User:Nobunaga24

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I am currently in the process of preparing for semi-wiki-retirement. After a year, and adding about 4000 items to my watchlist, I found that most of my time is now spent checking for vandalism, and seeing what other people have added to articles. But I think I am also just getting a little tired of the way things work here. I feel wikipedia has reached the point where they have enough quality articles that the manner by which people can contribute should be pared down. What do I mean? I mean the days of anonymous IPs and one-edit-no-legitimate-email-address-provided user IDs should be over. While someone with an anonymous IP might make a good contribution, more than often their contributions are garbage or down-right vandalism. If you want to provide productive contributions, I don't think it is out of line or too much to ask that you register and provide an email address. I guess the joy of contributing for me is flagging. I'm tired of people with bald-faced agendas on here using it as a soapbox or a place to attack whatever group they are opposed to. Or take your pick of retarded back-and-forth, never-to-be-solved conflicts/arguments: Greek/Turk, Turk/Armenian, Indian/Pakistani, Balkan shithole/Balkan shithole (yes, oooooh, I'm so American, don't understand the subtleties of the conflict; "fuck you" in advance), Eritrean/Ethiopian, Israeli/Arab, Christian/Muslim, Republican/Democrat, Kurds/everyone in a 500 mile radius, Chechen/Russian, East Timor/Indonesia, East Coast/West Coast, Army/Navy, racists/anyone not like them, Olbermann/O'Reilly. I am in the process of thinning my watchlist down to about 100 or so articles that I really care about, and will probably reduce my contributions to a minimum.

[edit] Interests

日本 - 高知市 | 侍 | 戦国時代
Flight Simulation
Aviation - Century Series, F-102, F-104, NF-104, F-106, XB-70, X-15
Spaceflight - Mercury, Gemini, Apollo NASA
Military Infantry 10th Mountain Division

[edit] A Sort of Biography

Asami, the light of my life, with her over-sized flea trap

Twelve years in the U.S. Army. I was an infantryman, MP, and Transporter. I've been a private, an NCO, and an officer. Service in Somalia, Haiti, and Iraq. Called it quits after Iraq because of the incompetence with which it was carried out. Received my degree in Japanese History, and plan to pursue a Ph.D in that field. I live in Japan now through the JET Program, and hopefully will be able to stay here for a long time. I'm a classic American mutt, and can trace my ancestry to Armenia, Austria, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Turkey, the Ukraine, and Wales.

This motivated barnstar is given to Nobunaga24 for his tireless contirbutions to the US Military Task Force. Presented by Looper5920 20 March 2006

Asami striking a heroic pose

[edit] Countries I've Visited

まだ: 中华人民共和国

| ราชอาณาจักรไทย

| Việt Nam

| 香港

| 澳門

| United Kingdom

[edit] States I've Visited

Years:Ohio | Tennessee | Kentucky | New York
Months:Georgia | Virginia | Washington | Indiana | South Carolina
Weeks:Florida California Michigan Louisiana Alabama
Days:Colorado | Maryland | New Hampshire | New Mexico | Massachusetts | North Carolina | Texas | Wisconsin | Pennsylvania
Passing thru:Connecticut | Illinois | Kansas | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Nevada | New Jersey | Oklahoma | West Virginia |

[edit] Major Cities I've Visited

[edit] Army Posts where I"ve been stationed, TDY, or deployed

[edit] Interesting Places I've Visited or Seen

[edit] Philippines

[edit] United States

[edit] Japan

Having lived in Japan for 2 years now, I have formed some sharp opinions about my adopted home.

[edit] Likes

Asami
bentos
100 yen shops
buzzers at restaurants to call the server
izakayas
relatively safe major cities
history all over the place
the people
matcha ice cream
no tipping \(^o^)/ (I'm a cheapskate)

[edit] Dislikes

junken
Japanophiles
slow freeways
karaoke
the "wolf cut," a modified mullet haircut popular now
that hideous man-woman over-the-hill jazz singing tarento whose ass all the younger tarentos kiss
tarento
Orange Range
foreigners on TV who willingly play the gaijin stereotype, and...well, any foreigner on TV
anime
non-American foreigners who want to inform Americans in Japan how rude/boorish/stupid Americans are (never seeing the irony of it), or who are trolling for an argument over Iraq/U.S. foreign policy
Japanese who want to tell you how wrong it was to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but haven't a f*cking clue what Unit 731 or the Rape of Nanking are, or don't believe that either ever existed.
The Hiroshima Atomic Museum - one of the seminal events of the 20th century presented without context or analysis. And add to that the stupid young foreigners from countries that fought Japan in WWII who go there and "tsk, tsk" America and apologize for what their countries did in the war.
Bobby Ologun - he doesn't just make foreigners of African descent look bad - he makes all of us look bad. Thanks, idiot.
SMAP
ATM's are not 24 hours here - more than once I have had to go without dinner because I forgot to get to the ATM in time.
The "safety country" limits you most of the time to 80 kph on the highway, in the name of safety, but then fails to place guardrails next to steep drop offs into rice paddies along narrow roads, fails to put grates over gutters, or makes incredibly narrow streets two-way streets
The way that Japanese celebrities are everywhere - for example, the dipshits from SMAP not only are on the radio constantly, but they have a TV show, they are in every other commercial, they are on the vending machine outside my apartment, they are in movies, they are on TV dramas (the most ridiculous of which I saw was one in which one of the SMAP guys was playing a character from 40-50 years ago, but still had his "wolf cut." It wasn't until I was 20 minutes into the show when I realized it was supposed to be 1965.) And I really don't think it's because they are super-talented.

[edit] Top 10 things anime watchin', magna readin', never-been-to-Japan Japanophiles don't know about Japan

The J-pop you listen to is probably unknown here
The Carpenters are very popular here
The national dish is practically curry, not sushi
Manga and anime obsessed people here are considered nerds too
Japanese beer is ok at best
Snoopy is more popular than Hello Kitty
More people are probably into the TV series 24 than into Gundam
Sazae-san or Doraemon are probably more popular than any single robot/SF anime
Japanese high school students perform worse academically than American high school students. Until I see the methodology of studies that continually claim American students are the worst in just about everything, I refuse to believe those kind of rankings anymore.

to be continued....

[edit] Works in Progress (feel free to edit)

User:Nobunaga24/Sandbox - military categorization scheme
User:Nobunaga24/Sandbox2 - Rome-Arno Campaign

[edit] Idiots

Jesse Macbeth - OMG, is this for real? Someone needs to post a picture of this clown wearing his "Ranger" uniform. Any recruit with a day in the army can tell this guy is a fraud

[edit] My favorite talk page entry

from Chickenhawk talk page

[edit] People who could never be considered chickenhawks

This is a fun section! I notice that, as originally constituted, the list consisted only of Republicans (don't even claim that Zell Miller is anything but a Republican these days!), including thet ol' Marine whut gave arms to an Axis of Evil regime and then lied about it to the American people. I'm sure that was an oversight, so I added a few others.

While we're at it, let's add a section to the NASA article, entitled "People who were never astronauts?" I nominate Julius Caesar, Pee Wee Herman, and John Wayne Bobbitt. And under Curling, we can add "People who never curled in the Olympics," including Tiger Woods, Idi Amin, and Michelle Kwan. Now if that ain't encyclopædic, I don't know what is.

Jeez.--RattBoy 01:38, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] People I Admire

David Hackworth - knew what it was like to be a grunt, and never forgot
Anthony Zinni - had the guts to stand by his beliefs

[edit] People I Despise

Ann Coulter - more than anyone else has made conservatives look like idiots
Michael Moore - more than anyone else made liberals look like idiots

[edit] Articles I've started (incomplete)

Everyone else has this section, so I will too:

[edit] Pics I've taken

Obiyamachi	Kochi, Japan	Harimaya-bashi	Recovery ops in southern Iraq
Yosakoi in Kochi, Japan, the only real Yosakoi	Yamauchi Katsutoyo statue near Kochi Castle	Muroto Cape in Kochi Prefecture	Chiyo Yamauchi