もし、スープの中に骨が入ってないと、はっきり分かれば、心配しながらスープを食べる必要がないわけです。。。 つまり、"I'll make no bones about it, but..." ということは、「スープの中には小骨も大骨も、とにかく骨は入ってないので、私の言うことをスープをすぐに飲み込むように そのまま受け取ってもらっていいのです」と言う回りくどい言い方が、「はっきりと言うけれど」という意味に受け取られるようになったのですわ。。。
Kato, I see the photo of President Trump among the above pictures... I wonder if Golden Shower has something to do with President Trump.
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Yes, it has something to do with Trump.
As you know, Kato, Golden Shower is a golden shower tree... That's what you mean, isn't it?
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Golden shower tree
Cassia fistula, known as golden rain tree, canafistula, and other names, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.
The species is native to the Indian subcontinent and adjacent regions of Southeast Asia.
It ranges from eastward throughout India to Myanmar and Thailand and south to Sri Lanka and southern Pakistan.
It is the state flower of Kerala in India and of immense importance amongst the Malayali population.
It is a popular ornamental plant and is also used in herbal medicine.
In ancient Tamil literature, it is called கொன்றை (kondrai) and is closely associated with the Mullai (forest) region of Sangam landscape.
It is the national tree of Thailand, and its flower is Thailand's national flower.
SOURCE: "Cassia fistula"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Have you seen this tree?
No, I haven't, but I'm quite interested in exotic flowers... So I've seen those flowers in my pictorial encyclopedia when I was a kid... How about you, Kato?
Well..., I've never seen those flowers... In Japan, you see those flowers only in Okinawa---Florida in Japan, I'd say.
So, Kato, are you saying that President Trump was profoundly moved by seeing the golden shower tree in Okinawa?
No, I don't think he's ever been to Okinawa in his life.
Then how come you're talking about Golden Shower?
Before I answer your question, I'd like you to see the following list.
I see... So you viewed the above movie in Vancouver Public Library and jotted down your comment on January 30, didn't you?
Yes, I did.
Tell me about the movie.
It goes like this:
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Red Sparrow
Directed by Francis Lawrence and written by Justin Haythe in 2018, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Jason Matthews, this American spy thriller stars Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jeremy Irons.
It depicts the story of a Russian intelligence officer, who is sent to make contact with a CIA officer in the hope of discovering the identity of a mole.
Matthews, a former member of the CIA, advised the production on the depiction of spying.
Based on historic Soviet sexpionage and contemporary Russian use of kompromat, filming took place in Hungary, Slovakia and Austria.
Jennifer Lawrence studied with the New York City Ballet to prepare for her performance.
Some critics say that it has "more style than substance", and criticized the film's length and over-reliance on graphic violence and sex, while praising Jennifer Lawrence's performance
SOURCE: "Red Sparrow"
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Quite interesting! But President Trump doesn't seem to show up in the above passage.
No, Trump doesn't show up in the movie at all.
I wonder if President Trump still has something to do with the above movie.
Yes, of course, he has... When I viewed the above movie, Trump came up in my mind.
Why is that?
When you read my comment, you'll have an answer.
My Comment
Jan 30, 2019
Directed by Francis Lawrence in 2018 based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Jason Matthews, this American spy thriller depicts a complicated intelligent story.
Based on historic Soviet sexpionage and contemporary Russian use of kompromat, the film makes a difference and stands out among ordinary spy thrillers.
However, it puts too much focus on graphic violence and sex.
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Although it seems like a mere fiction, the State School 4, a specialist training school for 'Sparrows' or whore-agents, looks real because the infamous Golden shower episode of President Trump might have been created based on such an agent.
I enjoyed the film to the hilt.
What the heck is “Golden Shower” episode?
Please read the following passage.
Kompromat and Blackmail
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Trump "hated" Obama so much that when he stayed in the Presidential suite of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow, he employed "a number of prostitutes to perform a 'golden showers' (urination) show in front of him" in order to defile the bed used by the Obamas on an earlier visit.
The alleged incident from 2013 was reportedly filmed and recorded by the FSB as kompromat.
Trump was susceptible to blackmail due to paying bribes and the existence of "embarrassing material" due to engagement in "perverted sexual acts" and "unorthodox behavior" in Russia, "enough embarrassing material...to be able to blackmail him if they so wished."
The Kremlin had promised Trump they would not use the kompromat collected against him "as leverage, given high levels of voluntary co-operation forthcoming from his team."
Trump had explored the real estate sectors in St Petersburg and Moscow, "but in the end TRUMP had had to settle for the use of extensive sexual services there from local prostitutes rather than business success".
Trump has pursued real estate deals in St Petersburg, and "paid bribes there to further his interests".
That witnesses to his "sex parties in the city" had been "'silenced' i.e. bribed or coerced to disappear."
Trump associates did not fear "the negative media publicity surrounding alleged Russian interference", because it distracted attention from his "business dealings in China and other emerging markets", which involved "large bribes and kickbacks" that could be devastating if revealed.
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SOURCE: "Trump–Russia dossier"
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I see... Trump Russia affair, huh?
That's right.
It has all started since Trump called such mischievous girls to his hotel room, huh?
You're telling me, Diane.
I wonder if the State School 4, a specialist training school for 'Sparrows' or whore-agents, really exists.
I suppose it does because the Soviet female agents are infamous for sexpionage.
Do you really think so?
Well..., read the following passage.
Honey trapping
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Honey trapping is an investigative practice that uses romantic or sexual relationships for an interpersonal, political or monetary purpose to the detriment of one party involved in this romantic or sexual affair.
Investigators are also often employed by wives, husbands, and other partners usually when an illicit romantic affair is suspected of the "target", or subject of the investigation.
Occasionally, the term may be used for the practice of creating an affair for the purpose of taking incriminating photos for use in blackmail.
A honey trap is used primarily to collect evidence on the subject of the honey trap.
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Spy craft
In 2009 the British MI5 distributed a 14-page document to hundreds of British banks, businesses, and financial institutions, titled "The Threat from Chinese Espionage".
It described a wide-ranging Chinese effort to blackmail Western business people over sexual relationships.
The document explicitly warns that Chinese intelligence services are trying to cultivate "long-term relationships" and have been known to "exploit vulnerabilities such as sexual relationships … to pressurise individuals to co-operate with them."
SOURCE: "Honey trapping"
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As you see, the Chinese agency uses honey trapping... So does Russian agency... Actually, some Japanese people stepped into this honey trap in the past.
Really?
Here's one of the cases.
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Stalin's plot
Michitaro Komatsubara, an information officer specializing in Russian, was troubled by a honey trap in Moscow during the military aid with the Japanese embassy, and since then, he was threatened by the Soviet Union.
At the same time, Colonel Kizaburo Koyanagi, a resident military officer at the Japanese embassy, stepped into a honey trap, and committed suicide at the military office in Moscow in March 1929 because he felt so ashamed of his reckless conduct.
Asahi Shimbun (the Japanese newspaper evening edition of April 4, 1929) reported that spy work was involved in the background of suicide.
After Colonel Koyanagi's suicide, Komatsubara acted as if nothing had been done, repeatedly promoted, served as director of the intelligence agency in Harbin from 1932 to 1934.
During this period in Harbin, a series of important information leaked to the Soviet Union.
The confidential documents released by the former Soviet Union have found that the Soviet forces had acquired a large amount of political military information on Japan, China and Manchuria from 1932 to 1934.
The period from 1932 to 1934 exactle matches the years in which Komatsubara served as the chief of the intelligent agency in Harbin.
It seems to suggest that Lieutenant General Komatsubara's death in Japan suggested that Soviet agent was involved.
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Lt. General Komatsubara
Although there is no certain evidence regarding Komatsubara's connection with the Soviet, there are many cases that an inconvenient Soviet spy has been murdered in the disguise of an accident or illness.
Kato watched "The Arabian Nights" or "One Thousand and One Nights" as his 1001th movie.
You might just as well want to view it.
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The stories in "the Arabian Nights" were collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa.
The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature.
In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān which in turn relied partly on Indian elements.
What is common throughout all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves.
The stories proceed from this original tale.
Some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord.
Some editions contain only a few hundred nights, while others include 1,001 or more.