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Post by Ally on Mar 21, 2006 12:55:28 GMT
Yeah, the suicide attack version was named after General Kamikaze.
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Post by stokerino on Mar 21, 2006 15:28:25 GMT
...Or rather, in Japanese the word 'kamikaze' means 'Divine Wind'. They never even used the word kamikaze during WW2, but instead used the pronunciation 'shinpuu', which uses the same characters. American translaters got it wrong, and it spread throughout the world's media, to the extent that even the Japanese call it kamikaze now.
'General Kamikaze'...nevermind that General is an army rank, and that the suicide attacks were by naval aircrews. ¬_¬
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Post by Ally on Mar 21, 2006 16:27:45 GMT
OK, OK, that was just the story I'd heard! And I've never studied the armed forces, so I wouldn't know about the different ranks.
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Post by stokerino on Mar 21, 2006 16:31:32 GMT
I know. I was just adding that small level of pedantism as befits my chosen course of study. >_>
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Post by Ally on Mar 21, 2006 16:48:20 GMT
As for me, all I know about war, I learned from M*A*S*H. ;D
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Post by Emily on Mar 21, 2006 20:06:40 GMT
come on, even i know what kamikaze means! named after a general... what kind of general would commit suicide when he had lackeys to do it for him?
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Post by Ally on Mar 21, 2006 20:19:33 GMT
The story I heard (which on some documentary ages ago) just said he came up with the idea, not that he ever did it himself. That'd go against the old military leader tradition of "stay miles away from any danger"
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Post by Emily on Mar 21, 2006 20:21:16 GMT
that was in a documentary...? ye gods
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Post by petrobrad on Mar 21, 2006 20:27:17 GMT
whats a documentary? Man am I hungry, I wish my flatmate would hurry up so we can start cooking lasagne (contains no pigeons or waste from bins)
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Post by stokerino on Mar 21, 2006 20:28:34 GMT
I am led to believe that if any individual Japanese officer were to be held responsible, it would be Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi, commandent of the First Air Fleet.
But then this was the guy charged with defending the Philippines against the might of the US Navy, so he realised that they were pretty much fucked no matter what they did. At least with a single well-placed plane, strapped with explosives, you could put an entire aircraft carrier out of action for a week at the same time...
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Post by petrobrad on Mar 21, 2006 20:33:21 GMT
I thought if a plane strapped with explosives hit an aircraft carrier, it would destroy it not just put it out of action for a week
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Post by stokerino on Mar 21, 2006 20:38:20 GMT
Aircraft carriers are veeeery big...
Plus, the liklihood of a plane hitting somewhere that'd actually make the ship sink (like near the waterline) is very low. Much easier to just take out the control tower and/or half the flight deck. Then they can't do a damn thing.
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Post by petrobrad on Mar 22, 2006 12:23:26 GMT
They should have used biochemical warfare. Kill everyone on the ships and then take control of them.
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Post by petrobrad on May 10, 2006 17:26:49 GMT
I think I killed the thread with the threat of biochemical weapons.
Someone must have of had an interesting dream recently or has the impending doom of exams killed people's subconcious. (This reminds me I should start revising for my exam next friday)
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Post by Ally on May 10, 2006 18:18:26 GMT
I nearly posted my dream from last night earlier...sod it, I'll post it anyway. It was a bit upsetting, I have to say.
Basically, in the dream I killed someone by accident (I think it might have been my grandpa...for those of you who don't know, he died five years ago and I still miss him like crazy). I didn't tell the police because I was too scared - instead, I tried to cover it up, and obviously succeeded because they started blaming someone else for it. This made me feel REALLY guilty (I was actually convinced I was going to go to hell, which is not the kind of thing I usually worry about) - but I knew that if I reported it now they wouldn't beleive it had been an accident, and I'd go to prison.
It wasn't nice at all. When I woke up it took me several minutes to remember that I hadn't killed anyone. So yeah, analyse that...
(A nicer dream I had recently was about me and Jelen sitting around smoking spliffs out of Audrey Hepburn style cigarette holders. That was just funny)
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Post by Emily on May 10, 2006 20:11:25 GMT
deep seated anxiety...?
I dreamed about cake. I know exactly why this is, its because i had an icecream and am now covered in exzema again and can't have the cake.
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Post by Ally on May 11, 2006 0:30:55 GMT
Possibly...
And there's got to be dairy-free cake out there somewhere...
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Post by beckini on May 11, 2006 9:16:53 GMT
awwwwwwww i had a dream but forgot it
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Post by Lu on May 11, 2006 10:38:42 GMT
em, you do realise that unless your cooking it with butter rather than marg, sponge cake doesnt contain milk
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Post by Emily on May 12, 2006 10:42:37 GMT
yeah but no one else cooks their cake with dairy free marg and i'm crap at cake...
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