I saw this commercial like 4 years ago

...when i was living in Tokyo. It's hilarious because it's true. Everyone smokes here.




A student at highschool who plays Kendo recently got caught smoking. A lot of teachers smoke, which, if i were a junior or high school student, would find extremely hypocritical.

One of the things that totally blew me away was that the teachers in the middle school smoke INSIDE the school! There are these posters up all over the school about not smoking, and it's illegal to do on school grounds.

Anyways, in the main teacher meeting room, there is a cornered off section with one of those machine like the one in the above commercial. There is a sign that says something like "Smoking is OK here!" or "You can smoke here!" Between classes, some teachers run downstairs, pop into the room and suck down a light before going back to class, sometimes leaving the cigarettes IN THEIR FRONT SHIRT POCKET, so that all the kids can see. You can smell it too, of course.

Yeah so, that was quite a shock. That commercial by the way was made by a japanese company, and you can see how the Japanese use identity to appeal to smokers. The gist of it is that it's OK to smoke, because if you are Japanese, it is what you do. Who can argue with that?

People like LoSt.

...and so do I. I sometimes buy it from iTunes, because they dont have it in J-Land, but the quality is nowhere near as good as the HD rips that raging around in the torrent. Speaking of the torrent, I went and looked at the stats on the new episode off of a tracker and I just wanted to share this image. Its the biggest swarm I've ever seen on a file:




almost 24,000 seeds. 60,000 leeches. thats almost 100,000 swarming the same file.


Thats just crazy talk!