I'm going to Japan! But...

[thehunter1320]

i'm going to japan with my history teacher (and some other students) for the ceremony honoring the 60th aniversary of the bombing of hiroshima next august. now, as i assumed when i heard about this opprotunity, it is a bit expensive. it's $2800 total. my parents said they would pay for one half, $1400, as long as i could come up with the other half. now, i have a crappy job and car payments to make. usually after all my expenses (cell phone bill, car payment, insurance, etc.) i have $40-$60.

i need help figuring out ways to raise money to go to Japan. The only thing i've thought of is selling candy bars (my parents said they would take them to work and sell them, i just have to front the cash to buy them in the first place), take all my earnings i have left over from bills and putting it away, use money from my bank account (unlikely, it's for college and i really don't have alot in it so far), or getting a better paying job (also unlikely, i've been at my current job for about 2 years and i know how to do it well)

if there is anything you guys could think of for me to raise money for this trip, i would greatly appreciate it. I don't ask for help often, and i don't ask for help for stupid things (remeber that guy who wanted help asking his dad for $10 so he could buy weed? :|) so please, anything you guys could come up with would be great. Thanks in advance

~Marty

 

[Bad^Hat]

/me thinks

You could loan money to potheads :O

 

[Dublo7]

Hrmmm thats a rather tough one.
You could try getting a quick job that has a commission. The more you sell, the more you get payed. Like a telemarketer or something.
Or you could sell your body for 500 bucks a pop. But you better be good at what you do.

hehehe

 

[h00dlum]

Become a gigolo and sell your body

 

[nofx]

Get together with your teacher and discuss this try to get people to sponsor you maybe? Do like team fundraisers like a carwash cookie sell or smoething. goodluck

 

[jaguar_987]

I wouldn't mind going to Japan.

/me weilds samurai sword.

 

[ailevation]

:naughty: HEY! I am possibly going to Japan next summer! My parents said they were gonna put me on a tour program, just me and my cousin- AWESOMENESS!

 

[oldagerocker]

Why would you celebrate the anniversary of Hiroshima? :|

 

[Ames]

Why would you celebrate the anniversary of Hiroshima? :|

He's honoring the anniversary.

 

[Revisedsoul]

simple, disable your cell phone for a while, and cancle car payments

 

[Foxtrot]

The bombing of Hiroshima was a great day.

 

[kingthebadger]

please send me 10$ to paypal [email protected] for some weed, thanks

reason is because i have an illness, which requires marijuan, thankyou! in advance`

 

[Recoil]

The bombing of Hiroshima was a great day.

I hope that's supposed to be a joke ...?

 

[Foxtrot]

I hope that's supposed to be a joke ...?

I don't know, it could be taken as a joke if you want to. But it was a great day, many lives were saved by the bombing of Hiroshima, that and the Japanese really did deserve it(in my opinion). But many people died and there were many deaths after the bombings, which is tragic but had to be done. People were going to die anyways, and it is much better that the agressors died rather than the defenders.

 

[Yakuza]

I don't know, it could be taken as a joke if you want to. But it was a great day, many lives were saved by the bombing of Hiroshima, that and the Japanese really did deserve it(in my opinion). But many people died and there were many deaths after the bombings, which is tragic but had to be done. People were going to die anyways, and it is much better that the agressors died rather than the defenders.

Yeah I could see the logic in murdering 100,000 civilians in a single instant to save the lives of a couple thousand soldiers.


here is a Poem I wrote a while ago.

August 6th
1945
8:15 am

Enola Gay climbed into her
Stirrups above the clouds,
And Spat from her womb an infant son.

“Little Boy” Chewed into the earth
cleaning the flesh from her
children,
and blowing away the ash
with his pungent breath.

7 year old girl, Takeshi.
Fondles the petals of a Cherry blossom,
Gazing into his eyes, hot as ten suns.
Sweeping her into his throat
Takeshi sleeps forever.

 

[Foxtrot]

Yeah I could see the logic in murdering 100,000 civilians in a single instant to save the lives of a couple thousand soldiers.


here is a Poem I wrote a while ago.

August 6th
1945
8:15 am

Enola Gay climbed into her
Stirrups above the clouds,
And Spat from her womb an infant son.

“Little Boy” Chewed into the earth
cleaning the flesh from her
children,
and blowing away the ash
with his pungent breath.

7 year old girl, Takeshi.
Fondles the petals of a Cherry blossom,
Gazing into his eyes, hot as ten suns.
Sweeping her into his throat
Takeshi sleeps forever.

A couple thousand soldiers? A lot more would have died, and a lot of civilians would have died too, there would have been far more deaths if there was a land invasion and that is a fact.

 

[johnnypoopoopant]

can't borrow money from bank? and pay it off, but u have to pay interest in it.

 

[Yakuza]

A couple thousand soldiers? A lot more would have died, and a lot of civilians would have died too, there would have been far more deaths if there was a land invasion and that is a fact.

Fact. On what grounds? The land invasion never took place. How can you say that far more deaths would have taken place.

that and the Japanese really did deserve it(in my opinion).

http://www.pomperaug.com/socstud/stumuseum/web/msrbomb2.htm

How does any one, especialy civilan, deserve that.

 

[P Meister Flex]

the japanese would have fought to the last man, and it would have been quite a long struggle, involving hundreds of thousands of us deaths, not to mention nearly endless bombing campaigns. Im not justifying the murdering of civilians, but the alternative wasnt to great either

 

[PunisherUSA]

Okay, hate to break it to you, but in wartime, a friendly soldier is of much higher value than an enemy civilian.
Another rarely mentioned, but quite possible, outcome of the war against Japan was a Russian invasion. Many Japanese prefered being bombed than lving under Stalin's iron fist. Sure, the U.S. occupied afterwards, but we were, how shoud i say, kinder? than communist Russia.

And about the "deserve", talk to someone who was a POW of the Japanese. Did they deserve THAT? Goes right back to what I said. In wartime our soldiers are more important than their civilians.

But I digress...
If there had been a better alternative to civilian deaths, i would have chosen it. Think of honoring the anniversary of the bombing as a form of true martyrdom. [kinda lame way to say it, but think about it]

 

[Alientank]

Fact. On what grounds? The land invasion never took place. How can you say that far more deaths would have taken place.

You're a moron. There were millions of soldiers waiting for the invasion along with millions of civilians waiting to fight as well, it would have been an absolute bloodbath on both sides, the bombs did far less damage then the invasion would have. They would have fought to the last man, that means millions dead.

 

[BRODIEMAN2k4]

I'd say man-whore for a while, you'll get the money in no time

 

[Seeky]

The simplest solution is to take a loan out, so you can raise the money back over time. You're probably not old enough to take a loan, so ask your parents to loan you the money. Pay your parents back over time.

 

[Recoil]

I just wouldn't call a nuclear drop-off a great day! That's perverse...

 

[Foxtrot]

I just wouldn't call a nuclear drop-off a great day! That's perverse...

And that was the joke part, I wasn't being entirley serious.

 

[Recoil]

Ok...

 

[Yakuza]

Okay, hate to break it to you, but in wartime, a friendly soldier is of much higher value than an enemy civilian.

yep, but its sad that we dont get to see all of the children who have been blasted to freakin pieces because of this superior idealology of Human value.

Another rarely mentioned, but quite possible, outcome of the war against Japan was a Russian invasion. Many Japanese prefered being bombed than lving under Stalin's iron fist. Sure, the U.S. occupied afterwards, but we were, how shoud i say, kinder? than communist Russia.

Show me one Japanese civilan that would prefere being bombed with a nuclear weapon, over a country who could barly fight off there own invaders. Thats maybe why it is rarely mentioned, cause that crap would have been impossible.

And about the "deserve", talk to someone who was a POW of the Japanese. Did they deserve THAT? Goes right back to what I said. In wartime our soldiers are more important than their civilians.

A soldier in a POW camp, sorry but thats an occupational hazard. You sign up to be a soldier, you sign up for the possibility of all kinds of crap happening to you, and a true soldier accepts that. That doesn't make it right what some of the things that the Japanese did, but a soldiers life is based on the fact that he is willing to GIVE his life for his country.

And jeez the Japanese didn't attack pearl harbor with the purpose of trying to distroy as many civilians as possible. It was a military tactic pointed at enemy military positions.


And why bomb Japan. We could have saved thousands of US lives by dropping a bomb over the occupied areas of normandy, especialy along the famous beaches.

 

[ktimekiller]

you guys are talking like the japanese are like some bloodthirsty gay whores. what if the war came out different? armerica was loseing, and japan bombed us civilians and we gave up, do you think the civilians yould like that?