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When I was in college (that’s right, ladies, COLLEGE) I did a study abroad trip, because I’m white, and that’s an important thing for white people to do. Anyway, at one point in my travels, I was in this small, medieval village in the mountains of Switzerland, OBVIOUSLY. Where else was I going to be? This place was basically Postcard Town. It looked crazy! Very pretty and untouched and old and quiet and European, all cobblestones and Lord of the Rings. The mountains were lush and green! But right on the one road that constituted the village, there was a Stüssy store, and that always made me laugh. Huh? Now, 100 years later, there is nothing surprising about this juxtaposition of the old and the new. We can basically get whatever we want, wherever we are, whenever. Everything is available everywhere and always. The world is flat, or whatever.
But, as evidenced by the video that I have posted after the jump, the world isn’t THAT flat. It is nice every once in awhile to be reminded that we do still live in a large, complicated world full of all kinds of God’s creatures, and that the cultural divides that make us unique and fascinating haven’t been completely erased by Groupon, or whatever. We are still mysterious!!!
I don’t know what is going on here and that’s why I love it. (Thanks for the tip, werttrew.)
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Card Crusher is everyone’s new Crush.
Doesn’t it annoy anyone else that a flat world is actually much larger than a round one? The whole point of the discovery of a spherical globe was like, oh, if we want to go to Japan from California, we don’t have to go all the way over America and Europe and Asia, because the world is round, and thus smaller and easier to navigate!
What I’m trying to say here is Thomas Friedman is a prick.
This is what most anime looks like if you take out all the all the crazy colored lines flying around in the background
And the tentacle rape. But if you’re taking that out, what is even the point of anime?
To be fair, not ALL anime involves tentacle rape. Some of it is robot-related.
The rape, that is. Robot-related rape.
I object to the tag “asian people” because it ignores the nuances between asian cultures, those nuances being that only the Japanese are this crazy.
They also are really loud in american libraries. CULTURAL DIVIDE, EH GUYS?
I don’t know much about global gender norms, but I’m pretty sure in 85% of first-world countries on this planet that this lady is required to put out tonight.
Oh man, I bet your alma mater throws your name around all the time. There’s probably a Delahaye Library, with your picture adorning the walls of the admissions office along with other famous alums, with the caption “Gabe Delahaye: Blog Writer.”
Isn’t that something that’s reserved for people with money, which stereotypically does not include bloggers
It’s wrong to stereotype people that way. Some blog writers have money.
Plus, Gabe is Jewish, and you know how THEY are.
And that Billy is where babies come from
I’m worried about Ryu, you guys.
No. There is another.
Something of an explanation:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/card-crusher
And also:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/guiles-theme-goes-with-everything
In Japan, the business card exchange is a very important act handled with lots respect. This appears to be some sort of Boiling Points style show that exploits that I think?
No idea what’s going on here? I think Gabe just accidently outed himself as a virgin, you guys.
He’s saving himself for marriage. Unfortunately, Chris Martin got there first.
If you start watching this once This Must Be The Place by the Talking Heads hits the one minute mark, you’ll say “Yeah…” and you’ll love it.
I mean, it’s a quiet yeah, and a quiet love, but who doesn’t need that?
What I love most about Japanese weirdness is that if you talk to a Japanese people, most of them don’t know what is going on either.
“a Japanese people”… They don’t groupthink thatttt much…
Everything I learned about Romance, I learned from this video.
She kept looking at his hand like she wanted to sniff it.
It probably smells like poop because thats totally the face that I make when I poop. And when I climax. (YES, I am 12 years old, shut up MOM!)
It isn’t the Earth that is large and round and mysterious so much as it is the Internet that is large and round and mysterious.
Know what else is large and round and mysterious?
Your mom.
Your momma so fat, she got all of War and Peace tattooed on her.
Your momma so dumb, she thought Moby-Dick was about a whale.
#literaryyourmommajokes
Your momma’s so dumb, she’s STILL waiting for Godot!
#literaryyourmommajokes
Your momma so poor, even Dickens wouldn’t want to write about her.
My theory was that this was just a very intense game of I’m Not Touching You.
This guy must be almost-Chris Brown, because he almost punched that chick in the face.
Chris Khaki.
I feel bad for/actually like the Japanese card crusher. I think his intense stage presence is the result of a rough childhood or something(?) and he’s just no good at handling them, like a lot of people. Plus, he performs some really cool card crushing tricks. No bullshit.
I didn’t know it was possible to disrespect an ATM receipt so aggressively.
I think it is a movie stub for “Hop.”
It always makes me happy to see Fisher Stevens getting work.
Is it just me or does that look like a balding Asian Joseph Gordon Levitt?
The world really IS flat!
Congratulations, you are no eligible to adopt me as your child and teach me how to be as wonderful as you are, papa-san.
NOBODY RECOGNIZED THAT THIS IS A MEGAMAN SONG?
Well…I’m black and I studied abroad. Studying abroad does not discriminate.