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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: This just in: Japan still wierd |
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I don't really know what to say about this story:
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| Japan's geeks have turned their attention away from eyeglasses and maids to focus on kegadoru -- literally translated as "injured idols," who are scantily clad pretty women wrapped in bandages and wearing eye patches, according to Weekly Playboy (9/3). |
I always thought the whole rap on Japan is that they're superconfirmist and go around following orders like ants. And yet they come up with the most far-out sh*t I've ever heard of. What's the deal? Maybe it's that they like following the groupthink, but sometimes the groupthink itself gets all weird, so they end up doing weird sh*t in groups. Like wearing baggy socks or provoking the greatest industrial power on earth into a war. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Ahh...Japan. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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My sweeping generalisation mixed with guess-work...........
They love a good fad. Japanese are never happier than when they feel part of the new craze. But they have really short attention spans so new fads come and go really quickly, so they need to be really creative to think new ones up. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:12 am Post subject: |
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| They don't call it "Planet Japan" for nothing. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:59 am Post subject: |
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The internet tends to skew things towards geek culture. making it seem more dominant than it really is.
It's like looking at San Diego Comic Con and saying everyone in America likes to dress up like this:
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butlerian
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:30 am Post subject: |
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| twg wrote: |
The internet tends to skew things towards geek culture. making it seem more dominant than it really is.
It's like looking at San Diego Comic Con and saying everyone in America likes to dress up like this:
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Nice point.
Either way, though...it's not a big deal. Within every culture there are sub-groups who prefer different things at different times. Fashion and trends, that's all. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:35 am Post subject: |
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4 months left
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:21 am Post subject: |
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Naked TV news stripped of subsidy, carries on Fri Aug 17, 11:34 AM ET
An embarrassed Japanese government has cut the subsidy, but a Tokyo TV company said on Friday it would carry on making a striptease news show with sign language for hearing-impaired viewers.
The government made grants totaling 400,000 yen ($3,500) to help cover production of the weekly five-minute program on satellite TV, which features a newsreader who removes her clothes between news items that she delivers in sign language.
The funding dried up when the government, under fire for supporting "Naked Sign Language News," changed funding guidelines for programming aimed at the disabled to exclude pornography, local media reported.
"Of course we will continue making the program," said Shinichiro Fukuyama, a spokesman for makers Paradise Television. "We weren't doing it for the subsidy, we just wanted to make something viewers would enjoy."
Most people who had contacted the station about the program were supportive, saying deaf people had the right to enjoy the same programs as other people, he added. |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:13 am Post subject: |
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freedom of expression.
i heard of some weird fetish (off of wikipedia of course) where men get some kind of satisfaction from seeing women smoke.
there's a sub-fetish where they like it when pregnant women smoke.
it didn't even mention this one was from japan. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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That's the thing about fetishes, they're all odd and unexplainable.
By the way, Paradise TV? Not as enjoyable as you might think. High res digital video is not doing them any favors in the attractiveness department. |
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travel zen
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Location: Good old Toronto, Canada
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There is a tv show called 'Sin CIties' where they previewed Paradise TV. I couldn't believe the stuff they do there. If a girl loses one of the kinky contests..there is a guy who puts the sex on her in a very energetic way.
I see Japanese girls and Black dudes are the continuing fetish there. |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Naked TV news stripped of subsidy, carries on Fri Aug 17, 11:34 AM ET
An embarrassed Japanese government has cut the subsidy, but a Tokyo TV company said on Friday it would carry on making a striptease news show with sign language for hearing-impaired viewers.
The government made grants totaling 400,000 yen ($3,500) to help cover production of the weekly five-minute program on satellite TV, which features a newsreader who removes her clothes between news items that she delivers in sign language.
The funding dried up when the government, under fire for supporting "Naked Sign Language News," changed funding guidelines for programming aimed at the disabled to exclude pornography, local media reported.
"Of course we will continue making the program," said Shinichiro Fukuyama, a spokesman for makers Paradise Television. "We weren't doing it for the subsidy, we just wanted to make something viewers would enjoy."
Most people who had contacted the station about the program were supportive, saying deaf people had the right to enjoy the same programs as other people, he added. |
Watching naked newsreaders use sign-language must be a little like trying to listen to BBC 1 while someone breathes heavily in your other ear. |
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Bondgirl
Joined: 26 May 2007
Location: in my Aston Martin
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| Saw a documentary recently about American's who buy 'real dolls' for thousands of dollars- $6499. They treated them like wives, dressed them and did their makeup everyday, drove them around town, cried when they had to go to the repair man after they had suffered a little 'damage'. http://www.realdoll.com/dolls.asp I'm eating my breakfast and that has made my stomach turn. Kaori looks destined for a perverted man, and Nika looks like Beyonce. |
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