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To a visitor of the lodging
Give it to a visitor of the lodging in this shop
A toothbrush going down is a thing made in Japan.
Please use it in peace.
Thanking you in advance.
Hotel Asian Garden
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Hey! No up and downing, even if lodging!
What if I’m just dodging?
So they’re saying Japanese toothbrushes suck?
Or they blow.
I might suspect the toothbrush was being used as some sort of S&M implement, but “use it in peace” would kind of spoil the milieu.
mileu or mildew? either would be pure LOL
I try to avoid mildew milieus. Allergies.
you mean like this?
http://thereifixedit.com/?s=toothbrush
That’s one multi-tasking tool!
Haven’t seen your icon for quite a while! Where have you been hiding?
Eh, being a mom, pretending to be a responsible adult, etc.
“Wonder if it squirts its own toothpaste”. ROFL!
One-track minds, all 4 of us! :>
Four-track minds, all one of me!
……doodah, doodah….
Oh, DnT, I’m sorry, I didn’t know it would be contagious…
You’re forgiven. I often get a sudden attack of parody-itis when some phrase reminds me of a song, anyway.
Lately, JohnB seems to be making a lot of comments that scan like that. I think he may be a carrier of the doodahs!
oh noes we must quarantine the comments
Doo-dah’s gonna get you too,
Doo-dah, doo-dah.
Better that than the swine flu,
Oh, doo-dah day.
no, after a few large bombs fell in Japan years ago and blew up some toothbrush factories, its hard for the Japanese people to see a toothbrush go down.
No, after you failing at being funny, they just like saying stupid things to people like you.
woo. just put myself out. burned.
Japan can incorporate sex into any aspect of life. Train molestation, public urination, schoolgirl exploitation, and now even our toothbrushes are at risk of becoming rated XXX.
Where can I see one? Ha ha ha
Now I understand why they make vibrating toothbrushes.
Isn’t that called a one night stand? And geeze these people have some kinky uses for a toothbrush.
What it actually says is “The toothbrushes we provide for our guests who stay overnight are made in Japan, so don’t worry about using them”.
The “going down” part is a literal translation of “orimasu”, which is a verb that means “descend” but appears here as an artifact of keigo (polite language) appended to the verb “provide” and with no meaning of its own.
It does make one wonder about what horrors some Japanese apparently expect from foreign-made toothbrushes. And why they have to specifically (twice) mention “staying overnight”. Either that’s a love hotel or an onsen where people often come for the hot springs and lavish dinner without staying overnight. The name is atypical for either, though.
Actually, we were just saying on another pic that it would be interesting to see the results of literal translation of Chinese or Japanese text on the labels of American and European made goods. We were suspecting that those might prove equally funny to us.
Ah, and what I mean by disagree with him is that I disagreed that they don’t laugh at us too.
I would be very disappointed if Japanese people didn’t get a bit of a giggle out of gaijins’ attempts to speak Japanese, if Chinese people didn’t have a bit of a laugh at foreigners’ trying to speak Mandarin, if French speakers didn’t have a chuckle at the mangled franglais that English speakers manage in the name of trying to speak French, etc. They’re as entitled to amusement as the rest of us – if we say or write something amusingly wrong, they should enjoy the giggle.
Actually, I thought the problem, particularly with the Japanese, might be that they would be too concerned with being polite to us, and not causing us to lose face, to point out our mistakes, when in reality we’re happy to be corrected because it’s the only way to learn beyond a basic level.
I can agree with that, but only because the majority of Americans that can travel to Japan are fairly educated and polite themselves. Most Americans, even when they’re dead wrong, have a fit if you correct them.
My father-in-law is Japanese but learned the language as an adult. He said that when he traveled to Japan on business many people were snobby about the language and would refuse to acknowledge that he’d spoken if he got the grammar or accent wrong.
Looking Japanese but speaking the language badly or with a “foreign” accent is a special case that may have just weirded out people.
My personal experience are that Japanese are usually relieved when it turns out the Western-looking foreigner speaks Japanese, because it means they won’t have to try and speak English (which most of them are vrather bad at despite massive educational efforts).
But I have heard stories from decades back when a Westerner speaking Japanese would cause massive cognitive dissonance in most Japanese and would prompt them to go looking for an English-speaking co-worker.
I heard something like that too. How screwed up does your mentality have to be to not be able to even perceive that a foreigner is able to speak your language? They really thought they were the center of the world for a while. I mean, all major countries did at some point, but that’s really taking it to a whole other level.
I think it’s not so much center of the world they saw themselve as (the Chinese did, it’s what the country’s name basically means), rather it was “special, and very different from anyone else” – which can be partially explained through geographic isolation.
I even heard that at one time, some Japanese academics believed that since their language was too difficult for any foreigner to ever master, they had to design a simplified version. They did, and it was a complete failure. I haven’t been able to find a reference for that, though.
The truth is, Japanese is pretty easy to learn. The grammar is much simpler than many Germanic and Romance languages, and pronounciation is very easy. It’s just learning the script that makes it a lot of hard work.
Having known many foreign students in my many years in the land of academe, I have it on good authority that speaking English is also easy to learn, since we also have relatively simple grammar. It’s the spelling that is insanely difficult to learn. Just look how many native speakers never really master it!
Remember not to let her touch the stalagmite! It takes years to arise!
Thanks for taking this into the realm of stupid.
We do anything here from extremely puerile and stupid up to very subtle and highbrow, and we like to switch from one to the other abruptly. If this is not your kind of ride, feel free to get off at any time. If you’re one of us, welcome aboard!
See, folks, this site really is educational, as I keep pointing out. So I gather that in Japan, “going down” is considered a measure of respect. Now I just have to figure out a way to get lots of good-looking Japanese women to respect me…
You need a bigger octopus.
Get in touch with the Vice Squid.
But make sure its mustache is big enough.
How would you know? Did we have some kind of encounter back in the days when I thought having fun meant never having to remember it?
The Chinese like to use lead for white or bright colors in plastics. The small sample toothpastes made in China have been recalled for lead and unsafe glycols. People are justified for worrying about it.
*stalactite rising*
If it’s a stalactite, it must be rising downwards.
Well, I’ll bring my inversion table to the cavern so I can watch the stalactites rising downwards.
Unless it’s an Orstraylayan stalactite. Southern hemisphere, and all that.
and the toilet fluses backwards
Please take care when flusing the toilet, I might be snoozing.
One thing that adds a whole ‘nuther dimension to the lol-factor here is that this looks like an excerpt from a red-letter edition of the King James Bible, though the exact chapter and verse where “The Parable of the Licentious Toothbrush” occurs escapes me at present.
The kingdom of heaven is like a toothbrush going down. It takes the muck and placque of everyday life and scrapes it off, so that we can see the pristine whiteness with which the tooth was originally blessed. And no matter how covered with muck and placque ye be, one swipe from the toothbrush of heaven and once again ye be clean and white, and ready to chomp down on that t-bone.
But you forgot to include the part about the Repentant Floss…! And the Righteous Mouthwash. Got to complete the whole Holy Hygiene regimen.
I try to keep my homilies short, so I can’t put in everything! Sermonize too much about toothbrushing and flossing, and the next thing you know you’ve thrown in everything but the kitchen sink!
Apparently, my Homily Upon the Toothbrush of Heaven is awaiting moderation. Go figure!
Were you evangelizing as your alter-ego, Oral-B?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! It’s too early on a Sunday morning for a pun that dreadful. *clonk*
No, I was in my altar ego.
*cries*
Is there gnashing of teeth to go with your crying?
Yes, and also weeping and wailing.
Whaling is prohibited under international law, although the Japanese get around it by doing lots of “research” on whales, primarily involving how tasty the meat is.
Brother Buck! Is that you?
Yup. ’tis me.
I’ve been on kind of a self-imposed involuntary exile these past few months, and if you understand the logical contradiction there, you’ll understand the problems I was having….
Ummmmmm… no. ‘Tis just good to see you back again. And with the correct icon, too.
Yes, he appeared yesterday, and although the icon was wrong, I still welcomed him back, figuring it unlikely that someone else chose the same handle. I’m glad you made it through whatever you had to go through, and I probably have a better understanding of what you mean than most here, since I’ve been there and done that. But I am indeed glad to have you back.
Yes, I know how hard it is to impose something involuntary on yourself. Quite oxymoronic.
…As long as she goes down – in peace.
…Because giving it to them anywhere EXCEPT the shop would be obscene. Plus – I wouldn’t allow any toothbrush to go down on me UNLESS it was Japanese…
I think I am begin to understand, toothbrushes go down only in Japan; nowhere else. I prepare to believe this.
A toothbrush going down is a thing in Japan, because only the Japanese could think of something like that.