Yep. She's what we'd probably call a troll today, but they used to call people like this "gadflies". It's defined as "an annoying person who provokes others into action by criticism".
I actually do enjoy doing it. Originally, I was just going to do them and put them up on the Internet Archive, just so they’d be there, but it was pointed out to me that more people would see it if it were here and I thought English readers would like to have readable copies of the whole thing.
Having now just uploaded the 150th chapter, I just realized that at this pace, I will still probably be doing this in like 10 years and it made me laugh... I'll be 47 years old and still trying to finish this 1039 chapter manga that I foolishly attempted to translate just because I wanted to see...
Obviously, some things here have changed since this was done, but it was written in the mid-90s, so I tried to at least point out a couple of things that might have been of interest in the TL Notes.
Yeah, that was some bullshit. Even if everything else that he said was accurate, one should never, ever trick someone into eating something that they have a moral objection to eating. That's some Gordon Ramsay shit.
Personally, I hated doing this arc since I'm opposed to non-subsistence whaling (I am not opposed to subsistence whaling, and I would not be opposed to Japan doing it, but they have often overhunted and even lied about both how many they hunted as well as how many whales were in a population)...
My own feeling is, and I could be wrong, is that Yamaoka's perspective on his parents' relationship is skewed, and that Kaibara was actually just as badly hurt by his wife's death. So Yamaoka destroying his pottery took him by surprise and he lashed out the way he does and he can't walk back on...
Well, just to put forward the opposite view, if you’re a fan of animated shows, there’s an episode of King of the Hill where Peggy, who is a substitute teacher, is put in charge of the student’s organic garden… So no pesticides… Guess what happens.
Here in Pennsylvania, if you don't use pesticides or anything like that, not only do the bugs and shit get your crop, but the deer get it as well. You just clean the veggies and that off before you eat them and it's fine.
So just a quick tidbit for those that don't know, The Watergate is actually comprised of multiple buildings. It's an office and a cooperative apartment complex. The Nixon Administration's burglary and bugging of the DNC HQ took place at the 2600 Virginia Ave Office Building rather than in the...