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| ''If that ain't 'disposed of' then what the hell is it?'' |
| 2003-02-10 |
| Via Fark.com comes the heartening news that... Police said workers from the construction firm, based in the Kaku district of Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture, put five or six sticks of dynamite they had decided to dispose of in with a load of rubbish that was being burned at the firm at about 7:20 a.m. Monday. The dynamite soon exploded, smashing the windows of seven houses belonging to residents living near the facility. "We thought that if the detonators were taken out they wouldn't explode, and just burn normally, so we put them in with the other rubbish," a firm official was quoted as saying. I forget... What's the Japanese word for "dumbass"? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #5 The manned cruise missile was called the "Okha", meaning "Cherry Blossom". US troops quickly nicknamed it the "Baka Bomb". |
| Posted by: Tripartite 2003-02-10 22:08:35 |
| #4 Oh, and just thought of a historical note: "Baka", probably pronounced differently than the imprecation, also means "cherry blossom". One Japanese suicide weapon of the final period of World War II - I forget whether it was the manned torpedo or the manned proto-cruise-missile - was named the "Baka". I suppose that one had to be baka to pilot the Baka. (runs as fast as possible for cover) |
| Posted by: Joe 2003-02-10 18:15:01 |
| #3 *chuckle* Anyone who likes anime could tell you; as Scooter says, the word in Japanese most nearly corresponding to "dumbass" is "baka", which means "fool" or "idiot". Akane yells it a lot at Ranma in "Ranma 1/2" and Skuld has a habit of scrawling the word magically on people's faces in "Oh! My Goddess". |
| Posted by: Joe 2003-02-10 18:10:13 |
| #2 Japanese for "dumbass" would be "baka". It has the same flavor as "idiot" does in English. Adding "yo" makes it more impolite. "Anata ga baka yo!" means something like, "You know you're an idiot, don't you?!" |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2003-02-10 15:39:27 |
| #1 Japanese for "dumbass" would be "baka". It has the same flavor as "idiot" does in English. Adding "yo" makes it more impolite. "Anata ga baka yo!" means something like, "You know you're an idiot, don't you?!" |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2/10/2003 3:39:27 PM |