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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 6:27:42 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 6:29:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 6:30:40 GMT
Okay, I confess that some of these must be Japanese.
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Post by ilbonito on Apr 16, 2010 13:52:59 GMT
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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Post by fumobici on Apr 16, 2010 14:53:05 GMT
I lover seeing what people apparently completely unconstrained by parochial western sensibilities come up with  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 19:34:10 GMT
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Post by gertie on Apr 18, 2010 7:52:05 GMT
Mommie, I wanna go home!  |
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Post by spindrift on Apr 18, 2010 9:02:32 GMT
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Post by ilbonito on Apr 18, 2010 10:20:59 GMT
Hahahaha! I have the smoking rabbit too!
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Post by lagatta on Apr 18, 2010 22:57:19 GMT
Well, round here we find the roadkill cat far more offensive than those questionable human-related items...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2010 4:53:18 GMT
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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Post by spindrift on Apr 19, 2010 8:30:30 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2010 20:27:14 GMT
I rarely wear a T-shirt but absolutely never one with any image or inscription on it.
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Post by tod2 on Nov 24, 2010 14:55:08 GMT
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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Post by hwinpp on Nov 25, 2010 3:55:35 GMT
The Smorkin' Labbit is great! Lealy!
;D ;D ;D
And wow, even the doll's armpits have ginger hair!
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