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Awesome or Off-Putting: The Kappa of Japan

by Shawn Lindseth

Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, ancient artifacts, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable. Japan is a country known mostly for deciding tax rates based purely on the Dance Dance Revolution scores of randomly selected lower [...]

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For No Reason, Here’s A Cruel Clip From A Japanese Prank Show

by Matthew Laidlow

Foreign people: how dare they create their own language, identify and culture. Don’t they realise they’ve massively inconvenienced a group of pissed-up English tourists who want to order a local Spanish delicacies such as the ‘Spanish bacon sandwich’, ‘Spanish pint of Carling’ and ‘Spanish omelette with Spanish ketchup’? As a result, we’re all forced TO [...]

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Top Ten Confusing Japanese Videos

by Stuart Heritage

Japan is an elegant, mysterious country with a long and complex history – look at what it’s famous for.

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Badvertising – Calbee Crisps

by Matthew Laidlow

Taking the bold step and causing your target market to actually use their brains could be a bit of a problem. Especially if you’ve got a product too sell during the adverts in the Jeremy Kyle show.

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Janet Jackson’s Japanese Fans Too Poor To See Her Wardrobe Malfunctioning Tour

by Matthew Laidlow

Despite our best attempts to distance ourselves from the real world in the hope that one day Jessica Rabbit will leap out of our TV and have rampant sex with us, we have to be realistic.

This is because no-one has developed a TV that can do such a thing, and also because there is some sort of financial crisis going on.

Yup, everything costs more and everyone is feeling the pain. Even the simple pleasures of life are being taken away. No more so then in Japan where Janet Jackson, the tit-bearing member of the Jackson circus, has had to cancel a few shows.

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Badvertising – Japanese Fanta

by Matthew Laidlow

Really, this advert makes no sense at all. Does it mean that if you purchase a bottle of Fanta, you have the ability to destroy islands with the power of sugary orange-flavoured water? We guess so. Leaders of dictatorial states like Zimbabwe and America take note, a weapon of mass destruction is right under your [...]

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BBC To Import Gash Japanese TV Show

by Matthew Laidlow

Ahh, the BBC. Known across the world for single handily setting the standard for television and radio output.

Throughout the corporation’s long and established history, a selection of programming has been available to cater for every taste. For the petty criminal, the opportunity to see your handy work appear on Crimewatch was an accolade to suggest you were up there with the Kray twins in terms of hardness. And for the freeloader, the chance to have Changing Rooms decorate your house for nowt could save a few quid on decorating bills.

In the last few years, however, some diabolical cynics have said the BBC has been dumbing down. How dare they. However, if reports are to be believed, programming chiefs at the BBC may want their heads smashed together. You see, they may be commissioning a UK version of a Japanese TV show we looked at last year – Hole In The Wall, otherwise known as Human Tetris.

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Velvet Revolver Banned From Japan

by Stuart Heritage

Japan seems to be cracking down hard on all things American. First it wanted to arrest the cheerleader from Heroes, and now it’s banned the thing that America holds most dear – rubbishy old-man hard rock groups.

Or, to be more specific, one rubbishy old-man hard rock group – Velvet Revolver. According to a posting on the Velvet Revolver website, the band have had to cancel their imminent tour of Japan because immigration officials wouldn’t let them have visas. Apparently the ruling may have to do with the drug-heavy background of some of Velvet Revolver, although chances are that the band’s ban might be in some way be involved with the Japanese government’s new legislation outlawing whiny skinny idiots who dress up as scruffy Nazis for a living. And awful 1980s widdly-woo rock music. And top hats. So, in that respect, it’s been a perfect storm for Velvet Revolver.

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Hayden Panettiere: Illegal In Japan

by Stuart Heritage

Hayden Panettiere is best-known for being the cheerleader from Heroes who can mangle up her body and then spontaneously regenerate – either that or being the one from Heroes that makes you feel the most like a dirty old man.

However, if you’re from Japan then Hayden Panettiere is a high-profile fugitive who hates Japanese culture to such an extent that she’s in a huge amount of trouble for it. Admittedly that’s because the part of Japanese culture that Hayden Panettiere hates the most is the way they slaughter dolphins – and her surfboard-based pre-dawn attempts to disrupt a dolphin cull last month has resulted in a Japanese arrest warrant being placed on Hayden Panettiere’s head. Forget ‘save the cheerleader, save the world’; this is a case of ‘arrest the cheerleader, curtail a potentially knotty international diplomatic incident’.

Also, it’s thought that – following Hayden Panettiere’s Japanese arrest warrant – the schizophrenic porno girl from Heroes who used to be in Dawson’s Creek has decided to keep her controversial anti-Hello Kitty sentiments to herself for now.

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