Japlish t shirts for sale
#1Druggie shirt: Text:
GO GO GO Ecstasy!
GO British ROCK!
GO Parkinsons Disease!
#2 Biker:
33% off engine 22 ectv
Offer not valid with tigers
#3 Beautiful lady:
GRUNT
Theres also an a t shirt that elaborately describes how to make hot dogs and how they are "selected from the finest cuts of beef in the land." Caps with "got hos" are retailing for 15 pounds. PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR CAPS.
posted by Wolffie @ 4:00 pm
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I WANT THOSE T-SHIRTS!
This is probably not the right place for this comment; however, I feel it will be easier for you to spot it this way. So bear with me.
Interesting rant about your "outside" a few posts back. The Japanese have two words to describe this phenomenon: "Honne" and "Tatemae". Honne (kanji: real sound - book sound - origin of sound, depending on how you want to read it) are a person's real intentions and feelings about something, while Tatemae ("build in front") are appearances you put on in front of other people to maintain the group "wa" or harmony. It's mostly a pretty way to describe and condone what in the "West", we call two-facedness (see Chinese Guanxi, Nepotism, equals to). By looking at it this way, however, one can do away with the value judgements inherent to what for us would be a negative-sounding term - I guess it's because they're just more upfront about it here...(I can hear the angry roar of socially condoning bullshit neo-orientalists clamouring for my head as I write).
If you want to read more about this, I reccomend you get your greedy paws on "Japanese Society" by Nakane Chie, and "The Anatomy of Dependence" by Doi Takeo. They're both pretty renowned books on the subject, and they make a good comlementary read since many of the arguments one makes are refuted by the other. You can also check out "Straitjacket Society" (I forgot the author's name), which is the account of a Japanese psychiatrist who lived in America for 20 years before coming back to Japan to criticise all those pesky cultural traits that make us hardcore humanists cringe.
Anyway, sorry for the asshole post - perhaps I should include some sort of random reference about Buddha and the loss of desire? (That's an injoke by the way, so if you're not Andy don't try to make sense of it unless you want to end up with hilarious yet paranoid delusions of dada).
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Alex
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