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The last word on OLD MAN IN CINEMA!?

  • 28-06-2012 06:24PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭


    Looks like the Japanese have signs for people who can't help whipping their lad out in public places. Figured I'd share this photo I found in one of my coffee table art books tonight.

    Is this what is needed for OLD MAN IN CINEMA!? :pac:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭GreenWolfe


    I think I remember these. They're a series of manner posters on the Tokyo Metro, latest ones are at their site here. With the one on the photo, I think it means that you should know better than to spread out all of your stuff and stretch your legs out, blocking multiple seats.

    Older ones here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    you should know better than to spread out all of your stuff

    Exactly.

    In Ireland it means, don't whip out your 'skinhead wearing a polo neck' and crack out a puddle of trouser custard while in the company of others at your local cinema. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭Spacedog


    From my Japanese Phrasebook...

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    すみませんわかりません. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭GreenWolfe


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    Exactly.

    In Ireland it means, don't whip out your 'skinhead wearing a polo neck' and crack out a puddle of trouser custard while in the company of others at your local cinema. :)

    The blurred out bit should say "Please share this seat with others". As bad as that idea was.....*shudder*

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    I vote for this one:

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    If this guy has a mobile, best put up the above poster as well :p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    That image is actually to the left of the one in my art book.

    LOVE 'old man in cinema', needs to be a meme, or at the very least he needs a network to syndicate a tv series on him. :D


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 31,123 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Yeah the monthly manner posters is one of those weird eccentricities in Tokyo. This was the one when I was first over there.

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    I think me and my friends eventually had to ask someone what it was about we saw them so much :pac: If I recall, the next one went up a day or so before we left. It was a rite of passage that our trip had ended [/nostalgia]

    Although they have gone downhill slightly since the 1970s and 1980s... http://pinktentacle.com/2010/08/vintage-tokyo-subway-manner-posters/

    manner_poster_15.jpg

    The poster that inspired Cho Aniki...

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    WOW! This one is my favourite!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Casey120


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭SdoowSirhc


    Cannot believe this old guy got a thread! I always do it and I get nothing in return, except the cheap thrill of course...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Hey, 'OLD MAN IN CINEMA' is awesome. Let him bask in his unbeknownst custard-riddled glory! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    These are japantastic!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,659 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    I was right! This forum is only a gentle nudge from going all the way to downtown smutville at any giving moment. A thread devoted to the old man and the cinema!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    These are japantastic!

    As resident artist, well, you and Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale (although he paints 'mature' art, like watercolours of viaducts in Sligo and Walshestown, and fruitbowl still life frescos), id love to see a Daily Telegraph style cartoon that mocks OLD MAN IN CINEMA. You gotta do it. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    These are japantastic!

    As resident artist, well, you and Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale (although he paints 'mature' art, like watercolours of viaducts in Sligo and Walshestown, and fruitbowl still life frescos), id love to see a Daily Telegraph style cartoon that mocks OLD MAN IN CINEMA. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    I must be psychic. Apparently there is a viaduct in Owenmore, Sligo. :eek:

    *quickly taps in www.lottery.ie in the browser address bar*

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    Best whip out your easel and give that brush a good walloping eh Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,353 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    OLD MAN IN CINEMA! OLD MAN IN CINEMA!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
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    Sir Ultimate just posted in the films forum that whilst in the IFI last night, he say down onto a seat & it felt damp & gooey. Apparently it was the same seat where Old Man In Cinema banged one out last week*





























    *actual story may not be true


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Sir Ultimate just posted in the films forum


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056683262

    :pac:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Pyongyang wrote: »

    Couldn't read through that if I tried, far too much hipsterism going on. No offence to any film buffs but to me, films are 2 hour pieces of entertainment...not something I want to read too much into :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Someone please photoshop this to say OLD MAN IN CINEMA! instead of It's Only A Movie! :D

    CLICK!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭penev10


    Took this in a subway station in Kyoto:

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    It was outside the Ladies toilets so I got a few looks when I whipped out a DSLR and started snapping away!

    Didn't see this classic one unfortunately -

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 31,123 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Sir Ultimate just posted in the films forum that whilst in the IFI last night, he say down onto a seat & it felt damp & gooey. Apparently it was the same seat where Old Man In Cinema banged one out last week

    Actually was in the IFI last night, rewatched the wonderful Himizu (might be my favourite film of the year so far). I'd say you'd love the film EnterNow, you should check out the DVD when its released (I was going to say 'when it comes out', but I thought better of it). It was a different cinema though, you'll be saddened to hear, and the only irregularity was a fellow with a slightly unusual laugh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Actually was in the IFI last night, rewatched the wonderful Himizu (might be my favourite film of the year so far). I'd say you'd love the film EnterNow, you should check out the DVD when its released (I was going to say 'when it comes out', but I thought better of it). It was a different cinema though, you'll be saddened to hear, and the only irregularity was a fellow with a slightly unusual laugh.

    "Two teenagers living a dystopian existence in post-tsunami Japan embark on a campaign of violence against evil wrong doers."

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1900893/

    Sounds pretty good actually, I like dystopian backdrops :)

    Lol at the weird laugh guy, I hate the way we notice things in the cinema that we wouldn't normally notice at all


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    I wonder if OLD MAN IN CINEMA! went to see The Simpsons Movie and when he made his exit he bumped in to one of those cardboard cut-outs?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Casey120


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    This one is rather bizarre, but probably right up OLD MAN IN CINEMA!'s street.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    LOl, over here we've signs about the likes of drinking in public, loitering, littering etc. How perverted does a nation have to be to warrant no perving signs :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,353 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Haha, just noticed the creepy man in the background, that's priceless.


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