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Imponderable #48: Dongyang China

1 Jun

June 1, 2012

I warn you, this may be too gross for some of my readers.

Far be it from me to meddle in the affairs of other nations, but damn China! What’s up with that????

There is a lot to talk about here, but they gather the “discharge” from the toilets of local schools? I don’t know about China, but have you ever seen a public school toilet? I have. No way would you want to boil an egg in anything that came out of there.

Of course, there are some real benefits from drinking, er, discharge. From wikipedia which I swear is just gross: Urine was used in several ancient cultures for various health, healing, and cosmetic purposes, practices which are still used by some people of these cultures today. In Western culture, these practices are known as urine therapy, a form of alternative medicine.

There are also no real drawbacks: Consuming one’s own urine (or the urine of a healthy person, if participating in urolagnia involving urophagia) is relatively low in risk.

Of course the biggest drawback is that it is just totally disgusting.

On the other hand, if they videotape it they may just be on to something:

WARNING: THIS GETS EVEN GROSSER
(Saarah, if you have read this far please leave now.)

2 Girls 1 Cup is the unofficial nickname of the trailer for Hungry Bitches, a 2007 Brazilian scat-fetish pornographic film produced by MFX Media. The trailer features two women conducting themselves in fetishistic intimate relations, including defecating into a cup, taking turns ostensibly consuming the excrement, and vomiting it into each other’s mouths. “Lovers Theme” by Hervé Roy, from the movie Delusions of Grandeur, plays throughout.

This one-minute preview is a viral video that became a well-known Internet meme in itself, and for the reactions its graphic content elicited from viewers who have not seen such films before.Around mid-October 2007, video sites such as YouTube were flooded with videos depicting others’ reactions to watching the video for the first time. Many other reaction videos have now appeared for similarly shocking and extreme videos.

And no, I am not posting a link. This is not the Late Night Movie House of Crap, Literally.

Why would people be so into drinking pee?

The question is Imponderable. To me, anyway.

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Drooliver’s Travels

24 May

May 24, 2012

Allan Keyes is back once again to point out some of the more interesting aspects of Japanese culture.

While in Japan, I resolved to watch a lot of the local television, so as to get a better sense of daily life there.  Being the lazy, anti-social couch potato that I am, this was a fine plan. One of the things I was keen to watch was some run of the mill anime. I don’t mean the stuff that we all know here, like Gundam or Sailor Moon or Naruto or One Piece –I was looking for the general filler that runs there but doesn’t cross over big. Think of our Saturday morning cartoons – I wanted to see the Anime equivalent of these:

And shockingly enough….I really wasn’t disappointed. Most of what I watched involved fights between various high school heroes, mechas or space soldiers. Meh. I can see that anywhere. But there was one program that really kept my attention. It was moody and kind of creepy. From what I was able to discern at the time, the plot went something like this:  Generic  high school guy notices the girl next to him in class asleep at her desk.  At day’s end, she wakes up and leaves a small puddle of drool on the desk in her wake.  So like any normal kid, the guy…..decides to take a taste. Of her drool. Left on her desk. Hooooooooookay. Well, the kid gets sick as you would’ve expected, but instead of Hep C or mono, he starts suffering withdrawal symptoms.  If he doesn’t taste this girls’ drool every day, he gets sick. As the story progresses, they seem to share a “drool bond”, where they can sense each other’s emotions through mutual (and clinical) tasting of each other’s drool.  And there’s even more strangeness with hidden scissors that I won’t go into, since I couldn’t adequately explain.

I spent a few days online trying to find out more about this strange show, and I finally found the title: “Mysterious Girlfriend X” – isn’t that a perfectly Japanese title? God knows what kind of wacky title a show like that would have if it was created here – Swappin’ Spit perhaps, or maybe Drooliver’s Travels? (Ok, I admit I’d watch a show with THAT title). Turns out that the anime is based on a popular manga, thereby proving that a large segment of Japan has serious saliva issues

 

Because this is really not cool:

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