Your bazooka is out of rockets, I can tell because its clear. Also you are a reptile, and are incapable of firing such a weapon.

This is Why I Bought a PS3

MRI Prank

My favorite part of this video is the fact that they never tell us why they are in nurse outfits. If you want to see more, google Gaki no Tsukai.

Is the foot in the crotch really necessary?

Yum-A-Moto

Above is a picture of Japanese Chemist Mayu Yamamoto, accepting her 2007 Ig Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Ig Nobel prizes are awarded every year to great thinkers all around the world for improbable research. Mayu Yamamoto received her prize for inventing a new process that could produce vanillin, a key component of vanilla fragrance and flavoring, at less than half the cost of the original vanilla bean extraction process. Here's an excerpt from her acceptance speech.

"Thank you. Please imagine what kind of smell you get when cow dung are heated. Can you imagine that? It is very strange and sweet. Please eat ice cream with cow dung. Thank you."

Thats right, Yamamoto produces vanillin out of cow dung. A one hour heating and pressuring process transforms excrement into the sweet smelling chemical, which can be used in shampoo, perfumes, or food products. Toscanini’s Ice Cream in Cambridge Massachusetts has even named a new flavor in honor of Mayu, Yum-A-Moto Vanilla Twist. To the right is a photo of Yamamoto's fellow Ig Nobel Laureates sampling the new flavor.


Since the inception of the Ig Nobel Prizes, there have been 13 Japanese award winners. Here are some of the most notable Japanese winners, directly from the Improbable Research past winners site


PEACE
Keita Sato, President of Takara Co., Dr. Matsumi Suzuki, President of Japan Acoustic Lab, and Dr. Norio Kogure, Executive Director, Kogure Veterinary Hospital, for promoting peace and harmony between the species by inventing Bow-Lingual, a computer-based automatic dog-to-human language translation device.

BIOLOGY PRIZE: Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu, and Zhang Guanglei of Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Sagamihara, Japan, for demonstrating that kitchen refuse can be reduced more than 90% in mass by using bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas.

COGNITIVE SCIENCE PRIZE. Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Hokkaido University, Japan, Hiroyasu Yamada of Nagoya, Japan, Ryo Kobayashi of Hiroshima University, Atsushi Tero of Presto JST, Akio Ishiguro of Tohoku University, and Ágotá Tóth of the University of Szeged, Hungary, for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles.

PEACE
Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.

CHEMISTRY
Takeshi Makino, president of The Safety Detective Agency in Osaka, Japan, for his involvement with S-Check, an infidelity detection spray that wives can apply to their husbands' underwear.

BIODIVERSITY
Chonosuke Okamura of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory in Nagoya,
Japan, for discovering the fossils of dinosaurs, horses, dragons,
princesses, and more than 1000 other extinct "mini-species," each
of which is less than 1/100 of an inch in length. [REFERENCE: the
series "Reports of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory," published by
the Okamura Fossil Laboratory in Nagoya, Japan during the 1970's
and 1980's.]

ECONOMICS
Akihiro Yokoi of Wiz Company in Chiba, Japan and Aki
Maita of Bandai Company in Tokyo, the father and mother of
Tamagotchi, for diverting millions of person-hours of work into
the husbandry of virtual pets.

BIOLOGY
T. Yagyu and his colleagues from the University Hospital
of Zurich, Switzerland, from Kansai Medical University in Osaka,
Japan, and from Neuroscience Technology Research in Prague, Czech
Republic, for measuring people's brainwave patterns while they
chewed different flavors of gum. [Published as "Chewing gum flavor
affects measures of global complexity of multichannel EEG," T.
Yagyu, et al., Neuropsychobiology, vol. 35, 1997, pp. 46-50.]

Pulsating Tumor Robot

Japanese artist Mio I-zawa has two great loves: robotics and nauseating people. His latest masterpiece is a flesh-like tumor that pulsates according to computer usage. When your computer is at rest it is a deflated cyst, but as you use more computing power it grows into a big Akira-like tumor.


...but can it run crysis?

The Asatsumi Rose

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This is a commercial for Asatsumi Rose Water, a company that made rose flavored health drinks in Japan. Apparently since the commercial aired the company has gone out of business, I guess showing a model chomping on a flower wasn't a good marketing ploy.
The girl is Maki Nishiyama, she was also in a commercial for a cell phone with an 8 foot tall dish of ice cream. You can check that out too... that is if you're into that sort of thing.

The greatest villain of all time: Starfish Hitler

My love for 1970s Japanese television grows every day. This is a clip from "Kamen Rider x", a series about a semi-robotic superhero who fights the evil Japanese corporation known as "G.O.D". In this episode Kamen Rider squares off against starfish Hitler in "Hell's Dictator, Starfish Hitler!!". Apparently throughout the series, Kamen Rider X fought quite a few interesting reincarnations of real life and literary villains. Starfish Hitler was all I could find online at the moment, but I'm seriously considering buying a DVD because there are some really great villains that have not made their way onto youtube like Spider Napoleon, Ant Capone, Genghis Condor, Scorpion Geronimo and of course Scorpion Geronimo Jr.

Mind you, this didn't show on japanese television at 3am, this was a very famous and beloved series. Japanese Astronomer Akimasa Nakamura even named two asteroid belts in honor of the series: 12408 Fujioka and 12796 Kamenrider. There's even been a couple American TV spinoffs, including the awful "Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight" released earlier this year on The CW4Kids. It's a really terrible show, not even good for laughs. I was kind of excited for it, but I should have known it would be a crappy reincarnation of Power Rangers. Nobody creates WTFs like japan, nobody!

Whatever Floats Your Boat

Americans will only put a stocking on their head if they're going to rob someone. Apparently Japanese people put them on if they're out of rope and want to play tug of war.




Of course this is Japan, so someone had to fetishize it too. The following is a mostly SFW video of cute girls getting stockings pulled off their faces. I guess the attraction comes in the fact that anyone's normal face looks beautiful after you've seen them stretched out by pantyhose.




also worth a watch, more pantyhose hijinks on an austrailian television show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrprsBR_T8s