Yoavoshimaru 0 Posted December 31, 2003 Happy new year to all the forum members and guests ;) I hope everyone has a healthy and happy 2004. Perhaps some improvements towards peace and prosperity everywhere :-D . Perhaps even a zensho yusho! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
QttP 0 Posted December 31, 2003 YAY!!! It's about 6 minutes before the New Year here. Best of wishes to everyone here and everywhere - may we all have a great year! :-P *steals the zensho yusho* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fujisan 533 Posted January 1, 2004 Happy new year everyone- I hope the weathers better where you are,we have a snow storm over here in "sunny" Grimsby. I hope everyone has a successful 2004 especially in the games. Gotta share this though- On tv earlier Jools Holland made the mistake of asking Irish musician Shane Mcgowan if he had any predictions for 2004- "Yes," he said "Judgement day." Cheery wasnt he. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kotoseiya Yuichi 3 Posted January 1, 2004 Happy New Year from me as well. Less than nine years left of The Age of Jaguar. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Buckton 1 Posted January 1, 2004 Happy New Year from me as well. Less than nine years left of The Age of Jaguar. :-P Koto-san,,interesting stuff indeed. As we are off topic though, a question. Today, 2004, how widely held are many of those concepts on that page? I know of similar forecasts in S. America but in such depth interests me. ANR Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Buckton 1 Posted January 1, 2004 Also, forgot. Happy new year to you all, wherever you are and whatever religion you follow. :-P To those who I disagree with (I do with myself on occassion!) a toast - (Arguing...) . If you are not enjoying debate for what it is I apologise in true teenage fashion. :-P Seriously though. I will learn from you and you will learn from me these coming months. If we keep it respectful, sumo benefits and that is what matters in the end. Just remember that throughout the WWII period, since his teen years in fact Roosevelt's best friend was Japanese. And not a lot of people know that. No one here is at war but let not differences on the dohyo :'-( this forum provides cloud your vision of the rituals / ceremonies / sport and anything else you want to call it that is - sumo. The sekitori generally don't. Why should we? ANR :-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Manekineko 200 Posted January 1, 2004 Yawn. :-P Happy New Year! Sretna Nova Godina! I wish you all you yourself can wish for, including good luck in games, and lots of enjoyment in sumo! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kotoseiya Yuichi 3 Posted January 1, 2004 Today, 2004, how widely held are many of those concepts on that page? Impossible to say but I venture to guess they are of concern only to anthropologists and few weirdoes like me. (Hypnotic...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fujisan 533 Posted January 1, 2004 Cheers to you aswell Adachi- as you know I personally love a good debate even a heated one,especially when it is finished and we can shake hands and move on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Buckton 1 Posted January 1, 2004 Cheers to you aswell Adachi-as you know I personally love a good debate even a heated one,especially when it is finished and we can shake hands and move on. Short, sweet and to the point - but enough about me. Nice post Fujisan - to the New Year (In a state of confusion...) Chher ANR Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zenjimoto 40 Posted January 2, 2004 To you all the best for 2004 - and may this be the year where sumo's popularity turns the corner, and starts GAINING! (go, Tochiazuma!) (In a state of confusion...) Cheers Z. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Buckton 1 Posted January 2, 2004 To you all the best for 2004 - and may this be the year where sumo's popularity turns the corner, and starts GAINING! (go, Tochiazuma!) (In a state of confusion...)Cheers Z. hear hear Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest sumosquall Posted January 2, 2004 (edited) Happy New Year!!! ^^ May everyone (In a state of confusion...) be in health next year! Edited January 2, 2004 by sumosquall Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kotoseiya Yuichi 3 Posted January 2, 2004 (edited) Having received some legal education, I can't help but be amused by the way a computer hardware enthusiast site [H]ard|OCP wishes happy new year to its visitors. To save you a click, I'll paste it here. Copyright infringement be damned. ------------- Posted by Kyle 4:12 PM (CST) We wanted to send out some sort of holiday greeting but it is so difficult in today's world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. We met with my attorney today, and on his advice we want to say to all of you: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non addictive gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2004, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country or is the only "AMERICA" in the western hemisphere), and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, or sexual preference of the wisher. By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms: This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher... "HAPPY HOLIDAYS" Thanks to Daylon Walton Edited December 14, 2004 by Exil Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Manekineko 200 Posted January 2, 2004 I've always been fascinated with legal talk... gives me the feeling of watching train-wreck in slo-mo, for some reason. (In a state of confusion...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kaikitsune Makoto 209 Posted January 2, 2004 That sarcastic and humourous post was cool (Nodding yes...) It seems to be so nowadays that political correctness is gaining ground in these wishes-frontier too. In some opinions you are not really supposed to say Merry Christmas! to international forum without adding that "and holidays seasons or hannukah or whatever you may celebrate!". I think next thing to do is to stop wishing birthdays unless one adds that "....and to all others a happy day too even if its is not your birthday!" :-) I've always been fascinated with legal talk... gives me the feeling of watching train-wreck in slo-mo, for some reason Indeed and it always feels as if legal talk was made by people who have issues with the whole world and who like to irritate people as much as possible. There are no grounds for many sentence structures that is used in legal contexts as the sentences could be formulated in much clearer way without ANY change in the meaning. Traditions they say. Lawyer-politicians are the best of the best. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kotoseiya Yuichi 3 Posted January 2, 2004 The little lawyer inside me just smirks at you laymen. There is always reason for the words selected in a legal text. You guys just can't tell the difference. (Nodding yes...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Asashosakari 19,320 Posted January 2, 2004 The little lawyer inside me just smirks at you laymen. There is always reason for the words selected in a legal text. You guys just can't tell the difference. :-P Yes, and didn't Kaikitsune mention the most popular reason, i.e. "irritate people as much as possible"? :-) And I take grave offence to the following passage: celebration of the winter solstice holiday How culturally insensitive towards all those in the Southern Hemisphere for whom it was a summer solstice! (Nodding yes...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fujisan 533 Posted January 2, 2004 What about those who would rather not be forced into celebrating anything just because it happens to be traditional? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kaikitsune Makoto 209 Posted January 2, 2004 What about those who would rather not be forced into celebrating anything just because it happens to be traditional? Indeed! So lets change this to "Merry Christmas or happy hannukah or merry moments of non-celebrating current moments in time" :-) Point is that people who don't want to celebrate or who don't celebrate some festivity just don't have to register the wishes. Let the people who celebrate them register the wishes. If there is a Christmas and someone says Merry Christmas, then people who celebrate Christmas will register the wish in their mind and the ones who don't celebrate Christmas can just ignore it. I doubt that anyone is deeply depressed that now merry things were wished to some people but not me because I am not target group! How culturally insensitive towards all those in the Southern Hemisphere for whom it was a summer solstice Yes! When I was a child who didn't know sumo was cool I had major problems understanding that someone has summer in December. I still think it violates my principles and therefor I think I will boycott kangaroos until they realise that it is winter in December and it is uncalled for appealing for some earth tilts or round globe's significance. December is winter even if you fry it in butter! (Nodding yes...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kotoseiya Yuichi 3 Posted January 2, 2004 The number of people not aware of the seasons being reversed on the southern hemisphere is astronomically high. (Hypnotic...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
