No-time Toulouse. The story of the wild and lawless days of the post-Impressionists.

- 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' Episode 38

\Fun Fact: Asshii (the leg-crossing monster) is kneehii to a grasshopper.

Those were pretty interesting. Nice find, subby. :)

Very nice. Never knew leaving an umbrella was such an issue.

The image of sumo wrestlers locked in combat serves as a reminder for passengers to stand safely behind the white line when waiting for the train.

That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw it.

thalidomide new and improved: Jesus wasn't asian.

sorry, asians.

Actually, middle east, that whole area - is Asia.

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Amen

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Clete Orris: Where's the one saying do not release Sarin gas in the subway?

It's covered in all the ones concerning umbrellas; the Sarin was released by puncturing with the sharpened tip of an umbrella newspaper-wrapped packages of liquid Sarin.

The Marcel Marceau poster will give me nightmares...

Jedekai: chookbillion: Igor Jakovsky: What I learned from that site is that the Japanese tend to be forgetful when it comes to their umbrellas.

And drunk.


Three friends at different times have gone to Japan. They've all said the same thing; everyone's drunk and cigarettes are still seventy-five cents a pack. A can of Coke costs about $2 there, as a comparison.

Yes, no, and no.


-Drunken walks-of-shame home are incredibly common on Fri/Sat nights and not all that uncommon every other night.

-Cigarette prices just jumped here ($1/pack-plus) because of a tax increase. Cigs are now in the $4-5/pack range.

-A can of Coke costs anywhere from $1.25 to $1.50 depending on the vending machine. A bottle will cost you $2.


As far as this train stuff, I wish that Tokyo Metro would get smart and sell these signs as posters/postcards, but they wouldn't know a good publicity strategy if it bit them in the ass. For now I'll settle for that proposed merger between the Tokyo Metro lines and the Toei lines that would make it easy to transfer between them without paying an extra $2 "just because."

dokool: Jedekai: chookbillion: Igor Jakovsky: What I learned from that site is that the Japanese tend to be forgetful when it comes to their umbrellas.

And drunk.


Three friends at different times have gone to Japan. They've all said the same thing; everyone's drunk and cigarettes are still seventy-five cents a pack. A can of Coke costs about $2 there, as a comparison.

Yes, no, and no.


-Drunken walks-of-shame home are incredibly common on Fri/Sat nights and not all that uncommon every other night.

-Cigarette prices just jumped here ($1/pack-plus) because of a tax increase. Cigs are now in the $4-5/pack range.

-A can of Coke costs anywhere from $1.25 to $1.50 depending on the vending machine. A bottle will cost you $2.


As far as this train stuff, I wish that Tokyo Metro would get smart and sell these signs as posters/postcards, but they wouldn't know a good publicity strategy if it bit them in the ass. For now I'll settle for that proposed merger between the Tokyo Metro lines and the Toei lines that would make it easy to transfer between them without paying an extra $2 "just because."

Sounds pretty awesome actually. I wish the language wasn't so damned impenetrable for me.

Gah...didn't mean to quote all of that for a small post.

bobbette: Why don't they just gather up all the umbrellas and put them in a box at the front of the subway station, and let people take the lost umbrellas?

Umbrella redistribution.

Communist.

fusillade762: bobbette: Why don't they just gather up all the umbrellas and put them in a box at the front of the subway station, and let people take the lost umbrellas?

Umbrella redistribution.

Communist.

They actually have this at my home station; unclaimed and donated umbrellas get tagged and put in a big rack outside the station and anyone can take one when the weather's bad.

However, the Tokyo Metro will hold onto lost umbrellas (and other items) for something like half a year... there was a video story about it on CNN's website somewhere but I'm inbetween classes and don't have time to find it. I still remember the conversation between the reporter and the guy in charge of their lost & found...

Reporter: (in a room that must have had 1000s of umbrellas bundled together) don't you just throw all of these away?
Official: *confused* I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
Reporter: notsureifserious.jpg

ifyoulovejesus: I am an end-of-the-year drunk.

I'm more of a year-round drunk.