AmyZed Posted November 15, 2011 Author Share Posted November 15, 2011 Was you batting your eyelids when you typed that? Definitely, she does it with me all the time! Ollie haha very true im afraid!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyZed Posted November 15, 2011 Author Share Posted November 15, 2011 Without wanting to throw the proverbial spanner in the works (and without wanting to turn anything into a political debate, just to raise awareness really)...the rising sun flag does have an interesting history, in that it is heavily associated with ultranationalism and in particular claimed atrocities that happened in Japanese occuped territories during the second world war. I actually have one of these flags on a support stick I used to climb Mount Fuji, none of the Japanese locals seemed too concerned about it but when a friend of Indian/Chinese decent saw it in my living room he found it very offensive and was quite upset. I guess the uptake is that it looks nice, but just dont open the bonnet whilst driving around Chinatown... crikey !! ill look into this!!!! i have seen other engine covers and inside bonnets and all sorts with this painted on! i didnt know its true meaning.... hmm well its a bit late now.... and i like the cover..... i hope no one at a car show gets offended! hopefully theyll just think "she doesnt probably know the meaning of it!?" which infact is true then! owwh that is a shame!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 I'm glad I read a bit, at first I thought you had cleaned the engine bay WITH marmite Looks goid, bit fussy for me but I only ever open my honbet to check oil etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glrnet Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Where can you get those honbets nowadays? I'm glad I read a bit, at first I thought you had cleaned the engine bay WITH marmite Looks goid, bit fussy for me but I only ever open my honbet to check oil etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Where can you get those honbets nowadays? Available on iPhone just google 'predictive text' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldel Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Without wanting to throw the proverbial spanner in the works (and without wanting to turn anything into a political debate, just to raise awareness really)...the rising sun flag does have an interesting history, in that it is heavily associated with ultranationalism and in particular claimed atrocities that happened in Japanese occuped territories during the second world war. I actually have one of these flags on a support stick I used to climb Mount Fuji, none of the Japanese locals seemed too concerned about it but when a friend of Indian/Chinese decent saw it in my living room he found it very offensive and was quite upset. I guess the uptake is that it looks nice, but just dont open the bonnet whilst driving around Chinatown... crikey !! ill look into this!!!! i have seen other engine covers and inside bonnets and all sorts with this painted on! i didnt know its true meaning.... hmm well its a bit late now.... and i like the cover..... i hope no one at a car show gets offended! hopefully theyll just think "she doesnt probably know the meaning of it!?" which infact is true then! owwh that is a shame!!! I wouldn't worry too much, I still have my rising sun support stick propped up in my living room, no one else knows what it means really. If you personally don't have a problem with it then its fine if someone else does, then that's something they need to deal with, I didn't throw my flag away because my mate was offended by it. Have a read up on it, always good to prop up your knowledge on history, heck if someone does say something at a car show at least you can talk in an informed manner about it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK350Z Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Lol, does the word Panini mean anything to you? no ? whats that about!?!? It's ok, sticker albums aren't as popular these days! I had loads when I was wee! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzee Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Good to be unique, especially as you're into modified car shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyZed Posted November 16, 2011 Author Share Posted November 16, 2011 Without wanting to throw the proverbial spanner in the works (and without wanting to turn anything into a political debate, just to raise awareness really)...the rising sun flag does have an interesting history, in that it is heavily associated with ultranationalism and in particular claimed atrocities that happened in Japanese occuped territories during the second world war. I actually have one of these flags on a support stick I used to climb Mount Fuji, none of the Japanese locals seemed too concerned about it but when a friend of Indian/Chinese decent saw it in my living room he found it very offensive and was quite upset. I guess the uptake is that it looks nice, but just dont open the bonnet whilst driving around Chinatown... crikey !! ill look into this!!!! i have seen other engine covers and inside bonnets and all sorts with this painted on! i didnt know its true meaning.... hmm well its a bit late now.... and i like the cover..... i hope no one at a car show gets offended! hopefully theyll just think "she doesnt probably know the meaning of it!?" which infact is true then! owwh that is a shame!!! I wouldn't worry too much, I still have my rising sun support stick propped up in my living room, no one else knows what it means really. If you personally don't have a problem with it then its fine if someone else does, then that's something they need to deal with, I didn't throw my flag away because my mate was offended by it. Have a read up on it, always good to prop up your knowledge on history, heck if someone does say something at a car show at least you can talk in an informed manner about it! Very true- ill do some reading and if anyone says anything ill shock them with my knowledge on it- ill say i found after after... which will be the truth if it offends me ill repaint it- however i doubt that will happen! off to google it all! ................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletMagnet Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Without wanting to throw the proverbial spanner in the works (and without wanting to turn anything into a political debate, just to raise awareness really)...the rising sun flag does have an interesting history, in that it is heavily associated with ultranationalism and in particular claimed atrocities that happened in Japanese occuped territories during the second world war. I actually have one of these flags on a support stick I used to climb Mount Fuji, none of the Japanese locals seemed too concerned about it but when a friend of Indian/Chinese decent saw it in my living room he found it very offensive and was quite upset. I guess the uptake is that it looks nice, but just dont open the bonnet whilst driving around Chinatown... crikey !! ill look into this!!!! i have seen other engine covers and inside bonnets and all sorts with this painted on! i didnt know its true meaning.... hmm well its a bit late now.... and i like the cover..... i hope no one at a car show gets offended! hopefully theyll just think "she doesnt probably know the meaning of it!?" which infact is true then! owwh that is a shame!!! I wouldn't worry too much, I still have my rising sun support stick propped up in my living room, no one else knows what it means really. If you personally don't have a problem with it then its fine if someone else does, then that's something they need to deal with, I didn't throw my flag away because my mate was offended by it. Have a read up on it, always good to prop up your knowledge on history, heck if someone does say something at a car show at least you can talk in an informed manner about it! Very true- ill do some reading and if anyone says anything ill shock them with my knowledge on it- ill say i found after after... which will be the truth if it offends me ill repaint it- however i doubt that will happen! off to google it all! ................... If we were that fussy about the rising sun flag, then we better hand in all of our www.350z-uk.com charity wristbands. :lol: Seriously, it's all about context. Doubt anybody that sees that will think of the bloody occupation of China were many thousands of my people were slaughtered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dblock Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Without wanting to throw the proverbial spanner in the works (and without wanting to turn anything into a political debate, just to raise awareness really)...the rising sun flag does have an interesting history, in that it is heavily associated with ultranationalism and in particular claimed atrocities that happened in Japanese occuped territories during the second world war. I actually have one of these flags on a support stick I used to climb Mount Fuji, none of the Japanese locals seemed too concerned about it but when a friend of Indian/Chinese decent saw it in my living room he found it very offensive and was quite upset. I guess the uptake is that it looks nice, but just dont open the bonnet whilst driving around Chinatown... crikey !! ill look into this!!!! i have seen other engine covers and inside bonnets and all sorts with this painted on! i didnt know its true meaning.... hmm well its a bit late now.... and i like the cover..... i hope no one at a car show gets offended! hopefully theyll just think "she doesnt probably know the meaning of it!?" which infact is true then! owwh that is a shame!!! I wouldn't worry too much, I still have my rising sun support stick propped up in my living room, no one else knows what it means really. If you personally don't have a problem with it then its fine if someone else does, then that's something they need to deal with, I didn't throw my flag away because my mate was offended by it. Have a read up on it, always good to prop up your knowledge on history, heck if someone does say something at a car show at least you can talk in an informed manner about it! Not a very good freind are you. I bet ebay doesnt get offended about a flag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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