Korean spam

Saturday, Mar. 20, 2004 @ 4:44 p.m.

SATURDAY! I survived the week! No more exams for another two weeks or so, which means I get to neglect my school work until 24 hours prior to the next exam!! Woohoo!

When I checked my email this morning, I got some spam in a foreign language. Wow, I feel all international now. My email application asked me if I wanted to download some Korean font-type-thing, and just out of curiosity, I did. Didn't make much a difference, the email went from looking like gibberish to another kind of gibberish. It looked prettier, though... lotsa neat little circles and squares and stuff. I wonder what the Korean character for "Penis Enlargement" or "Viagra" looks like.

I was even thinking about how they'd advertise stuff like that in Korea or Japan. Ever noticed how nauseatingly cheerful their ads usually are? Especially the Japanese ads. They typically have this cutesy girl smiling from ear to ear, holding the advertised product proudly and cheerfully (Think "Lost in Translation"). But that'd be weird if they used that style of advertising campaigns to push Viagra or penis enlargement products. Or dildos. Hahaha. Just imagine a girl holding a dildo up enthusiastically, exclaiming "Dil-do! Ichi-ban!" Haha! That'd be hilarious!

The Japanese have weird ads. When I was there many years ago, I remember this particular TV commercial of a girl in a tutu. Standing up, she stretched her left leg up to her head (ouch), and said "Bee-Boo-Bee-Boo" (like an ambulance siren). And that was it. I have no idea what that commercial was about till this very day.

And then there was this very strange game show, where one team consisted of just girls and another, just guys. They were asked some questions, and if they got it wrong, they had to do some kind of punishment. One of the girls answered a question wrongly, and her penalty was that she had to lick a nipple of one of the guys from the other team. So she did, and then all the girls on her team just jumped up and down on the spot, clapping their hands and giggling like 4-year-olds. Later on, a guy got his question wrong, and he had to eat some spaghetti off a foot of this girl (who happened to have amazingly large feet). And then everyone just jumped up and down and giggled. It wasn't exactly kinky, but it wasn't exactly a family show either. It was just bizarre.

I don't know how I got to Japanese television from talking about Korean spam. This makes me either a very fluent conversationalist or just a very talkative blabbermouth.

Yeah, definitely a very fluent conversationalist. So there.

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