The idea being tested: Even strangers in Osaka will play along when you pretend to shoot or cut them down.
Some of these seem staged; I’ve seen crazier stuff though, and if nothing else, the fact that it seems possible is why Osaka is so fucking cool.
For the record, I’ve never seen this done to a stranger in Japan, but you see it all the time among friends. Come to think of it, among friends at least, everybody overacts like they’re being shot. An alternative to the standard ban! (bang!) is firing an imaginary revolver dry. That sounds something like this: ban! ban! ban! ban! ban! ban! kacha.. kacha.. kacha!
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stuck in my ear – 321 Contact
I watched this clip many, many times last night, especially the complete intro at the end. Was this the best show on TV back then?
Or maybe it was this?
It sure brings back memories… And makes me want to pass on all my favorites to Max. I read The Hobbit in fourth grade and never looked back.
Foreign tw@ts at Tsukiji
Earlier this year I wrote about how foreign tourists are no longer really welcome at Tsukiji fish market. To better understand why this situation came about, I present this video sent by KTY:
At first I was going to title this post French and English tw@ts at Tsukiji, but really it’s just dumb luck that the video happened not to feature douchebag Americans. I would have paid money to have the old man slap the shit out of Pierre at the end, though, right after he claimed to not speak Japanese:
WELL THEN DO YOU SPEAK FOOTINYOASS, BIIIIOTCH?