Random Japanese Signs

[Coligny]

This last one just says it is some kind of a walkway btw not a big mountain trail or something. (something I can't read, gaku?) River Play Walk Road, very common type of sign probably a nice little walk. I'd be fishing in that river if it were allowed (and not toxic or whatever haha.)

There is some fishing boat tied near and more than a few fishermen. This river come from the mountain separating toyohashi and Hamamatsu I think it's quite short, that make it a quick snapper in case of sudden rainfall... And therefore a total death trap. One of those pass not too far from the clinic. In case of sudden downpour you can expect street flooding in around 20 minutes... Not much factory to dump init. Just the local water treatment plant.

Yanpa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

[wagyl]

This last one just says it is some kind of a walkway btw not a big mountain trail or something. (something I can't read, gaku?) River Play Walk Road, very common type of sign probably a nice little walk. I'd be fishing in that river if it were allowed (and not toxic or whatever haha.)

Ushikawa, Toyohashi

What sort of confuses me is that Ushikawa Yuhodo as per the sign post indicates a fairly urban park, not the river bank inside the levee as per Coligny's photos. By the way, that is postwar development.

[nikoneko]

So why is this guy shagging that fag?

You'd better tell the Merkins that you're talking about the cigarette.
The answer to your question....TIJ.

We actually call them fags or did in the Cary Grant days at least. But shagging is a Brit thing. I just thought it was funny some JT marketing drone/s thought the idea of "love" was shagging some fag from behind. Makes sense on a lot of levels.

This last one just says it is some kind of a walkway btw not a big mountain trail or something. (something I can't read, gaku?) River Play Walk Road, very common type of sign probably a nice little walk. I'd be fishing in that river if it were allowed (and not toxic or whatever haha.)

There is some fishing boat tied near and more than a few fishermen. This river come from the mountain separating toyohashi and Hamamatsu I think it's quite short, that make it a quick snapper in case of sudden rainfall... And therefore a total death trap. One of those pass not too far from the clinic. In case of sudden downpour you can expect street flooding in around 20 minutes... Not much factory to dump init. Just the local water treatment plant.

This one I agree with you on especially as flat as that area seems. I spent a ton of time on Sumiyoshi river and in it's valley up in the mountains there in Kobe and I watched that thing as famous and urban as it is go up a meter or more and wash over it's (rocked in) banks many times, a few years ago a few rivers west kids died there in Kobe from the mountain fed rivers. Not something to be messed with but I would think on a normal day it'd be fun to chill around. I'm kinda jealous you have that actually.

[Taro Toporific]

Nor that.

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http://p-sv.com/assesbridge/menu4.htm

http://p-sv.com/assesbridge/menu11.htm

http://youtu.be/6f47M9PhtWM

[nikoneko]

Yep that was my pic so I know the store well. Your first is the store there in Nishinomiya with a great staff and apparently they are here in Fukuyama too, though with much more Crack action haha! Some how no matter where I travel here I end up close to the Asses...

[Mike Oxlong]

Kinda reminds me of this blast from my past...

[Coligny]

What sort of confuses me is that Ushikawa Yuhodo as per the sign post indicates a fairly urban park, not the river bank inside the levee as per Coligny's photos. By the way, that is postwar development.

With the number of parks in Toyohashi they certainly ran out of names and had to recycle. The park you link to is 10 minutes east of where my Picts where taken.

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Do you also have Toyocky as a place marker on that map ?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Almost seems like somewhere I know...

[Coligny]

Seems some agree :

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/16/from_ik ... _dystopia/

Let's see people not do anything out of fear of losing their plasma TV making them unable to watch WWE Friday night raw...
Meanwhile the genXers with not much to lose might be a little more dangerous for the status quo...

[wagyl]

Do you also have Toyocky as a place marker on that map ?

Good news! Even though they promote 78 different tourist attractions,the Toyohashi Visitors & Convention Association has not chosen your riverside stroll site, so not even non-yuru-characters are pointing the way for people to disturb you if you choose to use that place to get up to, well, whatever it is that you end up getting up to on deserted riverbanks.

[matsuki]

Almost seems like somewhere I know...

I was just about to say "But but religion....." then I remembered...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Almost seems like somewhere I know...

I was just about to say "But but religion....." then I remembered...

I don't think these people show particular disdain for the arts...unless you regard the widespread appeal of AKB48 and all the other 48s as being a sign of precisely that.
Otherwise, though, it's looking pretty fucking ominous.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Almost seems like somewhere I know...

I was just about to say "But but religion....." then I remembered...

I don't think these people show particular disdain for the arts...unless you regard the widespread appeal of AKB48 and all the other 48s as being a sign of precisely that.
Otherwise, though, it's looking pretty fucking ominous.

Oh, I thought you were taking a shot at the Republican Party.

[Russell]

Do you also have Toyocky as a place marker on that map ?

Good news! Even though they promote 78 different tourist attractions,the Toyohashi Visitors & Convention Association has not chosen your riverside stroll site, so not even non-yuru-characters are pointing the way for people to disturb you if you choose to use that place to get up to, well, whatever it is that you end up getting up to on deserted riverbanks.

Even when Coligny flies his model planes and choppers there?
(because that is his intention, it seems)

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Oh, I thought you were taking a shot at the Republican Party.

The GOP has been fascist since before Mussolini was....

[Samurai_Jerk]

Oh, I thought you were taking a shot at the Republican Party.

The GOP has been fascist since before Mussolini was....

You mean like when they forced the South to end slavery?

[kagemusha]

Oh, I thought you were taking a shot at the Republican Party.

The GOP has been fascist since before Mussolini was....

You mean like when they forced the South to end slavery?

It's a little futile trying to compare moral standards from different eras. The greatest liberals 100 years before the civil war proudly owned slaves so this is not a parameter to use for that matter.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Oh, I thought you were taking a shot at the Republican Party.

The GOP has been fascist since before Mussolini was....

You mean like when they forced the South to end slavery?

Shutting down democracy and forcing the South to adopt Jim Crow enslavement for another 90-odd years probably wasn't the greatest example of the GOP's fascism, nor was letting the Robber Barons have their own white (figurative) "nigrahs" in the North, too?
The GOP wasn't perhaps fascist until a little later, probably around the time it turned its back on Versailles (ultimately <much later> opening the door for the Germans to elect the Nazis and form such powerful supporters of democracy as the German American Bund), but it always had elements of fascism before that. The big difference was letting money run riot with no responsibility. Once income tax became possible, the shift toward a near-fascist GPO became more likely. (I don't really think the GPO is fascist, but I think it would certainly like to bestow fascist powers on itself if it could get away with it). IMHO, the U.S. has aspects of its character that make it pretty close to being a Teutonic state -- in mentality at least -- which make it vulnerable to the attractions of fascism.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

[yanpa]

Fascinating, I never knew "魚" could be pronounced "たま"

[matsuki]

Six wooden poles and some golden balls...nice

[wagyl]

Surely this is that same Roppongi Kingyo Club occasionally featured in Bill Hersey's columns from years ago. In which case that signpost is no surprise.

I am always careful to make no typos and to avoid proximity to the word 'highway.' My legal advice concurs.

[Doctor Stop]

That's it, right next to the cemetery.

[omae mona]

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[Taro Toporific]

Via The_Tao_of_Reddit

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Possibly related?

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[Mike Oxlong]

Not exactly new, nor brilliant, but something of a classic...

[Mike Oxlong]

Given the history of the term, it's kinda interesting to see it here...

[Taro Toporific]

Given the history of the term, it's kinda interesting to see it here...

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[img ]COOLly SEASON [/img]

Well, they did show some sensitivity by spelling coolie* wrong.

クーリーシーズン
COOLly does it all!

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It is:
"DRY," full of purple polka dots, anti-cooties, "SOFTo,"
"COOL," radioactive, stretchy, sniffs your armpits,
silver infused, full of dead fish, foreigner friendly, and blocks UV rays.
kurashi-more.com/coolly_season/

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*Coolie 苦 力 (pinyin: kǔlì) wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolie

In 1727 Dr. Engelbert Kämpfer described "coolies" as dock labourers who would unload Dutch merchant ships at Nagasaki in Japan.
Kämpfer, Engelbert (1727). The History of, Japan.

[Coligny]

*Coolie 苦 力 (pinyin: kǔlì) wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolie

In 1727 Dr. Engelbert Kämpfer described "coolies" as dock labourers who would unload Dutch merchant ships at Nagasaki in Japan.
Kämpfer, Engelbert (1727). The History of, Japan.

Ok, thanks to have read the blank in my mind...

[JAVGOD]

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--The "Black Ivory” coffee that is used to make the elephant poop beer is produced by feeding rescued elephants their regular feed mixed with the berries of Arabica coffee, which slowly pass through the elephants over a period of 15 to 30 hours. The indigestible coffee berries are finally discharged as...

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There's a guy north of Chiang Mai in Thailand making elephant poo coffee. Sells for 50$ a demitasse cup. Beer people connected I wonder?