Do it at home
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With the Christmas and “bonenkai” (year-end) party season in full swing, Tokyo Metro’s manner poster reminds commuters not to pass out.
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maryhinge
Happens all year around, but maybe a bit more this time of year. Then there are the Shinenkai (new year) parties.
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some14some
D a i j o b u...all right...all year around... four seasons i mean !
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DarkKnghtZ
While you are at it, you should make one of these for smoking.
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hellhound
That's me right there!!!!!!!
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Katsuro1000
i agree with you cactusjack
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LoveUSA
Not quite realistic. I do not believe there are empty seats on a train.
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Makun
Haha~ Just three Yebisu and he is already shattered.
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TeruSensei
Is this one the same as last year's? Or just very similar?
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nightflesh
tis the hard life of a salary man working hard during the new year.
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Apsara
He's on the platform, he hasn't made it onto the train yet.
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pamelot
Those 2 ba-chans are just miffed 'cause he didn't offer them a can. Oh, wait. One of them is naked!
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noborito
the annual puke fest in full swing. Drunken behavior in Japanese.... No it's a lie. (Can Japanese read when they are drunk? I can't)
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noborito
and the train is never that empty. they should make it more realistic. About 10,000 people in a car designed for 1000. then turn the heat on so it's about 35 inside, then drive really slow. Then say....
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borscht
Tis better to be in a drunken stupor at home than in public because...? Ignore the health/financial/family problems - keep it swept under the rug and out of sight. Thank you very much for appearing to be hardworking.
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LoveUSA
So is it in the train or on the platform
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Disillusioned
These manner signs are so subtly childish nobody takes notice of them. Here is a novel idea: Set penalties for drunk and disorderly behavior and have the police enforce them. Like they do in the real world.
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roughneck
The poster says "Please refrain from drunken behavior"....
If someone who is really in drunk state could control his behavior, it wouldn't be called "drunken behavior" now, would it!
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30061015
How can we expect decent hardly working stiffs to enjoy themselves and celebrate during the holidays with this kind of repressive and discriminatory add campaign targeting normal male behavior? Would his wife join him if he "does it at home"? ...and... would he want her to???
Since we can assume this bloke is unemployed (like all trouble makers in Japan), where does he find money for train fair and beru? Does he receive an allowance from said wife? If so, could it be that she would rather have him "doing IT on the train?"
And...Since women in Japan increasingly like to get hammered, can we expect a depiction of a drunken J-chick splayed on the train floor and two sober men looking on in the future? Which leaves us asking the pertinent question; Did these two women in fact hit him over the head just to steal his beer? If so, where are the police? Are they chasing wild boars, or ...(?) Could this poor fellow in fact be one of Japan's finest gone under cover to break up an all female vigil anti group that has been targeting the up- skirting drunken unemployed male populous? Stay tuned for the answer to these questons and more...
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DenDon
aaah bonenkai season, when the already ripe b.o. and whisky aroma of the Joban line has the added attraction of 'eau de vomit' I have no sympathy for some old duffer who had a thimble of super dry and then decides he'd like to speak to the foreigners on the train after all before throwing up everywhere and falling over.
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meloveulongtime
totally repulsive to see drunk men and womne on the trains! They act like idiots!!!
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Altria
This champ's wife won't let him do it at home, that's why he's gone through 3 cans of Nodogoshi Nama on the platform.
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tarento
I think public drunkenness in Japan is OK. They're harmless and funny to look at. Besides, they get worked to the bone all year. They deserve to let off some steam. Go out and be merry!
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KaptainKichigai
i think the worstpart s, these old men get all drunk and get sick, then they pass out and people call ambulances. Seriously, the emergency rooms are packed with drunk-ass old men.
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IvanCoughalot
I'd love to moon that sour-faced old bat on the right. All she's done all year is watch things and disapprove of them. I'd give her something to find fault with all right.
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Altria
Could we get a poster of a cop taking a slash on the platform?
Please do it in the bathroom.
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slizzzer
if japanese did this on the NYC Subway they'd be apprehended and sent off to guantanamo bay
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noborito
Noticed "Just do it at home" If you get drunk at home, you have a serious problem. Well I guess Japanese do get hammered at home a lot, but that's just because they hate their home life. (or should I just take out the word "home")
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Apsara
Actually I think that the disapproving person on the left is a man. He's the onlooker in pretty much all the posters in that campaign, and I'm pretty sure he is meant to be a man.
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GW
I think some of the posters on this thread might be drinking, CLEARLY this depicts a scene on the platform NOT inside the train, now back to yr drinks!
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30061015
The common refrain of most women.
The presumption of maleness lurking in the shadows is not the same as actually being man enough to drink.
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neverknow2
This is not the real world. This is Japan.
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XXXXX
yeah I can see this will work...not!
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stirfry
do what at home ? offer your butt up for anyone who wants an inviting target ?
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XXXXX
How about: do it at home, with your family and close friends? How about less bonenkais and less people drinking to relieve stress or whatever only to later vomit it all and be total idiots.
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timorborder
I thought the Japanese were not religious, but this chap seems to be about ready to call god on the "great white telephone."
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XXXXX
do you think he'd talk to him in English? What's with English and drunks? I don't get it. Why not act normal and communicative while sober?? Why poison one's body just to let it all out? Why oh why.
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nightvision
Wow, plain, comprehensible and simple English from a Japanese poster!
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dolphingirl
Hilarious picture! Looks like he is in good position for something!
How can you remind people not to pass out? Passing out is not something you can really control. How about reminding people not to drink themselves into a stupor?
And 'just do it at home' sounds like a Nike ad! Well, drinking is probably considered a sport in Japan so I suppose it's a fitting slogan.
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Marius2
Will they greet bonenkai'ers at the stations in the same manners, and with the same placards, as they did with the Halloween train? All the ill-fitting suits here do count as cosplay in my book.
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SiouxChef
Sounds good but I don't think the wife will let me do this at home.
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bacster
...and i wonder why these posters still doesn't work.
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Ranger_Miffy
This line of posters actually does kinda work. I know because I talk to Japanese coworkers about them, and most of them have been thinking over the various advice bits. Especially the ones about women putting on make-up in the train. Otherwise, maybe the two old people (great continual characters in this series) are actually wondering if they should help this poor sod move further away from the tracks. ... I just adore these posters. And, YES, good English. Good nihongo reading practice, too. May they continue for years.
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Junnama
I try not to pass out drunk on the floor at home...
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IvanCoughalot
There are blokes in this position in Shinjuku all year round...
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Blue_Tiger
I saw that very sign not a week ago on my way to and from Tokyo on the Tozai-Toyo-kosoku-sen trains....
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Conrad
I like the shoe over by the briefcase
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amerijap
This picture is very funny:)
Still, the caption in the bottom(Please refrain from drunken behavior) is confusing, though.
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marushka
i like this picture, very funny:) they should maybe make one additional poster: if you drink- eat something
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