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May 20 2010 10 Comments

Complete birth control?

In a bid to reinvigorate Japan’s flagging birth rate, the powers that be have proffered a few pennies, and even rather boldly had a birth rate minister who got banged up.

However, such good intentions aside, considering that many future mothers were no doubt made to play with monstrosities like this, it’s a minor miracle that the country contains any kids at all.

Japanese baby doll

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  1. Brett says

    5/20/2010 at 7:37 pm

    Wow, that really is grim! It’s even suffering from an early onset of male pattern baldness.

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    • Tornadoes28 says

      5/21/2010 at 10:07 am

      It does look grim. But that’s not male-pattern baldness Brett. That is a shaved pate samurai or Edo style.

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  2. archie4oz says

    5/21/2010 at 2:42 am

    Shouldn’t that be “knocked up”? Banged up sounds like she had a bad spill…

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    • Lee says

      5/21/2010 at 7:54 am

      ‘Knocked up’ is certainly the more common, but I’ve still heard ‘banged up’ used in this sense. As well as, it must be said, for far less pleasant occurrences.

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  3. Brett says

    5/21/2010 at 7:07 am

    By the way, was that from a Haikyo? It’s got that certain neglected charm to it.

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    • Lee says

      5/21/2010 at 7:58 am

      Yeah, it does have that feel to it Brett, but I came across it outside an antique shop. Although there’s nothing to say that they didn’t find it in a haikyo!

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  4. locohama says

    5/21/2010 at 7:13 am

    looks like it was born in Hiroshima in 1945
    they can’t believe this will be effective

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  5. Tyler says

    5/21/2010 at 8:27 am

    It’s black soulless eyes stare at you, silently judging you for all you have done and all that you will do.

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  6. Lizzy says

    5/22/2010 at 2:49 am

    That is, by far, the creepiest thing I have ever seen.

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  7. SnowGuy says

    5/23/2010 at 1:46 pm

    well, there goes my chance to have a good sleep tonight.

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