Cassian of Imola posted:

that probably wouldn't be so bad since Portuguese and Japanese sound so different, plus you can use different styles for the subtitles. but casting actors, and hiring screenwriters and directors, fluent in both Portuguese and Japanese would be a nightmare

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the milk machine posted:

shogun is in like 1600 after the europeans forgot how to bathe. and i'm pretty sure the guys in the show are d*tch

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Orange Devil posted:

I dunno why they had to make the white guy English though. Dutch ship just happened to have an English pilot huh? Sure, ok.

Jose posted:

i think that would be the ryukyu kingdom

Toplowtech posted:

There used to be bathhouses all over France and they were extremely popular places. In 1560, Queen Catherina di Medici called the last general estate in France until the French Revolution (1789). You used to be able to get prostitutes in your bath in some bathhouses and there was that new disease called syphilis. She had all bathhouses not owned by a religious order closed alongside the brothels. The brothels illegally reopened a few years later, the bathhouses did not.

cat botherer posted:

why bother with bathhouses when you can do a whore's bath anywhere?

www.sfchronicle.com - Tue, 26 Mar 2024 posted:

San Francisco Chronicle reporter Shann Nix probably should have been on her honeymoon in September 1992 when she took on an assignment she would still be thinking about decades later.

Nix, then 26, changed her home answering machine (“You have reached the Hinkle family residence”), instructed her new husband to act like her father if he answered the phone and then went undercover for a month, posing as a student at George Washington High School in San Francisco.  

“I sit in my car, biting my nails and staring up at the gray and mustard colored building that looms at the corner of 32nd and Balboa,” her first article began on Nov. 16, 1992. “One week before I was dancing at my wedding. This morning I kissed my new husband goodbye and left my wedding ring on the shelf by the bed.”

The result was the four-part “Undercover Student” project, a front-page exposé that today is both increasingly fascinating and increasingly shocking, as time has made the decision to send a reporter into the maw of a high school ecosystem seem more like fiction than reality. This is the plot of the 1999 Drew Barrymore romantic comedy “Never Been Kissed,” not real life, where there are ramifications.

• Read the Chronicle’s original ‘Undercover Student’ project
  

“I tried to present the human side of it, the teachers and students who were struggling to do their best in the face of pretty insurmountable odds. I mean, come on, there really were rats in the halls,” said Nix, now Shann Jones and living half a world away in Wales, U.K. 

“It turned out to be, you know, was it even a good thing? Was it even an ethical thing?”

But it happened, and had an impact on a lot of people, including Chronicle readers, Washington High students who are now adults, and the reporter herself. And 32 years later, they still have a lot to say about it.

In 2024, it’s doubtful any major U.S. newspaper could get permission to embed an adult among unknowing teens. 

But in 1992, Jones was building her professional reputation by going undercover. As a Chronicle intern in 1989, Jones says she was told she had no chance to land a job at the paper. The newsroom’s editors reversed course after Jones, then 23, managed to “Jedi mind trick” her way inside Hugh Hefner’s mansion for the Playboy magazine founder’s second wedding and write a fly-on-the-wall story that earned national attention.

Jones would do it again at Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, writing a captivating article for the Chronicle after covertly observing recruitment practices of the so-called Moonies.

“Shann going undercover in a school was not out of context,” said Jones’ Chronicle desk mate and friend Ruthe Stein, a longtime movie writer and editor who herself in the late ’80s went into singles bars, interviewed swingers and talked to strangers about their sex lives for her nationally syndicated column, First Person Singular.

…
The last paragraph in “Undercover Student” offers some perspective. It could have been penned as easily in 2024 as 1992.

“If I come back here again, it will be as an adult, and a stranger. The kids I know will graduate and grow up, and this past month will fade into a brief, bizarre chapter in their histories — the reporter who came in their senior year, pretending to be a student.”

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Gonna bust out the infographic where all the worlds tallest buildings are displayed side to side but it’s just various actors’ busts

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1773487006770757857

quote:

During the Battle of Mosul, strikes that could be anticipated to kill 10 civilians or more required sign-off from the commanding general of Central Command, which oversees all American military activity across the greater Middle East. Deliberate strikes might have been analyzed by multiple working groups, and precautions taken to limit civilian casualties by using a more precise weapon with a smaller blast radius.

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So perhaps October 7 will be Israel’s 9/11, or 20 9/11s—not just because of the scale of the losses, but because of the foolishness and cruelty of the response. And a few years from now, if I talk with a survivor of this devastating war, will he blame Hamas for provoking it? I would guess that he’ll blame the country that bombed him without mercy and restricted the delivery of food while his family starved to death. And he’ll blame America for enabling it. And so will the rest of the world. And they’ll be right.

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Some Guy TT posted:

does anyone have access to the paywalled article what exactly is his argument

Some Guy TT posted:

does anyone have access to the paywalled article what exactly is his argument

euphronius posted:

Japan has been a colony of the USA for a long as time. do they talk about that

mawarannahr posted:

they should try doing this today
The true story of a reporter who went undercover in high school

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/KarnesMellagio/status/1774060223763763259?t=RxHBz9lJXoHBuAHA4vOGig&s=19

The Portuguese colonized Japan, apparently

Al! posted:

i think we could do better re: shogun concern trolling. we could start talking about how the original author is a white guy and so its not his story to tell

HashtagGirlboss posted:

It was a story all about a super amazing English dude who went to Japan and all his dirty Dutch friends got relegated to a ghetto but he was so cool and good he got to hobnob with the elites and get the sexiest woman in the whole islands and then she tragically died for him

If that’s not a story that belongs to a white man idk what is

I should have spoiled that since it’s a book that was already twenty years old when I read it 30 years ago

HashtagGirlboss posted:

It was a story all about a super amazing English dude who went to Japan and all his dirty Dutch friends got relegated to a ghetto but he was so cool and good he got to hobnob with the elites and get the sexiest woman in the whole islands and then she tragically died for him

If that’s not a story that belongs to a white man idk what is

I should have spoiled that since it’s a book that was already twenty years old when I read it 30 years ago

Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:

my favorite part was when he almost committed seppuku and they stopped him but his japanese friend knew he really would have done it, totally dude, and that meant he was truly japanese now

HashtagGirlboss posted:

It was a story all about a super amazing English dude who went to Japan and all his dirty Dutch friends got relegated to a ghetto but he was so cool and good he got to hobnob with the elites and get the sexiest woman in the whole islands and then she tragically died for him

If that’s not a story that belongs to a white man idk what is

I should have spoiled that since it’s a book that was already twenty years old when I read it 30 years ago

Jose posted:

you old

Cerebral Bore posted:

was a while since i read it, but i thought the book was about some english dude who ended up in japan and thought he was hot poo poo but the japanese guys basically figured him out immediately and humored the uncultured idiot because he might be useful some day

Vomik posted:

when I was in high school the pd put an undercover cop as a student in our school - and she dated a guy for 3 months before they arrested him. I remember thinking it was weird for a 24/25 yo woman, pretending to be 17 and loving a teenager because he is some low level dealer

Some Guy TT posted:

does anyone have access to the paywalled article what exactly is his argument

Jose posted:

the guy shogun is based on is interesting imo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_(pilot)

Bro Dad posted:

iirc the book ends with toranaga giving an epic oceans eleven reveal about how he's been playing everybody from the start and now the gaijin will spend his life building ships for him

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Kinda lol that there's multiple media atm with themes of 'early modern Japan was probably right to treat white people as literal devils and they agree'