Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!hd10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: GRRRRRR. Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.45.133.74 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300252056 4189 127.0.0.1 (16 Mar 2011 05:07:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: hd10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=204.45.133.74; posting-account=VY3VQwoAAADkcVR1NHW7NnNAbXRd3fyS User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169726 The 2-Belo wrote: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/anxious-foreigners-flee-japan/2011/03/15/ABrlvnW_story.html > > (Warning: In this rant, "you" means "those who are pissing me off in this > article", not you personally, unless you're one of the people in this article.) > > This pisses me off. A lot. > > After all the posturing, all the blogging, all the whining about not being > treated as equals blah blah racist police state, they "get as far away as > possible" the moment shit gets real. > > If you live here, live here for better or for worse. Don't put your dog in a > boarding kennel and catch the first flight out like a damned coward. If you're > in Tohoku and have to evacuate, go southwest, get out of the danger zone, but > don't abandon the whole country! People need help, and they're going to need > lots of it, for a long time. Volunteer! Contribute! Find someone who needs a > hand. The locals can't hop a flight back to Blighty the minute something catches > fire, so neither should you. If you're so serious about being a resident, act > like one. They're obviously not serious. At least they're kind of helping the airline industry. Mike