English Teacher. Occasional Writer. British Immigrant. Debt Accumulator/Payer. Gaelic Mongrel with roots in Cornwall, Somerset, and South Wales.
Somewhere in East Asia, maybe.
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Man, that Gearoid Reedy fella is gonna have some OPINIONS on this one, just like that Jacques Adelleschtien bloke.
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Ah, fresh AI horse shit.
外国人客
「子供が裸で入浴する日本の温泉の習慣には抵抗があります。大浴場での水着の着用を許可してください。これを認めないのは差別的です」
店主
「日本の大浴場においては、衛生管理および風紀上の観点から『裸での入浴』を基本ルールとしております。当施設といたしましては、水着での入浴をご希望される方への配慮として、貸切風呂のご案内や、お子様向けの入浴時間帯を設ける等の代替案を用意しております」
外国人客
「貸切風呂は追加料金がかかるし、指定の時間まで待つなんて馬鹿げています。私は客として宿泊料金を支払っているのだから、自分の好きな時に、私の国の基準（水着着用）で大浴場に入る権利があります」
店主
「料金をお支払いいただいていることには感謝申し上げますが、施設をご利用いただくにあたっては、当施設の利用規約に同意していただくことが前提となります。大浴場での水着着用を禁じているのは、衣服の繊維や付着した汚れが湯船に混入するのを防ぎ、水質と公衆衛生を保つためという客観的な理由に基づいております」
外国人客
「グローバルスタンダードに合わせられないなんて時代遅れです。私の正当な要求が通らないなら、この施設がいかに差別的で融通が利かないか、SNSや旅行サイトに書き込んで世界中に拡散します。営業に悪影響が出てもいいのですか？」
店主
「インターネット上へのご投稿はお客様の自由ですが、事実と異なる誹謗中傷や、不当な要求を通すための脅迫と見なされる行為に対しては、当施設としても顧問弁護士を通じて法的な対応を検討せざるを得ません。当施設にはすべてのお客様に安全で衛生的な環境を提供する義務があり、特定の方にのみ規約違反を許可することはできかねます」
外国人客
「そんな面倒な説明は聞きたくありません。私の子供には水着を着用させます。今すぐ大浴場への入場を認めなさい。止めても無駄ですよ、私は強行突破してでも入りますから」
店主
「これ以上、施設の利用規約および管理権者の指示に従っていただけない場合、誠に遺憾ですが宿泊約款に基づき、本日のご利用はお断り（退館措置）とさせていただきます。また、スタッフの制止を振り切って強引に大浴場へ入室された場合は、他のお客様の安心感を損なうばかりか、建造物侵入および業務妨害等の不法行為にあたります。その際は、直ちに警察へ通報いたします」
A Ed retweeted
It's entirely consistent that a billionare who is a genius mechanical engineer, not a software engineer bought the base AI code and utilised it
He had teams of subject matter experts developing assets for him. That's literally the plot of far from home
That's how things work
A Ed retweeted
When you get so lost in your own creation you forget Charles Lee Ray is an incredibly fucked up serial killer
Don Mancini, creator of Chucky, declares the horror doll would be backing Democrats, not Republicans:
“Chucky has a trans kid. Chucky protects the dolls. Chucky is anti-ICE. […] Too bad, Nicki! No AI, by the way! #bluewave”
A Ed retweeted
Bertrand is, as ever, not some "obverver." He is a fully-bought & paid for shill of the CCP. He is not a trustworthy source, nor fair interlocutor of any subject, much less anything regarding China, its intentions, history, politics, or culture.
He is a dancing circus monkey.
Many in the West assume China wants to “save” the world.
French observer Arnaud Bertrand points out that the savior complex is fundamentally at odds with China’s cultural DNA. China does not impose values or solutions, and sees differences as the natural order of things and an inspiration for humanity.
A Ed retweeted
I’ve now lived in Japan for seven months, and I think it’s time to have an uncomfortable conversation about who this country is actually built for.
Everywhere I look, Japanese people own the homes, the businesses, and occupy almost all positions of institutional power, even though my people were vital in building this country.
As an immigrant my lived experience is consistently deprioritized and often times ignored. Generational wealth has been blatantly given to one group (Japs). While also the language requirements (Japanese) disproportionately benefiting them, effectively laundering privilege through the supposedly neutral concept of “communication.”
I’ve been doing the work for seven months, and yet I’m still expected to do additional work to understand my electricity bill, and why I myself should be paying the bill. When I raise these concerns, people ask whether I’ve considered learning the language, which places the burden of dismantling the system on the person least able, or frankly interested in learning their language.
This isn’t about wanting special treatment, it’s about asking the question of why I have not been given a centrally located apartment in the quaint historical district of Kyoto.
I’m not claiming to have all the answers, but after seven months here, I understand that dismantling these bigoted structures take time. I just expected these Japs would take more initiative.
And then the Ultimate Warrior ran in and hit Mrs. Whitfield with a flying clothesline...and every ROFLcopter'd.
"I'm going to give your daughter a zero for plagiarism," Mrs. Whitfield said, without looking up from her desk.
"Okay," I said.
She finally looked up. "Okay?"
"If she copied, give her a zero."
"I thought you'd argue."
"Why would I? You said the work is practically identical to another student's. Let's compare them."
She hesitated. "It won't change anything."
"Then it costs us nothing," I said. "One condition. If I'm wrong, my daughter takes the zero. If it was the other way around, the other student gets exactly the same punishment."
"Of course."
"Even if it's Daniel?"
Her pen stopped moving.
Daniel Reyes was the school's representative at the regional academic competition on Friday. His photo hung in the front hallway. Everyone knew that.
"Even if it's Daniel," she said. "The rules are the same for everyone."
"Perfect."
She opened both essays on her screen. First paragraph, nearly identical. Second paragraph, the same. Even the conclusion matched word for word.
"See?" she said. "There's not much to discuss."
"We still need to know who copied from whom."
"Daniel submitted first. 11:41 p.m. Your daughter submitted at 11:52."
"Eleven minutes," I said. "So it looks clear."
"Exactly."
"Now open the revision history of her document."
"Why?"
"Because that's where she wrote it."
She clicked. The first version of my daughter's essay appeared, dated twelve days earlier. Then another. Then another. Forty-seven edits across nearly two weeks, each one a little longer, a little sharper.
Mrs. Whitfield stopped talking.
"Now open Daniel's."
She did. The document had been created at 10:58 p.m. the night it was due. One version. One paste.
"That doesn't prove he copied from her," she said, but her voice had thinned.
"No," I said. "Look at the third paragraph."
I pointed. A misspelled word sat in the middle of the sentence: "exepción."
"The same error appears in both papers," I said. "Check when my daughter typed it."
She scrolled. Five days earlier.
"Now check when it first appeared in his."
She scrolled again. She did not say anything for a long time.
"When?" I asked.
"That night," she said quietly. "At 10:58."
The room went completely silent.
I had spent three years watching Mrs. Whitfield hand out praise to the students who spoke the loudest. My daughter was not one of them. She wrote in the library after school and never asked for credit. When the accusation came, she cried in the car and said, "They are going to believe him."
"So my daughter did not cheat," I said.
"No."
"Daniel cheated off her."
She closed both documents slowly. "I will remove the zero from her grade."
"One thing is missing."
"I need to speak with Daniel." She paused. "And with the principal."
"The principal?"
"The competition is this Friday. Daniel has been preparing for months."
"I know."
"If we apply the penalty now, the school will be left without a representative."
I stared at her.
"When you thought my daughter had copied," I said, "you didn't need to speak with the principal."
She did not answer.
"You told me the rules were the same for everyone."
Silence. Outside the window, a bell rang, and a crowd of students spilled into the corridor.
I picked up my purse.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
"To get my daughter."
"Why?"
"To tell her," I said, "whether the rules are still the same when the school loses."
And for his next adventure, he must come to terms with a UK that is fundamentally more expensive than when he left and a family that has considered him essentially deceased for two decades.
UK adventurer arrives home after epic 28-year trek across jungles and frozen sea scmp.com/sport/other-sport/a…
A Ed retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Kylian Mbappé breaks silence over his decision to apologise
“It’s not that I completely regret my actionable apology, but it hurts to be humble and honest about certain aspects of events that ultimately affect your life, yet still get treated with disrespect and contempt.
The past few days have been unbearable, and I don’t want to keep carrying on like it doesn’t matter. In fact, it keeps getting worse, and I can’t endure any more.
When this issue broke out, I quickly said to myself, ‘But I didn’t intend any disrespect towards the Chinese people or its government, so why is this happening now?’ Fine. What about looking for solutions instead of trying to blame someone for the unfolding of this situation?
Are they even aware of the insult the government claimed? Or is this just another excuse to blind people from the obvious truth? Well, I don’t know.
I’ve been a professional human being since I turned ten years old. How to talk. What to say and when not to give a reaction. As a player who millions of people tune in to watch and hold in high esteem, I said to myself that I must act quick and tender an apology.
If I wanted things to blow out of proportion, I simply would have kept mute and let not just the Chinese media or government sell whatever narrative they wanted.
I am human and I have humour. Now that I’ve said that, I apologised and even reached out to organisations responsible for this kind of thing, and I didn’t get any responses.
My assumption is that the government have asked that they not respond or get involved. That’s fine if you ask me.
It was nothing much, only a joke. Now that the reaction got a very bad rap, I decided that fine. I’ll make my own research, and you won’t believe the discoveries I made.
It’s not that I want to categorise myself as one who is above the law or think that I am better than everyone else. But I certainly reacted better than most people would.
Having seen my apology rejected and that of the league president ignored, it hurt, because this interview didn’t happen today, nor did it intend for any bad outcome.
I’ve lost contracts, the Chinese people have been denied the opportunity of watching our beautiful game. That is not what bothers me the most. In fact, the league has lost quite some important deals. Which, when I think of it, I question why the overly restrictive rules by the Chinese government.
I didn’t insult China or anyone. The meme wasn’t created by me either. And at this point, I no longer feel the need to apologise. I would have retracted my statement. But I’ll leave it that way.
The hate I’ve gotten from people who are either misinformed or not interested in finding out what truly happened is entirely unfounded.
At this moment, I am neither sorry nor interested in what they (China Gov) decide on. They want to suspend broadcasting in their country? That’s up to them.
What they don’t have the power to do is suspend me or suspend the league franchise from entertaining those who care to watch us.
The companies can take away their deals, brands can back off. And even angry Chinese mobs can take down my images within their reach. What they can’t do is make me stop loving football or reacting to funny stuff I see online.
I did not insult China and I am not apologising any further. This issue doesn’t need to go further than it has already.
One day, history or well-meaning people of China will judge between me and Mao Zedong for who they think is a dictator.”
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This post fabricates a long "breaking" statement from Kylian Mbappé retracting or downplaying his China apology over a Mao meme. His verified late-October apology was a brief statement of regret with no such follow-up reported.
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If Japan were half as petty in the creation of its pop-culture products as China is when it makes WW2 dramas...hoo boy.
Foreign ministry urges vigilance against forces in Japan smearing China through cultural products news.cgtn.com/news/2026-10-2…
A Ed retweeted
what a coincidence...and it is working
How China is covertly using Western influencers in Xinjiang toosimple.substack.com/p/how… "the foreign influencers and the Chinese state are playing a dangerous game. And the hashtags establish a direct link between supposed ‘individual accounts’ and Chinese state propaganda campaigns. Global platforms including YouTube, Meta, and TikTok all take firm lines on “Covert Influence Operations”."
A Ed retweeted
Watch as this Chinese ambassador completely falls apart, calling millions of deaths under Mao 'gossips' and throwing a massive tantrum when the French journalist won't let him change the subject. Talk about a total clown show. When you have zero defense for history, throwing a fit and whining about human rights in America is all you have left!
Darius Rochebin: "Mao Zedong had so many people deported, tortured, and murdered—millions of people. Do you understand the feeling of many Westerners that at the time, General de Gaulle was wrong, and that today, those who want to deal with China might also be wrong?"
Deng Li: "Every time you interview me, you always quibble over these old gossips, you aren't being honest. You call this asking me—asking me these kinds of questions."
Darius Rochebin: "Mr. Ambassador, you call those gossips?"
Deng Li: "That's right, gossips."
Darius Rochebin: "The millions of deaths caused by Mao Zedong are gossips? "
Deng Li: "It's not—it's not fair, it's not accurate. Yes."
Darius Rochebin: "What do you mean, what isn't accurate?"
Deng Li: "Because where did you study?"
Darius Rochebin: "What isn't accurate, pardon?"
Deng Li: "Stop, today I came—I didn't come here to discuss these gossips with you. I am here to discuss the international situation and current events with you."
Darius Rochebin: "Mr. Ambassador, Germany paid morally, financially, and legally for its crimes. It is true that certain war crimes were not prosecuted, notably French or Algerian war crimes, notably certain colonial crimes, but here we are talking about China, you are represented by China. So now, we cannot—pardon..."
Deng Li: "I ask you to demand that the Japanese pay the price for their war crimes, the crimes of the Second World War, of the war against China."
Darius Rochebin: "Do you understand, pardon, however, that this weighs on President Xi Jinping? He was part of the very high nomenclature, but even his family had suffered from Stalinist purges. That is true, isn't it?"
Deng Li: "I am not here to discuss these gossips with you. I repeat it once again."
Darius Rochebin: "But pardon, how… "
Deng Li: "No need to say that."
Darius Rochebin: "You speak French so well."
Deng Li: "We can continue talking about the international situation."
Darius Rochebin: "You speak French so well, you know that an eminent politician, eminent by the place he held in politics, when he spoke of details of history concerning the Shoah, he was heavily prosecuted..."
Deng Li: "Regarding the so-called human rights in your country, in so many other Western countries, there are many more human rights problems."
Darius Rochebin: "What problems? What problems?"
Deng Li: "Recently, China published a report on the human rights situation in the United States. If you are interested, I can provide you with all those reports. You can see what the situation is, how severe the human rights situation is in the United States and so many other Western countries; it's the exact same thing."
Darius Rochebin: "But Mr. Ambassador, I must insist on this because you used the word 'gossip', and these are—pardon, just like the victims of the Gulag whose memory matters so much, just like the victims of the Chinese camps whose memory matters so much, the word 'gossip' has something deeply shocking about it for their memory. Do you understand that?"
Deng Li: "So it's different, you see, you can talk about other things. Things about other countries, but when it comes to China, I am sure that what you are telling are gossips."