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I've tried to keep some of the "feel" of the text, which often feels crude just from the choice of politeness level, rather than specific vocabulary. My interpretation isn't always perfect, especially when it comes to slang 'n' such. Take as much salt as you want with this.
Running top to bottom, at least as of 6:45 p.m. U.S. Central time on Dec. 6...
- Translated from English
- Looks like she's eating a popsicle to me...
> Looks like she's eating a popsicle to me...
It's just a joke.
4. Pretty funny.
5. I think the point when Dad hits Yotsuba with his fist is more anger-syndromed in a Western way.*
(*Refers to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwabyeong)
6. This is gonna be a kinda serious response, but white folks' favoritism toward whales is pretty creepy. Some woman named Joan McIntyre seriously says whales are smarter than humans, and I hear they could create works of art as good as any humans if they developed hands. Minke whale numbers have grown to 1 million, so you can't really call them an endangered species, so it makes no sense to propose that we break up whales into groups with different gene clusters, even though they're the same as a species.
When Japan then did research whaling to investigate those genes and proved that sort of stuff is scientifically meaningless, then the next reason they dragged out is that whales are smart or friends of humans or some crap. It's not like cows or pigs being stupid makes it okay to kill them, right?
I was chilled to see some Australian TV personality on Youtube saying that there are more than 100 million Japs now, so people should start killing 'em off.
7. Lame--the Yotsuba &! 4-panel gags have clearly dropped in quality from the Azumanga era.
8. >I was chilled to see some Australian TV personality on Youtube saying that
> there are more than 100 million Japs now, so people should start killing 'em off.
Yeah, well, you get people like that everywhere...
Regardless, the self-righteousness of white folks' thoughts is pretty astounding, and it's not just in the West; the Arabs are like that too.
9. I'm pretty sure the Aussie "Let's hunt down the Japs" comment was meant as a joke, but when I think about how they've hunted their aborigines for sport, somehow I can't laugh.
10. I think just saying "Don't kill them because they're tourist attractions" would be much easier to understand.
11. >I'm pretty sure the Aussie "Let's hunt down the Japs" comment was meant as a joke
It's about the only Caucasian country losing bad to Japan these days that can't fight back on its own, so the reaction, is internal anti-Japan sentiment on a par with the peninsula's. Australians go to other Western countries, where their nationalistic talk doesn't earn them any friends, and mortifying them seems to spur them on even more.
12. Ena was saying America is terrible in the original, right? Persionally, if we could get the U.S. and China to participate in the Kyoto Protocols, I'd swallow my tears and do without harihari nabe**, whale cutlets and whale bacon, and those are some serious faves for me.
(**http://www.kansai.gr.jp/KansaiWindowHtml/Collection/English/000141.html)
13. For the moment, China is participating in the Kyoto program. Of course, it's treated as a developing country, so it doesn't have any duty to reduce emissions, which makes that participation meaningless.
14. Whale is a treat, srsly good to eat!
15. When was the last time I had whale...
It's gotten way too expensive, so I don't think I've really had it in over ten years.
Man, I could go for some harihari nabe.
16. > Of course, it's treated as a developing country, so it doesn't have any duty to reduce emissions,
Recently, it seems China's been saying it's setting a 40% target reduction.
Of course, since it's a developing country, its exemption hasn't changed, even though its the top CO2 producer in the world (as of '06)...
17. Australia also has a growing number of Chinese immigrants, apparently enough that they're no longer politically negligible. Naturally, Chinese people are anti-Japanese, so the Aussie administration's changed, and Japan-Australian relations may cool even further over more than just the whaling problem.
18. It just wants to say "Don't eat whale," but them being on the verge of extinction is just a pathetic lie, so if we bring out the numbers and use them as data, next time some crazy country will suggest, "That ain't got squat do with it."
19. This isn't just limited to Aussies. No politician can use environmental problems to tell his constituency to restrict economic activity. But by lashing out against some foreign country's whale-eating, he can earn an "environmentally conscientious politician" label at no risk. After all, we are the yellow-skinned race.
20. Damn, you folks are gettin' way too serious for this sorta thing.
21. Is whale "blubber" all that good? I'd like to try some once.
22. > Damn, you folks are gettin' way too serious for this sorta thing.
Ad:::Ooh, I'm so embarrrrassssed!
23. will suggest, "That ain't got squat do with it."
Yoshio Kojima just let out an "oppapii".***
(***Look up 小島よしお on Youtube. The guy's a nut. His schtick includes a refrain of "Sonna no kankei nee" ("That ain't got squat to do with it," or possibly "None o' your damn business," depending on context.)
24. I don't feel like asking/listening seriously. We all know that with future jumps in grain prices, when even the West comes to look to the sea for animal protein, these guys will designate sperm whales as "dangerous animals" first thing and wipe them out in the name of resource management.
25. Looking at the image, I just noticed that Yotsuba &'s the only one of the Dai-ohs to use a ruby (pronunciation-guide hiragana) on the kanji.
26. Damn thieves just changin' whatever they want!
27. Some guys on American fan sites say "Ena's my favorite, but it makes me sad she hates Americans."
28. What the hell are you guys talking about? Australia's a wonderful country with no discrimination at all! I can tell you said that just 'cause you're gluttons.