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Crack Open A Cold One With 70,000 Of Your Closest Online Friends
We learned via Japan Trends that a Japanese news agency has reported on a boom trend among the country’s netizens in their twenties and thirties: online nomikai (drinking parties!!!).
Funny, we’ve always fancied DISGRASIAN as a kind of online drinking party (or are Jen and I the only ones sitting at our laptops, rantin’ to y’all, while sipping on scotch/rocks?).
For the Japanese, virtual mixers are an adaptation of a longstanding social norm that typically obliges people to booze formally (read: uncomfortably) with their coworkers at izakaya spots. In Hollywood we tend to call such burdensome fiestas “work drinks” (or Jen’s personal form of hell), and spend the time making fun of line producers that can’t stop flirting inappropriately with young production assistants.
More from Japan Trends:
“One way to get around this but still enjoy drinking in groups is to go online. Apparently net nomikai are gaining in popularity, according to reports by J-Cast and others. All you need is a web cam, Skype and a pair of headphones and mic. There is no boss, no seating arrangements — and even no geographical limitations! Obviously it’s a lot cheaper than boozing in an izakaya too, which might appeal to the recession-minded younger drinkers who can’t rely on company expenses.”
Booze? Budget-friendly socializing? No need for designated drivers? No regretful drunken co-worker boob gropes? Fun avatars? An open browser on the desktop so each user can intermittently check in on DISGRASIAN updates? Hell. It all sounds pretty good to us!
Frankly, we see little wrong with the concept of getting hammered with online friends every night… except… hrmm… Dr. Drew might eventually classify it is a form of drinking alone, a subtle sign of alcoholism. But no one else seems to be worried about that, so why should we?
[Japan Trends: Online Drinking Games For Younger Japanese]
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Thanks, Dave and Jasmine!
Filed under: Alcoholism, Bizarre Trends, Budget Boozing, Dr. Drew, Drinking Parties, Formality, Great Ideas, Japan, Japan Trends, netizens, Nomikai, Online Drinking, The Recession, Weird Japanese Behavior
Fart And Run
BuzzFeed’s Peggy Wang just posted this amusing YouTube gem from a Japanese game show, which “details” how to escape the path of a flyin’ free fart:
…but geesh, isn’t that a whole lot of work? Isn’t it always easiest to create a diversion, wait for someone to call the stink out, point at that person with horror and yelp, “Whoever smelt it, dealt it!” and then laugh hysterically at them until they start crying?
I mean, not that I know.
[BuzzFeed: How To Escape A Fart]
Filed under: Buzzfeed, The Blame Game, Toot, Weird Japanese Behavior, Weird Japanese Game Shows, YouTube Gems
DISGRASIAN OF THE WEAK! The Puff! iPhone App
HuffPo and Buzzfeed have posted a video demonstrating the remarkable usability of Japanese developer BottleCube’s latest iPhone app creation: Puff!
Puff! features scenes of cute Japanese girls in plausible situations (For instance, flipping over a jungle gym bar in a sexy little cheerleading outfit, or eyeing you seductively in a dark lounge while concealing summer panties and garter belt that she secretly wants you to see), whose skirts can be “blown” up high to reveal their underthings with just a tap/rub up the screen or blow on the iPhone mic. The harder you rub and blow, the higher her skirt flies, and the more delighted (via squeals) she seems.
But not everyone can get Puff! on the iPhone. In fact, the iTunes App store says you must be at least 17 years old to download:
But we think it could be a little simpler than that. To download this app, you kinda just have to fuckin’ BLOW. Like, really, really hard.
[HuffPo: Puff iPhone App Simulates Looking Up Girls' Skits (VIDEO)]
[BuzzFeed: Puff! An iPhone App For Perverts]
Filed under: Blow, Guys That Don't Get Laid, Ick, iPhone, iPhone Applications, iPhone Apps, Pervs, Upskirt, Weird Japanese Behavior
Pornogami
Want to learn how to play with your penis?
No, not that one. I mean your origami penis, as demonstrated here by premier pornogamist(?) Master Sugoi, author of Pornogami: A Guide to the Ancient Art of Paper-Folding for Adults:
It’s not everyday I can say this, but…genius scrotal work!
[via Trend Hunter]
Filed under: Funny Stuff, Master Sugoi, Origami is Fucking Impossible, Pornogami, Pornographic Origami, Pornography, Weird Japanese Behavior, Weird Porn Outlets
Just A Slice
Unlike all-star Jen, I stunk at baseball-related activity as a kid. I even blew chunks when it came to T-ball, where my only responsibilities were to whack a sphere off a still podium (straight to the pitcher… if not the catcher), and make occasional motions towards lone grounders that happened to make their miserable way to the out-out-outfield where I spent my time picking dandelions and daydreaming about slugger Garrett Hawkins.
I hated playing ball. If, like me, you had the coordination of a zygote and the attention span of a goldfish, it was boring as sin. And even though I spent my evenings cheering on my older sisters, who all consistently made all-stars and pitched nail-biters while I clutched my “lucky” George Brett mini-bat, I really didn’t understand shit about the game. ZzZZZzzzZzzz.
As an adult I’m finally beginning to understand the beautiful nuances of America’s pastime, which is far more than just a game; instead, an ongoing, arduous test of focus and human steel. But that wouldn’t have made me any more interested as a tot.
If only the game had been a simpler one, with a rock solid result from every swing. Something I could’ve wrapped my tiny little head around. A game I could’ve seen and understood without so much as thinking. Something like…
Dude, I could have KILLED at Samurai T-ball. Absolutely KILLED.
Thanks, Chris!
Filed under: All-Stars, Awesome Games, Baseball, Confusion, George Brett, Hardass Asian Siblings, Samurai Baseball, Samurai Swords, Slicing Baseballs, Sports, Sucking at Sports, T-Ball, Weird Japanese Behavior
Body Modificasian is Cool and All, But This Makes Us Want to Die a Little
I remember when bunches of my friends started going to raves. They’d get tricked out in giant JNCO jeans and fluorescent, furry vests, with pacifiers lassoed around their torsos and candy necklaces tightly wound against their struggling tracheae. Suddenly, everyone was getting pierced to shit. Giant bones through the septum. Silver balls poking out of the cheeks. Clear tongue rings. Pierced beauty marks. Giant, jillion-gauge, coke-can-sized rings inflating the soft flesh of the ears.
Everybody that delves in body mod is making a statement, whether that statement is “I actually want to look like a lizard” or “I dig tribal shit/love dancing to Kylie Minogue” or “It’s time for me to come out of my shell” or “I give great head” or “My parents didn’t love me enough.” And that kind of vociferation I totally respect.
But this not-even-really-new trend that’s apparently picking up steam in Japan (according to Bizarre Mag), which involves sculpting saline injections in the body for one-night’s worth of looking super kri-zazy…
…seems to make only one statement. “Meds. I need some meds.”
[Bizarre Magazine: Body Inflation]
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Filed under: Bagelheads, Bizarre Trends, Body Modificasian, Getting Attention, Gross, Ick, Looking Wack On Purpose, Pleas for Help, Saline Injections, Weird Japanese Behavior, When Piercing and Tats Aren't Enough
Add Them as a Friend
Reason #1,293,787,099 Weddings Make People Act ReallyReallyREALLY Wack:
According to the UK’s Telegraph, Some Japanese brides feel so pressured to have a good guest showing that–in addition to forking out the hundies for an open bar, tiered cake and boring dinner plate–that they HIRE CHEERY AND CLEAN-LOOKING FOLKS TO ACT AS “FRIENDS” AT THEIR WEDDING.
Oh. My god. I have never. Heard. Of a more. Pathetic. And Sad. Set of Circumstances.
Seriously: WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK??!?!?!?!?
[Telegraph: Japanese Company Does Thriving Trade in 'Fake Friends']
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Thanks, Jasmine!
Filed under: Dude--Get Over it, Fake Friends, Faking It, Keeping Up Appearances, Losers, Pathetic, People Are Nuts, Sad, Weddings, Weddings are Stupid, Weird Japanese Behavior
The Japanese Face Slimmer, a Great Halloween Costume Idea
Listen up, Moonfaces. If you, like me, always have to, as Tyra would say, “know your angles” in photographs (i.e. never ever give full-frontal mug), and your face tends to resemble a jelly donut when you have a hangover, are retaining water, didn’t get enough sleep, didn’t have time to put on make-up, or have packed on a couple pounds, there is a Japanese beauty product for you. It’s called the Face Slimmer and looks like the bastard offspring of an alien life-form who came to Earth and raped a hockey mask.
The Frisky reports on how the Face Slimmer works:
First, it melts the fat off your face by massaging your facial dermis…Then, the sweat produced from the poorly-ventilated mask combined with the sweat from your chubby cheeks acts as a sauna.
Which sounds hella dubious, but think of it this way: if the thing doesn’t work, you can always use it to scare the bejeezus out of your annoying neighbors.
All Jason wanted was a pair of prominent cheekbones–is that so wrong?[The Frisky: The Japanese Face Slimmer Leaves Us Speechless, Literally]
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Thanks, Jasmine!
Filed under: Face Masks, Fat Heads, Hockey Masks, Japanese Beauty Products, Japanese Face Slimmer, Jason Friday the 13th, Moonfaces, Tyra Banks, Weird Japanese Behavior
Utterly Useless but So Effing Cute
Bon week-end!
Thanks, Jasmine!
Filed under: Exercise Video, Pet Tricks, Smart Dogs, Squatting Dog, Strengthening Exercises, Weird Japanese Behavior
The Japanese Toilet Paper Novella–Scary as Sh*t?
Let me ask you, when you hear the words “horror experience in the toilet,” what comes to mind? The public restrooms at Port Authority? The morning after a Sichuanese or Southern Thai food binge? A snake taking a bite out of your penis while you’re on the crapper?
“Horror experience in the toilet” is actually how Drop, the new novella of Koji Suzuki, author of Ringu, is being marketed. The whole story is printed on toilet paper, takes place in a public restroom, and can be read in a few minutes. Because what better place is there to get the shit scared out of you than the turlet, right?
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Thanks, Jasmine!
Filed under: Clean Toilets, Horror Movies, Japanese Toilet Paper Novel, Japanese Toilets, Koji Suzuki, Public Restrooms, Ringu, Scary Shit, The Ring, Weird Japanese Behavior
Boob Bomb?
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!
THEM BOOBS’S GONNA BLOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!!!
[Gizmodo: Japanese Marriage Bra Gently Nudges Men Toward Nuptials, With Boobs]
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Thanks, Jasmine!
Filed under: Bombs, Boob Bombs, Idiotic Things That Adults Invent, Japanese Gadgets, Japanese Marriage Bra, Useless Things, Weird Japanese Behavior, WTF?
Boob Ram
“Don’t Ram the Boobs” seems like a game that my boyfriend would invent after a night of Tecate, spicy pizza, medicinal pot, Cazadores, White Castle burgers, a round of Trivial Pursuit, three pot cookies, two quesadillas, Modelo Especial, a few rounds of “How Hard Can You Squeeze a Raw Agg Before It Cracks and Splatters Everywhere?”, a 32oz. of Miller High Life, one more pot cookie, an around-the-room test of “Who Can Eat a Tablespoon of Cinnamon?”, a plate of Thai larb salad, and three bottles of Pellegrino.
I can just imagine coming home to a very rudimentary setup of “DRTB” accompanied by the words, “But honey! All you have to do is wear this bikini and STAND THERE!”
Sounds pretty fun. And let’s be honest. I’m my mom’s flat-chested progeny, and I’m not getting fakies anytime soon–which could give the dude and his fellow contestants quite the handicap. I’m IN.
Thanks, Thomas!
Filed under: Bad Nights, Boobs, Booze Rules, Boyfriends, Don't Ram the Boobs, Fake Tits, Pot, Weed, Weird Contests, Weird Japanese Behavior, Weird Japanese Game Shows
