Photographs from a small group of islands
Matsushita (Panasonic) has recently developed a next-generation battery. So to promote its new Oxyride dry-cell battery, Matsushita followed the well trodden path of hiring the services of an attractive young model. All good up to now it has to be said.
The problem is they then decided to put her inside a bizarre battery driven vehicle, with the resultant publicity shot looking comical at best. It’s so bad she almost appears to have been added into the picture by a Photoshop novice.
Valentines Day is just around the corner, and in Japan it’s customary for women to give men chocolate on the 14th. But there’s chocolate, and then there is chocolate. Check out the tasty Mona Lisa below that’s on display at Tokyo’s Salon du chocolat. 13kg of chocolate went into painting this.
Go ahead and call me unromantic, and perhaps a little bit cynical, but isn’t this somewhat excessive? There again, look at this chocolate copy of Brussels’s Grand Platz.
Now that’s excessive!
For all you table tennis ball avalanche aficionados out there (and you know who you are), here’s a website courtesy of F*cked Gaijin that will keep you happy for a long time.
For anybody unaware of table tennis avalanche studies, here’s a picture of some tests conducted in Japan.
The site even has videos. What are you waiting for?
Recently at my school, we had the rather tedious task of teaching the second graders (13 year olds) tag questions. After wowing them with such fascinating examples as,
You are from Japan, aren’t you?
and
You can play baseball, can’t you?
they seemed ready to have a go themselves. So, on the board we wrote,
You _______ her, don’t you?
The usual eager students (3 of them) put their hands up, and the chosen one confidently shouted out his answer, adding extra emphasis to the missing word.
You DO her, don’t you?
Sadly, in a class full of schoolboys (and schoolgirls), it was left to the 34 year old English teacher to laugh furtively. A great opportunity missed.
You would have found it funnier if you’d been there, wouldn’t you?
Japan’s long and desperate search for a consistent and quality striker may at last be over. How FIFA will react to the news is as yet unknown, but the Japanese Football Association must barely be able to control their glee.
The Sony produced Qrio certainly looks the part, although programmers are apparently having problems getting the young upstart to gesticulate wildly at officials, and dive at the slightest hint of contact.
