h/t David Thompson who adds “Oh yes, it’s real.”
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“. . . it’s real.”
Stranger still, so is Donald Kagan, hard as it may be to believe.
“No no no! The expression is pantywaist, not panty-faced!”
Greetings:
Well, as my father used to say, “The only thing wrong with the A-bombings was that we only had two.”
The recession seems to have hit superhero costumes the hardest.
If your alter ego can’t be a pervert, what’s the bloody point in having one?
The “Vegetable-Head” teenagers, now this. Japan is a strange place. A place where the old Mad Magazine skewed view of the world is made real.
I never thought the “panties on the face” fad would get this far.
You forgot all the girls, who are actually grown women, who dress up like dolls. I love Japan, but they’re so weird.
Dressing like dolls is how they trick men into having sex with them.
Japan is a strange place.
I’ve lived in Britain for over 30 years. A charming land, where politicians get up to much wilder hijinks:
The Japanese are pikers.
One hardly needs tricks for that, Ernst. All we need to do is show up naked.
. . . were consistent with auto-erotic sex practices.
This has happened quite a bit. It used to be hushed up more than it is today, of course, when we had to learn all about David Carradine’s unfortunate demise by his own hand, so to speak.
leigh, at least Kwai Chang Caine had the decency to leave the world as he entered it, buck nekkid, and not in full paratroopers webbing.
I think we need to introduce this practice to our own political class.
Attrition might lead to a better one.
If that were true, why are Japanese men busy trying to supplant Japanese women with sexbots?
Which practice, Ernst? Stockings and suzzies, the bin liner head gear, or the Christmas tree ornament demise?
If that were true, why are Japanese men busy trying to supplant Japanese women with sexbots?
Over the long run, I imagine it costs out to be cheaper than paying prostitutes or raising a family.
“For the sake of the world, give me your panties.”
Man, I wish I’d thought of that one 30 years ago.
Since I’m not vicious, if the, shall we say, accoutrements, of this deecadent perversione were enough to embarrass, for example, the citizenry of Nevada into removing Harry Reid from office, that would be sufficient.
But it’s not like I would lament it, should he accidentally remove himself.
The same goes for most of his colleauges.
Except my Congresscritters of course.
They bring home the bacon, don’ch’ya know
As another blogger puts it: “Japan: Nuked too much, or not enough?”
>OT Rant
I’m really ticked off at the moment. The city has finally made it to my street to clean up the mess after the ice storm two weeks agao, and the three hanging broken branches, two stories up in the three story (it used to three and a half) are going to be my problem to take care of.
Because my fucking neighbor isn’t home to move her piece of shit fucking car!
>/OT Rant
Not sure I want to see something that involves the term “hentai”.
Careful, Darleen. You’ll attract another spaced titty arist.
My fears were confirmed. Never underestimate the Japanese capacity Teh Creepy.
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I’m sure this is perfectly correct:
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d’oh!
Forgot about the lack of utf-8 encoding hereabouts.
For about six years, when my girls were young, I hosted Japanese students who came to the U.S. for 8 weeks in the summer. It was a wonderful experience.
Next year hubby and I are going to Japan. I’m currently torn over getting Rosetta Stone and immersing myself for about a year or not.
(my dad was in Japan 46-48 — occupation army — and came back to the states fluent in Japanese)
I find the culture fascinating, even the creepy bits.
@Russ: “Man, I wish I’d thought of that one 30 years ago.”
My thoughts exactly.
Speaking of Japanese creepy: I just saw the tail-end of a documentary about Asimo, the humanoid robot built by Honda.
It’s an impressive bit of engineering, but it turned out to be useless to help with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant because it couldn’t negotiate uneven surfaces or even surfaces with gaps.
It seems to me that trying to imitate bipedal movement in that arena is a waste of time. If you’re going to build a bot that can take on rough terrain, imitate a six-legged bug that will find a different place to put its foot when the ground seems shaky. To do otherwise reminds me of what Maddox said about obsoleting the Segway: why over-engineer when you don’t have to?
(Yes, I know the answer to that: engineers are often more interested in doing things the hard way, because of the challenge, instead of finding an easy, low-tech method, which is also boring.)
I really don’t like humanoid robotics. I don’t want a machine that I can “relate to.” I want something that I can use like a tool.
Because that’s what it is.
Misanthropic though I am, I don’t think it’s a good idea to replace human companionship with machines or to further blur the line. It’s bad enough that so much of my social interaction is with you yutzes over this interface: I’m pretty sure society doesn’t need more of that.
This superhero idea is very facepalmy.
Keerect. And a tool does not need to be as intelligent as its user. If the user isn’t intelligent enough to use it, he should either learn, or hire an operator.
dicentra, real engineering is about finding easier or more efficient ways of doing things. I thin what you are describing is more about marketing than engineering. I’ve known many engineers that did things they found silly because they were getting paid to do them.
We relate in an emotional way to inanimate objects all the time; objects in the plastic arts being just the most obvious examples.
Disclaimer: This comment is not to be construed as an endorsement of human-robot sex.
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