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What's wrong with teenage boys in Japan?

January 17th 2011 03:17

: Vyoos news

He's a male teenager - of COURSE he's thinking about sex.

VYOOS EDITORIAL: A COMMITTEE STRIKES AGAIN
A government study has found that one-third of Japanese males aged 16 to 19 are not interested in sex, almost exactly double the number not interested in sex in 2008.

Please note that word "government" in the above paragraph.

We have three questions for the Japanese government officials in charge of this survey:

Are you sure you polled males?

Are you sure they were aged 16 to 19?

Are you sure the subject in question was sex?

Were you ever a teenage boy?

Okay, that's four questions. However, the answer to the fourth question in my own case is yes, and I went to an all boys' school, and I can report with a high degree of conviction that the percentage of all boys I knew in the 16 to 19 age group who were not interested in sex was approximately zero.

Probably less.

Either Japan is a very different place than I thought, or Japanese government committees are very similar to their western counterparts.
metro.co.uk

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Asia, Japan, Committees, Odd Spot, Sex, Vyoos Editorial

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Plough girls

July 27th 2009 07:59

No way I would ask my daughter to do this, but then I'm not a farmer in India experiencing drought. Still, it seems a bit extreme.

The monsoons are desperately late in the state of Bihar India's 12th largest state by size and third largest by population and the farmers have turned to trusted, ancient, weird measures.

Step 1: They ask their daughters to take off all their clothes.

Step 2: They ask their daughters to plough the fields.

Only unmarried daughters take part, and the ploughing takes place after dark, accompanied by the chanting of ancient hymns. The belief is that the weather gods will be embarrassed into sending the rains.

According to one village official, "This is the most trusted social custom in the area and the villagers have vowed to continue this practice until it rains very heavily."

India has this year suffered its worst monsoon delays for 80 years. But I'm not sending my daughter to help.

news.com.au

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: India, Odd Spot

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Best nest

February 23rd 2009 19:37

Black-billed magpie

In what may be a first in the bird world, two magpies have constructed a nest using metal sticks.

The nest, built in a tree among the high-rises in Hong Kong's Tuen Mun district, was built from more traditional materials plus about 40 metal sticks apparently pilfered from a nearby construction site.

Cheung Ho-fai, of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society, said it was the first time he had heard of a nest being built with metal.

The magpie is already renowned as the only non-mammal known to be able to recognise itself in a mirror. It just added metallurgy and construction engineering to its résumé.

Magpie facts: pairs stay together year-round and for life unless one dies, in which case the remaining magpie finds another mate; they nest once a year, but will re-nest if their first attempt fails; the female lays up to nine eggs, but the average clutch size is between six and seven; only the female incubates, for 16 to 18 days, the male feeding the female throughout incubation; the young fly three to four weeks after hatching, feed with adults for about two months, and then fly off to join other juvenile magpies; the life span of a magpie in the wild is four to six years.

news.com.au, en.wikipedia.org

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Saved by toilet poetry

January 30th 2009 22:31

The correct way to read Japanese toilet poetry

The Japanese have a long history of wacky conventions (WC) when it comes to toilet issues, but their latest effort to save toilet tissues may be the wackiest of all.

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Hush flush

July 5th 2008 05:27

A fine example of the Japanese art of chindogu

The big news from Japan this week is yet another major invention. From the land which brought us seedless watermelons, cockroach swatting slippers and the hands-free umbrella, comes the soundless toilet.

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