CONMEN IN JAPAN # 5
The Foreign Connection
There are shitloads of hucksters in dodgy areas of Tokyo. Ueno is a pretty sleazy place for these creeps to congregate. Con games ("shinyosagi" in Japanese), in general, appeal to the weaknesses of people separate them from their money. Con artists lean on Japanese trust, innocence, desire to help
Mesmerized
There are more schemes of this kind in Tokyo than you can shake a stick at and plenty of suckers fall for them, partly out of naiveté and partly out of an inherent dishonesty on the part of the "victim" who wants to make the supposed crime or accident just go away.
This is one of my faves, a shitty little dancing paper puppet. It can dance and jump on command from it's master. Unbelievable You can get one for about 1000 yen.
It really makes my blood boil because it targets CHILDREN!!! Save the children! Poor little Daiki is gonna spend 2 weeks allowance to buy this toy from these foreign devils only to get it home to have it lay lifeless on the tatami mats. The dopey, dumbfounded father will sit there scratching his head when nothing happens.
This is a fun one to observe. It's usually perpetrated by Chinese, Nigerians, Iranians and unemployed Australian and Canadian English instructors.
It the latter cases it's easy to detect the pair as they ain't Asian. One guy is the barker and the other acts like he's part of the crowd. He always has a bag slung over his shoulder covering his hand. He has a super this clear string attached to the puppet and slight finger movements cause it to move.
" No photo! No Photo!"
These two are Chinese and easy to single out as they are both wearing the same bargain basement “Gilligan” cap
Above: The Culprit
Zombie 3D Scam
The Japanese Film importing Board or whatever the fuck they call themselves should also be held responsible for the theatrical release of Night Of The Living Dead 3D,
This film has nothing to do with George Romero besides the fact that his screenplay became public domain due to time. Anyone can remake this if they like. This one however has the added bonus of super headache inducing 3D. It's the shitty old kind of 3D that was used in the 50's that relies on those Blue and Red 3D glasses to be worn.
It's crap and is really being pushed hard here. Oy vey, it's gonna set the horror genre back a few years and totally turn off the Japanese moviegoers to 3D in general. Beowulf , which is made in the good 3D that actually requires the projector to get some type of modification that costs over a million yen, the REAL D Cinema Systems are comprised of several components, including a specially-treated movie screen; polarized 3D glasses; and the REAL D Cinema Z-Screen lens that mounts in front of the digital projector, enabling the projector to show three-dimensional images. The Custom software by REAL D integrates the components to make a watchable 3D movie experience.
is not a good idea for a 3-D movie. Lots of black night doesn't necessarily lend itself to lots of deep 3-D. Not that it can't work but you'd hope they really plan it for 3-D; make sure there is some sort of lighting, some things visible at various depths in the picture . Not that the movie was shot badly, it just doesn't seem to have been shot with a mind towards really making the 3-D as effective as possible. Worst though was that there were points where the 3-D just seemed to not work at all. I think they had fucked up on the depth of field somehow. But for me there were a number of points where it just seemed they out and out flipped the 3-D images around
. Example is a shot with a guy sitting in a chair. Behind the arm of the chair is a floorlamp. Looking at the floorlamp, it seemed to be floating out in front of the chair, oddly copped off at the bottom where the lamp went behind the chair. Even weirder, and worse for the filmmakers to fix, these errors were on individual cuts. There was a lot of potential with a barnyard sex scene, the wannabe commercial filmakers opted to leave anything that could have been made interesting there out and only have a screaming blond run out of a in the dark to be killed in the dark.
It's really being advertised hard in Roppongi and on the Subways. With crap like the Night Of The Living Dead 3D remake pissing off people here theatre management ain't gonna shell out the dough to convert the theatre and we are gonna have to see the 2D versions of some upcoming 3D goodness.
For shame.....
- Location:Tokyo
How not to eat in Japan # 12
Traditional Japanese Pickles {Tsukemono (漬物) ("pickled things") } are pretty friggin' mint. They're served with tons of foods, rice, and sometimes with beer or sake. Here you can see an eggplant paired with a Hakaisan Ale. Nice match.
If you take a look at the Roman Empire, you can see that increased population, had forced them to make some cool improvements in plowing, in field systems and in food distribution. So if things were better, why would rotten meat be a standard part of the diet? Pickled meat, yes. Putrid meat, no, Japanese style pickes are pretty nice but the white devils, like the Romans, often crave a real dill pickle.
Now, makin' pickles does require a little bit of knowledge as bad bottling can cause the pickle jar to harbor bacteria, the horror, the horror, which can of course cause fucking food poisoning.
The truth about spices in the Middle Ages is that they helped preserve some dishes, but mostly they seem to have been used to make dishes more tasty. Like let's say… the reasons we use spices. Sometimes we make tasy Indo chutnies and pickles, but the average asshole here just sprinkles pepper onto something or weave paprika through a shitty, meaty goulash because we like the flavor.
Seijo Ishi in Shinjuku staion is well known and beloved by foreigners who are here to fufil there pedophilic fantasies with girls who look way too young for them to get back in their shitty, obsese country and Japanese gai-sen who kiss their ass and culture. I treated myslef to a jar of Polish Dills
– ah yeah.
But as soon as the jar was opened I got a whiff of death- a smell that must have been similar to when that monstrosity known as Chun Lee crawled out of his mother's rancid cunt.
Most agree that food preservation is good and flavoring is good - but hiding the inedible is really, really odd. I do wonder when Japanese assume their customers have no tastebuds and no common sense and not much intelligence what that says about the person who thinks such things, since - after all - they have received certain genes from these walking dead, tuberculosis infected post WW2 ancestors.
There is a widely believed urban myth that if you kill yourself by jumping in front of the train your family has to pay 20,000,000 yen. Unfortunately this is bullshit and it's never disputed by Japan Railways or any of the other private companies that provide us with this efficient form of transport. I know this is untrue as several JR staff I've met in my private life told me so. It's a hush hush thing and they don't publicize it but it just ain't so.
If you look around, you'll notice most riders are unhappy and a trained eye can pick out possible jumpers.
The assorted pics in this post will be of those I suspect of thinking about the big move. Maybe not tonight, maybe not next week but they do have the look. And, I suspect they will all make the big leap.
I am getting a bit fed up with the inconvenience of countless Japanese sad sacks who decide to end their lives this way. I have places to be and a tight schedule. 2 days in a row I was seriously inconvenienced on the Yamanote line.
oh my, it's fucking hot out!
Wednesday night I took the night off work to be able to attend the Killing Time show in at Hatsudai Wall. I get to the station to hear that the train is stopped due to an accident in Hamamatsucho. The “accident” was no accident. It was some selfish prick who decides to end it all at 7pm. This causes a lot of hassle to all those on the busiest train line in all of Japan.
I had to hoof it it a subway station 10 minutes away and go way around town to get my white ass to Shinjuku.
I later found out that 30 mins after they cleaned up the mess of guts and torn clothing that some other asshole jumps at 845 in Shinagawa. OK, a two-fer. But the second salaryman didn't even die, He was seriously injured, but survived the experience. His suicide attempt halted 26 JR Yamanote Line trains, delayed 54 others and caused the temporary suspension of operations on the entire Yamanote and Saikyo lines. It was estimated that this one single suicide attempt disrupted the journeys of about 160,000 commuters.
What can ya do? BUT they do it again on Weds at noon as I am trying to get to work in Kinshicho. I again have to walk 10 mins and get to the shit job late after making many phone calls as I walked to try and get in touch with someone to warn of my delayed arrival.
If you see some creep jump, DON'T even think about helping, in January 2001, a drunken old shitworker stumbled and fell off the platform of Shin-Okubo Station. Two college aged kids jumped down on to the tracks to help him, but all three were pulverized and killed by the oncoming train. Japanese Dwarves, such as the example below have an alarmingly hight rate of jumping. Why do you think you see so few of them in Tokyo? They are bullied and eventually jump- That's why. I'm serious. 40% of midget deaths in Japan are sucide.
this cunning runt has no where to look but up
If you do jump, I hope you do die slowly and I hope you suffer. If someone dies as the result of being hit by a train, the corrupt police conduct an investigation which determines if the death was the result of suicide, an accident or even even being pushed. In the case of a suicide, it is the police who determine from the available evidence whether or not someone deliberately took their own life
I've given up , I am gonna just suffer in silence now. The train companies give you a note to show your boss if there is a big delay but this don't help in the situation of missed planes, theater tickets or dates waiting in the cold. 
BONUS!!!
You can see one here but it's from some shitty rural area:
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| Suicide at Japanese Train Station |
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| This is easy to miss...watch closely as this guy jumps in front of a train to end his life. Hey fucker, if you're going to kill yourself, at least don't do it in front of a little girl |
at NothingToxic
Man defecates in the middle of McDonalds
Around 5 a.m., the disheveled man walked in to the 24-hour McDonald’s at 10 E. Chicago — near the Water Tower and Holy Name Cathedral — and tried to enter the restroom.
It was out of order, so the man walked toward the soda fountain machine and defecated on the floor, said witness Mike Sims, who was eating a sausage McMuffin at the time.
“He just said ‘I have to go to the bathroom’ and that is when he did it in front of the entire crew,” said Sims, a 57-year-old culinary student. “What got me was, being a student chef, is that he took a napkin and cleaned it up and placed it on the counter where anyone can put your food and get your condiments.”
Workers threatened to call police, so the man left, Sims said. There were just a handful of customers in the restaurant at the time.
A manager at the store confirmed the incident — as did a spokeswoman at the chain’s corporate offices — and insisted that everything was cleaned up.
A wet-floor “caution” sign was still out hours later when a reporter showed up. And when the reporter began asking questions, a worker began to mop the spot.
The incident didn’t make for the happiest of meals for Sims, but it didn’t spoil his appetite either. He said he finished his sausage McMuffin before leaving.
Tip of the day:
Stop eating fast food now so you can be all buff for the summer.
Don't eat it!!!!
