Our Man can be a bit slow on the uptake. He only discovered blogging in 2008, and still has moments when he thinks he's in Blighty, only to see a whopping great preying mantis on his front steps. They are a lot smaller in real life though than they are on the telly (and are far less menacing without David Attenborough's hushed-tones commentary). Much like the overblown threat of swine flu. But thanks to Zurui's post here (don't take the piss out of his name, he's an ex-US Marine, you know) over at Black Tokyo, Our Man has seen the light. Yep, there is a reason for everything. Now, Our Man isn't foolish enough to suggest SWINE FLU IS ALL A CONSPIRACY, but he is foolish enough to suggest it does pose great potential for the higher-ups as a Get Out of Jail Free card. You what? Well howsabout this one: The economy was just about to shift back into overdrive and our great policies were just about to bear fruit, when don'tcha know, this pesky swine flu thing came along and wrecked it for all of us. PS Taro Aso rules OK.
Talk about turning a sow's ear into a silk purse, eh readers? Mind you, Our Man's just pig ignorant...
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Seems pretty zurui of Zurui to copy-paste almost an entire post somebody else wrote and not include proper quotation marks identifying that he didn't write most of it himself.
http://www.japaneconomynews.com/2009/05/24/swine-flu-japan-media/
Agree with Anonymous: you should probably link directly to the original post and skip the overly liberal quoter altogether: http://www.japaneconomynews.com/2009/05/24/swine-flu-japan-media/
Yes, I'm feeling more than a bit snarky today.
Thank you for the post and trackback.
@Anonymous: I typically do not respond to these type of comments but I'm not sure if the track back, quotes and direct mention of the writer and his blog caused your confusion:
Ken Worsley writes on blog, Japan Economy News, that the Japanese media is putting another spin on their spin on the H1N1 virus and the economy. Check out what he has to say.
“An article published yesterday at the Japan Times opens by telling us ..."
@our man in abiko: Again, thank you!
Hmm. Maybe Our Man should have gone straight to the horse's mouth, but he only found the article by reading Black Tokyo first, so he thought he should credit Black Tokyo.
Zurui (Mr Black Tokyo) maybe overquotes, but hardly passes it off as his own work.
Anyway, snarkers, which part of the he's-an-ex-US Marine did you not understand?
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