Did you know that Japan's favorite and best selling cellphone strap is a golden poop? Tokyo Mango reports that over 2.7 million of the little shiny turds, said to be good luck charms, have been sold. There's even a version in a baseball mitt, for "catching money". Mitt, and info on purchasing, post jump.
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A little turd can go a long way.
Holy Crap!
I guess you would really need that sticky poop in your baseball glove if you wanted to catch any money with it...
Hmmm, I smell a whole range of possible applications for golden turds!
Only the Japanese...
...actually looks a lot more elegant than some of the golden kr@p on display in the gaudier sections of our local mall.
Its also a very curious double take on what we hold visually unsavoury rendered in a aesthetic fashion/ material.
Peculiarly unnerving.
Pass the seaweed mate - I'm famished.
One man's poop is another man's turd.
That's some goood sh*t.
Looks pretty stupid. They might as well have pulled that idea out of their ass.
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Gives a whole new meaning to the concept of "Can you hear me now?"
I have this t-shirt that has "holy shit" in japanese on the front of it. There's something so funny about combining Japan and poop.
I wonder how the literal translation would go....
"divine excrement"?
Looks like soft-serve ice cream. Perhaps of the green tea variety?
Japanese people DO have an odd obsession with poop- it's an attempt to make a play on words and see the brighter side of things.
The word for poop, "unko", can be broken into two chinese characters- Un and Ko. Un is also the reading for a different character meaning 'luck'. So when you step in dog poop, they say "Chotto un ga tsuite iru" or "a little luck is stuck onto you".
So an age-old saying has evolved into sticking a little golden poo on your cellphone.
I got mine in English over a year ago from Strapya - they have a new site now called http://strapya-world.com - original site is http://www.strapya.com/top.htm (include top.htm or you will get the Japanese site!) The original site doesn't work well in Firefox, or at least not for me.
I've got one of these! I've got it as a strap on my phone. I got it last year at the famous Golden Temple (Kinkakuji) in Kyoto. It's supposed to bring good luck and that kind of shit. Never seen the one on the baseball mitt though.
i like ze poop in da glove its nicely done i want one!
poop is sooooo goood give me some now, i like shit!!! give me some now
Who makes a real poop that looks like that? Seriously - I'd like to see it.
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