> So, ugly old Japanese wife would be UOJW?  Big fat Sepponian wife
> would be BFSW?

I guess!

> > > To those readers in alt.history, sorry I forgot to trim it. From next
> > > time, I will do so.
> >
> > I'll bet they were just dying to know, but didn't like to ask!
>
> No, I wrote so because you passed the buck to me in your other
> posting.

Didn't mean to. In my other posting I blamed Piccolo for starting the thread
in a whole load of newsgroups and myself for not trimming the headers when I
first replied. Sorry if you thought I was blaming you (you have many sins,
but that is not one of them!).

> It's not a recessive, it's a dominant gene. I may take back what I
> said in my last posting like "you are not racist" if you define the
> Kinai gene as recessive. You are showing some sort of contempt against
> Osakans like the one that wanking tokyojaps have. If you analyze the
> gene having the inheritance of female-dominance as recessive, all you
> British would be the ones having the recessive genes because you adore
> the Queen.

You just don't know when to take things with a pinch of salt, do you, Kaz?
If you weren't so deadly serious about your own sense of racial superiority
and your own vendetta against "tokyojaps" perhaps you wouldn't go around
imagining everyone else was full of a sense of racial superiority and you
wouldn't be taking mortal offence at every lighthearted comment people make
about the Kinai.

It really spoils jokes when you have to spell them out to someone who is
lacking in a sense of humour but, just to get it clear about what recessive
genes are, my blue eyes are recessive. They may resurface in a grandchild or
a great-grandchild, but not in my child. Some genes are passed through the
mother only, but sex has nothing intrinsically to do with recessiveness, and
race certainly doesn't either. So-called "racial" genes (so-called because I
accept the modern anthropological viewpoint that there are no "races" among
human beings) are not (as far as I know) necessarily recessive, nor are
genes which do turn out to be recessive in any way inferior to other genes.
A recessive gene is simply a gene that rests dormant for one or two or
sometimes several generations, before resurfacing. Like my blue eyes. And
your father's sense of humour.

> And now, I guess your daughter has inherited your British gene.

How could she? According to you, that is an utterly "racist" suggestion,
since if she carries any Kinai genes those must be dominant. (And, before
you get too carried away, please add a pinch of salt to that!)

> > I'm not accusing you of anything, merely pointing out that Britain was
> > not the last country to perpetrate atrocities of that kind, as you
claimed.
> > Nor am I saying that my family line makes me not racist, simply that I
am
> > not of the white supremacist stock that you imagined.
>
> But your slip of the tongue often makes me nervous, though.

Well, yes, I had noticed you can be...uh...a tad *touchy* at times. ;-)

But these were not slips of the tongue; I've simply said what I meant all
along and you've chosen to interpret things in a certain way.

> you are also sarcastically wild with your words.

Sarcasm is purely negative, the way Japanese people think of "hiniku". In my
culture we use irony in positive ways too, to laugh at ourselves, get other
people to laugh at themselves, to take the heat out of a situation, etc.
There's also a type of irony called satire, which carries the implication
that, however ridiculous people are being, they don't *have* to be like
that, they could act in another, more admirable way.

I am sure I have been ironic, and I may have been satirical, but I don't
think I have been sarcastic. And I haven't been wild about it. I've chosen
my words with care.

I told you what I thought of your exchange of insults with Supertech, and
you responded by trying to put me on the defensive, calling me a racist. I
showed that the grounds for assuming I was racist were false, and you seemed
to accept that. But to me the big deal is not whether *I* am racist, but
whether *you* were crude and offensive.

Conclusion: you *were* and *are* crude and offensive ("wanking tokyojaps",
et cetera, et cetera, et boring bloody cetera).

Now, if you want to call a truce at this stage, that's fine, I have no
further quarrel with you. Call people all the rude names you want, just so
long as you know that, from where I'm sitting, all that kind of name-calling
is subhuman drivel.

But if you want to keep on fighting with a feather, that's fine, too, you go
ahead. I'm afraid you'll find yourself shadow-boxing, though; I've had my
say.

Sheesh. Guess we'd better call off that beer!

--
John
http://rarebooksinjapan.com