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New from China, find inner peace

Duncan Riley — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:26:15 +0000

Sounds like a decent enough religion: off my head this is a path…to inner peace.

Outbreak of Bob Seeing in Japan

Duncan Riley — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:59:12 +0000

Obviously seeing bobs is such a big issue in Japan they’ve created a campaign logo to fight off this evil menace.

In India, they protest against flatulence

Duncan Riley — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:00:38 +0000

Farting is apparently such a serious issue in India that they now protest against it, as the picture against “bum blasts” above demonstrates.

I Like Your Smile

Duncan Riley — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:35:59 +0000

I like your smile too…but please don’t put your shoes in my face.

An Important Message About Pants From Japan

Duncan Riley — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:00:33 +0000

This just in from Japan: Yes, We Pants! No Pants! No LIFE!….serious business pants

Simpleton Tooth Kit

Duncan Riley — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:05:33 +0000

New from your favorite novelty store this Christmas: Each kit of the tooth thing of the big in simpleton

Vegetarian food I’d eat

Duncan Riley — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:30:18 +0000

Nothing like good vegetarian food that comes with fish ham.

Was Zero Wing commemorated by Google?

Chris Greenhough — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:10:38 +0000

If you visited Google on September 5, you may recall the above doodle, featuring a UFO beaming up one of Google’s ‘O’s. The search engine is renowned for its adapted logos, which often appear to mark a holiday or famous event. Usually, letting your cursor hover over the logo brings up an explanation.

This one was a little more mysterious, however, with no annotation offered. The only clue? A tweet from Google later in the day, which simply read:

“1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19″

The Telegraph’s Shane Richmond donned his deerstalker, and discovered that changing those numbers to their corresponding letters produced the following phrase:

“All Your O Are Belong To Us”

The meme-fluent amongst you should recognize that immediately – it’s Zero Wing! Google actually remembered Zero Wing! For those of you who are still bamboozled, Zero Wing was an obscure Japanese shoot-’em-up which Wikipedia states previously stated was released in arcades on September 5, 1989 (though this has now been changed to September 19).

The game shot to Internet fame a few years back, thanks to its endearing Engrish-filled introduction producing the kind of phrases you see in the shot below. September 5 was the game’s 20th anniversary, so it seems we have our Google doodle explanation!

[Via Telegraph]

Don’t talk on your cellphone in a thunderstorm on the Great Wall (seriously)

Duncan Riley — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:00:43 +0000

If you thought that the biggest risk of walking the Great Wall of China is tripping….you’d be wrong. Apparently it’s cellphones in thunderstorms and people with heart disease.

In Japan, groping is only acceptable at the beach

Duncan Riley — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:13:25 +0000

Important cultural lessons: In Japan, groping is only acceptable at the beach

In Japan, they don’t like to exchange goods

Duncan Riley — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:10:38 +0000

In Japan, asking to exchange goods is seriously bad, because they “refuse exchange with refister.”

Epic Engrish Fail

Duncan Riley — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:00:07 +0000

I don’t even know where to begin on this: The rust embroidered shoes approve the zero concurrent y cam

Fat kok

Paul Short — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:22:07 +0000

Fat kok.

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Important toilet advice

Duncan Riley — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:30:32 +0000

Serious toilet business: no occupying while stabling.

Doritos, Japanese style

Duncan Riley — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:15:14 +0000

This is what Doritos look like in Japan. No, not a fake copy, actual Doritos. WTF doesn’t quite describe it. Maybe Doritos in Japan are a ball breaking experience?

Watch out for those rear end collisions

Duncan Riley — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:00:25 +0000

Rear End Collision: Keep Space. Plenty of space as the case may be.

It’s a Trap: Engrish Edition

Duncan Riley — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:00:15 +0000

Trap: sound wihch can’t finish being held, mixing feelings, and time which can’t finish being supported. Anyway, let’s soend every day happily. Got that

Epic Engrish toilet instructions

Duncan Riley — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:00:48 +0000

There’s so much Engrish goodness here it’s hard to know where to start. The first one though: could that be don’t spray the bowl with….

I don’t think Jewish people will like this store

Duncan Riley — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:00:55 +0000

Well, that Jewish people won’t be pleased is probably a given with this store.

China takes its park rules very seriously

Duncan Riley — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:00:20 +0000

We do you start with such a bountiful glorious dose of Engrish? the shitting in the park, or the reference to Christianity as a feudal religion?