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

[Aurini]

Is this beta?

If it is, I'd say it's the positive face of Beta. The shame is that these sorts of skills aren't useful in the current Walmart of lust that is North America.

 

[Mage]

This video made me think legends about ninjas are not exagerated, what if someone applied the same level of dedication to martial skills, surely if anyone can do it it's Japanese.

 

[Tengen]

If you want to get more of Japanese geekery you have to check out the Begin Japanology and Japanology Plus series:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPMSNvTv2rgODVy0GvsMxZg/videos

 

[Tactician]

You guys might like this. Japanese girl handcrafts animal sculptures from tightly rolled newspaper.



I've always had great experiences with Japanese people, when I was around 12 years old I had a Japanese exchange student stay with my family. He brought me a little gundam toy and we assembled it together.

I had another one who brought origami paper and taught my family to fold jumping frogs and make sea otters and other animal shapes. It's just cheap origami paper, but we had a lot of fun folding shapes together and getting taught by this little kid.

He also brought a kendama and showed us the tricks he'd been practicing.

 

[Gmac]

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:

Someone should tell her opening an umbrella inside is bad luck.

 

[RIslander]

Ramen restaurant in Japan delivers noodles in one minute.

 

[Thomas More]

Roosh, what shows up in your "Suggested for you..." list?

You don't want to know.

I can't find the thread, but I remember you posting this video as well.



Everybody needs a hobby?

Once when I tripped on acid, we had a marble and a frisbee, and were spinning the marble around the rim of the frisbee. When we were tripping, we were absolutely mesmerized by the rythmic pattern of the spinning. It was absolutely compelling, and we each spent several hours making the marble spin around on the frisbee.

We tried it a few times again a day or two after the trip. It was weird. We could remember how compelling it was before, but the magic was no longer there. We only did it for 30 seconds or so, then had enough.

When I see this guy, with his lifelong obsession with watching marbles roll down a track, I think see's seeing and feeling something similar to what I experienced on my trip. However, with him it stuck permanently.

 

[RIslander]

If I've learned anything in life: nothing is more important than a good sense of humor. And I think the Japanese have mastered that.

 

[RIslander]

Does anyone know where to find Knight Scoop videos? All the YouTube ones have been taken down.