Board 8 > Japan or the United States

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Which country overall is weirder?

Japan seems to take it at first, then when you start to think about it, seems kinda even.

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in terms of?

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Why is this even a question?

Japan, for sure.

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Japan.

I wouldn't call the US all that weird, but that's probably because I live here and most things seem normal to me.

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Oh I mean just in general, which country seems to have elements that you can find well strange.

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Japan. Pretty terrible culture too.

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Used panty vendors means Japan auto-wins.

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usa

japan does have some niche weirdness to be sure, but the us just trumps it in landmass for potential weirdness.

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I'm still amazed the Kardashians are actually considered normal.

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Japanland easily.

US just does stupid **** all the time
Japanland does Stupid **** and weird **** all the time.

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Well, considering I've spent my entire life in the U.S., it's the most normal country on the planet.

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the US, pretty easily. we're definitely the weirdest country in the world because of just how mixed up we are. we embrace the melting pot and that gets us with the weirdest crap ever, especially with our size and dual-government system.

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Japan thinks it's normal to rape girls in the subway, but the US has fried snickers bars

I'm gonna go with USA

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Considering both have had elements of their culture spread throughout the world I'd consider both more normal than a lot of countries.

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Japan hands down...

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Djungelurban posted...
Japan hands down...

not sure that is the best ides. you want their hands where you can see them.

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Come to think of it, what would you even say is the weirdest crap you can find in america?

Apart from Metta World Peace.

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also, i'd sooner pit russia and germany ahead of japan on the weirdness scale. korea's doing a fine job trying to climb up there too. japan's weirder stuff mostly comes in the way they're open with sex, of which germany trumps 'em hard, and we've plenty of individuals who'll do more and worse over here. the US just grabs the weird stuff from everybody. you just need to go to a city for a while to realize it. we're the only place who would put a millionaire area within 5 blocks of the projects, and then decide that it's such a good idea we'll do it more often.

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Might as well throw in the dutch in there.

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we're the only place who would put a millionaire area within 5 blocks of the projects, and then decide that it's such a good idea we'll do it more often.

Wouldn't that be less "weird" and more "stupid."

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ha, forgot the dutch. they actually might take the crown for this.


weirdest crap we have has to be: 1) food, 2) various state rules, 3) how we structure our living surroundings (architecture not so much - even iceland has us beat with the dick mall), 4) how terribly inefficient our government can sometimes be, 5) our television.

that's without getting into any specifics there. state rules especially get bizarre once you start fielding them with nearby ones.

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The King Wang.
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I think people are underestimating the weirdness of some people in the US. Japan might be weirder, but people acting as if there is no weirdness in the US...

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How is food in the us weird

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nope, it apparently works out most of the time. hell, lincoln center is literally a block away. juliard, prestigious for its musical talent that goes to it, is a block away from Martin Luther King High School, which as you can expect is a terrible and violent school.

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....you seriously ask how food is weird here? all our fast food, refried oreos, the fact that we will eat anything?

hell, this:



and let's not forget for a minute where the show Jackass came from.

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What about that show bizarre foods? There's plenty of food around the world I'd say is WAY weirder than refried oreos.

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and half of it we made.
the other half we either eat or is french.

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I was alwayss under the impression that stuff on jack ass and fear factor were normal in other countries

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I base all my thought on TV :D

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it's far more normal here in the US. partially due to volume, partially due to just the way the US is structured. we're open to violence and doing all kinds of weird stuff. regionally you'll easily be able to find groups of rural, urban, and suburban people and mix 'em together to get incredibly varied ideas, reactions, and things that convince you that they're worth doing despite being stupid. we're in a big country with incredibly different customs and beliefs over small distances. that affects the nation as a whole and makes for a lot of stuff that's different.

hell, how open we are with the melting pot is weirder than most things out there alone, let alone its influence on us.

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Jersey Shore is popular in the U.S.

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Lets see...

Japan:

- Invented tentacle porn
- Sells girls' panties in vending machines
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boong-Ga_Boong-Ga


USA:

- Made Rick Santorum a serious presidential candidate.




Oh, America is most definitely weirder.

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santorum isn't the one you should be saying that about.
newt is.

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Hrrrmmmm...

Initially, I'd want to say Japan is weirder.
Thinking about how weird the US is, I might not be able to make that call so quickly. It kind of depends what culture you're used to.

I would say that the US, in general, tries to regulate the weirdness. There are limits to what we are allowed to do (you couldn't tell that at first glance, though).

But Japan has many things that are downright bizarre, and practically taboo.

I think a lot of the stuff in the US is more stupid than weird.

Japan. Final answer.

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and then you look at states like alabama and kentucky which are infamous for banging your sister jokes.

and at that point you realize that what japan draws is what we actually do.

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Well if Europe is normal, then the USA is more normal than Japan is

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iceland.


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Wanglicious posted...
and then you look at states like alabama and kentucky which are infamous for banging your sister jokes.

and at that point you realize that what japan draws is what we actually do.

If we're talking percent-wise, I'm still not sure that's enough to beat Japan.

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oh it's enough. one needs to look at daytime talk shows to realize that the redneck jokes didn't just come out of nowhere. or the racist ones.

or just plain people seeing stuff like springer when it was still fresh, maury.... at anytime really, ricki lake when she was round, and like half a dozen others. and it's not even exclusively in english either, christina was on forever. still might be on, i dunno. but before this reality tv craze went on we had talk shows all the time.

still do. we just know that they all exist and aren't impressed by it anymore. we've become desensitized to such greats like 'my baby's daddy is my daddy', 'let us introduce you to the phone sex operator on national tv as you tell us about your habits and how much you've spent', or the good old classic instances where stuff like this:



occurs.

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japan and you have something wrong with you if you think it's even close, the US is weird but not like that

Immediate answer is Japan, but I've never spent one day there so how is that even remotely fair. I get the feeling that if I lived in Japan for a few years, I'd easily and resolutely reconsider. The United States has had a pretty big and long violence fetish. I'm not sure if pantie vending machines are less weird than declaring war every decade, but the latter seems more ****ed up.

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PartOfYourWorld posted...
Immediate answer is Japan, but I've never spent one day there so how is that even remotely fair. I get the feeling that if I lived in Japan for a few years, I'd easily and resolutely reconsider. The United States has had a pretty big and long violence fetish. I'm not sure if pantie vending machines are less weird than declaring war every decade, but the latter seems more ****ed up.

if you look at history being violent and imperialistic is pretty normal, nations that have powerful military's will use them liberally

How could it not be Japan?

Don't get me wrong, both cultures are incredibly bizarre and scare me immensely, but I don't quite fear for my sanity every time I see the U.S. on the news, which is more than I can say for Japan.

japan is weirder but I wouldn't say in a scary way, they do funny things like building life size gundamn replicas and selling used panties out of vending machines, they also made mind controlled cat ears!

From: Liquid Wiind | #042
if you look at history being violent and imperialistic is pretty normal, nations that have powerful military's will use them liberally

And plenty of nations have historically been far more open sexually than the conservative United States. We're a bunch of prudish chickenhawks with a gaping detachment from those we bomb into oblivion. The Japanese are xenophobic sexual deviants with a still prevalent post-war victimization complex. Which is weirder? I don't think the answer is that clear.

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Depends on who's perspective.

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fair enough, for all we talk about animated tentacle porn and used panty machines, the US has a lot of sexual dysfunction as well, it is pretty backwards that we can show blood and gore during prime time but someone exposes their nipple during the super bowl and everyone loses their **** like nic cage

From: rychu_supadude | #043
I don't quite fear for my sanity every time I see the U.S. on the news, which is more than I can say for Japan.

I said people were underestimating the US's weirdness before, but now I think people are just overestimating Japan's weirdness. Or they only expose themselves to the weirdest things from Japan and none of the normal things.

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Wanglicious posted...
we're the only place who would put a millionaire area within 5 blocks of the projects, and then decide that it's such a good idea we'll do it more often.

Ever seen South America?