Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
Tokyo Shop Sells Recycled Alcohol
TO Tokyo, where locals can buy used booze at Liquor Off. It’s not quite reselling the dregs or distilling the contents of the urinal rivers that run through the city’s bars. This is a chance for people who exchange any booze they have around the place for cash.
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Posted: 1st, July 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment
1960: ‘Girls’ Take Stretch Breaks At Tokyo’s Sony Factory
FLASHBACK to August 30, 1960:
Young girls at Japanese radio manufacturing plant in Tokyo, stretch in unison to the beat of a man blowing the whistle. The stretch break takes place twice a day and, according to company officials, raises the efficiency of the girls who assemble the miniature parts of transistor radios. The girls use microscopes to insert needle-like parts into the radios.
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Posted: 9th, March 2014 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment
Adam Magyar’s Super Slo-Mo Films Of Faces On The Platform As The Train Arrives
WHAT face do you pull when the train pulls into the station? One surprise looking at Adam Magyar’s super slo-mo films (50 frames per second; one 12 second moment spans to 8 minutes of film) of faces on the platform is how few people eat on trains in Tokyo, New York and Berlin. Also, no sly looks to the left and right to study the competition for seats and space?
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Posted: 22nd, January 2014 | In: Technology | Comment
The Liberation Wrapper Means Japanese Women With Small Mouths Can Eat Burgers Without Shame
USELESS Products For Women introduces the Liberation Wrapper.
With this handy device, women with small mouths, or ochobo, can eat a meaty burger without disgusting everyone else.
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Posted: 6th, November 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Jii: the most insane advert for a USB lighter ever
CIGARETTES are bad for you. But a Jii Lighter is a necessity, especially if you want to learn the alphabet – O P Q R S T USB!
Posted: 4th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Face Slimmer turns your mouth into a potty
GREAT and not-at-all -useless products for women presents the Potty Mouth Face Slimmer. How does the lip job work?
To get and maintain the perfect visage, you don’t need the cosmetic surgeon’s knife. All you need is a mouthpiece. Yes, the Face Slimmer is a simple solution to the timeless problem of how to give sagging facial skin and muscles that much-needed daily lift. Just three minutes per day is all you need; pop in the mold and then make mouth movements. The makers recommend you say vowel sounds out loud over and over again, producing regular and methodical exercises that will strength the twelve facial expression muscles in a comprehensive way.
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…..
Spotter: Today I Learned Something New, Dangerous Minds
Posted: 2nd, July 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Testing the condom ice-cream in Japan (video)
TESTING the condom ice-cream in Japan:
Posted: 18th, February 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
How they queue for football tickets in Japan (they write their names on a line)
I ONCE queued at Highbury, Arsenal’s old stadium, 14 hours for football tickets. When the gates finally opened, everyone at the back dashed for the front. It was mayhem. In Japan, they do it differently. The punters write their names on a strip of tape. They then go away, returning when the ticket office opens to claim their place in the line. Could this work in the UK? No. Of course not. The process would requite a booking fee, use of the official “Queue Pen” and the kind of order and decorum that goes against everything we love about the game |(well, before Sky got hold of it):
Posted: 11th, February 2013 | In: Sports, The Consumer | Comment
Japanese want to put undercrackers on naked statues
ARTISTS are all absolute filth aren’t they? Go into any gallery and chances are, you’ll see some boobs or, worse still, a little naked, flying child.
Children themselves are encouraged to go into galleries, surrounded by sexual images of bored looking women, naked-from-the-waist-down hobo-looking blokes and infant arses, which means that art is going to corrupt them, no question. No wonder we’re all dirty minded buggers.
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Posted: 7th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
How to repair and mourn your ‘Dutch wife’ sex doll
“UNTIL about 30 years ago, the typical ‘Dutch Wife’ (love doll) sold at sex shops in Japan was of the inflatable type, and of shoddy quality that was easily subject to deflation at the slightest, er, prick.”
“When customers brought the dolls in for repairs, vendors would stick on hot patches, like on tire inner tubes,” [said Hideo Tsuchiya, president of Orient Kogyo K.K., a manufacturer of state-of-the-art love dolls].
Some of these buyers, however, had their own reasons for preferring rubber joy mates to real women. Some weren’t satisfied with going to brothels. Others, jilted by their mates, had become eternally suspicious of females….
Orient Kogyo also provides after-service. When and if the time comes for the dolls to part with their owner, the company will conduct a kuyo (Buddhist memorial service) for the doll, complete with floral offerings..
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Posted: 22nd, January 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
The Snow Monkeys of Japan (photos)
THE Japanese snow monkeys of Jigokudani Wild Monkey Park in Yamanouchi, Nagano:
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Posted: 16th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Two girls one mud bath
TAKING a mud bath in Japan. We call this Two Girls One Mud Bath:
Posted: 3rd, November 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The catfish that triggered the Tokyo earthquake – pictures
WHAT causes earthquakes? The Japanese thought it was a giant catfish. One thrashed about and triggered the Great Ansei Earthquake that struck the city of Edo (Tokyo) in November 1855. The event was marked in namazu-e (“catfish pictures”). These portraits of the giant catfish (namazu) show it as the hero of the building trade – you can see the workers celebrating and partying with the giant fish – and enemy of fishermen and farmers, who rely on the god Kashima to keep namazu restrained:
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Japanese Posing Archery
JAPANESE posting archery is our non-Olympic sport of the day. The video features Nori Yamagata “in the traditional Japanese sport of Orokana supōtsu or ‘Amazing Sport'”:
Posted: 14th, September 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Japanese telly has the pranks
JAPANESE telly: Nudity. Fighting. Birds. Hunks. And a wrecking ball. It’s got the lot…
Posted: 22nd, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Japanese teen reunited with football lost in tsunami
GOOD news. Firstly, Japanese teenager Misaki Murakami has got his ball back. The football was swept out to sea on March 2011 when a tsunami hit the town of Rikuzen-takata. It’s turned up on Alaska’s Middleton Island, 70 miles from the US mainland. American David Baxter found it on the beach.
US man David Baxter on a beach in Middleton Island. He gave it to his Japanese-born wife to look at, and she translated the message – Mr Murakami had been given the ball as a memento by his old school mates; his name and the name of his school were on his ball. Says the 16-year-old:
“I’m very grateful as I’ve so far found nothing that I’d owned.”
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Japanese infomercial of the day
JAPANESE infomercial of the day:
Posted: 25th, February 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Japanese mouth trainer – as seen on Jessica Simpson
WHAT’s this, then?
Posted: 1st, February 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comments (16)
George Lucas Isn’t Rich Enough Yet, Says Yoda Noodles Commercial
IF it wasn’t bad enough seeing Darth Vader flogging computers for PC World, Yoda’s in on the act now vending noodles to Japan.
Seriously.
It seems that George Lucas is absolutely desperate to annoy as many Star Wars fans as possible, tinkering with the old movies and re-releasing them with new, pointless segments and getting as many of the characters to star in as many commercials as possible.
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Posted: 21st, November 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comments (3)
The 13 Maddest Japanese Adverts Ever: Presented By Glass Armpits
THE Maddest Japanese adverts ever:
Armpits as smooth as glass:
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Posted: 7th, June 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
