Japanese Bagelheads

[BO-SENSEI]

haha, Bier Hall is nowhere close to what is advertised as, every single time I have been there its dead empty, I go to scrums sometimes, but there is a great gaijin place in Gifu called the Tree House, its owned and operated by Austrailian English Teachers and its a nice-hole-in-the-wall kinda bar.

[Doctor Stop]

Hey, don't knock it. Implants grow on you.

[IkemenTommy]

But these are Japanese club kids, otherwise known as bagelheads,

More like fuckin buttheads.

This extreme body modification isn’t new, but it’s growing in popularity

What? No. Wait. What? I have yet to see one. This has got to be another "newbie rediscovers Japan" moment. I guess it's so booming that you see butthead bars popping up everywhere in Japan.. except where I am in Tokyo..

Originally Posted by AssKissinger

They absolutely decimate a woman's beauty.

Originally Posted by Samurai_Jerk

About the only thing less attractive than a tatoo on a woman is a penis.

Amen to that. I'm glad there are people on FG were still sane to share this opinion.

[Ketou]

Well so far the combined wisdom here has taught us that people who like tattoos on women are, low class nutjobs who date amputee transvestites.

[Greji]

Originally Posted by Ketou

amputee transvestites.

Hmmm, you got any phone numbers?

[Taro Toporific]

Originally Posted by Mulboyne

...Japanese Bagelheads...

It seems these Western journalists like the faux Japanese term "Bagelheads" and consider it the official name of this 4-person subculture in Japan.

Bagelheads the latest fad for Japanese teens: Mom hopes it stays in Japan
New Jersey On-Line -- by Fiona Charles
Thursday July 02, 2009, 8:50 PM
Japanese teens are shooting silicone in their head to morph their faces. They call themselves bagelheads.
Have you seen the latest fad for teens in Japan? They are called bagelheads. Teens in Japan are injecting themselves with saline, which causes bumps in their heads.
The lumps and bumps created by the saline can be shaped and molded. The teens are calling themselves bagelheads. The disfigurement only last 24 hours. I have a hard time looking at these teens, and I just hope it stays in Japan and doesn't make it's way over to the states.

New ‘Bagel Head’ Fad Is Crazy!
RantRave - July 2
OK, Japan, we get it. You’re the king of weird.
A new “beauty” fad in Tokyo clubs has teens injecting themselves with bags of saline, disfiguring their heads! They call themselves “Bagel Heads” or “bagelheads.” ....

[American Oyaji]

I think people are cherry picking our thread titles. I'm sure they don't call themselves bagelheads.

[Taro Toporific]

Originally Posted by American Oyaji

I think people are cherry picking our thread titles. I'm sure they don't call themselves bagelheads.

Yep. A quick Google search for the joke name "bagelheads" or "bagelhead" written in Japanese katakana results in zero hits:


"Bagelheads" is a great joke name for this 4-person "Japanese" trend, but both the Western mainstream press and the blogsphere is picking it up and now reporting this semi-fake report as a significant Japanese trend, sheesh.

[GomiGirl]

If the journos are coming in and stealing the headlines from here, it sounds like a challenge of extreme chinese whispers and we could have a heap of fun with it.

Did anybody write to the journos and tell them that it was a term coined by our Mulby and not what the "kids" are calling themselves?

They must have fun using all the weird and wacky stuff (/extreme sarcasm) from Japan. But I wish they would do a bit more research than just FG.

[Iraira]

"Bagelheads" sounds like a 1980s power punk band from NY fronted by a Hassidic Jew. First 7" single: "Get your goyim hands off my gefilte fish" b/w "She's meshuga, but she digs the yamulke".