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Made in China
« Thread Started on Apr 16, 2010, 6:27am »

Christmas is coming up faster than you think, but a billion and a half Chinese are hard at work inventing our future gift ideas.

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Re: Made in China
« Reply #2 on Apr 16, 2010, 6:30am »

Okay, I confess that some of these must be Japanese.

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« Reply #3 on Apr 16, 2010, 1:52pm »

The roadkill cat is Japanese. I have one. It was sold at my favourite store in Tokyo, "Ucchu Hyakka", which had all kind of wonderful/cute/bizarre novelties. The roadkill cat magnets were on sale with items that crossed the bounds of good taste though - fake plastic sh*t with birthday candles, badges saying "Welcome to the AIDS World" and a plastic pregnant woman doll who you poked with sticks. If you poked her with the right stick she "miscarried" and a plastic foetus came out. It was really gross and, I thought, quite offensive.

But I still loved the shop. The best thing I ever saw there was a lifesized green plastic dolphin, with a small metal ring on its tail. I asked what it was and the shop assistant replied "its a keyholder".

I was struck by how Japanese it was; off the wall, yes, and yet it had a certain unarguable logic. You would certainly never lose your keys again. Suddenly I had visions of myself waltzing through the Tokyo crowds with my two metre long dolphin, sitting with it on my lap in trains, propping it up in a chair opposite me in the window seat of restaurants. I resolved to go back and buy it.

But when I arrived there was a sign in red I couldn't read taped onto its fin; it said - of course - "Sold".

And the killer was that it only cost 1,000 yen- what, ten US dollars?

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Re: Made in China
« Reply #4 on Apr 16, 2010, 2:53pm »

I lover seeing what people apparently completely unconstrained by parochial western sensibilities come up with

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Re: Made in China
« Reply #6 on Apr 18, 2010, 7:52am »

Mommie, I wanna go home! :'(

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Re: Made in China
« Reply #7 on Apr 18, 2010, 9:02am »

Well I never

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Re: Made in China
« Reply #8 on Apr 18, 2010, 10:20am »

Hahahaha! I have the smoking rabbit too!

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Re: Made in China
« Reply #9 on Apr 18, 2010, 10:57pm »

Well, round here we find the roadkill cat far more offensive than those questionable human-related items...

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Re: Made in China
« Reply #10 on Apr 19, 2010, 4:53am »

An American friend of mine had a roadkill cat 20 years ago already, but it was a more sanitized version than the one above. He was just totally flat with X's in the place of the eyes. Looked very cute lying on the bed.

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Re: Made in China
« Reply #11 on Apr 19, 2010, 8:30am »

When I visited an Australian friend in NSW, on my arrival he presented me with a RoadKill T-shirt which, he said, he gave to all his visitors. I was appalled. He was a wierdo.

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Re: Made in China
« Reply #12 on Apr 29, 2010, 8:27pm »

I rarely wear a T-shirt but absolutely never one with any image or inscription on it.

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Re: Made in China
« Reply #13 on Nov 24, 2010, 2:55pm »

For Pete's sake, what a lot of horrible toys etc.! Shave the baby? what the....is that all about?
As for that babycar & roadkill dog, crikey! I see it's a "Smorkin' Labbit" ilbonito !

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Re: Made in China
« Reply #14 on Nov 25, 2010, 3:55am »

The Smorkin' Labbit is great! Lealy!

And wow, even the doll's armpits have ginger hair!

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