Random Japanese Signs

[Taro Toporific]

Don't come out of a fence!

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--(@Adamukun) twitter August 29, 2013

[Samurai_Jerk]

Doom and gloom ... definitely not the the Christianity I remember from my youth. My interpretation is that it's a special flavour of Christianity that has been specifically designed to suit the Japanese mind. Sorta like pizza with corn.

Basically the message is: you either believe in Christ or you're fucked, doomed to eternal suffering.

Nothing uniquely Japanese about that. It's a pretty standard message in evangelical Christianity worldwide.

[wagyl]

Doom and gloom ... definitely not the the Christianity I remember from my youth. My interpretation is that it's a special flavour of Christianity that has been specifically designed to suit the Japanese mind. Sorta like pizza with corn.

Basically the message is: you either believe in Christ or you're fucked, doomed to eternal suffering.

Nothing uniquely Japanese about that. It's a pretty standard message in evangelical Christianity worldwide.

Yep, and if it is a call for the straying sheep to return to the flock, I can understand it. If you have grown up in a vaguely Christian culture, you at least have some idea where they are coming from, even if it is not your particular flavour of belief. But as a way to gather in the heathens to the fold? I don't see it working.* It is in effect saying "You are perfectly happy in your life, in your beliefs. But I believe you are cursed for an eternity in the fires of Hell. If you believe what I believe, your life will be better." which doesn't exactly encourage conversion on the spot.

* The only way I can see this approach working is when it is done the way the Scientologists do it: get the newbies when they are in a vulnerable state, unsure about themselves, and boost their self esteem but only within the new belief system. Of course, that is also a sure fire way to get a lot of vulnerable, unsure, new believers with self esteem issues, but so long as their wallet is fat....

[Yokohammer]

I dunno. I seem to remember the "moral education" of my youth dealing less with the torment of purgatory and more with the benefits of just being a good person. But maybe that came more from my parents than from the church.

Of course nobody mentioned the crusades ...

As one comedian (whose name I forget) put it, the whole bible can be boiled down to: "try not to be a cunt."

[Russell]

As one comedian (whose name I forget) put it, the whole bible can be boiled down to: "try not to be a cunt."

Isn't that one of the FG forum rules?!?

[wagyl]

As one comedian (whose name I forget) put it, the whole bible can be boiled down to: "try not to be a cunt."

Isn't that one of the FG forum rules?!?

But you are allowed to eat shellfish without being struck by lightning on FG.

[matsuki]

Personally I am glad that I was exposed to it, both from a cultural general knowledge aspect, and because most of the people I know who went off the rails and discovered Jesus Christ their Lord and Saviour later in life did so in part because they hadn't been inoculated to it all in early childhood. There was never any expectation on the part of my parents that we would become believers or anything silly like that. We all stopped going once we gained congregational membership, and when the last of us "graduated" Mum stopped going too.

Oh, I got sent to a Christian summer school a few years and my father's side of the family went from Navajo/Apache to Catholicism...so I guess you can say I got my vaccination without having to endure too much of the disease. Other than a "I'll pray for you" here and there from my father's side, don't hear too much of it so I'm content.

It's the miserable cunts who stand around Tokyo at New Year with their depressing signs and droning sermons who irk me.

I want to tip over their poles e'ery time I see/hear those fucks

[Coligny]

I dunno. I seem to remember the "moral education" of my youth dealing less with the torment of purgatory and more with the benefits of just being a good person. But maybe that came more from my parents than from the church.

Of course nobody mentioned the crusades ...

As one comedian (whose name I forget) put it, the whole bible can be boiled down to: "try not to be a cunt."

George Carlin ?

[Yokohammer]

I dunno. I seem to remember the "moral education" of my youth dealing less with the torment of purgatory and more with the benefits of just being a good person. But maybe that came more from my parents than from the church.

Of course nobody mentioned the crusades ...

As one comedian (whose name I forget) put it, the whole bible can be boiled down to: "try not to be a cunt."

George Carlin ?

No, it was an Australian comedian.
(We actually have some of those who aren't politicians, ya know ...).

[Taro Toporific]

'Show you guts cool say what'

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Taken in Tokyo's Akihabara Station, this classic photo of Japanese educational savvy was originally tweeted by "@kongaricookie," who had to go into Internet Witness Protection when it exploded in a zillion retweets on August 29, 2013

[Marked Trail]

'Show you guts cool say what'

There's nothing to "show."

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[Coligny]

Underboobs ?

[matsuki]

show you guts cool say what????

[yanpa]

One of them is daringly baring her midriff, does that count?

[Russell]

I dunno. I seem to remember the "moral education" of my youth dealing less with the torment of purgatory and more with the benefits of just being a good person. But maybe that came more from my parents than from the church.

Of course nobody mentioned the crusades ...

As one comedian (whose name I forget) put it, the whole bible can be boiled down to: "try not to be a cunt."

Jim Jefferies at the end of the video...

One more classic line: "Why isn't there a mention of Kangaroos in the bible?"

[Yokohammer]

I dunno. I seem to remember the "moral education" of my youth dealing less with the torment of purgatory and more with the benefits of just being a good person. But maybe that came more from my parents than from the church.

Of course nobody mentioned the crusades ...

As one comedian (whose name I forget) put it, the whole bible can be boiled down to: "try not to be a cunt."

Jim Jefferies at the end of the video...

One more classic line: "Why isn't there a mention of Kangaroos in the bible?"

Well done!

Yes, that's the one.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

You're so dick...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

[6810]

You're so dick...

Tom(u) is there... so all we now need is harry.

[Taro Toporific]

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[sublight]

Logo on a truck I saw in Tsukiji. Even though my mind is pretty firmly in the gutter, I can't be the only one seeing this...

[Taro Toporific]

Logo on a truck I saw in Tsukiji. Even though my mind is pretty firmly in the gutter, I can't be the only one seeing this...

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N's Game Kishinosato-ten
1-10 -19, Osaka, Japan
Description (jpyellow.com):
N's Game Kishinosato-ten is located in Osaka, Japan. Company is working in Sports, Scuba diving business activities.

[matsuki]

So that's what they call the human centipede in Japanese!

[Russell]

I think I see what sublight is seeing. LOL.

[Isle of View]

[Russell]

I can't see this image.

Edit: Fornicate, now I suddenly can see it, but hell knows what it is.

[Coligny]

Subway line sumwhere ? The M for metro... Metropolitain...
For the Krautz it's U... U-Bahn... Untergrund bahn or sumthing...

[yanpa]

For all you inaka-dwellers, that's the Tokyo Metro logo.

[Samurai_Jerk]

While that is a random Japanese sign, I'm trying to figure out what the point of posting that was.

[Yokohammer]

While that is a random Japanese sign, I'm trying to figure out what the point of posting that was.

Kind of a Rorschach-test exposé of the poster's hangups, I'd say.