I seriously want one of those canoes
That is all.
A Japanese artist has been arrested for disseminating "3D printable design files" of her own genitalia, 3DPrint.com reports. Megumi Igarashi, 42, was cuffed by Tokyo Metropolitan Police for allegedly supplying virtual ladyparts via email to a "30-year-old man in Kagawa Prefecture" and "many others" back in March. Igarashi, …
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Then there's "mushi, mushi"
Eh, you mean "moshi, moshi". Mushi is an insect and mushimushi is an onomatopoeic word for hot and humid.
If you start a phone conversation with "mushimushi" instead of "moshimoshi", my bet is that you're a kappa.
Also, 'manko' really is a pretty crude word. I like 'manjuu' as a euphemism.
Or if you are from Kyushu it's "bobo" for the most vulgar word.
Haha I love manjū, you can really make people blush when you enthuse about how you love to eat it slowly, feel the softness on your lips and savour the sweet flavour. For non-speakers it's also a type of confectionary, a type of bean paste dumpling.
Try teaching in Australia, the first time I talked about a router (with English pronunciation, rather than the wood working tool) the whole class collapsed. In Oz a router is apparently a lady who is keen on routing...
On my first trip to the US I was attending a class on X-Windows and the instructors had decided that there needed to be a word for pressing the buttons on the mouse and had decided that the word "bonk" would be appropriate. I think I fell off my chair at this point, while it took a Canadian colleague almost 5 minutes to get his voice sufficiently back under control to make the comment about needing a lot of selotape... before bombing again.
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I have been to that country, router has the same pronunciation, 'ou' as in who. Route is still a word, route is still not pronounced in the same way as the word meaning a great defeat.
Your pupils were just joking and perhaps a little ignorant.
Why do Americans pronounce 'route' correctly, but switch it in router? Do they all say 'rout' 66 and so on now? 'I get my kicks on rout 66' just sounds silly.
A better example is US 'root for' your team, hilarious to Australians. Saw an example.
I would actually like to know if the video is mistranslating what she's saying.
Anyway, I hope they drop this ridiculous case, because she's found an amusing and harmless way to mock prudery. But sadly, given the Japanese approach to law and order, I doubt it will happen.
Contradictions abound
This is the country that has Vagina Festivals (and Penis Festivals.) Floats with giant vagina/penis models, vagina/penis statuary and vendors selling lollipops that, you guessed it, are a vagina or a penis. Pictures of the festival appear in various newspapers every year, including of course pictures of little kids walking around sucking on vagina/penis lollipops.
In a Japanese town I visit fairly regularly for its hot springs is a temple the name of which is enticingly translated as the "Happy God Temple". The central shrine of the temple is a rock formation portraying Mother Nature's representation of lady parts. http://www.mediafire.com/view/0za2jypjj5zjn/Japan#gl6q3bq9dnet946
The link is NSFW but OK for worship
As expected, home printing will allow all sorts of things. Guns, female parts (of any age and species), soon molecular printing of any inorganic substance-- why bother learning chemistry if your printer spits out your drug of choice?-- real body parts to add your existing body parts (takes a bit of time to vat grow the cells needed for "inkjet" printing is all)... For the ambitious take your BioCAD (tm) and design your own additions, just need to adjust the histocompatibility complex to match and voila! a new appendage, fur, horns, whatever and without the antirejection drugs!
The mind boggles, especially after being doubled in size and connected to the Internet.
but not begrudging the Reg, been enjoying it for some years.
Firstly, agree with OPs who enjoy this work. I find it quite amusing, it also has a nice tie with the nation's creation myth (see Amaterasu Omikami).
Also, OP mentioning phallic cults and festivals, they sometimes carry the giant organs to, for example, indy rock shows where trad. festival style dance-and-music groups appear, and there are also vulva-centred festivals, featuring similarly giant-scale reproductions.
Some will recall the Akihabara knife maniac several years ago. As a consequence, the 'heaven for pedestrians' (road closed to traffic in business hours on Sundays) was suspended for a few years.
What was never reported in press overseas was that his murderous rampage was mainly because he came to hate the many 'idol' events and fan groups. Not that he wasn't one of the fans, but it all just made him feel even more socially excluded and inadequate.
One Akihabara 'idol' who became a minor celebrity called herself Asuka Sawamoto. Her speciality was panty-flashing (quite modest), and she was arrested *three times* for that between spring and summer of the same year. She'd been banned from there (or was locked up, I've forgotten) at the time of the knife attack.
The real reason for the street being reopened to traffic and closed to pedestrians was more Sawamoto than the knife maniac.
She also got immense publicity on two-channel, when trolls here went nuts on discovering that she had been lying about her age (by numerous years, at least eight) and using a false name.
She later parleyed this into a hard-core career. Not interested, so do not know if it is still going. Before that, she had a band, saw them once, lunchtime show, not great, but fun and funny, band was pretty good, also modest, tape-on-nipples at most (though I presume the private photo sessions on offer went further).
Another band I knew of at the time had a keen panty-flasher as a main performer, she was ordered to stop by the band leader after the serial Sawamoto arrests.
At the same time, more than a few male music performers like to take everything off, a few places don't allow it (you can tell, because said performers keep their undies on).
Occasionally, drunken male students or other early-twenties will do things like pulling their pants down, set fire to their pubes while yelling 'Japanese fire', zero police interest.
Could continue, stopping there.