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Joust
09-06-2003, 19:04
From the "I'm not making this up; these people really do think like this" department.

Mainichi Daily News, 29/04/03

"Once men get past their mid-thirties their metabolism slows down rapidly," Dr. Shukan Tokuho told a press conference in Tokyo, "and subcutaneous fat increases in the body resulting in middle-aged spread. Exercise is the best way to reduce it, but busy salarymen are tied to their desks all day, and don't have the time to go to the gym. So I had them in mind when I invented my simpler way to a slimmer physique ............the masturbation diet."

Earlier Dr Tokuho had astonished reporters with details of his unusual weight loss programme. "The three main advantages of this regimen are that it's quick, easy, and good for health. Five minutes of vigorous masturbation can consume 300 calories, which is the equivalent of sprinting 100 metres. It can be done while sitting at your desk, and the experience is so refreshing it can replace a light meal thereby saving more calories.

The ideal position is leaning back in a chair, with the heels raised about 10 centimetres off the floor, because this puts tension on the stomach muscles. Performed in this way, masturbation is as strenuous as doing push ups or sit ups in a sauna and can trim 8 centimetres off the waist if performed twice a day for a month as part of a calorie controlled diet. "Best of all, my method is far safer than sexual intercourse, because there are no worries about diseases or unwanted pregnancies. I'd recommend it to any office worker who is worried about his weight, and my plan is neatly summed up in one simple slogan:

Shake for breakfast, Shake for lunch, and a sensible dinner."

hobbes
09-06-2003, 22:51
twice a day for a month hey ??? bit ambitious methinks but if it keeps one slim i guess one should be prepared to make the sacrifice. why does he not mention the more normal f..... daily as exercise?? ;) ;) ;)

masun
10-06-2003, 11:12
In HK, more and more women are paying exorbitant sums for some dubious slimming courses. If I could only start a business where women would come to my place to masturbate in order to slim down...Maybe I should talk to Dr Tokuho to see if he can come up with some research saying that masturbation is good for women too.

imaufo
10-06-2003, 15:55
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/japano/0207/ice-cream/images/2.jpg

Something must smell fishy about ice cream flavored with saury, a saltwater fish popular in Japan...But there's no worries about that with this offering from Kimura Shoten as the fishy fumes have been drowned out by liberal doses of brandy. Not the greatest tasting ice cream on earth, though.

Octopus Ice Cream (Taco Aisu)


Want to tantalize the taste buds with a tentacle? If so, Octopus Ice Cream is the go. Japanese have been able to come up with an amazing variety of uses for octopus, ranging from delicacy to porno movie prop. Little wonder that octopus has found its way into ice cream, then.



Ox Tongue Ice Cream (Gyutan Aisu)


What better to tickle the taste buds than tongues? Though Ox Tongue Ice Cream may not be the first delicacy to come to mind, its taste is nothing to beef about.


http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/japano/0207/ice-cream/images/5.jpg

imaufo
10-06-2003, 15:58
This item is so stupid, we're almost at a loss to describe it. (And we can usually describe anything.

http://www.stupid.com/images/walkingsushi-ani-but.gif

It's wind-up, walking sushi. We had heard rumors that such a toy existed, and it took our Stupid Buyers the better part of a year to track it down.

Each Walking Sushi consists of a matching pair of life-like plastic sushi. And what an assortment! There's sake (salmon), masago (smelt roe), nigiri (egg w/ seaweed), ebi (shrimp), saba (mackerel), and even a California Roll.

When you wind it up, the sushi pair walks across your table as if they were two feet. We ask you -- can you get much stupider than this?

Walking Sushi
only $2.99 each


http://www.stupid.com/Merchant2/graphics/products/walksushi-1.jpg