News about failing at life.

From the land where you can buy panties from a vending machine, I'm almost not surprised by this.

Its more of a stunt than anything the video says, but still screwy.

I hope he dies in a fire.

Coincidentally, driving to work this morning, their was a report on NPR about the 'herbivore' youth culture in Japan today...i.e. 'ultra mild anti-macho' guys that don't date women (but are straight), don't like consumer consumption or cars, and write blogs and comic books about cupcakes, knitting, and baking. It's been defined as a reaction to the 'carnivore' generation of their fathers, i.e. the long hour hard working, hard drinking salary men of the 1980s in Japan...the report went on to describe Japan's younger generation today as having herbivore men and carnivore women.

Very strange stuff from the land of the Rising Sun.

Edited November 25, 200916 yr by Cubical-aka-Moltar

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I think all the men in this herbivore category are all Bi in Japan. They like women and video game women.

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I think all the men in this herbivore category are all Bi in Japan. They like women and video game women.

Not sure if there is a US equivalent to this demographic, maybe the emo kids?

It's all so... demented.

I swear, this will also happen to Western culture, but in a different way.

Young men have such ready access to hot women in porn now, how will they ever be happy with the real women they can get?

Consummating that marriage is going to be awkward, even if she has three different ports.

I swear, this will also happen to Western culture, but in a different way.

Young men have such ready access to hot women in porn now, how will they ever be happy with the real women they can get?

Or real guns? Kids are so desensitized to killing by first person shooter games these days, are they going to be happy w/ real life war and murder?

In America, the reaction to the hard working drinking generation were the hippies. They are just a bit behind us in japan.

I wonder what the reaction is going to be at the Prius-driving, eco-conscious, buy-it-all-from-China generation standing at the top of the ranks here in America?

Maybe that answer is already here ...

Edited November 25, 200916 yr by whiteknight

I don't think everybody in America is like that. The whole idea of generations is getting blurred now.

It's a blurry world - short on reality and substance.

Reality is complex. There are only shades of gray and many truths and many unknowns.

I still haven't found what I'm looking for..still searching for truth and meaning in a complex reality.

And bored out of my mind in my cube waiting for the holiday weekend to begin at 4pm. (Hadn't planned on working today, but had to).

WTF??

Reality is complex. There are only shades of gray and many truths and many unknowns.

I still haven't found what I'm looking for..still searching for truth and meaning in a complex reality.

And bored out of my mind in my cube waiting for the holiday weekend to begin at 4pm. (Hadn't planned on working today, but had to).

I'm with you, but I'm in an office with no windows instead. I call it "the cave"

I'm with you, but I'm in an office with no windows instead. I call it "the cave"

I have windows nearby..with a view of a parking lot w/ palm trees and palm trees and desert on the other side. My department cube farm is mostly empty, most of the FTEs took PTO today, and a few of us contractors are here "making the sausages"..

I'm with you, but I'm in an office with no windows instead. I call it "the cave"

Ow...

I'm with you, but I'm in an office with no windows instead. I call it "the cave"

I used to have an office like that. When I was in grad school at the U. of Michigan, my office and lab was in the center of a building w/ no windows nearby. Often couldn't tell if it was 2pm or 2am..full of caffinated, exhausted PhD students typing away on their computers. And in winter, outside it was either dark or different shades of gray (little sun in a Michigan winter). Those were strange days..

I love my office. It's quite on this side of the building (the other side is not quiet)