A “horrible shark riding stereotype”
Craig, who blogs at anothershittyblogbysomedouche.wordpress.com , has written a blog post about the shock he felt encountering a “horrible shark riding stereotype” on sale at a glass shop:
In the end, I bought one. I’d like to say I did it to rid the shelves of xenophobic ignorance…but I also just wanted to be one of the few people on earth to own the dude from the Bamboozled poster riding on a shark…
Is this product an example of xenophobic ignorance?
[via JapanSoc]
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Categories: Odd / Strange
Koala screams in Japanese
A TV program concludes that the screaming sounds a female koala makes when trying to avoid the unwanted advances of a male koala sound exactly like, “Nooo!! Don’t come near me!” in Japanese:
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Categories: Animal Videos
Categories: Japanese TV
The Clam Harvesting Challenge
A Japanese TV show challenges celebrities in a clam harvesting competition with so much hip movement that it almost resembles air sex:
The winner of the competition was homosexual icon KABA-chan, who harvested an impressive 8.4 kilograms of cams.
Categories: Japanese TV
YouTube Cats Releasing Digital Single
News from TokyoGraph:
Japan’s “neko boom” has reached new levels, as the country will soon see the 5-cat group MUSASHI’S release its first digital single. The cats have been signed with major talent agency Stardust Promotion to “sing” a cover of “Hotaru no Hikari,” a folk song set to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne” that is commonly sung at graduation ceremonies.
MUSASHI’S – made up of five Norwegian Forest Cats named Musashi, Leo, Luka, Seri, and Marble – gained worldwide internet fame at the end of last year when their owner released a YouTube video of the cats’ rendition of “Jingle Bells.”
As the cats have little use for money, their contract with Stardust is said to include about 7,000 yen worth of tuna.
Categories: Animal Videos, Odd / Strange
Top 10 Giant Movie Monsters
The Angry Video Game Nerd recently posted this video countdown of the Top 10 Giant Movie Monsters. As one would expect, a few Japanese monsters made the list:
Categories: General Japan