Elderly Japanese man struggling to solve ring puzzle... for 10 years

Roosh

Cardinal
Orthodox
He enlists a TV station for help which seeks out a physicist and a magician. Funny stuff.


The puzzle does get solved by a man who does ring puzzles for a living.
 

Rigsby

Pelican
Gold Member
Roosh said:
The puzzle does get solved by a man who does ring puzzles for a living.

Those wacky Japanese. Love 'em.

The guy that solved the puzzle was probably one of those high-ranking zen bondage masters, that has a 5 year waiting list of frustrated Japanese women. Forget what they're called now.

I am probably 'projecting' and shouldn't say any more.

Google for zen bondage master (NSFW):
https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw....0..0.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.0.0.1Eyb4Ny8EvI

Sorry for the OT Roosh.
 

RIslander

 
Banned
I am convinced just about anything can be funny if its narrated in Japanese. They have a great sense of humor. I'll never forget getting hammered at a HUB in Tokyo with some 30 year old business men, in Spanish, who just got back from working at a Toyota plan in Mexico... they were funny as shit.
 

Sancho

Sparrow
I wasn't expecting that song from Final Fantasy 8 to pop up there.

I bet there's a major hurdle in life that needs to be solved in a similar way.
We're probably a ring puzzle equivalent away from curing cancer or something.

EDIT: I just remembered an example.
For a long time, Henry Ford and his engineers could not figure out how to make a V8 engine.
They kept telling him it couldn't be done. After trying so many times, they finally figured it out.
We need people like that in our society so we can finally get flying cars for crying out loud.
 

RIslander

 
Banned
Here's another Knight Scoop where a viewer writes in what word people in different areas of Japan use when sprayed by water. Apparently every area is different and says words like AKI!

So of course they travel around the country shooting people with squirt guns :laugh:

 

Mage

 
Banned
Why are there some stupid videos with double subtitles in the same language - nearly made the video unwatchable for me. Who benefits for doing subs all over?

Edit: Ok I figured out ho to switch off one of the subs - yet still I wonder why someone wasted his time and mine to make them.

The video is really funny trough - I love how Japanese people dont take themselves seriosly.
 

Alick

 
Banned
No doubt the guy who solved this puzzle is genius but I am thinking who made the puzzle must be an absolute genius. How people come up with these ideas to make such puzzles?
 

Mage

 
Banned
Alick said:
No doubt the guy who solved this puzzle is genius but I am thinking who made the puzzle must be an absolute genius. How people come up with these ideas to make such puzzles?

Before modern times people were not distracted by flashy movies, games, phones and television, they also didn't have to spend most of their time in a fixed work environment, their work hours were generally much more flexible depending on social standing, also they didn't have education system that overdevelops left side of brain instead of right side of brain, so they had more time and energy to get creative.
 

Mr. Accuride

Woodpecker
One of those endearing things about Japanese culture is that it's like a culture of nerd celebration. No matter what mundane subject matter you can think of (trains, flower arrangements, rice balls, etc.), there will be Japanese nerds out there completely dedicated to all of the little intricacies of such things and taking it to a completely unnecessary but amusing level, and the other Japanese people will be cheering them on instead of condemning them.

Like this Japanese lady who runs an umbrella store and is so dedicated to her craft that she can identify the different types of umbrellas just from hearing them open:



And here's a sample set identifying the sounds of different types of umbrellas when they open:



This is like autistic levels of dedication.
 

Laner

Crow
Protestant
Gold Member
I could watch videos like these all day.

Hobby is such an integral part of Japanese life. Its often one of the stranger things that people notice when they go to Japan for the first time, that people can be so committed to an art or to a subject that they become experts. That girl with the umbrella; Its a source of pride of mastery. Not every one makes it part of their business, but some certainly master aspects of their business, while still maintaining a lot of time for hobbies on the side.

Its part of the reason that Japanese can live so long. Boredom is death of the soul, not surprising the body soon follows.

What a fantastic culture. Thank God they are hell bent on protecting it.
 
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