well this has certainly brought out the usual freaks.
I blame the OP of course. Apparently it’s ok to comment on the Christchurch earthquake, but not one that was at least a hundred times stronger.
Well okay . . . the Pakistani floods last year severely affected 20 million people, but we can safely ignore that (and the postings on JC) as we all had bloody ‘compassion fatigue’ by then, and the political scene there was a bit dodgy by our reckoning anyway. So there’s no way that I’m gonna comment on the North Korean floods of 1995-98, or the Chinese famine of 1960. Oh no, I’ll be so busy scrambling for the moral high ground that typing would become impossible.
Well I thought it was great about the lack of Japanese looting, unlike New Yorkers at – whisper it – 9/11. Maybe since the Japs have had thousands of years experience with tsunamis they know how to behave, which is incredibly politely.
I was happy-slapped by one once and he had the good grace to bow incessantly and present me with the latest Sony digi camcorder while he was doing it, which I thoroughly appreciated. We still exchange greetings through our lawyers.
But no, I don’t believe for a moment that this was karmic retribution of any kind, whether for wartime atrocities, or Pearl Harbor, or dwindling tuna stocks. It’s simply that the big mythological lizard decided to flap his tail, in protest at their nuclear health and safety record.
Or in absolute laughter at the cartoonish qualities of the Emperor’s head.
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