The totally off-topic thread

[junbugging]

Even within the supposedly homogeneous Japan there are 2 main racial types

The odds of people from those two types considering themselves different in any way are vanishingly close to zero, though. Which makes terrorism less likely, or something.

 

[GarrettM]

Well so much for opinion:

Tokyo knifeman kills more than a dozen

Certainly everyone is free to express an opinion. But people are equally free to respond when that opinion is clearly wrong. It is not an attack on freedom of expression to say something is wrong, either.

The bloke was a nutjob ex staffer of the centre, who apparently reckons all disabled people should die. A bit like the bloke in Sydney who set fire to the aged care home. Very little can be done to prevent this sort of thing.

 

[drron]

Travelling in Japan in the 80s you often heard Japanese expressing their pride in their homogeneity.Not heard it now for quite some time.

 

[medhead]

The odds of people from those two types considering themselves different in any way are vanishingly close to zero, though. Which makes terrorism less likely, or something.

Strangely enough, race is generally not determined by what people consider themselves to be. The normal process is to measure it by DNA and all that boring technical stuff.

The bloke was a nutjob ex staffer of the centre, who apparently reckons all disabled people should die. A bit like the bloke in Sydney who set fire to the aged care home. Very little can be done to prevent this sort of thing.

Indeed, not even racial mix can prevent people being randomly murdered by a psychopathic killer. Nor this sort of thing either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack

As a former employee, I wonder if there is a political issue at play.

 

[straitman]

I would still like a 'dislike' button though!

I dislike the idea that we need a dislike button :!:

 

[Pushka]

I dislike the idea that we need a dislike button :!:

If we had a dislike button you could have just used it.

 

[straitman]

If we had a dislike button you could have just used it.

Here is my OT answer!

 

[Pushka]

View attachment 75738 Here is my OT answer!

But it is still morning here? Oh. I see. I am a few drinks behind.

 

[Bundy Bear]

OK, I have to make an apology, I shouldn't let posts (and certain posters) get under my skin, I shouldn't write things that I know I will regret later, I should use the 'ignore' function more than I do, I shouldn't 'bite', but maybe all this is off topic.

I would still like a 'dislike' button though!

I dislike the idea that we need a dislike button :!:

Users petitioned Facebook for a like button for years finally we have a multiple choice which I think is just as bad.

Another day of being sick, when will it end, to make it worse I am at work.

 

[JohnK]

Users petitioned Facebook for a like button for years finally we have a multiple choice which I think is just as bad.

Another day of being sick, when will it end, to make it worse I am at work.

I think you know the answer.

 

[junbugging]

Strangely enough, race is generally not determined by what people consider themselves to be. The normal process is to measure it by DNA and all that boring technical stuff.

Yes, I'm sure that's what Sonia Kruger had in mind.

But do keep muttering your little Wikipedia tidbit into the ether. It might not make the cut at trivia night.

 

[Quickstatus]

Strangely enough, race is generally not determined by what people consider themselves to be. The normal process is to measure it by DNA and all that boring technical stuff.

Except that is not the reality. I don't know of any requirement to prove race by DNA analysis - presumably because no such test exists.
One of the most common misconceptions is that DNA can determine ancestry. DNA analysis only looks at a very tiny snippet of the person's genome and so cannot accurately answer such questions.

Current constructs of Caucasian, Asian, negro, etc etc etc are just that - artificial constructs based on generalised outward appearances and historical geographical locations. The DNA underlying that is more complicated and less clear.

Consider the Australian Aborigines. A person can tick the Aboriginal/torres strait islander on any official document if he/she is considered to be A/TSI by the A/TSI community even though outwardly s/he may appear to be more Scandinavian that those who actually are from Scandinavia.

"Aryans" were not tested as the technology did not exist then, but there were many anthropological attempts at classifying races by using "objective" measurements.

Dont forget that humans share about 99% of DNA with Chimpanzees - explains the behaviour of many.

 

[TomVexille]

It occurred to me a while ago that this thread is very much like facebook, and many posters use it exactly as most people use facebook...

 

[Princess Fiona]

It occurred to me a while ago that this thread is very much like facebook, and many posters use it exactly as most people use facebook...

I totally agree with that.
Including the over-sharing part

 

[Cruiser Elite]

It occurred to me a while ago that this thread is very much like facebook, and many posters use it exactly as most people use facebook...

I don't do Bookface Tommy - can you explain what you mean please?

 

[TomVexille]

I don't do Bookface Tommy - can you explain what you mean please?

Things like the "vaguebooking" that goes on. But mostly it's simply people just sharing their thoughts, random musings, things that they liked ect. Which is pretty much what happens on the twitface

 

[Cruiser Elite]

I am too much of a simpleton to even know what 'vaguebooking' is - but isn't this Totally Off Topic thread designed for such as is posted here?

 

[TomVexille]

I am too much of a simpleton to even know what 'vaguebooking' is - but isn't this Totally Off Topic thread designed for such as is posted here?

Posting a vague comment fishing for a reaction.

And yes, that's how this thread works. Just like fb

 

[blackcat20]

I am too much of a simpleton to even know what 'vaguebooking' is - but isn't this Totally Off Topic thread designed for such as is posted here?

Like if someone posted 'FML' or similar vagueness on Facebook because they are hoping people will ask what's wrong etc.

 

[medhead]

Yes, I'm sure that's what Sonia Kruger had in mind.

But do keep muttering your little Wikipedia tidbit into the ether. It might not make the cut at trivia night.

Exactly the issue - Sonia didn't know what she was talking about, she was just making it up.

Feel free to refute with actually facts rather than vague ramblings any time.

Except that is not the reality. I don't know of any requirement to prove race by DNA analysis - presumably because no such test exists.
One of the most common misconceptions is that DNA can determine ancestry. DNA analysis only looks at a very tiny snippet of the person's genome and so cannot accurately answer such questions.

Current constructs of Caucasian, Asian, negro, etc etc etc are just that - artificial constructs based on generalised outward appearances and historical geographical locations. The DNA underlying that is more complicated and less clear.

Consider the Australian Aborigines. A person can tick the Aboriginal/torres strait islander on any official document if he/she is considered to be A/TSI by the A/TSI community even though outwardly s/he may appear to be more Scandinavian that those who actually are from Scandinavia.

"Aryans" were not tested as the technology did not exist then, but there were many anthropological attempts at classifying races by using "objective" measurements.

Dont forget that humans share about 99% of DNA with Chimpanzees - explains the behaviour of many.

I guess you missed the generalisation in my post. There was nothing definitive in what I wrote. "Generally" and "all that boring technical stuff" - probably fits right into most of your post.

A better analogy to the Japan situation for Australia would be the ABS determining that all people with Australian nationality are ethnically Australian. That would be a false construct.

Yep and 1% different.