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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Dec 12, 2012 23:24:20 GMT -5
"I dropped my phone in urinal today... But it was safe." - Naoko (Tweet) 12 hours later :
"I could put the protection sheet on my mobile phone perfectly this time." - Naoko (Tweet)  Naoko uses a URINAL??? |
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Post by thegl0r on Dec 12, 2012 23:42:51 GMT -5
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Post by hitokuipapaya on Dec 17, 2012 20:39:42 GMT -5
"This book is about toilets all over the world.
(Flips through it)
... Nepal toilet, Taiwan toilet...
So many things I have to study about."
-Michie Nakatani, 1997
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Dec 18, 2012 0:38:16 GMT -5
I remember reading that quote by Michie.... Japanese really do take their toilets seriously!!! Attachments:
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Post by jaicee on Dec 19, 2012 9:24:20 GMT -5
"I dropped my phone in urinal today... But it was safe." - Naoko (Tweet) 12 hours later :
"I could put the protection sheet on my mobile phone perfectly this time." - Naoko (Tweet) Naoko uses a URINAL??? I'm laughing but I'm also shocked and confused. What's going on???   Maybe all public toilets are called urinals over there? Does anyone know? |
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Post by thegl0r on Dec 19, 2012 21:45:02 GMT -5
Maybe all public toilets are called urinals over there? Does anyone know? Possibly much too much information, but... The Japanese have a variety of words that can be used for toilet - here are some of them (thanks to Wiki and a back-check with some translation software)  The word toire (トイレ) is an abbreviated form of the English language word "toilet"
A common euphemism is otearai (お手洗い), lit. hand-washing. Strictly speaking, otearai refers to the sink
The plain word for toilet is benjo (便所), place of convenience or place of excrement
The toilet itself—that is, the bowl or in-floor receptacle, the water tank, et cetera—is called benki (便器) Lifted from near the end of an article about toilets in Japan... An Innovation That Went Nowhere
One of the dead ends on the road to high-tech toiletry can be found in the bowels of Japan's National Stadium, the showcase of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Directly under the field along a low, dusty hallway lined with electric wires sits one of Japan's few remaining female urinals, several hundred of which were made by Toto between 1951 and 1968.
The female urinal, which rises out of the floor like a modified cone, is a Japanese invention meant to save time. It never caught on.
"Women just didn't like to use them," says Miyuki Matsumoto, a Toto planning official.
But seemingly this particular item of sanitary ware was really a development of an American invention. So who knows what Naoko really meant in her comment. Was she in Japans National Stadium when she dropped her phone in the urinal or did it fall in a squat toilet, was she using a polite term, or is this just a case of inexactitude of terminology/translation? Or was she playing that urinal computer game mentioned previously? And then just in-case you're unfamiliar with the squat toilet, a few words from a rather interesting Wiki article about toilets in Japan - the section about the traditional Japanese-style (和式, washiki) toilet which is a squat toilet... A squat toilet essentially looks like a miniature urinal set horizontally into the floor. Most squat toilets in Japan are made of porcelain, although in some cases (as on trains) stainless steel is used instead. The user squats over the toilet, facing the hemispherical hood, i.e., the wall in the back of the toilet in the picture. A shallow trough collects the waste, instead of a large water-filled bowl as in a Western toilet. All other fixtures, such as the water tank, piping, and flushing mechanism, may be identical to those of a Western toilet.
ps I recently watched a 1 hour TV documentary about toilets from around the world and there was a large section about the hi-tech western style toilets that are now very popular in Japan. Heated seats and the washing and drying of your nether regions plus a sound-system to cover up the noises resulting from the call of nature - it seems that the Japanese tend to get particularly embarrassed at being overheard. So maybe in a washiki toilet without sound effects, perhaps a mobile phone's loudspeaker is a handy substitute! ;D WDYT? Attachments:
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Post by Egg_Crisis on Dec 20, 2012 9:47:55 GMT -5
What happened to this page? All the last few posts are squashed up to one side. Is nobody seeing it or just me?
I bet mine will be too, just you watch!
Ah it's mikado's post that's doing it. Mikado if you edit your post and put the 2nd open quote tag onto a new line that might fix it.
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Post by Egg_Crisis on Dec 20, 2012 10:36:42 GMT -5
Is nobody else seeing the screen like this (see screenshot). Attachments:
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Post by thegl0r on Dec 20, 2012 14:02:29 GMT -5
Is nobody else seeing the screen like this (see screenshot). So it's not just happening on my screen then. I had been wondering... But at least now the avatars get top billing here. Oh, I haven't got a proper one yet |
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Post by Cannibal Papaya on Dec 21, 2012 4:39:12 GMT -5
In an interview with the British magazine Melodymaker in November 1992 Shonen Knife went tete-a-tete with a couple of Nine Inch Nails-loving boy interviewers who suggested that they were just the "latest pocket-sized Japanese accessory, a funny, throwaway novelty." The bass player for Shonen Knife, Nakatani Michie sliced back at the cocky boys saying, "If people think that, that's their problem. We have been doing Shonen Knife for 10 years. We have put in a lot of our energy. For us, Shonen Knife is no novelty." "This book is about toilets all over the world. (Flips through it) ... Nepal toilet, Taiwan toilet... So many things I have to study about." -Michie Nakatani, 1997 Where did that text?/interview?/video? come from? xD |
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Dec 21, 2012 18:34:50 GMT -5
What happened to this page? All the last few posts are squashed up to one side. Is nobody seeing it or just me? I bet mine will be too, just you watch! Ah it's mikado's post that's doing it. Mikado if you edit your post and put the 2nd open quote tag onto a new line that might fix it. I have no idea what you mean, never mind fixing it... all I know is, I posted that during the time that Proboards was working on the webpage; and it came out all screwy!.... I'll try deleting that post and see if that works |
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Dec 21, 2012 18:37:54 GMT -5
What happened to this page? All the last few posts are squashed up to one side. Is nobody seeing it or just me? I bet mine will be too, just you watch! Ah it's mikado's post that's doing it. Mikado if you edit your post and put the 2nd open quote tag onto a new line that might fix it. I have no idea what you mean, never mind fixing it... all I know is, I posted that during the time that Proboards was working on the webpage; and it came out all screwy!.... I'll try deleting that post and see if that works Yup, that worked |
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Post by hitokuipapaya on Dec 21, 2012 21:55:50 GMT -5
Where did that text?/interview?/video? come from? xD It's from a scene in "Blast Off!" where the girls are in some sort of book/Cd store showing off some of their own cds that are in stock and Michie pulls the cameraman aside to show him this book she found. |
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Dec 22, 2012 7:10:31 GMT -5
In an interview with the British magazine Melodymaker in November 1992 Shonen Knife went tete-a-tete with a couple of Nine Inch Nails-loving boy interviewers who suggested that they were just the "latest pocket-sized Japanese accessory, a funny, throwaway novelty." The bass player for Shonen Knife, Nakatani Michie sliced back at the cocky boys saying, "If people think that, that's their problem. We have been doing Shonen Knife for 10 years. We have put in a lot of our energy. For us, Shonen Knife is no novelty I never realised that Michie was so feisty! |
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Jan 20, 2013 2:35:18 GMT -5
You Tube reactions to Osaka Ramones:
Evan Adamson 3 months ago
OH MY GOD! SO GOOD!
x1xex 1 month ago
If your hanging out with a girl and she puts on Shonen Knife she really likes you. I know how that sounds but it's true in my experience.
Nancy Spungen 1 day ago
This is brilliant! Possibly one of my favorite covers ever. I think I prefer it to the original, it just sounds more complex and so pretty too.
sk69aja 4 months ago
They are most unique band in punk. I love Shonen Knife
ryex76 10 months ago
by the way. that 'pop punk' description and all is from Wikipedia. Why not call 'em 'pop punk' anyway? you got a problem with the words POP PUNK?
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