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7 Oct 2007, 12:08 #1461
Yikes. :sweat:

Good thing you walk in at that time or they could have both ended up dead. Did they thank you for saving their lives?
7 Oct 2007, 12:16 #1462
tabana wrote:Yikes. :sweat:
Did they thank you for saving their lives?


yeah right...they were high as f*ck...my roommate had a seizure and my blood pressure shot up to 600 over 3,000....

it was a bad trip, bro....but i appreciate your commentary...at that point i wanted to smoke a fat joint...just to calm the f*ck down.
7 Oct 2007, 12:20 #1463
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
7 Oct 2007, 12:24 #1464
tabana wrote::rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


I was a nervous wreck, man...I thought, "why did I have to walk into this mess, now?" :sweat:
7 Oct 2007, 12:44 #1465
:rofl:

I'm lucky, the worst party I crashed into was my ex and her friends. One girl was sick, one was taking her clothes off while the rest was crying for no reason. I spent 15 minutes talking to a girl until she started peeing in her pants, because she didn't want to go to the bathroom. :crazy2:

I never sat on that couch again. :hehe: A bunch of drunk 15 year old girls are no fun. :sweat:
7 Oct 2007, 12:46 #1466
tabana wrote::rofl:

I'm lucky, the worst party I crashed into was my ex and her friends. One girl was sick, one was taking her clothes off while the rest was crying for no reason. I spent 15 minutes talking to a girl until she started peeing in her pants, because she didn't want to go to the bathroom. :crazy2:

I never sat on that couch again. :hehe: A bunch of drunk 15 year old girls are no fun. :sweat:


:bow: bow down...you get props for dealing with that stress!
7 Oct 2007, 12:55 #1467
Not really. I'll probably die due to it by the time I reach 40. :beaten:
7 Oct 2007, 13:00 #1468
tabana wrote:Not really. I'll probably die due to it by the time I reach 40. :beaten:


nah by that time you will have gotten busy with lime, lemon, and orange, too. :P
7 Oct 2007, 13:12 #1469
:lol: :dielaughing:

I'd love that. Talk about awesome stress relief. :mrgreen:
7 Oct 2007, 13:13 #1470
tabana wrote::lol: :dielaughing:

I'd love that. Talk about awesome stress relief. :mrgreen:


With your long work hours...you deserve such "relief" :victory:
7 Oct 2007, 13:19 #1471
Thanks. I'm actually still at work, but it's not like I've been working over the past 3 hours. :angeldevil:

I just need a plane ticket to narita and a few yens.
7 Oct 2007, 13:21 #1472
tabana wrote:
I just need a plane ticket to narita and a few yens.


you deserve that much! :mrgreen:
8 Oct 2007, 00:19 #1473
How low can they go? Pseudo pedo-porn peddlers loll in lascivious limbo

Spa! (10/2)Japan's child cheesecake market is thriving, but Spa! (10/2) says the borderline kiddy porno business is on the verge of belatedly being busted.

Scores, sometimes hundreds, flock daily to a store in Tokyo's Akihabara district that deals exclusively in products featuring models all aged under 15.

Pinky Net, a talent agency that handles mostly underage models, is being swamped by young girls and their mothers looking to get into the business -- despite only taking on new recruits provided they accept working for nothing until the market determines their worth

A fetish for young girls is not an old phenomenon in Japan, with famous photographer Kishin Shinoyama producing top-selling "Lolita" pictures in the 1970s and bubblegum idols booming two decades later, but what's happening with exposure of those in their early teens now is close to, if not already, obscene.

"There's racier exposure, and everything is being marketed on raunchiness. You've got young girls decked out in G-strings and sucking on bananas as though they were something else," a fan of teen pin-up idols tells Spa! "Real fans like me are looking for the purity girls this age should have. But it's the raunchy stuff that sells."

As the under-15 pin-up model market grows and places more emphasis on sex, the models have rapidly been getting younger.

"We absolutely won't use anybody who hasn't reached junior high school yet. When we scout somebody, we show them a video of the kind of work we want them to do, and don't let them perform without the consent of both them and their parents," another talent agency's spokesman says.

"But there are plenty of DVDs out there featuring elementary school children, and loads of products where they've used pre-schoolers only 4 or 5 years old. More important to the market is the age of the model, rather than her name. Check out the packages. All the models' ages are in much bigger print than their names."

Despite the roaring trade in child cheesecake, the business unsurprisingly has its critics.

"I'm always hearing about how the cops have got their eyes on a place, or they've questioned such-and-such a cameraman or such-and-such a model. All this talk is just mere rumor, but it's impossible to deny that people have gone too far. Most people are actually wondering why the cops haven't cracked down yet," an industry source tells Spa! "It's only a matter of time before the cops get on to someone."

There are some who already fear the under-15 model market is no longer fit for mass consumption. Amazon Japan stopped sales of almost 700 items because it feared they could be constituted as child pornography. Most locals in the business say Amazon Japan only took the steps because it's owned by a U.S. company and Westerners are avid opponents of child pornography.

Nonetheless, there are cracks beginning to appear in the surface, with the managing editor of one magazine charged with breaking the ban on child pornography for printing under-15 material. He sounds an ominous warning about the continuation of the child cheesecake market and the long arm of the law's response to it.

"At the time, there were loads of magazines printing the same kind of stuff as we were. But the situation is like a game of chicken, where everybody sees how much risk they can take before they go too far," Spa! quotes the managing editor saying upon his arrest. "Until the law clearly states what can and can't be done, publications are going to keep on trying to see how much they can get away with." (By Ryann Connell)

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8 Oct 2007, 01:00 #1474
I stumble upon that while back. I was looking for info on an artist to add in the database and saw DVDs with kids in bikini. Couldn't have been more than 6 or 7 years old. Nasty sh‚¢t. :bleh:

If they don't let them perform without the consent of both parents and they know they'll be sucking bananas in g-strings... They should get their kids taken by whatever child welfare agency Japan has.
8 Oct 2007, 01:02 #1475
tabana wrote:I stumble upon that while back. I was looking for info on an artist to add in the database and saw DVDs with kids in bikini. Couldn't have been more than 6 or 7 years old. Nasty sh‚¢t. :bleh:

If they don't let them perform without the consent of both parents and they know they'll be sucking bananas in g-strings... They should get their kids taken by whatever child welfare agency Japan has.


Indeed. I dunno...some things seem fairly obvious in this world...and the impropriety of this is one of them.
8 Oct 2007, 06:01 #1476
It's just training for MM fame and fortune :bleh:
8 Oct 2007, 11:39 #1477
Anime Dad wrote:It's just training for MM fame and fortune :bleh:


and then they end up like this

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8 Oct 2007, 14:08 #1478
Tu_triky wrote:How low can they go? Pseudo pedo-porn peddlers loll in lascivious limbo

"There's racier exposure, and everything is being marketed on raunchiness. You've got young girls decked out in G-strings and sucking on bananas as though they were something else," a fan of teen pin-up idols tells Spa! "Real fans like me are looking for the purity girls this age should have. But it's the raunchy stuff that sells."


WHAT?!

"We absolutely won't use anybody who hasn't reached junior high school yet. When we scout somebody, we show them a video of the kind of work we want them to do, and don't let them perform without the consent of both them and their parents," another talent agency's spokesman says.


WHAT?!

"But there are plenty of DVDs out there featuring elementary school children, and loads of products where they've used pre-schoolers only 4 or 5 years old. More important to the market is the age of the model, rather than her name. Check out the packages. All the models' ages are in much bigger print than their names."


WHAT?!
9 Oct 2007, 00:26 #1479
Japanese Agriculture Ministers Busted for Discussing Gundam on Wikipedia

Ever wonder what your government bureaucrats do on their down time? An internal investigation at the agriculture ministry recently revealed that six of their staffers had been spending hours and hours editing Wikipedia entries about Gundam on their work computers. Apparently they know a lot more about mobile suits than farming, cuz they edited at total of 260 entries related to the popular anime series.

As a consequence, Wikipedia was banned from all ministry computers. When interviewed by CNN, a ministry official had this to say about the situation:

"The Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam."
9 Oct 2007, 06:05 #1480
:lol: This was on the radio yesterday. Hilarious!

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