Please do not replay the Exorcist on the Tokyo Metro
Ahhh. It’s that time of year again for the Christmastide of “Platform Pizza.”
It feels like just yesterday when I reported here on the 3Yen of the year’s Official start of the Japanese Vomiting Season.
The Tokyo Metro has put up their December “manner [sic] poster” telling us to please puke at home.
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Last year’s official Tokyo Metro manner poster
Just in time for the Christmas and End-of-the-Year drinking parties*, the Tokyo Metro subway has started to put up new posters today reminding folks to barf at home and not on everyone on the train (as is the norm in Japan flickr).
And, check out this fun detail.
*Called Bonenkai (in the Japanese language:
忘年会, lit. “forget the year gathering”).
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December 2nd, 2009 at 1:03 am
I though (feared) it wuz involving schoolgirls and crucifix…
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:49 pm
I though (hoped) it wuz involving schoolgirls and crucifix…
December 22nd, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Via Japan Times, JapanPulse
…apart from campaigns on the trains aimed at reducing public drunkenness, there seems to be little public-health information on the dangers of binge drinking. The Metro manners posters read “Do it at home” but is this out-of-sight, out-of-mind message healthy? Will commercials encourage a generation of bored housewives to take secretive swigs from the cooking sake when nobody is looking? What’s certain from witnessing this month’s end-of-year party season is that binge drinking still has little or no stigma. and this can only be a good thing for Japan’s alcohol industry . . . though not so great for the nation’s health....more...
January 20th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
If someone needs to puke I do not think they are going to be able to wait until they get home.
These signs are put up just to make uptight dicks happy.