The last word on OLD MAN IN CINEMA!?

Pyongyang

Looks like the Japanese have signs for people who can't help whipping their lad out in public places. Figured I'd share this photo I found in one of my coffee table art books tonight.

Is this what is needed for OLD MAN IN CINEMA!? :pac:

GreenWolfe

I think I remember these. They're a series of manner posters on the Tokyo Metro, latest ones are at their site here. With the one on the photo, I think it means that you should know better than to spread out all of your stuff and stretch your legs out, blocking multiple seats.

Older ones here.

Pyongyang

EarthlyPangaea wrote: »

you should know better than to spread out all of your stuff

Exactly.

In Ireland it means, don't whip out your 'skinhead wearing a polo neck' and crack out a puddle of trouser custard while in the company of others at your local cinema.

Spacedog

From my Japanese Phrasebook...

Pyongyang

すみませんわかりません.

GreenWolfe

Pyongyang wrote: »

Exactly.

In Ireland it means, don't whip out your 'skinhead wearing a polo neck' and crack out a puddle of trouser custard while in the company of others at your local cinema.

The blurred out bit should say "Please share this seat with others". As bad as that idea was.....*shudder*



I vote for this one:


If this guy has a mobile, best put up the above poster as well

Pyongyang

That image is actually to the left of the one in my art book.

LOVE 'old man in cinema', needs to be a meme, or at the very least he needs a network to syndicate a tv series on him.

johnny_ultimate

Yeah the monthly manner posters is one of those weird eccentricities in Tokyo. This was the one when I was first over there.



I think me and my friends eventually had to ask someone what it was about we saw them so much :pac: If I recall, the next one went up a day or so before we left. It was a rite of passage that our trip had ended [/nostalgia]

Although they have gone downhill slightly since the 1970s and 1980s... http://pinktentacle.com/2010/08/vintage-tokyo-subway-manner-posters/



The poster that inspired Cho Aniki...

Pyongyang

WOW! This one is my favourite!

Casey120

SdoowSirhc

Cannot believe this old guy got a thread! I always do it and I get nothing in return, except the cheap thrill of course...

Pyongyang

Hey, 'OLD MAN IN CINEMA' is awesome. Let him bask in his unbeknownst custard-riddled glory! :pac:

Jack burton

These are japantastic!

OwaynOTT

I was right! This forum is only a gentle nudge from going all the way to downtown smutville at any giving moment. A thread devoted to the old man and the cinema!

Pyongyang

Jack burton wrote: »

These are japantastic!

As resident artist, well, you and Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale (although he paints 'mature' art, like watercolours of viaducts in Sligo and Walshestown, and fruitbowl still life frescos), id love to see a Daily Telegraph style cartoon that mocks OLD MAN IN CINEMA. You gotta do it.

Pyongyang

Jack burton wrote: »

These are japantastic!

As resident artist, well, you and Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale (although he paints 'mature' art, like watercolours of viaducts in Sligo and Walshestown, and fruitbowl still life frescos), id love to see a Daily Telegraph style cartoon that mocks OLD MAN IN CINEMA.

Pyongyang

I must be psychic. Apparently there is a viaduct in Owenmore, Sligo. :eek:

*quickly taps in www.lottery.ie in the browser address bar*



Best whip out your easel and give that brush a good walloping eh Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale?

o1s1n

Pyongyang

OLD MAN IN CINEMA! OLD MAN IN CINEMA!

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

Sir Ultimate just posted in the films forum that whilst in the IFI last night, he say down onto a seat & it felt damp & gooey. Apparently it was the same seat where Old Man In Cinema banged one out last week*





























*actual story may not be true

Pyongyang

EnterNow wrote: »

Sir Ultimate just posted in the films forum

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056683262

:pac:

Myrddin

Pyongyang wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056683262

:pac:

Couldn't read through that if I tried, far too much hipsterism going on. No offence to any film buffs but to me, films are 2 hour pieces of entertainment...not something I want to read too much into

Pyongyang

Someone please photoshop this to say OLD MAN IN CINEMA! instead of It's Only A Movie!

CLICK!

penev10

Took this in a subway station in Kyoto:



It was outside the Ladies toilets so I got a few looks when I whipped out a DSLR and started snapping away!

Didn't see this classic one unfortunately -

johnny_ultimate

EnterNow wrote: »

Sir Ultimate just posted in the films forum that whilst in the IFI last night, he say down onto a seat & it felt damp & gooey. Apparently it was the same seat where Old Man In Cinema banged one out last week

Actually was in the IFI last night, rewatched the wonderful Himizu (might be my favourite film of the year so far). I'd say you'd love the film EnterNow, you should check out the DVD when its released (I was going to say 'when it comes out', but I thought better of it). It was a different cinema though, you'll be saddened to hear, and the only irregularity was a fellow with a slightly unusual laugh.

Myrddin

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Actually was in the IFI last night, rewatched the wonderful Himizu (might be my favourite film of the year so far). I'd say you'd love the film EnterNow, you should check out the DVD when its released (I was going to say 'when it comes out', but I thought better of it). It was a different cinema though, you'll be saddened to hear, and the only irregularity was a fellow with a slightly unusual laugh.

"Two teenagers living a dystopian existence in post-tsunami Japan embark on a campaign of violence against evil wrong doers."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1900893/

Sounds pretty good actually, I like dystopian backdrops

Lol at the weird laugh guy, I hate the way we notice things in the cinema that we wouldn't normally notice at all

Pyongyang

I wonder if OLD MAN IN CINEMA! went to see The Simpsons Movie and when he made his exit he bumped in to one of those cardboard cut-outs?

Casey120

Pyongyang

This one is rather bizarre, but probably right up OLD MAN IN CINEMA!'s street.

Myrddin

LOl, over here we've signs about the likes of drinking in public, loitering, littering etc. How perverted does a nation have to be to warrant no perving signs

o1s1n

Haha, just noticed the creepy man in the background, that's priceless.

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

Haha, just noticed the creepy man in the background, that's priceless.

I wonder if that is Señor Ultimate in the window?

Casey120

Steve X2

EnterNow wrote: »

LOl, over here we've signs about the likes of drinking in public, loitering, littering etc. How perverted does a nation have to be to warrant no perving signs

They have them as well, theyre just better than ours

Andrew76

Steve SI wrote: »

They have them as well, theyre just better than ours

Looks like their drunks are much better dressed than the equivalent scum we have over here too. :pac:

o1s1n

That last one doubles up as no boozing AND no perving.

Myrddin

A nation with deep routed pervert issues

o1s1n

Seems to be true that the more conservative you are the more perverse you tend to be too.

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

Seems to be true that the more conservative you are the more perverse you tend to be too.

I dunno, I find the likes of Ireland & England overly conservative at the best of times when it comes to most things...but you can't go out & buy used school girl undies from a vending machine at the same time.

a5y

o1s1n wrote: »

Seems to be true that the more conservative you are the more perverse you tend to be too.

EnterNow wrote: »

I dunno, I find the likes of Ireland & England overly conservative at the best of times when it comes to most things...but you can't go out & buy used school girl undies from a vending machine at the same time.

I'm with o1s1n on this one. Ireland's had WAY too many sex abuse cases from the most conservative organisation in the entire country to be considered an exception. I'd trade vendopervs for that in a heartbeat.

That said though I've no idea what the Japanese sex offender rate is like, and even if I had the numbers I don't know if I could trust 'em.

Myrddin

a5y wrote: »

I'm with o1s1n on this one. Ireland's had WAY too many sex abuse cases from the most conservative organisation in the entire country to be considered an exception. I'd trade vendopervs for that in a heartbeat.

That said though I've no idea what the Japanese sex offender rate is like, and even if I had the numbers I don't know if I could trust 'em.

Dunno, if that were the case places like Germany would have schooly vendo-pants machines

Agreed that we're no exception by any means, but the openness of the Japanese perv machine is just....weird.

ghostchant

If by 'perv machine' we're still talking about those underwear vending machine things then I wouldn't say they were 'open' about it, at least not anymore. I didn't see anything of the sort when I was there and as far as I know they are now illegal.

If you're talking about society in general then it's a little less black and white. The women only carriages (that i accidentally tried to board at one point in the first few days) are testament to a problem that obviously still exists.

Myrddin

ghostchant wrote: »

If by 'perv machine' we're still talking about those underwear vending machine things then I wouldn't say they were 'open' about it, at least not anymore. I didn't see anything of the sort when I was there and as far as I know they are now illegal.

If you're talking about society in general then it's a little less black and white. The women only carriages (that i accidentally tried to board at one point in the first few days) are testament to a problem that obviously still exists.

Yep, the perv machine as in certain aspects of their society. I'm sure they're no worse than any other societies, it was just the openness of it that was odd. If those machines are banned now thats a step in the right direction I suppose Up next, tentacle porn :eek::pac:

Anyway despite their oddities, it swings back the other way too & they have one of the most badassly cool cultures on the planet too

ghostchant

Well for one thing I've never felt safer walking around a city on my own at night than when I was in Tokyo. In Dublin I always keep a mental note of which pocket my keys are in should I need to use them to stop someone jumping me :P

Myrddin

ghostchant wrote: »

Well for one thing I've never felt safer walking around a city on my own at night than when I was in Tokyo. In Dublin I always keep a mental note of which pocket my keys are in should I need to use them to stop someone jumping me :P

I think their crime rates are among the lowest in the developed world actually? Dublin on the other hand....:rolleyes:

ghostchant

I might be way off here but I was reading in 'a geek in Japan' (I think) that there's an implicit sense of community in how they operate in society which extends to everything: you hurt people or vandalise/steal someone's property and you're damaging the community by extension, including your own quality of life. Sort of a hive-mind mentality that in some ways can be bad but in this particular instance is great.

DinoRex

Australia has good ones too!

Pyongyang

Gracias Dinorex for bringing this thread back to normality. It was getting awfully complex for a while there.

Jack burton

Virgin slim holes eh?

Casey120

Maybe we should have a Cuppa to relax .



How about :





Windia's dark urine Tea .

Y300 a bottle




WTF CAVE !

Pyongyang

They sell bottled virgin teenage witch piss too (which is apparently 'cloudy' lemonade).