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Shucking corn in Japan

One-year-old Shunpei struggles to shuck some corn:

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16 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - September 28, 2009 at 6:10 am

Mr. USA

How cruel – laughing at that baby’s pain.

I swear this entire part of the world should have their children taken away from them until they learn to treat them properly.

anon

but its funny though.
http://aki-akiaki.blogspot.com/ Aki

Visit your local family and see how well babies are treated there. Laughing at babies happens all over the world.

I like turtles.

http://aki-akiaki.blogspot.com/ Aki

Nobody owes me an apology. Even if you were the mayor of Wrongsville in the county of Wrongshire and the frontrunner in the Mr. Wrong in America of the Year Award, you would not owe me an apology, because… er… I owe you apology. Please forgive me for changing your serious debate on the other thread into something other than the original one. I couldn’t help but write something when I read the Mr. USA’s comment here.

I like turtles.
Mr. USA

Turtles are awesome.

ponta

It might be better to refer to the comments on “Animal cruelty on Japanese TV” to understand the comments above.

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=12896
Ajapa

I am rather disgusted by their cruel treatment of corn! It seems pretty obvious that empathy for plants is not a really part of East Asian culture. But don’t worry, as Miyuki Hatoyama can hear voice of plants, she might have heard a screaming of this poor corn torn up. Hence those kids and mom will be abducted by aliens and then will be sent into a jail on the Venus.

Anyway I like turtles too.

The Overthinker

The corn doesn’t mind. His laid-back attitude is more like “Aw, shucks.”…

corny_canadian

the mom is, right at the end.
(the poor kid will have a corn complex)

sublight

Well, since the mom is right there with her kid, and has been with him since he was born, she’s probably in a better position to know whether he’s hurt or not.

The kid topples over, she immediately goes to him and picks him up, and as she’s comforting him she laughs to the other kid. I’m not feeling the outrage.

Vonskippy

I want to see the bear cub and the one year old in a scare off (maybe Pan-kun could referee).

helical

That would actually be interesting.
I wonder if the bear is (was) terrified of non-humans in general, or it was just afraid of unfamiliar entities, humans included.

helical

Off topic but I’m just glad the kids have normal names in this day and age.