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Images Of A Post-Abenomics Euphoria Hangover
With Japan's "Misery Index" at its highest in 33 years, it is not surprising that the population of salarymen have turned to the bottle (Johnnie Walker Black) once more. As is well known, Japanese culture dictates that businessmen should not offend their superiors by refusing a drink, but many find themselves imbibing far more than they can handle. The following ten images reflect the other side of Abenomics sentiment-crushing reality - salarymen in various states of intoxication sprawled on pavements, trains and street benches...
The train appears to be the most popular resting place when under the influence
Salarymen appear to be able to sleep in the smallest of spaces
Although taking up three seats could be considered greedy
If there isn't enough room to spread out, the walls can be utilised
Or the floor...
Not so much downward facing dog, more upward facing grog...
Inebriated sleeping can lead to Elvis Presley impersonations
It's one thing sleeping in your suit, but stripping off will definitely lead to your picture circulating the World Wide Web
Praying and sleeping simultaneously for base wage increases...
It's daytime!!
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Jap nap.
Nip Kip
Doesn't Japan have cops with the tasers?...
Doesn't Japan have cops with the tasers?
Only In America!!
Hey, at least they are Nip-Napping! Our home-grown drunks would’ve been driving… and texting? ;-)
Looney
That's called multi-tasking, another example of Americans being exceptional.
OT but...
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Multi-tasking, just like “our exceptionalism”, is a myth! The only two tasks I can combine are farting and hiccups ;-)
Looney
This is what the NJ Transit Coast line looks like late Saturday night.
They have padded seats in subways cars in Japan ?
Prease Dont Rake Me Up...Fank You
Abe's third arrow is apparently unlimited Sake for everyone until everyone is in an alcohol induced coma, problem fixed...no more misery
I've been to Japan and worked alongside those people before. I've watched their television. I have no idea how they continue to exist as a civilization. I don't know why most of them continue on. You can't really call what they have a "life", certainly not in our strange sense. They are more like expendable machine parts, that get worked at maximum capacity all the time. If they break, they're just a part. Order a new one. The tsunami and Fukushima could be seen as a favor from the gods.
I am Chumbawamba.
been there done that
Pics remind me of the year I spent teaching English in Tokyo. Lived above a beauty-shop with a freaky gal/hooker from Tasmania, a German gal/hooker with a heroin problem, and a nice girl from New Zealand. The evening trip home routinely required stepping around 'platform pizzas' - barf on the subway platforms, and stairwells in which lurked urine-soaked chronic drunks. I can recommend to any young adult the eye-opening adventure of a year spent in Japan. Pretty safe, and you can make enough teaching English to pay the bills....
Chumbawamba you are right - "they're just a part to be replaced when broken"
But the same is true in the US, Germany, China - slaves to the corporation, and slaves to pay to the state - the robot slave makes just enough to pay bills, feed his family, and has nothing left over for savings. A neighbor who has a Phd, working in cancer research making close to $200k/yr, lost his home in 2009 and is renting since then, has 3 teenage girls that he cannot afford college fees for even 1 of them, and has no extra money for savings. He has a 20 year old Camry and a 1-year-old Nissan Optima, cannot afford vacations, and does not live an extravagent life.
In SoCal, our State gas tax is $0.53/gal, our top State income tax rate is 13.x%, gas is $4.20/gal, electric bill for a 1,700SF home is $100/mo average, water bill is $40/mo. - nothing cheap in SoCal
A friend who lives in Malaysia pays $5/mo for water, $10/mo for electricty, $0.10/mo for gas (cooking and water heating) - not that I want to live in Malaysia - but WHY the big difference in price for "living" commodities.
The point is to keep us in the sheep pen, producing everyday, paying to keep "their" system going. A world-wide racket.
If America had public transportion, we'd have similar picts of Americans passed out on trains - but our guys are racing home in cars, trying to make it home before they pass out or get a DUI.
And I bet every man in those pictures will out live you
I am chumbadead
I'm having a hard time to understand how someone who earns $200k a year can struggle to make ends meet. Where is all his money going to, does he have a gambling problem or another expensive addiction?
Wow, you've been to Japan, huh? Obviously, you didn't learn a thing.
No, I made it all up. Obviously.
I am Chumbawamba.
Ive lived in Japan for 18 years.. He hit the nail on the head, the Japanese are missing out on life.
What can one say; they're homogeneous to a fault:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RX0UDHRGbe0/UjhIx1txl2I/AAAAAAAAABc/CgSfUAI8Qv...
Sadly, however, our "diversity" is but a bread-and-circuses mirage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fk2HkcBQbU
http://jacksonville.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/superphoto/107022...
"Expendable machine parts" one and all.
Their subway trains look clean and cushy though. I would be tempted to have a nap there.
Yep, those padded seats look nice...
But I'll bet they reek of drunken vomit.
"This is what the NJ Transit Coast line looks like late Sat night". I'm sorry, these cars are way too clean and maintained to be any where in the US. Think these guys would still have their brief cases beside them after they pass out for more than ten seconds? Cloth seats on a US metro?
Well said.
Very clean indeed.
Watch the hangover the Zeroheads will have when they finally realize they missed three digit Bitcoin.
12 step program in yen is about 12000 steps
That's lolable, since the gold/silver bugs have been spewing the same BS. We'll be right someday (hopefully 4Q2015).
I am Chumbawamba.
Regarless of Gold, Silver or Bitcoin, if there's a winner the .gov will step in to claim their share of profits via taxes - it will be interesting to see what 'black markets' develop to side-step confiscation/taxes.
LONG offshore non-bank safe deposit boxes.
Li Tup & Fuk Tup
Sum Ting Wong
lol.. American exceptionalism.. that's as much fun to say, and laugh at, as "green shoots".
"Only In America!!"
Only in the DC US.
Do they all have those same suits ISSUED to them or something?
Get up you lazy bastards! The illusion must be maintained at all costs! You can sleep when you're dead!
That's what they are saying to the homeless slaves toiling in Fukushima
"didn't we drop two bombs on those people? what was in those things, fertilizer??"
"didn't we drop two bombs on those people? what was in those things, fertilizer??"
Johnny Walker black
Looks like some days from my past. ;)
They so sreepy.
problem is, the trains don't run all night. When the trains stop, conductors will boot your ass out onto the street. I guess the capsule hotels are already full by the time these guys get on the trains.
laugh everytime I read that
I remember those days.
Fukushima flu.
I guess you can't worry when you're passed out.
Ignorance is bliss poured over two ice cubes.
Fire water, best weapon against the yellow man...now you must meet dragon wife and 6am ararm crock...poor bastards
Yeah but, because your boss was there with you til just before the last train home, and had the same amount of liquor, you're not expected to do much before noon - so you get up at six and ride the 1st train in still inebriated.
It's a tough life in Japan for the Salaryman. Graduate from college, go to work, marry, have 1.2 kids, your wife "manages" your money, divorces you at age 50 and has all your earnings, and then you lose your job. Kind of a fucked life for many.
Like Chumbawamba said above, you're just a cog in the wheel, a replacable part - in the sheep pen. Not much different in the USA.
Liquidity has its drawbacks.
That is some bad sushi
Small weaners are positively correlated with low alcohol tolerance, or something like that...
Happy endings will do that to ya.
#3 is freaking kuroda bitchez
Oh, he's way past kuroda.
My advice to you, is to stop drinking heavily. In public.
I passed out in public once. Just once. When I came to, my wallet was gone (and I derved it for acting like an idiot). I'm lucky that's all that happened to me. At least I think that's all that happened to me.
Just what I was thinking...In a polite, homogeneous society, onlookers gaze and chuckle and ignore them or snap a pic. In the USA, some cholo would assess how much of you he could get away with (wallet, watch, kidney, behymen)
Classic...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ch4rsMmZI#t=76
One question, was your ass sore. That wallet was cheap, how much would you pay for the pictures of your ass getting made sore?
Hah, and you think you're botty is still a.virgin when you're actually carrying a whore around in the back of your pants.
LOL....i needed those pics........I thought I was the only one who behaved like that in public......
The one dude could really use a good shoe shine as well.
Obumma, bring your shine box !
worn brown shoes with black suit = not a good look
belt is supposed to match shoes, bitchez
alcohol is a helluva drug
I woke up under a car one morning. No clue how I got there.
At least it wasn't moving. Cheers!
Soon to be linkedIn.
The PLA are not looking too worried now.
FORWARD! to an early death.
What a disgrace!
They have one economic opportunity to boost their GDP if they are half as innovative as we are.
So many places to be equipped with studs to discourage those imbibated sleepers...
If they had a free market, it would already be done but their socialist mindset, I wonder if they only figure out what economic opportunity they are missing.
Signed: an American.
And if you can't beat them, join them.
Then when they are not looking or passed out drunk, beat them.
Our systems have overcome the imperfections of human nature.
Signed: an American.
I didn't know the Japanese practiced Irish Yoga. Needs work.
At least the Japs still have an iota of decency for their fellow citizens...Those guys would wake up assraped and naked, or jackbooted by the NYPD in N.Y.C.
This. What Japan REALLY needs to fix all its problems is a 30 million strong group of semi-literate immigrants from Central America. That will fix the public passing out from intoxication. A few rapes, murders, and a mugging spree will have the cops actin' thugg, and the businessmen less drunk.
Always has been like that in Japan. Saw this when I worked there also in the eighties, nineties and up to 2003. Has more to do with working culture than crisis or misery.
My older brother is a lawyer and speaks Japanese.
He lived over there for 4-5 years. I was in college and used to get letters from him with pictures EXACTLY like this.
When he came back to the states and we caught up, I asked him about those pictures. He said in the office he worked at (and apparently every other work place in Japan) when it was quitting time, everyone went drinking. Everyone. If you came home at 6pm, your wife would shit because she'd think your office didn't like you any more. He said you didn't go home until the boss did. The only upside was his boss picked up the check.
I should also add that my brother returned with a fucking cast iron liver. Holy shit could he drink. He brought me back some Saki and we drank it while catching up. Probably went through 3 bottles and I'd never had it before. Anyway, some time during our binge, I blacked the fuck out and pissed myself. I was worthless the next day, as well.
He was fine.
I don't think I'd make it in Japan.
Anyway, I don't think this is anything new. He was there in the early 90's.
They have been doing this for years. Used to see it in Naha thirty years ago. Staggering fuming drunk in public is a badge of honor there. Here, you go to a strip club and get a pair of greasy augmented softballs slapped in your face. It is part and parcel of manhood the free world over. Onwards and upwards, gentlemen!
I always thought strip clubs are just about the saddest places there are, it's 100% un-erotic, the inmates (strippers) hate being there, and the clientele is pathetic losers who can't get any. Then there's always the slimeball management and the wonderful bouncers. Looking at a fake pair on a bored strung out chick who thinks you're a putz, yeah, uh-huh, I'll pay big bucks for that. Rather save up plane fare to HK or Singapore and get a total stunner with a great attitude for the real thing
Podbay; yes. As Kipling wrote, "When you've heard the East a-calling you won't ever heed naught else."
Everything was going great in Nippon until the Great White Fleet arrived. Its been all down hill since, more or less.
Johnnie Walker is always a welcome companion, in any situation... til he punches you in the face and makes off with your wallet...
... and much like that low self-esteem hottie that gets treated like shit cuz she gave it up too easily, you always go running back.
Funny, I used to picture the Japanese as having it all together. It turns out that they are just as fucked up as we are.
Japan has been "failing" for how many decades now?
3
What if your boss is into heroin? Are you expected to share needles with him?
Why aren't more bankers jumping? Damn it.
They aint drunk
They just work long hours
This is just the lightweight lunchtime crowd. Hardly impressive....
Someone help
I've fallen and I can't get up
The dudes on the subway weren't drinkin'! They were the ones that got 'crushed' during 'rush hour!'
could be just the ong hours and radiation
sickness?
P R O G R E S S
those are some clean subways. i'd like to see this in manhattan
people let us try not to mock.
poor japan they developed plasma
have hydrogen water fuel cells adapted and improved on turbines and free power generators designed by the mighty nicola tesla.
they got rothschilds did dead with the help of dimona based magna bsp.
fuck upshimurred forever.
pity the folks who breath in uranium drink cesium and eat plutonium all because they wanted something better than the saudi jews and fucking rokerfella.
The floor so clean you can sleep on unlike NYC subway unless you're a bum and don't care.
They need to install te bolt thingys to keep out the vermin..on the trains..
THERE'S where labor's productivity went!
When lying on a subway car floor in a pool of your own vomit is preferable to actually working, you have to begin to question the quality of the choices you've been given...
orz
More proof that government can only produce poverty, misery and death.
Rock Bottom awaits us all! Some get there faster than others.
Such images are sad and telling but the reality is that in every capital city from New York to London to Sydney such images and worse are to be seen everywhere. And to drunkedness we can add drug taking and other totally depraved behaviour.
Leave the Japanese alone. Heaven knows how many ugly and probably insurmountable challenges they face as a nation.
you are not a real salaryman until you have passed out drunk in public somewhere. it is a right of passage. i hope feminism finally catches on in japan. passed out women with their dress hiked up around their waist would be much more interesting. if they want to be real salarywomen they will be required to do it. however, a drunk passed out woman would certainly attract a few of the infamous molesters who go to extraordinary lengths to cop a feel from sober women.
Any time... is Suntory time.
Those R terrerist. Could be working for NSA. Pulling electronic data from people equipment pretending to have eyes closed.
Boy Japan is sucking up UST and European bonds like there's no tomorrow! The BoJ is going to get tripple screwed when JGB's, UST's and European bonds blow out. Nice miss on the monthly machine orders as well. (although better then consensus)
16:50 JPY Core Machinery Orders (YoY) 17.6% 13.2% 16.1% 16:50 JPY Core Machinery Orders (MoM) -9.1% -11.9% 19.1% 16:50 JPY Foreign Bonds Buying( (1,326.9B ) -721.3BOn the subject of Japan and the comedy hour:
japan-s-abe-is-the-world-s-best-leader
ROR
maybe they should legalize pot.
Those pics brought back some memories.