December 03, 2004

• I had no idea that burning charcoal in an unventilated area could kill a person. I am a ranter when it concerns how impressionable I think people are. The ultimate example to me is when suicide gets a lot of media attention as a trend, and it leads to more suicides. Nutty.
• I had no idea that burning charcoal in an unventilated area could kill a person. I am a ranter when it concerns how impressionable I think people are. The ultimate example to me is when suicide gets a lot of media attention as a trend, and it leads to more suicides. Nutty.
• Well, the double comment looks bad, but it is somewhat consistent with the theme of the post of doing things in pairs.
• Burning charcoal produces huge amounts of carbon monoxide, which is why it's a bad idea to grill burgers indoors.
• I wonder if any of these kids saw this movie? Because that's the first thing I thought of. Art imitates life imitates art?
• I am very surprised that Japan, Japan!, has suicides. Oh the humanity!
• Does anyone else feel a sense of impending doom? Like we better shape up, cause it's almost the end of the show? Maybe its this damn repressed Catholicism...
• I'm not sure, but I don't think the Japanese are particularly Catholic. Nor particularly repressed, if their graphic novels and vending machines are any indication...
• errr. Metric buttloads of repression in everyday society => "those" graphic novels and vending machines, has always been how I've understood it. (simplified extremely.) [this is sad], of course, but on the other hand I can easily see it happening, being arranged online. On some obscure corner of the web - and most of them are obscure - you can immerse yourself in any manner of dysfunctional group thinking without being noticed or stopped by passersby. It's how subcultures work, to a positive extent, and it's how things like suicide pacts and pro-anorexia clubs work.
• Well, I meant maybe why I felt that way (as in the Catholic ideas I try to repress), but I don't think it's just that. I think the feeling makes its self salient in the way our cultures are colliding over Bush. I think there's a sense of having to get things right and soon. The Graphic Novels are not a good indication at all. There's a phrase in Japan: "If a nail sticks out, you have to beat it down." But then again, I probably don't know as much as some other people on here who've actually lived there.
• Does anyone else feel a sense of impending doom? Like we better shape up, cause it's almost the end of the show? No, that's perfectly ordinary paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that.
• Hasn't this been a problem in Japan for several years, now? Especially 18-28(ish) year-olds in this massive computer age? As far as I understand it, the pressure that now rests on their shoulders, with an unbalanced economy, to succeed is tremendous. Certainly more so than in the U.S.
• No, that's perfectly ordinary paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that. Yep.
• tenaciouspettle : suicide circle was a terrible, awful, very bad, no good movie.
• tenaciouspettle : suicide circle was a terrible, awful, very bad, no good movie. Hey, so was Gigli, and God knows how many suicides that film is responsible for.