It's the End of the World, as we know it!

Ah well. it's only a holographic universe anyway, so don't worry! It's only an illusion.

EDIT: I use the word 'only' with discretion, probably easier to miss it out altogether.

[RedJ]

I just can't wait until these jokes start flooding in. But I think it's great how the Japanese aren't allowing their country to fall apart.

[Pintolager]

The Japanese 2012 Wind Surfing squad must be keen, they've just arrived in f**king Dover!

I hope everyone's ok in Japan, the last time I had 9 aftershocks, I couldn't find my house either!

[RedJ]

The Japanese 2012 Wind Surfing squad must be keen, they've just arrived in f**king Dover!

I hope everyone's ok in Japan, the last time I had 9 aftershocks, I couldn't find my house either!

quality!

[jucyberry]

The sydney bondi surf classsic has had it's results declared null and void after it was unexpectedly won by a Japanese man on a wardrobe......

Just turned the telly on, this is the best episode of tageshi's castle i have ever seen....

and probably the baddest i have been sent yet....


Rescuers in japan have called elton John, George Michael and Grahame Norton to help search through the rubble for injured victims



their work could prove invaluable as they are experts at finding Japs eyes covered in shit......


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Poor ,poor people, watching the reports on tv made me feel physically sick for them. we really don't realise how lucky we are to live here where the most we have to worry about is a little bit of snow do we?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Got to admire the Japanese fortitude.

I phoned a busines colleague of mine over there on Friday to see how they were coping. Apparently he was out partying. He kept shouting down the phone, \"Massive rave. Massive rave.\"

But seriously folks, being in the structural engineering business, it was very impressive to see how the Japanese infrastructure survived the earthquake itself. If the seismic engineering hadn't been at such a high quality, you might be looking at 1 million dead now. What you do to protect against a tsunami though is anyone's guess.

Interesting point on the effect on Japan's economy. They'll have it hard for a few months, but past experience suggests that many countries (at least, already developed ones) actually bounce back much stronger economically after a disaster like this. For example, there'll not be a single out of work builder, railway engineer, telecoms engineer or even simple shot shoveller in Japan for the next 5 years. That will give a massive boost to an economy which has been stubbornly bumping along the bottom for 20 years since the daft t**ts in 1990 implemented exactly the same policies that Gideon, Dave and Nick are now putting into place. They'll now have no choice but to expand public investment to get the place back on its feet.

[Savvy]

Billy, following on you post on a serious theme, the Japanese will be fine and will no doubt re-build in a manner designed to combat any increased threats to their structures.  The vast majority of their economy recovery following the second world war can be attributed to a gentleman called William Edwards Deming. He was sent to Japan by Eissenhower at the end of the war, and he told them that if they would embrace the principles that he taught them, they would have the rest of the developed world screaming for protection within 5 years.  The rest as they say is history, no one takes the piss out of Japanese quality now as they did when me and thee were kids eh?  Being in the industry that you are, can I recommend a book for your reading list. If you can get a copy of \"Out of the Crisis\" by William Edwards Deming Cambridge Press 1986 it will change your thought processes no doubt, it certainly did do mine!!!!

[Bentley Bullet]

A Japanese friend of mine told me that he fled down into the sewers to find safety during the quake.
There he met a girl who had done the same thing. He said they fell in love but ha hasn't seen her for a few days.
He now wonders if it was real love, or just a case of two nips that passed through the shite.

[eastender]

I won't be donating to the appeal fund, i've just seen a man getting interviewed on Sky News and he's got 2 massive boats on his drive ! the greedy B@st@rd.

[CusworthRovers]

Our lass is Japanese and the bitch has dumped me as she comes to terms with the tragedies in her homeland. Oh well, plenty more in the sea to choose from, as they say.


I ran the bath for the kids earlier today and 3 Japs dropped out of the tap

[RedJ]

The Japanese version of Total Wipeout's a bit extreme...

I was talking to my mate on MSN earlier, and he was telling me about how he lost all his family and how his building was on fire. Shat himself every time I sent a nudge.

[eastender]

Ellen MacArthur's solo round the world record as just been beaten by a Jap in a Deckchair.

[Viking Don]

If you want to feel a bit less sympathetic I'd suggest watching a film called 'The Cove'.

At least Taiji will have been hit by the wave and hopefully wiped out the bas**rds that made their living there, they had it coming!

[RedJ]

as sick as it may be I'm in stitches reading this thread.

[keyser_soze]

Christ, and I got stick for posting a picture of a dead cat? Real people with real families here folk, have some respect.

[Thinwhiteduke]

Ellen MacArthur's solo round the world record as just been beaten by a Jap in a Deckchair.

Brilliant.

[inSODwetrust]

How do you spot a Japanese prostitute?

She's the one in the fishnets!

[rovinrover52]

There is going to be a charity conert for the Japanese Tsunami appeal
up to now Katrina and the waves, Beach Boys and Wet wet wet have agreed to perform

[RedJ]

There is going to be a charity conert for the Japanese Tsunami appeal
up to now Katrina and the waves, Beach Boys and Wet wet wet have agreed to perform

Apparently it's gonna be a cover of \"The Tide is High\"

[jucyberry]

I have been thinking about a comment by RedJ that as sick as these jokes are they make him laugh, and also Keyser's very valid point about having respect.... It isn't perhaps seemly to be finding humour in the face of such tragedy, but then, perhaps that is what keeps us from going under as we struggle to comprehend the unimaginable horrors these poor people are suffering right now.

They truly must feel the end of the world has arrived, three reactors critically damaged, an erupting volcano and now the threat of another massive earthquake and tsunami....I think perhaps God help them, that those who perished first could well be the unlucky, lucky ones.

[RedJ]

I have been thinking about a comment by RedJ that as sick as these jokes are they make him laugh, and also Keyser's very valid point about having respect.... It isn't perhaps seemly to be finding humour in the face of such tragedy, but then, perhaps that is what keeps us from going under as we struggle to comprehend the unimaginable horrors these poor people are suffering right now.

They truly must feel the end of the world has arrived, three reactors critically damaged, an erupting volcano and now the threat of another massive earthquake and tsunami....I think perhaps God help them, that those who perished first could well be the unlucky, lucky ones.

That's the way a guy I knew at school years ago explained the reason we made jokes about Chernobyl - we just couldn't imagine what it would've been like, or want to, for that matter, and we'd rather be positive (albeit in a rather dark way) about the situation than anything else.

[Bristol Red Rover Jnr.]

If you want to feel a bit less sympathetic I'd suggest watching a film called 'The Cove'.

At least Taiji will have been hit by the wave and hopefully wiped out the bas**rds that made their living there, they had it coming!

Brilliant film, pretty depressing though. Everytime i see pictures of people swimming with captive dolphins I think how traumatised they must be. Also amazing to know that dolphins can commit suicide.
Heres a picture to make you feel less sorry some of the people who have been killed:

And the film: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=BD9DT9KL

[Bristol Red Rover Jnr.]

sorry bout the deppresing post on this thread

[drfcdrfc]

If you want to feel a bit less sympathetic I'd suggest watching a film called 'The Cove'.

At least Taiji will have been hit by the wave and hopefully wiped out the bas**rds that made their living there, they had it coming!

Brilliant film, pretty depressing though. Everytime i see pictures of people swimming with captive dolphins I think how traumatised they must be. Also amazing to know that dolphins can commit suicide.
Heres a picture to make you feel less sorry some of the people who have been killed:

And the film: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=BD9DT9KL

Yeah, all them kids what have been washed away deserved it, karma eh?

If only tsunami's could distinguish between people and dolphin murderers.

[Bristol Red Rover Jnr.]

if only

[jucyberry]

It has always sickend me to see how the dolphins are killed, it is wrong and so very cruel..

But also totally incomparable to this terrlble catastrophe. No way should a babaric way of fishing mean so many innocents should perish in such a terrible way.. that isn't khama.

One small bright light innamongst such horror, a four month old baby girl found alive...Bless her little heart.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366155/Japan-earthquake-survivor-reunited-baby-daughter--tsunami-warning-sounds.html

[BillyStubbsTears]

Joking aside, the damage is almost beyond comprehension. Imagine this happening all the way from Skeggy to Dover.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html

[jucyberry]

In my ignorance before this I always thought that where I lived I would be safe, we are about half to three quaters a mile from the beach, and in the '58 floods even tho the water could be seen from my parents house it didn't actually come that far, plus I'm on a bit of a hill...

Cut to the reports of this tsunami and the terrifying fact that it travelled at least 10 km inland, and the sobering thought that within seconds of a wave like that hitting my beach, we would be gone.
When you think to yourself, 10 km from my house takes me to................. THAT is when you finally realise just how huge this wave really was.