Things you can't help laughing at

[muikabochi 208]

Poor cows must really hate those bells when they get a headache.

[Error404 0]

That cow is well cool. I like cows. I feel really really sorry for most of them in Japan that never see a field and are cooked up in those huts.

[SerreChe 2]

That is a swiss cow for sure, really clean. No Klingons!

[damian 0]

Those bells get pretty annoying after a while. Very noisy and constantly ringing. In summer when the cows are up high you have to go a fair way to escape the noise. A little bit of cow bell is nice, but 50 cows that clang with every chew of grass gets in your head after a while. The Swiss sheep are just as noisy, but taste way better than Swiss cows. That picture was taken the weekend we saw the cool ceremony of bringing the cows back into the valley for winter. In summer you see a big herds of cows in the alpine pastures and usually if you look hard you see a farmer dozing in the paddock of flowers looking after them a few kilometres from the nearest building. I have even found the little beds that the farmers make themselves. They just lie there in the grass looking at the cows, it must be very good for the soul.

[merryJim 1]

In the middle of all that scenery as well. I could do with some of that for a few weeks!

[scouser 4]

I wonder if they take their ipods with them?

[thumbsup 0]

There's one of those local programs on the tv right now. They always make me chuckle. Testing the menu in restaurant of the day. The pulled faces. The oishii exclamations.

[muikabochi 208]

They had some gaijin doing an oishii program here in Niigata city the other week. They were playing along with all the oishii program cliches. Didn't suit them at all, looked a bunch of sillies if you ask me.

[soubriquet 0]

I shouldn`t laugh at soubriquette`s customers as it is they who keep me in havanas and cognac, but we had cake tragic in the shop this morning. A young lady, badly dressed, long lank unkempt hair, thick glasses, spots etc. turned up at the shop this morning for cake. I was working just outside the window where she was sitting. She bought cake, and ate it. Then she bought another, and ate that. Then a cup of tea. Then more tea and cake. I counted at least five, but it turned out to be nine portions in all.

 

She sat still for quite a while after that before leaving on her bike. All the shop ladies had a good laugh about that.

[cal 6]

National Azabu Supermarket. Just the way the bloke on the cnn ad says it cracks me up.

[soubriquet 0]

Oh my golly gosh. She`s back. Stay tuned.

[big-will 7]

The cake woman?

 

Sounds like a good customer!

[spook 0]

what sort of cakes are we talking about?

[soubriquet 0]

Yes, the same one, wearing the same clothes. When I got back after lunch, the cake ladies were all a-titter. Another nine cakes today.

 

They are mostly western style cakes, spook. Sponge base with cream and fruit fillings. She does Japanese style too.

 

http://www.awayuki.co.jp/

[spook 0]

wowsers! nine cakes a day. i take my hat off to this fine lady.

some pictures please soub... maybe a gory sequence of the gluttony.

and is she a dainty eater, or some piggy who just loves tucking in and getting cream all over her face.

so many questions, so little time

[soubriquet 0]

I try to avoid standing with my face pressed up to the glass like some starving Dickensian urchin, spook, so as not to put off the customers, like. She seemed to be hoeing in, head down though.

 

Apparently up to about four serves is normal, but one hero managed twelve.

[damian 0]

I had lunch with a female coworker. There is a common meeting g point for workers lunching together, its near a cheap sculpture of an overweight cook. People say things like "I'll see you at 12.30 by the fat cook".

 

She sent me an email asking if 12.30 at the 'dick koch' was ok. To a German, that's stout cook. To me, its a place called Dick Cock. I agreed to meet her at the dick koch and then giggled like a little boy for 2 minutes.

[big-will 7]

I find all the CNN reporters really funny with their OTT 1cm of eyemake up. It is just ridiculous. Next time take a look and notice.

 

(Though I quite like Paula Zahn).

[thumbsup 0]

A guy I know has said "lets go out for a beer" to me probably over 20 times now. It has not yet happened. Once I tried to actually arrange it - he seemed quite shocked and it didn't happen! I just laugh inside now when I hear it.

[thursday 1]

when I spot a rug on somebody's head. I just have to point it out to people I'm with.

[merryJim 1]

They have probably already spotted it. There's a guy I work with who has possibly the worst ever, in the world, in history. You can clearly see the layers, the colors don't match and as well as that it is just the worst shape possible. It looks like it is on in the wrong place

 

I'll have to get the camera out

[bushpig 0]

yeah why do they always sit them lop-sided??! I mean if you are trying to hide the fact that you are bald, then surely you want to draw as little attention to your head as possible right?

[2pints-mate 0]

I don't actually know how wigs are put in place. Do they use glue?

 

I remember that clip on here once with that J tv presenter with the wig flying off when he did his bowing cracked me up that

[charlotte 0]

This is what makes me laugh - resorts and related businesses talking up the snow conditions when they are basically rubbish. Like now.

 

It should actually make people angry though.

[soubriquet 0]

Soubriquette's daughter moved out last month. When I was setting up her room for my boys, I unearthed one of the worlds finest collections of coathangers. 65 of them