It is the future. Cars hover in the air spinning blue neon spotlights (doors open up of course) . Hover orbs talk to us while making delicious omlettes. Women have superseded equality and now earn 600 times more than men, who have decided to stay at home in pyjamas or optional "home wear", drinking rum and doing little drawings.
When we eat out, we use little touch screens to order our food.
We can also stay till 5am.
And our shoes are safely stored in a locker.
Prior to the singularity please remove your shoes . . .
. . . and use fingertips
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ReplyDeleteYou could see the five dishes currently in favour by press of pixel button. but they were mainly drinking salaryman dishes that aren't that appetising perhaps. But it was nice to see what people are eating and stuff.
And the lack of human interaction.
Today I bought some pyjamas from muji and the guy said something that I wasn't expecting, he had seen i had some other little bags and wanted to know if I would like to put them in a large grandiose muji bag, but I didn't know what he was saying, and felt stupid afterwards.
If only he was a touchscreen menu. And I would choose "No, Thankyou"
I'm sure I went to that place (chain?), with K when I was in Tokyo. It sells those little cheese mochi things. They are delicious.
ReplyDeleteI like the 24 hour places where you press a button on a vending machine, get a little ticket, and then they bring your food. They sell something called a law egg, for 50 yen.
The future is now!
ReplyDeleteBut not here.
There.
Mayhaps..
Doomed I tell ya..Doomed!
You may enjoy Daft Punk's Electroma movie. I do not know if you like their music (but you may have seen their anime videos). My friend had downloaded it (it is new, so download if you want to see). It is about an hour long, with no words. Just music. Everyone is a robot, but dressed in human wear. The story is about the two Daft Punk robots wanting to become human. It is surprisingly touching considering there are no words and it's about robots. The soundtrack is very good, if you like that sort of thing.
My friend says that Japanese people think we (as in Westerners) all smel of milk. Is this true?
Oh, and do you have cheese? Not you personally Malale, but the country itself.
Adieu
i can confirm what kate in the above said, there is cheese. I dont know about the milk thing but it wouldnt surprise me.
ReplyDeleteI was born without a sense of fun so am unable to enjoy the daft punk, sorry.
"Jijikusai" is a Japanese insult which means "You smell like your mother's breast milk", meaning the insultee has been mollycoddled, I believe.
ReplyDeleteI just checked the spelling of "mollycoddled" and here is the dictionary entry.
mol·ly·cod·dled, mol·ly·cod·dling, mol·ly·cod·dles
To be overprotective and indulgent toward. See Synonyms at pamper.
n.
A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
[molly, milksop (from the name Molly, nickname for Mary) + coddle.]
Pendleton, thou art a man of infuriating pop cultural contradiction - in that you won't watch a Daft Punk video, but will happily sit through any number of Lost episodes or disturbing J-Pop kawaii-fests.
ReplyDeleteBut this is why we love you.
Mio's glossary of insults about what you all smell like
ReplyDeleteじじくさい － jijikusai - you smell of old man
おやじくさいー oyajikusai - you smell of middle aged man
ちちくさい － chichikusai - you smell of your mother's breast milk
ばばくさい － babakusai - you smell of old woman
"you smell of middle aged man" - like corduroy elbow patches, cricket bat oil, beard dye and fine malt ale.
ReplyDeletea very positive portrayal of the aroma of a middle aged man. I thought they smelt of wee and poo and the lack of love in their future both immediate and otherwise.
ReplyDeletemy christ and god we get old dont we.
let's await some information from /kate_/ who I believe has worked with these people who smell. let's get right down to it, as execs say over croissants.
by the way, the tv series "LOST" has proved itself over all this time
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