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Post by tangerinesun on Jun 10, 2017 2:17:32 GMT -5
I guess it shows class that they aren't using the idols as serving trays. You know somebody thought that through. There were meetings. Although who's to say what a special event looks like.
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Post by lazybone712 on Jun 12, 2017 17:52:51 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Jun 12, 2017 23:34:58 GMT -5
Aw, geez. All they were doing was introducing their new plush anglerfish mascot. The big mystery is only what's up with his Second Form? Sportswriters : LOL IDK WTF Sportsreaders : WTF IDK LOL Everything from Dracula to Pikachu comes in multiple forms. This guy was playing with baseball cards when he should have been watching Dragon Ball Z. This isn't even my final form2014 AUG 21 by Peter On (02:31)
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Jun 14, 2017 0:08:03 GMT -5
I've always said that all mascots need to be blown to bits, this is an excellent example, of why! Ps, the "other form" is what's left over, after you've eaten the thing!
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 6, 2017 13:58:19 GMT -5
Holy ground for girls the world overLargest collection of Hello Kitty memorabilia - Japan Tour2017 APR 13 by Guinness World Records (02:57) Guinness World Records recently visited the home of Masao Gunji, who has the world’s Largest collection of Hello Kitty memorabilia. Full story: www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2017/4/video-check-out-the-japanese-collector... Located in Yotsukaido, Chiba, Japan, those who enter Masao’s vibrantly pink home can see a variety of 5,169 Hello Kitty items lining the walls, tables and floors of the residence… N.B., not his home. It's a private museum, he doesn't live there. Retired Japanese Police Officer Sets New Hello Kitty Record2017 JUL 04 by NBC News www.nbcnews.com/news/world/retired-japanese-police-officer-sets-new-hello-kitty-record-n779476 Born into pop culture in 1974, Hello Kitty is a top export for Japanese company Sanrio. The company recently created a stir around the white whiskered toy when they stated in 2014 that she is not actually a cat like many believed, but instead, a “happy little girl”, leaving many internet users to comment in disbelief.Originally reported by The Daily Mail with material from Agence France Presse (FR) 〜〜〜〜〜 "As", not "like". The "not a cat" thing was a stupid ridiculous cross-cultural miscommunication meme-ified by a headline-mining cultural anthropologist with the University of Hawaii, whom you'd think would be more careful. Don't Be Silly, Hello Kitty Is a Cat2014 AUG 28 by Brian Ashcraft for Kotaku.com kotaku.com/dont-be-silly-hello-kitty-is-a-cat-1627820750"That's one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show [ at the Japanese American National Museum in LA ].
Hello Kitty is not a cat. She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She's never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it's called Charmmy Kitty." — Christine R. Yano, as quoted by Kotaku "Hello Kitty was made according to a cat motif. It's going too far to say that Hello Kitty is not a cat. Hello Kitty is the anthropomorphization of a cat." — Anonymous spokesperson for Sanrio Co. Ltd., Tokyo
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Jul 10, 2017 21:19:45 GMT -5
Until Postimage takes it down... It's as if you realize posting lolicon images that suggest sexual abuse is inappropriate, somehow... which is why I said "in school" ... I was a bit nervous about posting it, but, I remembered someone posted a bunch of loli covered cars, in another thread... anyway, since it bothers you, I'll take it down.
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 11, 2017 0:26:30 GMT -5
It's as if you realize posting lolicon images that suggest sexual abuse is inappropriate, somehow... which is why I said "in school" ... I was a bit nervous about posting it, but, I remembered someone posted a bunch of loli covered cars, in another thread... anyway, since it bothers you, I'll take it down. I think ditching this is an excellent call, good going. I thank you. I don't need anybody to make it right for me, but the whole atmosphere around here is at stake. This place represents Shonen Knife fandom throughout the galaxy, for better or worse. In school doesn't make it cool. Schoolkids are half-grown monkeys. Your nerves are your better angel up in the locked attic going NOOOOOOOOOO!!!I remembered someone posted a bunch of loli covered cars...Nix, nyet, nuh-uh. Not if you mean this: shonenknife.proboards.com/post/17166Tsubasa Hanekawa is a supporting character from the Monogatari light novel series. The car vinyls depict her normal and Black Hanekawa phases, with her friend Karen Araragi in her Kill Bill yellow tracksuit. More or less the way Studio Shaft did them for the anime adaptation Bakemonogatari. They are absurd anime JK babes. This is Japan. But no one takes advantage of these characters. Instead, you look up to them. One's a senior class leader and the other is a martial arts expert and self-anointed Hero of Justice. The hallmark of loli is extremely underage girls who are childlike, eager to please, and defined as pure and innocent while simultaneously tarted up like rocket-fueled jailbait. Born to be used and abused. Oh what great pencil sharpeners they make.
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Post by lazybone712 on Jul 11, 2017 7:54:17 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 11, 2017 13:57:07 GMT -5
That's a pretty nice little article-slash-promotion piece. Linking to specific web services... for information only. TGU itself is an example of what the writer is talking about. They don't have a lot of staff on the payroll. Instead, they accept submissions like this from motivated amateurs who are like story editors, photo editors, writers, photographers and proofreaders all in one low-cost, pay-by-the-piece package. They know what interests foreigners about Japan, and their English is good. Renting physical entertainment media is not news, and it's going to go flat one day. It's a mystery to me why Japan still wants movies and music on discs, but maybe it's partly because development of broadband internet was stunted by incredible cellular phone nets. Also, they love nifty little artifacts like elsewhere some of us love colored vinyl records. The other things, clothes and surrogate people, I explain by the relentless pressure to maintain a public image coming smack up against the problem of nobody's got money and traditional lifeways are getting really distorted. I can't afford to update my wardrobe every season and deal with all the good but outdated contents of my closet. The closet is only the size of a broom cupboard anyway, it hardly holds what I need to wear. Single people's bedrooms look like a stockroom at Goodwill, with stuff on hangers dangling from the curtain rod, the doorknob, the lamp, the balcony. But I can budget each month for clothing as a service, and let them worry about collecting and warehousing the inventory. When I feel called on to up my game with luxurious accessories, I only pay for the days I need to look awesome. Likewise, I may not have a person handy to play a given role in my social life, but I can avoid some stigma by hiring a stand-in. Everybody feels better when things look right. They know my companion is rented, but I get points for my discretion anyway. Plus, the rented person is cuter and more enjoyable than a real one would have been. The article wisely steers clear of practices with much longer histories, like renting a bar companion by the drink, or a cute high school student for the price of dinner plus negotiable fees for added services.
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Jul 27, 2017 11:06:11 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 27, 2017 13:08:51 GMT -5
This is such a good joke that a year ago for 15 minutes Yuki was a little bit famous in Japan and Taiwan, as in, got retweeted and on television. irorio.jp/sophokles/20161210/374266/She discovered on a school trip to the National Palace Museum that an antique portrait of the wife of Kublai Khan, the first Emperor of Mongolia, might as well be hers.
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Jul 27, 2017 23:59:02 GMT -5
This is such a good joke that a year ago for 15 minutes Yuki was a little bit famous in Japan and Taiwan, as in, got retweeted and on television. irorio.jp/sophokles/20161210/374266/She discovered on a school trip to the National Palace Museum that an antique portrait of the wife of Kublai Khan, the first Emperor of Mongolia, might as well be hers. They say that the ancient Mongolian Emperor's DNA is in a majority of the people we call Asian today, so, who knows? If I believed in reincarnation, I would put up her pic, as proof
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 28, 2017 0:25:46 GMT -5
This is such a good joke that a year ago for 15 minutes Yuki was a little bit famous in Japan and Taiwan, as in, got retweeted and on television. irorio.jp/sophokles/20161210/374266/She discovered on a school trip to the National Palace Museum that an antique portrait of the wife of Kublai Khan, the first Emperor of Mongolia, might as well be hers. They say that the ancient Mongolian Emperor's DNA is in a majority of the people we call Asian today, so, who knows? If I believed in reincarnation, I would put up her pic, as proof Seriously? Is that like, Queen Elizabeth and I have a common ancestor? 'Cause we do. You and me too. You can get reincarnated as a bug if you don't watch your step, so it's nothing to do with looks. Once in awhile they try to calculate the real degree of human diversity, and they come out with things like 99.9% of everybody's DNA base pairs are exactly the same, and some high proportion of the 0.1%, like over 8/10, is variations between individuals, not variations between continents. So I'm loaded with Kublai Khan genes, too. Got to go, we're breaking ground for the pleasure dome in the morning.
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Post by lazybone712 on Jul 28, 2017 16:39:53 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 28, 2017 19:22:43 GMT -5
Mystery. Everything about that office and the people in it screams I AM FROM 10 YEARS AGO but the photo suddenly appeared without explanation on 04 April and then it was like Malthusian rabbits. Always from users of English or European languages. In JP and KR, there's just one or two examples. It's the white guys saying "only in Japan" that are nuts about this.
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