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Irish fleeing to Japan

  • 07-03-2018 10:42pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭


    The year is 2020202, and suspiciously like 1980's Ireland.

    The RIRIRA (Really Irate Real Irish Republican Army) and British forces have been fighting over the northern counties for years, but it has finally spread to the rest of the republic and its mayhem.

    The German, French and Italian governments have sidestepped the responsibility for Irish refugees fleeing for their lives, despite being the obvious choice, culturally, geographically and historically.

    Instead, the Irish refugees make the logical choice to claim asylum in Japan(!). If the Irish can track across the European continent, the Japanese have a rail network specifically set up for them, and this will transport you the rest of the way to Japan.

    As well as thousands upon thousands of Irish that have decided it makes sense to travel to Japan, with so many cultural similarities (!), thousands upon thousands of Germans, English, French, Italians, Greeks and Swedish have decided to go too for the hell of it. The Japanese president even made a global broadcast "everyones welcome!"

    A percentage will suffer some temporary indignity in a refugee center just outside Tokyo while receiving a very small stipend, but most wont. There is more than a decent chance of being offered social housing by the Japanese government, worth upwards of several hundred thousand euro's if youre lucky.

    You'll be fast tracked to citizenship asap and the Japanese will hold celebratory ceremonies for each batch of European refugees (because the Irish crisis somehow magically includes all Europe now).

    You can then send your children to Japanese schools that proudly boast 20 different nationalities of Europe, and needn't worry about signposting in the schools because they'll be translated into 5 common European languages.

    You needn't worry too much about family you left behind, because the Japanese government are discussing ways to get your family over too.

    And don't worry about getting bored in Japan, because your eventual Japanese passport will allow you to work and travel anywhere you like in Asia (whether those other countries agree or not)

    And don't worry if you happen to be catholic in a largely non-Catholic country, because Germany, France and Italy have promised readily available funds to build catholic churches in Japan.

    And don't worry about not fitting in, a very loud segment of the Japanese population will gladly embrace your culture and (sometimes simultaneously) magically fail to recognise what culture Japan even had before you came.

    You'll probably be over-represented in everything from media, and they will jump on the ratings by increasing the antagonism between Japanese people themselves over the sudden and large scale immigration from Europe.

    There will also be a small contingent of RIRIRA fighters who have openly declared war on Japan, and that have announced they will infiltrate amongst the refugees, do so, have set up terrorist cells, and in more than a few incidents have slaughtered many Japanese people in public.

    You will hear of Irish schools in Tokyo where radical RIRIRA have tried to teach younger irish children to become suicide bombers. There will be irish gangs that groom Japanese children into the sex trade, and there will be many contested incidents of Japanese people being raped/molested by irish people.

    Its not 100% an accurate translation of the position of course, but close enough (but that will bear out in the commentary, I don't have all day for every nuance). And although a few things relate to muslims in Europe, I'm really more interested in the overall effect, no matter where you come from/your religion.

    Considering the alternate reality above, how completely crazy do the Japanese sound? Very thoughtful, but gone off the rails?


    So what does anyone else have to say, or to add to accuracy? Is it surprising at all to consider things from a flip side? Clarify things, or make no difference?

    The Japanese are making a sensible decision? 12 votes

    Yes, the Japanese are making a good decision
    0% 0 votes
    No, the japanese are making a terrible decision
    58% 7 votes
    They need to make serious changes to their policy
    41% 5 votes


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Once I saw it was over 218000 years in the future, I gave up reading.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    Oh and one other itty bitty detail, Japan has a housing crisis at the same time. Just in case it was making too much sense :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    The answer is 42.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,093 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Not reading that!

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    And with your point, I think most sensible people will agree that the Japanese are far too smart to wreck their country


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    And with your point, I think most sensible people will agree that the Japanese are far too smart to wreck their country

    Its a good exercise in argument, and critical thinking to flip situations. It can often add much clarity.

    As I said above, its not a perfect translation by any means, but its a good kick-off point for conversation.

    Had a talk about it earlier with some from Japan, and afterwards I was just left with the impression "this is banana's!"

    And a few nuts thrown in for good measure :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    Purplemonkeydishwasher....hairy japanese bastards!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Bukkake ruined my carpet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    drillyeye wrote: »
    You'll be fast tracked to citizenship asap and the Japanese will hold celebratory ceremonies for each batch of European refugees
    Nope, because Japan doesn't give other people citizenship, unless you have a dick ton of money.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 735 ✭✭✭milehip


    Been at the sake again OP?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    the_syco wrote: »
    Nope, because Japan doesn't give other people citizenship, unless you have a dick ton of money.

    They already took nearly all the money in the world. And there is no sign of them paying it back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    the_syco wrote: »
    Nope, because Japan doesn't give other people citizenship, unless you have a dick ton of money.

    Well, that's a telling difference in the real world!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭Havockk


    Don't settle in Tokyo lads, it's not known as the city waiting to die for no reason!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭um7y1h83ge06nx


    I need a boost, been a busy week so far and it's only Thursday tomorrow.

    So what are you on OP?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    When you go over it will be important to know that Fukushima is not pronounced Foo Koo She Ma. It's Foo Koosh Ma.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    Thank god we have a good responsible leader who cares about the Irish people.

    429345.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    I need a boost, been a busy week so far and it's only Thursday tomorrow.

    So what are you on OP?

    Unlike some people in Europe, Earth. :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    School still closed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭dav3


    TL;DR Version

    All the Irish get jobs making sex robots and embrace the Japanese culture of KFC and potato flavoured Kit Kats. The End.


    The wren
    Earns his living
    Noiselessly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    School still closed?

    No, otherwise I'd have you standing in the corner of the classroom, lecturing you on the importance of real life.

    Now go write an essay on "Why hitman3000 sucks, and what he can do about it" :P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    Which lunatic voted for "good decision" :) Is that you Kim jong?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    drillyeye wrote:
    Now go write an essay on "Why hitman3000 sucks, and what he can do about it"


    I don't suck, although I have been on the receiving end of a good suck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    I don't suck, although I have been on the receiving end of a good suck.

    Although technically true, cellotaping some skittles to your bejongle and letting the pet Chihuahua go to town doesn't count.

    And I don't mean giving the dog the luas fare.

    And by bejongle I mean yojandle


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    It's Sellotape.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,295 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    OP you got the country wrong. It's the Koreans who like Irish music, so let the regugees in. Kinda to thank the Irish missionaries who helped rebuild their country in the 1950s onwards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,363 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    It's Sellotape.

    You misunderstand.

    I have safely assumed that Hitman3000 is a cellist, and no doubt of great repute and on many simultaneous tours of the great concert halls of Europe.

    Ergo, as any famous cellist will tell you, one can never have enough of the specially designed "cello"tape, lest a fracture should occur in your instrument during the rhythmic plucking of strings in public.

    Faux-pas are to be avoided, and when in doubt, don't leave home without.....cellotape.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    As someone once said to a not very good woman cellist. You have something there between your legs which could bring pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is sit there and scratch it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Once I saw it was over 218000 years in the future, I gave up reading.

    I'd just hope I ran into Samantha Mumba


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    OP you got the country wrong. It's the Koreans who like Irish music, so let the regugees in. Kinda to thank the Irish missionaries who helped rebuild their country in the 1950s onwards.

    Well unless they are as opposite as possible, the analogy still stands.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Dumbledore is gay


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    As someone once said to a not very good woman cellist. You have something there between your legs which could bring pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is sit there and scratch it.

    True. But lets not forget, that having made the infallible deduction that Hitman3000 was raised by bony-nosed apes in the lowlands of Borneo, his digits never fully developed.

    Therefore, as an avant garde of the orchestral circuit, he prefers to pluck the strings violently with his stubby fingers, much to the chagrin of bow purists by day, and to the pleasure of thousands of hairy women by night.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    drillyeye wrote:
    Although technically true, cellotaping some skittles to your bejongle and letting the pet Chihuahua go to town doesn't count.


    Beastiality, not my thing dude. Anyways when are you back to School?


  • Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,531 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    I'm on for going anyway, their women are gorgeous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    I'm on for going anyway, their women are gorgeous.

    The ones I saw always had some bits pixelated. It's hard to tell.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    Way too long OP. So my answer is pan fry the scallops in butter for about two minutes on each side. Hope that helps OP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    All the little contrarians voting yes!

    But the jokes on them, the seed of the obvious is planted, and it'll niggle and wear down upon their brains in private, changing their perceptions and world view, until they are lost completely in their efforts to "fit in the narrative"

    In the meanwhile, tell me how wrong I am (in reality an attempt to reconcile your own thoughts)

    Do it, baby!

    :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Way too long OP. So my answer is pan fry the scallops in butter for about two minutes on each side. Hope that helps OP.

    Out of the fire and into Japan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Beastiality, not my thing dude. Anyways when are you back to School?

    Whenever your mum squeezes the uniform onto you and kicks you out the door, I'll be there as usual with the metal ruler to slap your ear and the information to mature your brain from the pulpit.

    Like, next Monday, I think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    drillyeye wrote:
    Whenever your mum squeezes the uniform onto you and kicks you out the door, I'll be there as usual with the metal ruler to slap your ear and the information to mature your brain from the pulpit.

    You got the uniform part right, just not the organisation.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,093 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Out of the fire and into Japan.

    Thanks! I laughed. :)

    Not your ornery onager



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    go on the japan


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    Please tldr that ****


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,093 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Listening to this > reading the OP.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mMVCfFJ_l_4

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    fergus1001 wrote: »
    Please tldr that ****

    But how do you know its ****? :)

    Or maybe you meant DLFHCDWWVS*??!


    *Didn't Like, Feelings Hurt, Cant Deal, Warped World View Shattered


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭TJJP


    おばけ屋敷にいく


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    Esel wrote: »
    Listening to this > reading the OP.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mMVCfFJ_l_4

    Reading some of these replies while listening to this...... :))

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPx_Ja88-wo&app=desktop


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭drillyeye


    TJJP wrote: »
    おばけ屋敷にいく

    demo......do****e!?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,853 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    meanwhile-in-japan-quickmeme-co-27798484.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,832 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Don't be silly

    Sure there'll be no japaneseses left soon enough what with their bad procreation rates

    Nearly as bad as the pandas they are


    And even if they do get around to doing a bit of riding, Godzilla will get the little feckers long before then



    Whatever happened to the Revs? Who knew Stiffler was originally from Donegal!




    (Yeah I know it was only a cover)


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