No!! smorking
No!! littering
No!! tout
No!! shoplifting
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Signs in Harajuku, Japan.
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Can I at least smonk?
no. no you may not.
Perhaps that third one is supposed to be, “No taut,” in which case you are being asked to disembark from the Titan Uranus.
It’s directed at slackers.
Slackers don’t usually read such long works of literature.
What’s funny is that the difficult words (shoplifting & littering) they got right.
Maybe for those they touted the dictionary.
yeah i noticed that too lol
Maybe they just doubted the dictionary.
Or flouted it.
Or grouted it.
Shrouded it.
but no!
the “no shoplifting” picture is definitely a hand reaching pulling money from a wallet.
so it means “no pickpocketing” (verb?)
or possibly “no shopping”
I need to tout a smork before we go online reading the comics on the intertubes.
Maybe you need to smork a tout… (smoke a trout?)
From the picture it looks like they’re prohibiting armed robbery, which would go along with the fourth prohibition. But I can’t see a path from there to “tout.” Perhaps they are forbidding “solicitation,” in one sense or another.
No from the picture it looks like the figure is pointing at the other figure and yelling, “NO SOUP FOR YOU!”
lol or Maybe it’s saying No soup Nazis xD
Comic & Internet Cafe Alpha or C.I.C.A. sounds like some sort of top secret military project involving Specially trained Geeks and Nerds who are sent in as secret agents to foil the evil plans of Cheezburger loving lolcats…
Sounds like the next Disney movie xP
A Comic & Internet Cafe Alpha? I’m totally there.
but I wanna smork!
Then you have to settle for Cafe Beta. Smorkers are second-class citizens these days.
Not until you’re twelve, son.
Looks to me like “tout”ing is panhandling, or begging.
Which would be one of the forms of “solicitation” I speculated about before. There are at least two more…
I thought “tout” meant touch. No touching people on the street. Especially strangers. You can see (if you want to) that the person doing the touting isn’t close to the “toutee”. Just sort of tapping on the shoulder with invisible fingers.
Never been to Tokyo, huh? When crossing the street, they’ll bump shoulders into you like you never existed.
yea, i was in tokyo this summer and saw those signs everywhere and some people there will bump into you like u dirt, so its possible that is what they mean… or molesting, apparently there is a huge rape problem there… either one
tout? it almost looks like the image is one person touching another? no touchey! do not touch the king’s (that is me) feet!
So it’s true, Elvis! You’re not really dead at all!
(In mort’s cute voice)…
I LIKE feet….. *big eyes*
*touches feet*
Aw, find a chat room!
I just do things, people tell me not to.
OK, don’t find a chat room.
The “no tout” still has us scratching our heads. No poking, no touching, no dusty off other peoples’ shoulders? Hmmm.
I think it means “No Touch” or “No Touching.” You know how foreign men can get while riding on subways and buses and such! If I remember correctly, somewhere in China, they started a women-only subway because women were complaining about being fondled by men while riding on the subway or train.
The origin of these women only subway cars is Japan (click name).
but the picture looks like a woman touching a man…
No choking!
No up and downing!
“Tout” means “everything”, in French… maybe a clue ?
“No Everything”? A nihilistic sign?
Maybe “You’re not allowed to do anything, so just… NO!!
Translation of that sign we had weeks ago that just said “DO NOT”.
I need a smork. Like now.
no trout?
Maybe smorked trout.
I usually only smork after touting, so I guess i’d be ok there…
smorking…?
Alright, who let Coach Z make the sign?
Homestar WIN.
*smorks*
bad! no cookie!
Touting is soliciting someone to buy something from you, eg. “Hey Mister, you want to buy a watch?” It’s actually an English word!!
WOW you are right! how are you the only person to know this? well, besides everyone in japan.
In Japan tout refers specifically to trying to direct people to your business, usually a restaurant, bar, hostess club, etc.
You can stand out side your shop’s door and call people in, but lots of places won’t let you just wander around the neighborhood and do it.
If you’re a Westerner and you visit Shijuku at night, the touts will descend on you like vultures on a fresh kill. But at least you can smork.
OMG IT’S A SMART PERSON
AAAAH! BURN IT WITH FIRE!
tout?? to me, it looks like you can’t play tag… oh noez!
Tout!
You’re it!
You Too Can Quit Smorking Now…
If I’m not allowed to shoplift then i’m just cutting straight to the pillaging.
Very good! **giggles**
Ah, but you know what usually comes with the pillaging…
Ahh, the rapping!
And fterwards the smorking.
No rapping for you, JohnB – yellow men can’t rap.
Thank you! I consider the inability to rap, coupled with my utter disinterest in doing so, to be one of my virtues.
I was there and I took the exact same picture.
Somebody was obviously in Harajuku, Tokyo
Wuts Dat??, I Raff I Ruse
HA I thought perhaps by the word ‘tout’ it may have meant taunt…oh dang…
i think so too, it looks like skinny stick man pointing at fat stick man.
Isn’t that always the way? Skinny stick women always point at fat stick women too! BTW, trying to say your screen name out loud has sprained my mouth!
No smorking, no touting, no littering, AND no shoplifting? Might as well stay inside then, they’ve taken away all the outside entertainment possibilities! Yep, Tokyo just got crossed off MY travel list!
Yeah, I know what you mean. I just love to tout my smork, after I’ve shoplifted some litter. That’s a day well done.
Not to be a buzzkill, but touting is showing tourists around for money, so the sign essentially only has a typo in the word smoking. The picture for no touts actually makes sense.
maybe no touching? thats my best guess
hahaa, i was gonna send a photo of this in to one of these sites too! they’re all over Harajuku
i couldn’t get a clear photo sadly
engrish poop where theres smork they tout back
As the previous poster commented, “tout” is an old British word for somebody soliciting business on the street. Nowadays it is a term mostly associated with what Americans call scalpers… in the UK they are known as ticket touts.
i was on the street, you are right, there were some Jamaican guys trying to lure you away into a back alley to sell you illegal/stolen wares
I was ON this street a few weeks ago and tout could NEVER mean no touching. You are jam packed, wall to wall with bodies.. So funny that I am not the only one who snapped a pic of this stoopid sign!
SMORKIN’ LABBIT
Hi, im troll and I would enjoy much point out that the signs not are spelled as much correctly as proper.