Extremely lucky or extremely unlucky?

March 25, 2009 10:29 AM

Tsutomu Yamaguchi has been certified as the first person known to have survived the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Survivors of either blast, known as "hibakusha", receive a stipend from the Japanese government, but (along with their children) are frequently subjected to discrimination due to the widespread misconception that radiation sickness can be hereditary or contagious. Read some of their stories.
posted by baphomet (13 comments total)

Deja vu all over again.
posted by sixswitch at 10:30 AM on March 25, 2009

Quite appropriately, this is a double.
posted by Skeptic at 10:30 AM on March 25, 2009

Double
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 10:30 AM on March 25, 2009

Or rather: I have been certified as the first person to survive viewing both threads about the man who survived both atomic bombs.
posted by sixswitch at 10:31 AM on March 25, 2009 [2 favorites]

Double
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 10:31 AM on March 25, 2009

First the flash, then the blastwave.
posted by Artw at 10:31 AM on March 25, 2009

Hiroshima. Nagasaki.
posted by joe lisboa at 10:33 AM on March 25, 2009

Tsutomu Yamaguchi has been certified as the first person known to have survived a double post.
posted by KokuRyu at 10:33 AM on March 25, 2009 [1 favorite]

deletomizer in 3...2...1...
posted by JeffK at 10:33 AM on March 25, 2009

So is he really, really lucky, or really, really unlucky?

THE WORLD MUST KNOW
posted by Sys Rq at 10:33 AM on March 25, 2009

The jokes are so obvious and yet I laugh anyway.
posted by GuyZero at 10:38 AM on March 25, 2009

I am become death, the destroyer of threads.
posted by Joe Beese at 10:43 AM on March 25, 2009

Fucking A, I totally thought I did a thorough enough search before posting. Sorry all.
posted by baphomet at 10:44 AM on March 25, 2009