mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
and just because we abuse human rights, doesn't mean you can. Do as we say, not as we do.
Pointless But It Does My Head In
and just because we abuse human rights, doesn't mean you can. Do as we say, not as we do.
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
You are free to do as we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
But if you could carry on making all that incredibly cheap stuff we love to import, that'd be just spiffy, thanks.
unknown soulja
Wild Horses
Saw a women who had her eyebrows shaved and then tattoo-ed on in Albania once. Someone should suggest that to these women as a time saver.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
it's cos japan has, like, ninjas and stuff, dude.
Sectionfive
bandwagon house
its a weird two way relationship though, they like our coolest western things too.
i guess which ever way the camera happens to be pointing is where "all the cool stuff comes from"
as for the places to which the camera has not yet turned, in another 30 years i hope we'll remember this thread.
in this case its a kinda dissonance which makes the relationship interesting though
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
I didn't read the context and thought that these were all things that did your head in, and then thought you must have turned quite (by which I mean very) mad.
I was thinking that's probably a big part of it. The hype about Japan over any other Asian countries is partly because it's hype by people who are excited about the same stuff as the people they're excited about. If that makes sense? Subcultures / notions of cool / fashion consciousness etc. - very big things in the West - and Japan has those in bucket loads.
Friends in China, Vietnam, Indonesia have commented on there being no great sense of cool (or none that they've decoded?) in any of those countries.
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
Do you think it's because the concept of cool is maybe quite an abstract thing, something that takes a while to develop... If you're still a peasant or uneducated it's all rather wasted. Obviously the higher classes have always had fashions, but the rise of the middle class probably brings Cool with it. The Japanese rapidly assimilated American culture after WW2, where as China and co didn't. That said I bet parts of Shanghai are Chic...
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
PS: Your mum is cool.
Etc etc.
Etc etc.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Like an X-rated Dan Ackroyd, I couldn't stop the phrase 'hand-to-cock combat' popping into my mind. Sorry.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Aw HELLZ yeah. With sexy results.