I’ve prepared a collection of Japanese ads that I think is rather funny for your viewing pleasure. Frankly, they don’t beat the funny Thai ads but they’re pretty good ;)
That familiar invisible rock we carry whenever we get mortgages? :P
[insert Transformer transform sound here]
HAHAHAHAHHA…
Fart ringtone rofl!
Last one…
this one had me go wtf for a while :P
Whether you’re in Japan or Timbuktu, you need to watch this video because coming March 29th, we are going to turn off our lights for 1 hour to fight global warming. :)
I don’t know if Japan has this service but I thought the US postal service is doing the world a favor by creating “Mail Back”. Mail Back allows you to dump your old useless, broken technological gadgets in the mail. And it’s free. Postage paid envelopes can be picked up from all post offices for you to mail in your old junk. After that, it’s taken to Clover Technologies Group for recycling.
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — Just when you thought technology was making “snail mail” obsolete, the U.S. Postal Service announces a vital new service that lets you recycle cell phones, iPods and other electronics — as well as printer inkjet cartridges — via mail. For free!
To use the “Mail Back” program, find one of the 1,500 post offices that offers special free envelopes. Drop in your recyclable electronics item, and mail it without postage. It goes to Clover Technologies Group, which recycles, remanufactures and remarkets inkjet cartridges, laser cartridges and small electronics.
Best of all, for those of us who live on the road, you can take as many “Mail Back” envelopes as you please, and use them to mail your electronics from anywhere. It’s a great idea to tuck one into your carry-on laptop bag. When something dies on the road, you can drop it in the envelope and give it to your hotel’s front desk to mail — no need to carry the extra weight home.
Forrest Gump would have had a field trip with this treadmill. I laughed me ass off when i saw that black guy with pink protective gears on, trying to run ROFL!
Ignore the first few seconds of the video. Someone thought it’d be cool to slip in a community message. But watch this guy, he’s like the best straight shooter there is. The NY Yankees could do well with him heh…if and only if they can get him on their team. :P
A little humor to jumpstart the week.
Smoking should be banned. At least, that’s what I feel anyway. Smoking kills not only the smoker but also the people around them. It’s crazy to be smoking these days when you have other cooler and more addictive activity to do like videogames. :P Just kidding. I know that for smokers, the addiction takes over their lives - I see friends going out every now and then to take a puff, which i find rather distasteful. And I don’t hold back too with my opinion. Thankfully, my smoker friends do not hold it against me - in fact, they’re fine with it because they know what a disgusting habit it is.
Now, the Science Council in Japan are looking to double cigarette taxes, which i Think is a great thing. Since tobacco cannot be banned, why not make smokers pay until it gets too expensive to maintain that sort of lifestyle. Maybe tobacco companies will die off by themselves from bankruptcy. Wishful thinking, I know.
The Science Council of Japan has proposed tough new measures against smoking including doubling tobacco tax in a bid to protect the environment and people’s health, it has been learned.
The council submitted a suggestion to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on Tuesday to introduce tightened regulations in seven areas, including a major increase in tobacco tax. The council had been considering measures since June 2006.
Under tobacco regulation criteria produced by scientists in Europe, Japan was found to score only 25.5 points in its smoking countermeasures, placing the nation last when compared to 30 other countries in Europe. Ireland had the strongest measures against smoking, scoring 71 points.
The science council’s proposal to the ministry includes banning cigarette vending machines, setting numerical targets to reduce smoking rates, and doubling tobacco tax, which currently stands at 189 yen per packet. Under the suggestions, yearly consumption — now standing at about 27 billion cigarettes — would fall by one quarter and at least 2 million people would stop smoking, calculations showed. Tax proceeds would increase by about 1.2 trillion yen from the current 2.3 trillion yen under the measures.
This is rather interesting and yes it involves the everyday life. Who doesn’t check their emails or buy stuff from eBay??
You’re at home and suddenly you received an email that your pet goldfish, Desdemona, has died. Clutched by sadness, shock and a morbid sense of indulgence, you’ve decided to call home and “speak” to its body before it’s final flush down the toilet. Thing is, you just arrived in Japan and you have no bloody idea how to use the phone or what buttons to push. So what do you do? Every second counts because in the hot Saharian weather where your fish lives, it wouldn’t be long that Desdemona, may gott bless his/her soul (cos you weren’t sure of it’s sex), becomes a dried up crust.
To call from Japan to an Int’l destination:
1. You need to dial the access code of 010, first.
2. Followed by the country code you’re calling: Very useful list here.
3. If your country code starts with a “0″, drop it and dial the rest of the code + your phone number (including its area code).
Other options, buy a phone card for cheaper rates or register for an international calling program if you have more than one pet fish.
To call within Japan (landline to landline; cellphone to landline; landline to cellphone):
1. If you live in the same area, you may omit the area code. Although if you dialed the area code in, you’ll still get connected.
2. With a cellphone, you’ll have to dial the area code in. If you’re calling a cellphone you’ll have to dial the cell number’s area code in.
3. Cellphones cannot call tollfree numbers ( numbers that starts with 0120), you’ll have to use a landline for that.
To call Japan from abroad:
1. Dial Japan’s International access code first ( there are three options, try ALL of them till it works: 00, 011, 0011)
2. Then dial Japan’s country code (81)
3. If the number you want to reach starts with a “0″, omit it and dial the rest of the numbers.
For more information of the various calls and call back services, go here.
Check out this gag gig in Japan where a tantamount of people were scared. HAhahaha…
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