… the Japanese have soared, as they often do, into new and previously unexplored territories. The following photograph … NOT WORK SAFE SPITTAKE WARNING!!! …. was taken in a very public area in an Osaka department store. Below the fold. Put down your coffee:
An explanation … to the extent that this can be explained … is HERE.
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This is why I love the Japanese despite certain misgivings over ‘kawaii culture’ and a few other odious problems.
The cultural limits they have are really strict but when the ‘rules’ are silent, they are the among the most extreme and just off-the-wall wacky people on the planet.
Someone explain to me what purpose obscenity laws serve again?
Are you sayin’ it is not a brothel, then?
God, I love Japan.
Is there an obscenity case pending at the Supreme Court? I thought the Internet made the courts give up on that.
Still, I would like to see the “six dildos” law in Texas go to the Supreme Court.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaUl6x1YXpg
I love this clip. Molly Ivins at her best. It has great shots of Debra Danburg, trying to take them down. She used to be my rep. Awesome, How many reps will talk about anal sex on the Lege floor?
Plus this has the famous Heflin/Chisum “prick to touch an asshole” story.
Seriously, Texas almost got rid of all this bullshit 20 years ago. Texas was progressive. We had the Strange Demise of Jim Crow. We had NASA. We had the best education in the country most districts. We were going international and making our place in the world. Even those shitheads in Dallas were in on the game, and that’s saying a lot.
I used to think it all went wrong in 1994 when W defeated Ann Richards, but now I see that the Chisum/Heflin incident a few years earlier was the turning point.
Y’all might want to know that several years ago, Heflin lost his seat in west Houston to a pretty liberal guy of Vietnamese ancestry. Don’t know what’s become of Juan Chisum.
I forwarded this shot to my sensei – she loved it for the lulz. She figures it unlikely that the majority in the neighbourhood had a clue what the actual meaning of the word was.
Which reminds me that my 10-year-old daughter is currently reading – in school – a book called “Kære Fucking Dagbog” – “Dear Fucking Diary”. I’m just glad she’s reading 🙂
Language Log was there before you, here’s an interesting and scholarly analysis: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3688
“Language Log was there before you,”
Actually, the blog post I refer to in my post was there before the language log, so had this been a race, it would have won! Thanks for the link.
The meaning is obvious: it’s a sale on sex toys and contraceptives. 20% off! Get ’em while they’re hot!
I’m confused…
… what exactly is it that this store sells again? Hookers? Astro-glide? Rubbers? Shoes? …
Is that a fetish shop in a Japanese mall?
This could just as easily have been a Dutch store, although the sign would have marked it as an aggressive discounter (upscale stores us the Dutch ‘uitverkoop’; Dutch stands for books & theatre, English for television & pop music). Different cultures have different taboos.
see this
http://youtu.be/b-pdBYt4dYQ
Azkyroth: they’re a tool of Magic Control. Such laws make it legal to persecute people who utter magic words without getting a permission from the High Priest first.