I was watching one of my favorite small Simpsons clips, a fairly accurate (if satirical) take on the Japanese Commercial ( http://it.truveo.com/The-Simpsons-Japanese-Commercial/id/1609330229 JOIN ME OR DIE, CAN YOU DO ANY LESS!) when I started wondering if Japanese and American cultures are so different that they appear batshit to us (meaning that Chinese and Indian commercials might also appear batshit), but to be totally honest my experience with Japan leads me to believe it possess a special kind of batshitness.
Can anyone confirm/deny? Do Arab, Indian and Chinese commercials (or television and popular films in general) appear as insane to the average foreign viewer, or is Japan special?
Japan is pretty unique. It's the only country I've seen that takes pride in endorsing kitsch on a national level. You're not going to find any public toilet palaces in India or China, certainly.
We need to air-drop adirol on Japan.
It turns out that the genetic damage caused by proximity to atomic detonations has some... unfortunate long term side effects.
I guess so. In two centuries, we've seen them go from haiku and pagodas to Hello Kitty and Panda Girls. :unsure:
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 01, 2009, 10:21:39 PM
I guess so. In two centuries, we've seen them go from haiku and pagodas to Hello Kitty and Panda Girls. :unsure:
Meh. In the same period we've gone from "FROM HELL'S HEART, I STAB AT THEE!" to "Getrrrr duuuuun!"
Quote from: vinraith on April 01, 2009, 10:18:03 PM
It turns out that the genetic damage caused by proximity to atomic detonations has some... unfortunate long term side effects.
We... did this? :weep:
Quote from: Queequeg on April 01, 2009, 10:22:30 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 01, 2009, 10:21:39 PM
I guess so. In two centuries, we've seen them go from haiku and pagodas to Hello Kitty and Panda Girls. :unsure:
Meh. In the same period we've gone from "FROM HELL'S HEART, I STAB AT THEE!" to "Getrrrr duuuuun!"
Seriously, get over moby dick. soon you'll be doing unspeakable things to a plush doll from Seaworld.
Quote from: HVC on April 01, 2009, 10:53:42 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 01, 2009, 10:22:30 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 01, 2009, 10:21:39 PM
I guess so. In two centuries, we've seen them go from haiku and pagodas to Hello Kitty and Panda Girls. :unsure:
Meh. In the same period we've gone from "FROM HELL'S HEART, I STAB AT THEE!" to "Getrrrr duuuuun!"
Seriously, get over moby dick. soon you'll be doing unspeakable things to a plush doll from Seaworld.
How about "QUOTH THE RAVE "NEVERMORE!" Just thought I should maximize the comparison with Larry the Cable Fuckwit.
Quote from: Queequeg on April 01, 2009, 10:59:45 PM
Quote from: HVC on April 01, 2009, 10:53:42 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 01, 2009, 10:22:30 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 01, 2009, 10:21:39 PM
I guess so. In two centuries, we've seen them go from haiku and pagodas to Hello Kitty and Panda Girls. :unsure:
Meh. In the same period we've gone from "FROM HELL'S HEART, I STAB AT THEE!" to "Getrrrr duuuuun!"
Seriously, get over moby dick. soon you'll be doing unspeakable things to a plush doll from Seaworld.
How about "QUOTH THE RAVE "NEVERMORE!" Just thought I should maximize the comparison with Larry the Cable Fuckwit.
Lol, now i have an image of emo Poe on E in a Rave club.... i need sleep.
Quote from: Queequeg on April 01, 2009, 10:22:30 PMMeh. In the same period we've gone from "FROM HELL'S HEART, I STAB AT THEE!" to "Getrrrr duuuuun!"
Moby Dick as a comedy novel makes a lot more sense.
Quote from: FunkMonk on April 01, 2009, 10:41:50 PM
Quote from: vinraith on April 01, 2009, 10:18:03 PM
It turns out that the genetic damage caused by proximity to atomic detonations has some... unfortunate long term side effects.
We... did this? :weep:
Call it a pet theory. :D
Quote from: Queequeg on April 01, 2009, 10:22:30 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 01, 2009, 10:21:39 PM
I guess so. In two centuries, we've seen them go from haiku and pagodas to Hello Kitty and Panda Girls. :unsure:
Meh. In the same period we've gone from "FROM HELL'S HEART, I STAB AT THEE!" to "Getrrrr duuuuun!"
There's always been low class entertainment and high class entertainment in this country, cross comparing the two isn't quite fair.
GIT R DONE
The funniest thing is, Larry the Cable Guy is a damn yankee.
Quote from: Fireblade on April 02, 2009, 12:03:03 AM
GIT R DONE
The funniest thing is, Larry the Cable Guy is a damn yankee.
Nebraska isn't yankee.
Quote from: Magnus on April 02, 2009, 12:47:37 AM
Quote from: Fireblade on April 02, 2009, 12:03:03 AM
GIT R DONE
The funniest thing is, Larry the Cable Guy is a damn yankee.
Nebraska isn't yankee.
They fought on the Union side. :huh:
Quote from: citizen k on April 02, 2009, 01:01:34 AM
Quote from: Magnus on April 02, 2009, 12:47:37 AM
Quote from: Fireblade on April 02, 2009, 12:03:03 AM
GIT R DONE
The funniest thing is, Larry the Cable Guy is a damn yankee.
Nebraska isn't yankee.
They fought on the Union side. :huh:
Hard for the state to do that, as it didn't exist till 1867.
I grant you it wasn't dixie, it was whatever the hell westerners were calling themselves at the time.
Quote from: vinraith on April 01, 2009, 11:28:07 PM
There's always been low class entertainment and high class entertainment in this country, cross comparing the two isn't quite fair.
And what is with MP's trite Ivory Tower sneer at low class entertainment?
Quote from: Magnus on April 02, 2009, 01:08:16 AM
Quote from: citizen k on April 02, 2009, 01:01:34 AM
Quote from: Magnus on April 02, 2009, 12:47:37 AM
Quote from: Fireblade on April 02, 2009, 12:03:03 AM
GIT R DONE
The funniest thing is, Larry the Cable Guy is a damn yankee.
Nebraska isn't yankee.
They fought on the Union side. :huh:
Hard for the state to do that, as it didn't exist till 1867.
I grant you it wasn't dixie, it was whatever the hell westerners were calling themselves at the time.
it was a slave-free territory. most settlers were yankees. they raised troops for the union, and no battles with the secessionists were fought in Nebraska.
and they called themselves: "squatters". :lol:
http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/timeline/nicknames_nebraska_2.htm
Quote from: garbon on April 02, 2009, 01:23:22 AM
Quote from: vinraith on April 01, 2009, 11:28:07 PM
There's always been low class entertainment and high class entertainment in this country, cross comparing the two isn't quite fair.
And what is with MP's trite Ivory Tower sneer at low class entertainment?
So in order to hate Larry the Cable Guy I have to sip cognac every evening while reading Harper's in my Skull and Bones smoking jacket?
What?
This thread needs to be placed in the inane asylum.
Quote from: Queequeg on April 02, 2009, 07:29:12 AM
Quote from: garbon on April 02, 2009, 01:23:22 AM
Quote from: vinraith on April 01, 2009, 11:28:07 PM
There's always been low class entertainment and high class entertainment in this country, cross comparing the two isn't quite fair.
And what is with MP's trite Ivory Tower sneer at low class entertainment?
So in order to hate Larry the Cable Guy I have to sip cognac every evening while reading Harper's in my Skull and Bones smoking jacket?
What?
Darn right, else you're a hypocrite! ;)
I've only seen the Cable Guy on a few appearances, news spots. Does he have a show, or has he been in movies? Just seems like another case of mass media marketing and the crass dumbing down of America. :( Or maybe he's pretty good, don't know... don't much care either way.
Just get er dun! :unsure:
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 01, 2009, 10:21:39 PM
I guess so. In two centuries, we've seen them go from haiku and pagodas to Hello Kitty and Panda Girls. :unsure:
France went from Camus and Sartre to Lewis and Martin in a decade. :(
Quote from: vinraith on April 01, 2009, 10:18:03 PM
It turns out that the genetic damage caused by proximity to atomic detonations has some... unfortunate long term side effects.
I think American culture is the damaging factor.
Larry the cable guy haters amuse me. If I could come up with an act like that and bring in 30 million a year, I'd be up there in a flash. Plus, I've got plenty of poop jokes.
Reminds me of David Cross whining about it. His agony was delicious. Boo hoo.
Quote from: Queequeg on April 02, 2009, 07:29:12 AM
Quote from: garbon on April 02, 2009, 01:23:22 AM
Quote from: vinraith on April 01, 2009, 11:28:07 PM
There's always been low class entertainment and high class entertainment in this country, cross comparing the two isn't quite fair.
And what is with MP's trite Ivory Tower sneer at low class entertainment?
So in order to hate Larry the Cable Guy I have to sip cognac every evening while reading Harper's in my Skull and Bones smoking jacket?
What?
Sneer all you want, the guy's fucking horrible. My point was that the people that were reading Poe and Melville back in the day are not of equivalent social standing with the people that are Larry the Cable Guy fans. It's not like crass, retarded humor is a 20th (or 21st) century invention.
Just curious, but can anyone give some examples of truly low-brow 19th century entertainment (besides things like cock-fights and freak-shows)? What's the 19th century equivalent of Larry the Cable Guy?
Quote from: Malthus on April 02, 2009, 10:03:49 AM
Just curious, but can anyone give some examples of truly low-brow 19th century entertainment (besides things like cock-fights and freak-shows)? What's the 19th century equivalent of Larry the Cable Guy?
Le Petomane: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/363/did-a-french-vaudeville-star-once-specialize-in-trained-flatulence (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/363/did-a-french-vaudeville-star-once-specialize-in-trained-flatulence)
QuoteI think it is poetically appropriate that Joseph Pujol, better known as Le Petomane (which we may loosely translate as "the fartiste") should emanate from France, without doubt the most pretentious nation on the face of the earth. Le Petomane performed his unique act from 1887 to 1914, and became one of his country's best-known vaudevillians. At one point he was earning 20,000 francs a week, compared to 8,000 for his contemporary Sarah Bernhardt. The true artistic priorities of the French public are thus admirably revealed.
Joseph Pujol, born in Marseilles in 1857, owed his remarkable career to an extraordinary ability to control the muscles of his abdomen and anus. As a youth he discovered he could take in via the rectum as much as two liters of water, which he could then expel at will. Later he found he could do the same thing with air. At first he employed this talent solely for the entertainment of his friends, obviously a very refined and intelligent bunch, but after working quietly for some years as a baker, he was encouraged to give public performances. The first of these, in Marseilles in 1887, met with some initial skepticism, petomanie ("fartistry") being something of a novelty even for the French, but within a few days Le Petomane's winning manner and solidly professional performance had won audiences over. From then on it was one triumph after another.
Le Petomane arrived in Paris in 1892, and was promptly hired by the Moulin Rouge, the famous music hall. He became an immediate sensation. In a typical performance, he appeared on stage in red cape, black trousers, and white cravat, with a pair of white gloves held in the hands for a touch of elegance. Having explained that his emissions were odorless--Le Petomane took care to irrigate his colon daily--he would proceed with a program of fart impressions, as it were: the timid fart of the young girl, the hearty fart of the miller, the fart of the bride on her wedding night (almost inaudible), the fart of the bride a week later (a lusty raspberry), and a majestic 10-second fart which he likened to a couturier cutting six feet of calico cloth.
Later, having inserted a tube into his nether orifice (offstage, of course--Le Petomane had a high regard for the delicacies of his audience), he would smoke a cigarette right down to the b--well, pretty damn far. He could also blow out candles and stage footlights. By way of grand finale, he would attach an ocarina to the tube and play popular tunes such as O sole mio, with which he would invite the audience to sing along.
An immensely popular figure in his day (even the king of Belgium snuck into Paris one night to see him incognito), Le Petomane was the subject of numerous articles, poems, and caricatures in popular magazines. One cartoon depicted little cherubs holding his coattails aloft while elaborate melodies issued from his hindquarters. (Actually, Le Petomane could produce only four notes without the aid of an instrument--do, mi, sol, and the octave do.) He bought a house filled with servants for his family, and in 1895 opened his own theatre. He went on foreign tours, sued a false female imitator (she had a bellows concealed in her skirt), and in general enjoyed a profitable career until 1914. Two of his sons (he had ten children) were disabled in World War I, however, and afterward he did not have the heart to return to the stage. He resumed his former career as a baker, and died surrounded by friends and family in 1945 at the age of 88. Mel Brooks would be lucky to do as well.
QuoteI think it is poetically appropriate that Joseph Pujol, better known as Le Petomane (which we may loosely translate as "the fartiste") should emanate from France, without doubt the most pretentious nation on the face of the earth.
I have a hard time imagining the common joe Frenchmen being that pretentious. French trash culture is pretty trashy. This sentence seems think every single French person is some sort of grande ecole graduate.
Heh, I'd rather see that than Larry the Cable Guy. :D
Quote from: Valmy on April 02, 2009, 10:20:04 AM
QuoteI think it is poetically appropriate that Joseph Pujol, better known as Le Petomane (which we may loosely translate as "the fartiste") should emanate from France, without doubt the most pretentious nation on the face of the earth.
I have a hard time imagining the common joe Frenchmen being that pretentious. French trash culture is pretty trashy. This sentence seems think every single French person is some sort of grande ecole graduate.
JERRY LEWIS.
Yes, I brought that old chestnut out. Sue me.
To further answer Malthus's question, there are a number of late 19th century and early 20th century entertainment for the common man in the Kino collection called Edison: The Invention of the Movies http://www.kino.com/edison/ (http://www.kino.com/edison/) From what I remember bare knuckle boxing (which was then illegal in New York City), Cat Boxing, various dancing girls, and a burlesque trapeze strip-tease act in which the woman strips down to her Victorian foundation garments all on a trapeze.
In addition minstrel Shows, caricature acts which thrived on ethnic stereotypes and quick drawing caricaturists were all common stage acts in vaudeville.
Quote from: Valmy on April 02, 2009, 10:20:04 AMI have a hard time imagining the common joe Frenchmen being that pretentious. French trash culture is pretty trashy. This sentence seems think every single French person is some sort of grande ecole graduate.
I'm a
grande école graduate.... :Embarrass:
Kevin
Quote from: FunkMonk on April 01, 2009, 10:41:50 PM
Quote from: vinraith on April 01, 2009, 10:18:03 PM
It turns out that the genetic damage caused by proximity to atomic detonations has some... unfortunate long term side effects.
We... did this? :weep:
:lol:
Reminds me of this classic Onion story.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/japan_pledges_to_halt_production (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/japan_pledges_to_halt_production)
Quote"We honestly had no idea people did not enjoy this stuff," said Cultural Affairs Minister Kazuhiro Nakai, expressing regret for the thousands of hours of bondage porn, rape porn, utensil-rape porn, food-rape porn, frozen-food-rape porn, vomit-enema porn, elder-care-coma-patient-rape porn, and the kind of a porn in which a nubile youth is kidnapped, stripped, tied down in a wading pool and raped. "We are deeply ashamed for whatever it is about these films that has made people around the world vomit so vigorously. Please know that the content was only intended to entertain and arouse."
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 02, 2009, 09:43:02 AM
Larry the cable guy haters amuse me. If I could come up with an act like that and bring in 30 million a year, I'd be up there in a flash. Plus, I've got plenty of poop jokes.
Reminds me of David Cross whining about it. His agony was delicious. Boo hoo.
David Cross is fucking hilarious, though.
Quote from: Queequeg on April 02, 2009, 07:29:12 AM
So in order to hate Larry the Cable Guy I have to sip cognac every evening while reading Harper's in my Skull and Bones smoking jacket?
What?
Oh, so you weren't using Larry the Cable Guy as an illustrative example of how our culture (like Japanese culture as posited by Carrot) has declined from great heights to horrible lowbrow tastes?
My apologies if that wasn't the case.
Quote from: fahdiz on April 02, 2009, 01:34:38 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 02, 2009, 09:43:02 AM
Larry the cable guy haters amuse me. If I could come up with an act like that and bring in 30 million a year, I'd be up there in a flash. Plus, I've got plenty of poop jokes.
Reminds me of David Cross whining about it. His agony was delicious. Boo hoo.
David Cross is fucking hilarious, though.
He seems to be too preachy during his act. I want funny.
GAFFIGAN DOESN'T MAKE ME THINK.
Nebraska is the north, after a fashion. It is a colony of the north, more accurately, the north proper ending at illinois.
They can be justly derided as yankees, without really deserving the full venom associated with the term. They fall just above North Dakota on the scale of harmless to offensive northern states.
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 02, 2009, 01:45:44 PM
He seems to be too preachy during his act. I want funny.
GAFFIGAN DOESN'T MAKE ME THINK.
He ruled on Arrested Development and in Mr. Show.
Quote from: fahdiz on April 02, 2009, 01:52:49 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 02, 2009, 01:45:44 PM
He seems to be too preachy during his act. I want funny.
GAFFIGAN DOESN'T MAKE ME THINK.
He ruled on Arrested Development and in Mr. Show.
I don't recall Gaffigan on either. :rolleyes:
:P
Quote from: fahdiz on April 02, 2009, 01:52:49 PM
He ruled on Arrested Development and in Mr. Show.
YOUR ELITIST WEST COAST PROGRAMMING IS TOO SOPHISTICATED FOR US BUCKEYES.
In other words, never watched 'em. :P
Quote from: Magnus on April 02, 2009, 01:08:16 AM
Quote from: citizen k on April 02, 2009, 01:01:34 AM
Quote from: Magnus on April 02, 2009, 12:47:37 AM
Nebraska isn't yankee.
They fought on the Union side. :huh:
Hard for the state to do that, as it didn't exist till 1867.
I grant you it wasn't dixie, it was whatever the hell westerners were calling themselves at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_in_the_American_Civil_War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_in_the_American_Civil_War)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediabistro.com%2Fagencyspy%2Foriginal%2Fnbc_the_more_you_know.jpg&hash=146b793bd77ce456e5648db59f3462cdd0f1d42e)
QuoteThe Federal government requested that the Nebraska Territory form one volunteer regiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiment), with some companies supposed to stay behind to protect the territory. The territorial legislature met in special session in Omaha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha,_Nebraska), and agreed to raise the requested local defense force. Thus, the 1st Regiment Nebraska Volunteer Infantry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Regiment_Nebraska_Volunteer_Infantry) was formed in June and July 1861, with the future governor of Nebraska (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Nebraska) and the Wyoming Territory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Territory), John Milton Thayer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton_Thayer), as its first colonel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_%28United_States%29). However, the promise was reneged, and the regiment was sent eastward in August to fight the Confederacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America).
QuoteBy the end of the Civil War, more than a third (3,157) of the men of military age in the Nebraska Territory had served in the Union army. In addition to the 1st Nebraska, the territory raised three other full regiments of cavalry, as well as a battalion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battalion). Thirty-five Nebraskans were killed in action during the Civil War, while another 204 died of other causes, including disease and accidents.
Quote from: garbon on April 02, 2009, 01:36:57 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 02, 2009, 07:29:12 AM
So in order to hate Larry the Cable Guy I have to sip cognac every evening while reading Harper's in my Skull and Bones smoking jacket?
What?
Oh, so you weren't using Larry the Cable Guy as an illustrative example of how our culture (like Japanese culture as posited by Carrot) has declined from great heights to horrible lowbrow tastes?
My apologies if that wasn't the case.
Not exactly; I think that mass media has made people like Larry possible, while in the past he would have joked with a few of his buddies about "pampers heads" and the like. If there ever was a "cultural high point" in America it certainly wasn't the early 19th century though, it was the 1950s-60s, though even that is debatable as television was truly awful back then.
Though I have to admit, that sounds like what I was saying at first, so this was really an issue with my initial post more than your interpretation.
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 01, 2009, 09:58:25 PM
Japan is pretty unique. It's the only country I've seen that takes pride in endorsing kitsch on a national level. You're not going to find any public toilet palaces in India or China, certainly.
We need to air-drop adirol on Japan.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. This is a toilet themed restaurant in Taiwan: http://news.wenxuecity.com/messages/200904/news-gb2312-826992.html
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:lmfao: :lmfao:
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 02, 2009, 05:43:50 PM
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:lol:
Fuck you, Jesse Jackson.
OK, I'll concede Taiwan, but as to low-class humor being a new US contrivance, I've got one word: Chaucer. The potty humor hasn't changed, just the lingo used to convey it.
The US looks nutty to many people.
Also, you may have seen the japanese gameshow 'Majide': in it, 10 dumb Americans are brought to Tokyo to compete in a zany gameshow, for great amusement of the Japanese audience, who laugh a lot at the silly trials the americans have to submit themselves to.
If you haven't done so yet, you may watch the show on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWVXsI44Yj4&feature=PlayList&p=E84061AE94C14900&index=0&playnext=1
Quote from: Martim Silva on April 03, 2009, 01:18:47 PM
The US looks nutty to many people.
Also, you may have seen the japanese gameshow 'Majide': in it, 10 dumb Americans are brought to Tokyo to compete in a zany gameshow, for great amusement of the Japanese audience, who laugh a lot at the silly trials the americans have to submit themselves to.
Huh? Almost every country in the world has stupid people who will do anything to get on TV. How is that nutty to other people?
Quote from: Martim Silva on April 03, 2009, 01:18:47 PM
The US looks nutty to many people.
Also, you may have seen the japanese gameshow 'Majide': in it, 10 dumb Americans are brought to Tokyo to compete in a zany gameshow, for great amusement of the Japanese audience, who laugh a lot at the silly trials the americans have to submit themselves to.
If you haven't done so yet, you may watch the show on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWVXsI44Yj4&feature=PlayList&p=E84061AE94C14900&index=0&playnext=1
Heh, the fact that the Japanese have a show like this says more about the Japanese than it does about the silly Americans they laugh at. :lol:
Quote from: Malthus on April 03, 2009, 02:15:28 PM
Heh, the fact that the Japanese have a show like this says more about the Japanese than it does about the silly Americans they laugh at. :lol:
And given the number of Japanese gameshows based on having Japanese contestants do all sorts of silly things for the audience to laugh at, the example isn't really that telling. The Japanese love gameshows where people compete in retarded, funny ways. One of the hundreds they have has American contestants. Woohoo.
Quote from: Malthus on April 03, 2009, 02:15:28 PM
Quote from: Martim Silva on April 03, 2009, 01:18:47 PM
The US looks nutty to many people.
Also, you may have seen the japanese gameshow 'Majide': in it, 10 dumb Americans are brought to Tokyo to compete in a zany gameshow, for great amusement of the Japanese audience, who laugh a lot at the silly trials the americans have to submit themselves to.
If you haven't done so yet, you may watch the show on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWVXsI44Yj4&feature=PlayList&p=E84061AE94C14900&index=0&playnext=1
Well what about the fact that they took the Japanese show Majide, and turned it into a reality tv-show about a Japanese tv-show called "I Survived a Japanese Gameshow" last year.
Heh, the fact that the Japanese have a show like this says more about the Japanese than it does about the silly Americans they laugh at. :lol:
Quote from: Barrister on April 03, 2009, 02:29:55 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 03, 2009, 02:15:28 PM
Quote from: Martim Silva on April 03, 2009, 01:18:47 PM
The US looks nutty to many people.
Also, you may have seen the japanese gameshow 'Majide': in it, 10 dumb Americans are brought to Tokyo to compete in a zany gameshow, for great amusement of the Japanese audience, who laugh a lot at the silly trials the americans have to submit themselves to.
If you haven't done so yet, you may watch the show on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWVXsI44Yj4&feature=PlayList&p=E84061AE94C14900&index=0&playnext=1
Well what about the fact that they took the Japanese show Majide, and turned it into a reality tv-show about a Japanese tv-show called "I Survived a Japanese Gameshow" last year.
Heh, the fact that the Japanese have a show like this says more about the Japanese than it does about the silly Americans they laugh at. :lol:
That's probably the most profound thing you've ever posted on languish.
Quote from: Jacob on April 03, 2009, 02:46:24 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 03, 2009, 02:29:55 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 03, 2009, 02:15:28 PM
Quote from: Martim Silva on April 03, 2009, 01:18:47 PM
The US looks nutty to many people.
Also, you may have seen the japanese gameshow 'Majide': in it, 10 dumb Americans are brought to Tokyo to compete in a zany gameshow, for great amusement of the Japanese audience, who laugh a lot at the silly trials the americans have to submit themselves to.
If you haven't done so yet, you may watch the show on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWVXsI44Yj4&feature=PlayList&p=E84061AE94C14900&index=0&playnext=1
Well what about the fact that they took the Japanese show Majide, and turned it into a reality tv-show about a Japanese tv-show called "I Survived a Japanese Gameshow" last year.
Heh, the fact that the Japanese have a show like this says more about the Japanese than it does about the silly Americans they laugh at. :lol:
That's probably the most profound thing you've ever posted on languish.
:english:
What I meant to say was: what does it say about whom that the Americans then imported the Majide show and turned it into a reality tv show about Americans participating in a Japanese gameshow called "I Survived a Japanese Gameshow".
It was very meta. :mellow:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Survived_a_Japanese_Game_Show
:o According to that link there is no such thing as a Japanese show called Majide! It was made up by the Americans to resemble a japanese gameshow. :o
I feel lied to. :(
:lol:
Quote from: Legbiter on April 02, 2009, 12:38:48 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on April 01, 2009, 10:41:50 PM
Quote from: vinraith on April 01, 2009, 10:18:03 PM
It turns out that the genetic damage caused by proximity to atomic detonations has some... unfortunate long term side effects.
We... did this? :weep:
:lol:
Reminds me of this classic Onion story.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/japan_pledges_to_halt_production (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/japan_pledges_to_halt_production)
Quote"We honestly had no idea people did not enjoy this stuff," said Cultural Affairs Minister Kazuhiro Nakai, expressing regret for the thousands of hours of bondage porn, rape porn, utensil-rape porn, food-rape porn, frozen-food-rape porn, vomit-enema porn, elder-care-coma-patient-rape porn, and the kind of a porn in which a nubile youth is kidnapped, stripped, tied down in a wading pool and raped. "We are deeply ashamed for whatever it is about these films that has made people around the world vomit so vigorously. Please know that the content was only intended to entertain and arouse."
:o :x :bleeding: Some of that stuff is just disturbing to read about.
Not really.
Quote from: garbon on April 03, 2009, 03:19:18 PM
Not really.
No? :bleeding:
QuoteThe proposed new measures include a 50 percent reduction in live-eel anal insertions, and a requirement that portrayals of group sex involving seven or more individuals feature at least four human participants. Also under consideration is a zero-tolerance policy covering all "prurient uses" of colostomy bags.
Nope. Welcome to the 21st century. You've got to try harder than that.
Tim: Sensitive 14 year old girl.
Tim is stuck on 11.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 03, 2009, 03:30:08 PM
No? :bleeding:
QuoteThe proposed new measures include a 50 percent reduction in live-eel anal insertions, and a requirement that portrayals of group sex involving seven or more individuals feature at least four human participants. Also under consideration is a zero-tolerance policy covering all "prurient uses" of colostomy bags.
What's the big deal? Thought you liked manga.
Quote from: FunkMonk on April 01, 2009, 10:41:50 PM
Quote from: vinraith on April 01, 2009, 10:18:03 PM
It turns out that the genetic damage caused by proximity to atomic detonations has some... unfortunate long term side effects.
We... did this? :weep:
Not really.
A generation of men that are already dead did this.