Comments on: On Noise Bursts and Japanese Television | 電視と噪音 http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/08/23/on-noise-bursts-and-japanese-television-%e9%9b%bb%e8%a6%96%e3%81%a8%e5%99%aa%e9%9f%b3/ A New England Expat in Japan. Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:52:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: On Sorting Garbage in Japan | 屑選別 | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/08/23/on-noise-bursts-and-japanese-television-%e9%9b%bb%e8%a6%96%e3%81%a8%e5%99%aa%e9%9f%b3/#comment-21 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:07:52 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=136#comment-21 [...] The bags are labeled with descriptions of what goes inside of them. If there is ever confusion, a 7-page comic book explains what goes where and on what days. Special garbage pickup days are also announced by a mysterious figure using bull horns mounted on electrical poles. [...]

]]> By: Claire http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/08/23/on-noise-bursts-and-japanese-television-%e9%9b%bb%e8%a6%96%e3%81%a8%e5%99%aa%e9%9f%b3/#comment-19 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:10:34 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=136#comment-19 I turned up the volume to the maximum for the video because all I could hear was noisy cicadas- then Joey and I were both very surprised by the super loud friendly tone.

I don’t know about you but speakers like that make me immediately think of three negative things:
1. high school
2. Auschwitz
3. zombie based horror movies

I love their garbage system. I wish we did that here.

]]> By: Tanya http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/08/23/on-noise-bursts-and-japanese-television-%e9%9b%bb%e8%a6%96%e3%81%a8%e5%99%aa%e9%9f%b3/#comment-17 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:10:57 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=136#comment-17 Funny story – I was spraying a cockroach and all of a sudden heard a beeping noise and a woman speaking Japanese. I was so disoriented and freaked out for a second: ”how is this cockroach talking?!”

Then I realized there was a carbon monoxide (or some other poison) detector on the ground right next to where I was. It talks too!

]]> By: Brett Sowerby http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/08/23/on-noise-bursts-and-japanese-television-%e9%9b%bb%e8%a6%96%e3%81%a8%e5%99%aa%e9%9f%b3/#comment-14 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:39:43 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=136#comment-14 The sirens reminded me of when I was living in Hawaii and they had the tsunami warning siren after earthquakes, so I can definitely understand being a bit troubled when you heard it. Why are they telling neighborhood kids to scam at six o’clock?

I think the shows remind me more of TV from the ’50s and ’60s, where Red Skelton (who ran a variety show based on improbable scenarios) and the slapstick shenanigans of The Three Stooges and Benny Hill ruled the airwaves. I think that comparison makes more sense to me.

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