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はてなキーワード: The Streetsとは
を読んで、チャゲは本当に木根尚登とならぶ過小評価なソングライターだと長年思ってるので、個人的に感じる名曲でちょっと彼を見る目が変わりそうなのをいくつか紹介したい。
あくまで自分が好きな曲なのと、自分がちゃんとチャゲアスを聞いてたのは80年代終わりから90年代前半くらいまでのごく短い時間（つまりは流行ってた時代のミーハーファン）なので、コアなファンは「そんなカスみたいなのばかりあげんなよ」みたいな感想がでるかもしれないですが、まあ大目に見てほしいです。解散以降のソロ曲は一切知らないし。
これを読んで、チャゲにたいする「なんかアスカの隣でハモってるちょっと面白い人」くらいのイメージがちょっと変わったらうれしいです。
基本的にチャゲは凝った曲（メロディラインやアレンジが変な曲）や大きい曲（壮大なサウンドスケープを感じさせる曲）を作ったときに異様に力を発揮するタイプのソングライターです。それはたぶん彼の背景にビートルズやUKロックがあるのが要因かなと思う。そういうと「アスカのほうが大きい曲強いじゃん、「太陽と誇りの中で」とか「BIG TREE」」」とか」とファンは言いそうですが、アスカはJ-POP的な大きい曲に対して、チャゲはスタジアムロック的な大きい曲を作るのが得意な人です。本人のパブリックなキャラとだいぶ違って、それは木根とも共通すると思います。
今回は「大きい曲」 「変な曲」 「ふつうに良い曲」を2曲づつ挙げていきます。どの曲も今やサブスクで聞けるようになりましたので、ぜひ聞いてほしいです。
大きい曲その1。チャゲ曲でのファンの間で代表曲といえばこれだと思います。とにかくでかい。タイトルからしてでかい。イントロのアタックといいドラムといいでかい。そこからぐっと入るUKロックのようなAメロ。チャゲアスっぽいBメロという展開を繰り返しながら、ぐっとためてためて爆発するサビ。歌いやすくグッとくるこのサビのスケール感は、U2のWhere The Streets Have No NameとかOasisのLive Foreverとかとためをはれるんじゃないかとすら思う。間奏での掛け声がものすごくダサいがそのダサさも含めてスタジアムロックな名曲。ライブで聞くとなんとなくいいものを聞いたなと誰もが思うんじゃないでしょうか。それくらいのパワーがある曲。
大きい曲その2。これはチャゲのサイドユニット Multi Maxのもの。まあチャゲアスのライブでもけっこうやってた記憶があるのでここで取り上げたい。ロマンシングヤードがアッパーな感じの大きな曲なのに対して、こっちはミドルな大きな曲。まあほぼロマンシングヤードの兄弟曲なのだが、スケール感はこっちのほうが上。なんとなく環境問題を意識したっぽい歌詞はあの時代ですな。サビがとにかく気持ちいいのでカラオケで歌ってても楽しい曲。
変な曲その1。SAY YESが入っていてむちゃくちゃ大ヒットしたTREEに入っていたのでたぶん聞いたことある人もいそうな曲。JPOPによくあるファンクっぽい曲なのだが、エフェクトのつけ方とかすごく気持ち悪くてかっこいい。当時釣りに凝っていたチャゲが当時はまだあまり市民権のなかったCATCH ＆ RELEASEというワードをもとに恋愛の歌詞にしたもの。Aメロのすっ飛ばしぐあいがすごくて、ちょっときれいな感じのBメロになったと思ったらドキャッチーなサビになる。全編でアスカとのボーカルコンビネーションが堪能できる。
変な曲その2。これもPRIDEに入ってるので知ってる人はそれなりにいそう。ちょっとエスニックな感じのイントロにやたらとエコーをかけたアスカの声が入ってくる。ところがサビで転調した瞬間に爽快なメロディになる。AメロBメロとサビの印象が全然違うので、サビの爽快さがさらに際立つ。歌詞とぴったりとあってるようにも思うしなんならアルバムジャケとぴったり合ってる。中学生のころに初めて聞いてなんだこれ！と聞き直したくらいインパクトのある曲。
ふつうに良い曲その1。普通に良い曲ももちろんある。これは元増田も言及していた曲でriverのカップリングなのでそこそこ知られてるかもしれない。こういうアーティストが自分の過去を振り返る曲はいい曲になりやすいよね。ちょっとサビの感じが長渕剛っぽいのが好き嫌い分かれそうだが僕は割と好み。というかチャゲも歌い方を長渕に寄せてる気がするし、何度か聞いてるとだんだん長渕っぽいなと思えてきて、長渕の声で脳内再生できてくる。歌の題材が福岡なせいだろうか。
ふつうに良い曲その2。チャゲ曲なのにほとんどをアスカが歌ってる不思議な曲。チャゲアスが得意なミディアムバラードだけどとにかく全部よい。メロディ、歌い方、歌詞、アレンジ、全部完璧。しいて言えば、間奏のアスカのモノローグがいらないくらい。渋谷のスクランブル交差点をテーマにしてるらしいがイメージがありありと想起できる。ＡメロがほぼサビなのだがこのＡメロがものすごくよくできてる。歌詞と曲の一体感に、全然違うがTM NETWORKのStill Love Herと近さを感じるのはなぜだろうか。僕はいまだに渋谷のスクランブルで信号待ちをしているときにこの曲のサビが脳内で流れ出す。
こういうのってホントは良くないんだろうけど、流石に頭に来たからもう書く。
こんばんは。はじめまして。
30手前で〇ープ嬢やってる増田です。
この時期って、というか今週も先週に引き続いて繁忙期。
お店としてはけっこうな稼ぎ時で、お盆って地域によって日にちが少し違ったり、業種によっては休みがずれ込んだりするでしょ？
それで先週に引き続いて今週も忙しかった。
でも稼げるときに稼ごうって思って、今日も頑張って働いてたんだ。
今日の夕方、指名が入ってさ、相手は体重100kgの精神障害者、身体障害者のデブのおじさん。
歳は多分50前後だと思う。
けど仕事だからね。こっちだって一応はプロだからさ、表情にはおくびにも出さずに笑顔で接したんだ。
お兄さんカッコいいね、って言いながら体を洗ってあげて、勃起したお〇ん〇んを見て、わぁ…大きい…！なんてテンプレみたいなことも言うよ！
で、こういうおじさんに限って、紳士みたいな素振りを装って、すぐ本番環境にデプロイ（性的な意味で）してやろうとするのに必死で、それでああなるほどね…って思うわけ。
だからあんまり濡れてもいないし感じてなくても大きな声でいっぱい喘いでみたり、とにかく頑張った。
問題はおじさんが〇精して、ピロートークみたいになったときのことだ。
おじさんが不意に「どうしてこんなところで働いてるの？」って聞いてきた。マジで。
いやいやいや、それアウトでしょって心の中で思いながらも、けど今でもたまにいるから仕方ない。実際こういうこと聞いてくるおじは死ぬほどウザい。
一応は客である以上、邪険にもできないしさ、ああもうめんどくせぇってなって、実は父の事業が失敗して破産して借金がたくさんあるんです、それを返すためにここで働いてて…みたいなことを、お父さんのことが大好きだから、私が頑張ってその借金を返そうと思っているんです、みたいなことを話したんだ。
もちろん嘘。噓八百なんだけど、おじさんそれを聞いてしんみりしはじめた。そうなんだ…て言ってて本気で信じてるみたいで、なんだか妙な雰囲気になってしまった。
でももうすぐ時間だし、別にいいや。あ、そうだ名刺って思い出して、別れ際に渡す名刺を用意しようと思ってバッグを漁ってたら後ろからボソボソ歌声が聞こえてきた。
え？って思って振り返るとおじさんが泣いてるみたいに手で目元を抑えて、
we shall fight on the beaches
we shall fight on the landing grounds
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets
we shall fight in the hills
we shall never surrender!
ってボソボソ歌ってんの。
え？は？って思っておじさん見てたらおじさんも私の視線に気づいてこっちを見て目が合った瞬間「Aces High!!」って歌うんだよ。うぜぇええええええっ！！！！
はぁ？って思った。何なん！？唐突なIron Maiden何なん！？チャーチル演説何なん！？
それでもおじさん、目をウルウルさせながら
って私を見ながら微笑んで歌うんだよ。
もうね、勘弁してくれって心から思った。
ここはHard Rock Cafeじゃないから。
腹立ったし、完全に引いてたけど何とか最後まで笑顔を作って、最後には儀礼的なハグ。
名刺も渡して、やっと終わりだって思ったけどおじさん別れ際に振り返って「Aces High!!」って言うんだよ。
もうマジ無理...
中国笙とオーケストラのための《Pink Elephant in Prentis》w/ score
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iRGrZTa6Jo
"Pink Elephant in Prentis" for alto sheng and orchestra
Commissioned and premiered by Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra (cond. Zhang Liang)
Prentis Hall is a building in New York City, where I spent a year (2015-2016) living in a sleeping bag and taking showers in the toilet. Prentis was built in 1909 and was initially designed as a pasteurization facility and milk bottling plant, then later used as a Heat Transfer Research Facility, conducting nuclear research and experiments, during the Manhattan Project. Columbia University acquired the building in 1949, and the building has housed Columbia’s Computer Music Center (then Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center) from the 1950s onwards. During my time there at the Computer Music Center, I have spent my days and nights exploring stimulating sounds using both analog and digital synthesizers, tape recorders, CTR monitors, and other equipments unfamiliar to me back then. Aside from the Computer Music Center, the building also housed studios for visual artists, and so I was able to meet many eccentric artists, where we ended up having long conversations every night on both significant and insignificant issues surrounding us.
Located on 125th Street in Manhattan, the “residents” of Prentis Hall were constantly harassed by the rumblings of the New York City Subway (which runs aboveground for 125th Street Station), the traffic from the highway nearby, the bustling of the streets of New York, and the construction noises from the nearby building sites. At nights, the screeching noises from the metal shop and the wood shop constantly rang throughout the building. At one point in time, the noise inspired me to imagine a gigantic pink elephant running through the narrow corridors of Prentis. The head and front half of the body was seemingly a normal elephant found in the wild. However, as I scanned my eyes further back, the body of the animal seemed to become more and more pixelated, and small 3D blocks were clearly visible on its back and hind legs, as if molded by an amateur creator in a Minecraft game. As the elephant advanced, some blocks fell onto the floor like water droplets falling from an animal soaked in water. I rubbed my eyes and shook my head, certain that I have entered a dream at some point during the night. The pink elephant walked past me and wandered into one of the many rooms the building offered. I timidly peeked into the room where the pink elephant disappeared into. The pink elephant seemed to have collapsed on the floor, its body, both the organic front and the pixelated back, expanding and shrinking as it sluggishly inhaled and exhaled oxygen.
After hours of staring at the pink elephant, I jumped back at a sudden startling noise from behind, which woke the pink elephant from its deep slumber. Furious, the pink elephant stood on its two pixelated hind legs, and stomped out into the corridors again, this time shaking off more 3D blocks from its back than when it first arrived. The organic front seemed to start to bloat up like a balloon for reasons unknown to me, and the pixelated back grew smaller and smaller due to its parts crumbling down on the floor. In a blink of an eye, the inflated front side split from its pixelated rear, then with a deafening pop, exploded into thin air like a burst balloon. What was left were the pink 3D blocks of all sizes, scattered around on the corridors of Prentis Hall.
Chatori Shimizu: https://www.chatorishimizu.com/
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra: http://www.shphilharmonic.com/
原文
Japan review it's been a year since I
moved to Japan and I thought it made
sense to finally rate Japan I will talk
about things I like and the things I
don't like which seems to be the only
two options available if you have
so sugoi or did you know Japan is
actually really bad it's got a lot of
survival issues okay I will list one
good thing and bad thing and I will not
hold back there's no trash bins
I have to put in my pocket
oh
there's always these generic things that
you hear or yes when we you visit it's
kind of weird but then you realize it's
not a big deal anyway let's start off
with number one reason I like Japan
it feels like a giant playground no I
don't mean in the Logan Paul kind of
sense of doing whatever the hell you
want
but rather there's a infinite things all
right lazy feels like to explore and
experience and I've been here a year now
and I don't think I'm gonna get bored
anytime soon although I am having a
child so I don't know how much more I
but it really feels like a whole new
world and if you visited you can
probably relate to it and I'm glad that
even a year in it still feels incredibly
fresh and I even would say that you
realize that the best part of Japan
aren't the touristy places kind of
obviously but there are so many areas
that I found that I really enjoy
visiting and this is probably more
specific to me but you know Tokyo is
very busy and so many times I just catch
myself surrounded by what feels like
hundreds of people and they have no idea
everyone is just doing their own thing
now once it was staring at me no one's
following me no one's being weird you
guys are weird and I'm just kidding I
just love the feeling of being able to
exist in public and uh not worrying
about what everyone else is doing like
I've said this before but I genuinely
enjoy talking to fans or when people
approach me it always makes me happy but
it can be kind of frustrating to always
wanting to just do your own thing and
always be
you know so yeah let's move on to the
bad things of Japan number one reason
Japan is bad it's kind of a heavy
subject and I haven't seen anyone else
really talk about it it's not brought up
very often at least and that is cones
there's too many cones in Japan once you
see it you cannot unsee it they're
everywhere they say oh Japan has so many
vending machines there's like five per
there's more cones than people why are
there so many cones I need to know we
got the tall ones we got the small ones
we got the funny ones the cute ones the
sexy ones I do like those I just don't
understand that whoever plays these
cones think I'm just gonna barge through
oh thank God there's cones here
otherwise I had no idea what I was gonna
and I realized the cone history of Japan
stretches centuries okay if you played
Animal Crossing sometimes it's a
Japanese game so sometimes you get these
items right you're like oh that's kind
of weird I don't know exactly what that
is but it's probably something Japanese
and then you get the bamboo thing and
you're like what the hell is that what
am I even gonna do with that and then
you see it in real life here in Japan
you're like holy [ __ ] it's a cone that's
I feel like they are following me
I'm glad I was able to talk about this
I'm for one and willing to call out
Japan knock it off man no more cones
there's enough cones let me tell you
something even better than cones you may
have noticed new merch finally it's been
forever my mom came over she had
unofficial merge because I literally
have no other merch I've hadn't hadn't
merch I'm sorry Mom so we spruced up the
logo got a cool back design the team
that worked on it really truly
understand how my brand and I think they
did such a good job these pieces look
amazing and I think you guys are gonna
really like them as well these are
available for limited time only so make
sure you order now so excited to finally
have this merch available thanks to
amaze for making this happen we are
gonna have one piece that will stay on
the store so my mom will not buy the
wrong merch but for a limited time that
piece will be available in this color
off-white kind of color it looks really
nice and then after that you can still
get it but not in this color that's
you want this one yeah I get it
so yeah check that out if you're
interested I'm so happy about these
designs and I hope you guys would like
them as well all right reason number two
I like Japan yay when we first announced
that we were gonna move to Japan there
was so many people just saying how bad
Japan is actually did you know Japan is
really bad did you know this I have to
list all these reasons now because
everyone is like thing and then thing
Japan ah so I have to tell them and I
it's actually but one thing in
particular that people said was that old
people really don't like foreigners they
hate them so when I was gonna stop by to
say hi to our neighbors who was a little
older at least some of them I was
terrifying I heard all these stories you
know like what are they gonna do to us
so I had my guard up ready for the worst
and I was met with nothing but kindness
and welcoming and I felt like a total
dick for having this preconceived ideas
and just a side comment like yes there
are definitely probably people that
don't like foreigners and all that stuff
but I realized I should let my own
experience is dictate how I feel about
certain things maybe that's just
ignoring a problem I don't know it just
feels like it's a bad way to approach
life if you always have a negative
expectation you know it's smiling people
smiled back
thank you sometimes they don't and
that's okay you know anyway my point
being Japanese people are very in my own
experience
are very nice and friendly the majority
at least and yes even to foreigners I
feel like they are especially nice to
foreigners because they think we're like
a kid lost at Disneyland or something
I just asked for directions I didn't
need you to walk me for half an hour to
this specific place I was going but
thank you I appreciate it a lot of times
I go bouldering alone and there's always
other groups of people being supportive
and yelling like I'm about there like go
you can do it I love it I think it's
great you know or if you're small
talking with people people generally
want to communicate with you and I love
having those moments but of course
there's times where people are like oh
you're a foreigner I don't feel like
even trying
which again it's fine speaking of which
reason I don't like Japan number two
their language
I have lived here for a year and I'm not
fluent in Japanese
I am dumb I am very dumb I remember the
moment we moved here I had studied some
Let's test out this knowledge that I
have acquired let's go I'm just gonna
come in it's gonna be dangerous and you
enter a store for the first time and
they're like
what
what oh
what the classic the most common
experiences that you have aren't
necessarily what you're taught in the
textbook yay I know I think that's the
same for anyone learning a language for
the first time but don't even get me
started on the kanji main what the [ __ ]
is this I feel like Japanese is such a
hard language obviously but I don't
think people realize how hard it is at
least me personally because the more you
learn the more you realize you don't
know [ __ ]
for English speakers Japanese is
considered one of the most difficult
languages and because it's just so
different I listed it as bad because
that was my first kind of experience
with it coming here but the more I
interact with people the more it feels
like I'm unlocking new skills you know
oh I made a phone call for the first
time oh I could ask someone over the
phone I know big deal but it's like oh I
can actually do that or even just having
a small tiny yes shittiest conversation
with a stranger it's still something and
it feels good you start to all of a
sudden understand you know a movie if
you're watching oh I understand actually
what's going on here or I can play games
and kind of get what this they're saying
I have to look up words obviously but to
me all those new experiences that it
unlocks to me is very rewarding even
though it's such a challenge I would
actually now say it's a good thing I
played it on its head it was a good
thing all along but I obviously have a
and it just I don't think it will damage
time reason number three I like Japan
this is nothing to do with Japan to say
it's more related to me taking a more
relaxed approach to YouTube for my
entire 20s I did nothing but YouTube
that was my life and that's okay but I
also think it was a little toxic
probably you know if I wasn't making
videos I sure as hell was thinking about
making videos I uploaded videos during
and it feels really good to finally be
free from it you know and I can discover
other things in life there are other
things in life
a new hobbies and interest that I've
always wanted to do I can do and have so
much fun with it surfing I know I would
love for the longest time and I finally
get to do it and it's so [ __ ] amazing
I love learning new things anything that
isn't necessarily connected to all of
this on the internet and that is
something I'm very very grateful that I
discovered so yeah it's not really Japan
I could have done that anywhere but it's
largely why I enjoyed so much here
reason I don't like Japan number three
this is probably the most trickiest one
and it's the rules what are the rules
Japan has so many rules and it's a bit
conflicting for me to complain about
because a lot of the best stuff about
Japan not the best stuff but a lot of
the reasons why Japan works so well is
because of the rules you know the trains
are always on time things just work in
general it's hard to explain the streets
are clean people aren't loud in public
and so on and these are sort of societal
rules that make it happen more or less
but sometimes There are rules that just
don't make any sense and I have no
problem following rules as long as I
understand the reason for it you know
don't talk on the phone on the train
because it's generally annoying when
other people do that to you A lot of it
is just be thoughtful of other people
it's not just about you and that just
makes it more pleasant for everyone but
one rule is especially which I talked
about before is the fact that because of
kovid I'm not allowed to be in the
delivery room for our baby for more than
two hours that's because of covered
rules it just doesn't make sense to me
and I tell people about this like uh
family and friends and they're always
like well why don't you just ask them or
like why don't you talk to them I'm sure
you can there's got to be somewhere and
it's like no it's Japan okay there are
rules and people follow the rules for
better or worse you know so the more I
ジンバブエ・ドル、ついに廃止 壮絶なインフレで300000000000000ドル＝1円
天文学的なインフレに陥っていたジンバブエの公式通貨「ジンバブエ・ドル」が、ついに廃止されることになった。
A child poses with wads of Zimbabwean dollar notes begged on the streets of Harare Tuesday, Feb. 19,...
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A child poses with wads of Zimbabwean dollar notes begged on the streets of Harare Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. The official rate of annual inflation in Zimbabwe rocketed past the 100,000 percent barrier, by far the highest in the world, the state central statistical office said Thursday Feb 21, 2008. (AP Photo)
天文学的なインフレに陥っていたジンバブエの公式通貨「ジンバブエ・ドル」が、ついに廃止されることになった。ジンバブエ準備銀行（中央銀行）は6月11日、自国通貨を公式に廃止し、銀行口座に残っているジンバブエ・ドルを来週からアメリカ・ドルに交換すると発表したという。ロイターなどが報じた。
ジンバブエでは独裁政権のムガベ大統領が、2000年に白人の農地を黒人に分配する土地接収法を施行。輸出が急減した影響で、景気後退は10年近く続いた。
財政赤字を埋め合わせるために、中央銀行が政府に求められるがままに紙幣を印刷した結果、ジンバブエでは2008年に5000億％のインフレになった。超高額紙幣が次々に刷られ、最終的には100兆ドル（写真）まで登場する始末。2009年からは自国通貨を使うことを諦め、国内では代わりにアメリカ・ドルや南アフリカの通貨ランドなどが使用されてきた。
今回の発表によると、アメリカ・ドルとの交換レートは、残高が17.5京（1兆の17万5000倍）ジンバブエ・ドルまでの銀行口座に対し、受け取れるのはわずか5アメリカ・ドル。日本円に換算すると約620円だ。17.5京を超える残高については、3.5京ジンバブエドルに対して1アメリカ・ドル（約120円）に交換されるという。
というわけで昭和50年代生まれが自分のiTunes再生数トップ50を書きだしてみたぞ。
共同研究しているギリシャ人の先生から、ギリシャでされている東京オリンピックに関する報道について真偽を聞かれたので回答したい。
全然ニュースみてないので、わかんないんだけど、大体こんな感じでいい？
[自分の回答] 今オリンピック中止のデモやってる奴らは、極々少数で、400人とか。無視できるレベル。こういう連中はデモをするのが仕事または趣味で、年中なんらかのデモをやってる。普通の人間はオリンピックを中止すべきと思っておらず、好意的に受け止めてるよ。
[自分の回答] 7/23時点では、2回の接種が完了した人が全人口の23%で、1回以上の人は35%やで。まぁ全体から言ったら全然すくないけども。日本は他国に比べて接種が遅れてるんやで。ワクチンの国内での治験を日本向けにローカライズして独自にやったから、承認に時間がかかって、結果として接種も遅れてるんやで～。日本は65歳以上が世界一多くて、それらの人が政治的な基盤を形成してる。そういうわけで、めちゃくちゃ保守的な国だから、遅れてるのはしゃーないやで。
[自分の回答] 激震なんて走っとらん！ｗ以下は俺の個人的な意見だけども：政府関係者は1300人程度なら想定の範囲内だとおもうで～おそらく2500人とか3000人程度までなら想定内じゃないかな？これが東京だけで感染者数が10,000人/日とかいくようになると、ロックダウンとかやるかもな～。ちな日本は未だに強制力のある移動制限とかはしたことないよ！8月のなかばに日本のホリデーシーズンがあって、そこでみんな故郷に帰ったりするから、感染拡大する見込み。本番はオリンピックというよりお盆終わりの9月からや！コロナ先生の次回作にご期待ください！
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This email may come as a surprise to you, as it is irrelevant to research or fellowships. In Greece we try to understand the situation with the Olympic games in Tokyo and the pandemic, but the reports on Greek media is fuzzy. Once my colleagues found out that I have some communication with a Professor in Tokyo, they asked me if I could possibly contact you and ask you what exactly is the situation there. So, with all the respect to your valuable time, whenever you have some spare time, could you please inform me about the following points that our journalists reporting from Tokyo only confuse us further?
Is it true that people organize demonstrations in the streets to stop the Olympic Games, because they are afraid that the games will spread the coronavirus in Japan? We do not understand this, as the games are held with no spectators (unfortunately) and the athletes are isolated in the Olympic Village, anyway (even with no pandemic).
Is it true that only 7% of the overall population in Japan is vaccinated against the Coronavirus? If yes, how is this possible, knowing that the Olympic Games are going to be held there ?
Today, they said on the news that 1300 new infections have been reported in Tokyo and that caused some "vibrations" to the government. Is this number significant for the Japanese people? In Athens alone (that is only 5 million people, 3 times less than Tokyo) we count that many infections every day for the past month.
As you can see, everything that is reported from Tokyo is unclear and contradicting: demonstrations for the cancellation of the Games due to the pandemic, vaccination level, infection rate. Today I heard on out national radio straight from the head of our Olympic Team that everything is calm and under absolute control in the Games. So could you please shed some light to all this, please? Again, if you are busy I will understand if you do not reply, as this is just curiosity and not urgent at all.
Is it true that people organize demonstrations in the streets to stop the Olympic Games, because they are afraid that the games will spread the coronavirus in Japan? We do not understand this, as the games are held with no spectators (unfortunately) and the athletes are isolated in the Olympic Village, anyway (even with no pandemic).
[My opinion]
The people who is engaging the demonstrations are very few such as 400 and they could be ignored. These people always participate in the demonstrations as a work or just enjoying their free time. They don't have any political ideology. General people is enjoying the Olympic Games as usual on TV.
Is it true that only 7% of the overall population in Japan is vaccinated against the Coronavirus? If yes, how is this possible, knowing that the Olympic Games are going to be held there ?
[My opinion]
As of July 23, 23% of the population had received two doses of the vaccine, and 35% had received at least once. Japan is behind other countries in terms of vaccination. Japan government took a long time to approve the vaccine produced outside of Japan, and as a result, the vaccination has been delayed. Japan has the largest rate of people over 65 in the world; about 30% is over 65 years old. These people form the political base of the country, so it's no wonder it's so conservative.
Today, they said on the news that 1300 new infections have been reported in Tokyo and that caused some "vibrations" to the government. Is this number significant for the Japanese people? In Athens alone (that is only 5 million people, 3 times less than Tokyo) we count that many infections every day for the past month.
[My opinion]
The following is my personal opinion: I think 1,300 new infections in Tokyo in a day is not big deal for the government. Maybe 2,500 or 3,000 is still within the expectation. If the new infections in Tokyo become over massive amount such as 10,000/day, we might need to go into a lock-down. Japan has yet to impose any enforceable movement restrictions. Japan has a holiday week in mid-August, and people go back to their hometowns, so the infection is expected to spread.
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BattleBots
Brave Wilderness
Edwin Sarkissian
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どちらも銃をいろんなものに撃ってみる動画。そのうち大怪我しそう。あと薬でラリってそう
HowToBasic
正直一番好きなチャンネルかも
KING OF THE STREETS
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Guga Foods
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2人とも似たような料理を紹介してるので見比べてなるほどーってしてる
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いろんなドラマーのレッスン動画。ドラマ興味なくても面白いと思う
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昔から大好き
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例の人の動画。協賛の入れ方が下手すぎて好き
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9DBBqK1XmdU
Beautiful city. Instantly notice how thin everyone is and how clean the streets are. Looks like what London, Paris and Berlin used to be before globalism got them
美しい街だ。みんな痩せていて、通りもきれいなのが一目で分かる。グローバリズムに呑まれる前のロンドン、パリ、ベルリンみたいだ。
Import the third world, become the third world. Keep out the third world.
第三世界を呼び入れたら、第三世界になる。第三世界を締め出そう。
Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava, Warsaw, Prague belgrade etc have this old world vibe about it that I love. It`s beautiful with out being pretentious.
ブダペストやウィーン、ブラチスラヴァ、ワルシャワ、プラハやベルグラードなんかは昔ながらの世界って雰囲気があって好きだ。大袈裟じゃなく、美しいよ。
beautiful, kind, smart, pure, strong country. some day i want go there
美しく、親切で、賢く、純粋で、強い国だ。
いつか行きたい。
Truly European ❤️
本当にヨーロッパらしい❤️
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わりとこんな感じのコメントが多くて、それがいいねを集めてもいる。
ハンガリー国民の書き込みというより、ヨーロッパの他の国の人らが多そうな雰囲気。
In France, Ms. Roberts also found a desperate letter from the mayor of Le Havre in August 1945 urging American commanders to set up brothels outside the city, to halt the “scenes contrary to decency” that overran the streets, day and night. They refused, partly, Ms. Roberts argues, out of concern that condoning prostitution would look bad to “American mothers and sweethearts,” as one soldier put it.
米軍のレイプが多発する街の市長が、司令官に「売春宿を設置してくれ」と懇願した手紙が見つかった、と。
こういう発想は70年前のフランスにもあったらしい。むしろこの時代だと主流といえるのかもしれない。
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/opinion/gis-in-world-war-ii.html?ref=global
No doubt there were atrocities by Americans in this war, as there were in every war in history. However, there were millions of decent men and women in the Army, and barely a few bad ones. Ms. Roberts’s book is unfair to the millions who served this nation well, most giving up years of their lives, many risking their lives and others losing their lives on Normandy beaches and in the frozen snow of Bastogne.
歴史上のどの戦争でもあったように、アメリカにも残虐行為があった、と。
まともな数百万人とごく僅かな悪者がいただけなのに、この本はまともな数百万人にとってアンフェアだと。
ええ、どこの国の兵士もまともな数百万人とごく僅かな悪者がいただけですとも。
