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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #60 on: May 24, 2005, 07:26:43 PM »
actualy it's something they only do in america and not Japan.
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #61 on: May 24, 2005, 07:29:46 PM »
Ah. I think I'm catching the drift now. This occurs in a the sort of restuarant I have never been to and have no desire to go to, is that correct?

Or maybe I'm way off.
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #62 on: May 24, 2005, 07:37:53 PM »
no actualy this was done at fancy sushi restraunts not sleazy places.  It was quite popular in LA and Chicago.
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #63 on: May 24, 2005, 07:38:18 PM »
It's more along the lines of "restaurant we couldn't afford," but I wouldn't rule out the other two options.
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #64 on: May 24, 2005, 07:41:29 PM »
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no actualy this was done at fancy sushi restraunts not sleazy places.  It was quite popular in LA and Chicago.


Weird. And the waitresses had no problem with this?

I would have had a big problem with it.
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #65 on: May 24, 2005, 07:43:21 PM »
Maybe I'm not getting it, though. Maybe I don't have the whole picture. Was it like the waitresses came out on hands and knees, or was it like performance art? ("Okay, now pretend your a tree! And now a table! And while you're at it, do you mind if we serve sushi on your back?")
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #66 on: May 24, 2005, 07:53:03 PM »
it would be a woman, naked or in a swimsuite that would lay out on the table and the food would be placed on her stomach and other parts of her body.  Then people would eat it off of her.

http://www.sushitarian.dk/img/body_sushi_pic_01.jpg
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #67 on: May 24, 2005, 08:15:08 PM »
Still very weird to me. I don't see how it couldn't be considered sleazy, or at least sexist.
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #68 on: May 24, 2005, 11:00:09 PM »
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Still very weird to me. I don't see how it couldn't be considered sleazy, or at least sexist.


'cause I think the paradigm in Japan is still to see women as objects.
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #69 on: May 25, 2005, 12:07:54 AM »
Well, as Spriggan said this isn't really a Japanese custom. I think what we're dealing with is the American pardigm to see Japanese women as objects.
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #70 on: May 25, 2005, 12:18:27 AM »
Actualy I was reading some more and found it's popular in China as well.

Many in the States that do it say it's art.
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #71 on: May 25, 2005, 12:41:57 AM »
Well, I'd be certainly happy to try the experience to determine if it is or is not art...
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #72 on: May 25, 2005, 01:06:51 PM »
Not to change the topic again...

I thought I should inform all of you who are hoping to see me do something embarrassing to EUOL during his reading that I will actually not be there. I have a prior commitment to an adorable boy by the name of Owen.

I am trying to swing it so I can come on Saturday, but that may or may not happen. So, if I don't come, everyone have a great time without me and make sure to support EUOL (make it look like he is important and popular)!  ;D
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #73 on: May 25, 2005, 01:59:26 PM »
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it would be a woman, naked or in a swimsuite that would lay out on the table and the food would be placed on her stomach and other parts of her body.  Then people would eat it off of her.


I guess no one else saw the "CSI: Miami" episode where a gal working as a sushi table poisoned one of the clients with blowfish poison-infused fingernail polish! It was pretty crazy.

This female customer was, well, too "interested" in the sushi geisha. Feeling justifiably harrassed, this sushi geisha dediced to take matters into her own hands. So she poisoned her fingernail polish and put sushi on the back of her hand (besides other places) because she knew this creepy woman would use her mouth to get the sushi.  

The CSI guys only figured it out after finding a teeny piece of fingernail polish stuck in the vic's teeth. Ugh! They figured out what type of poison it was and gave the sushi geisha a visit.

Anyway, I wouldn't have believed this naked sushi restaurant thing if I hadn't seen that. Crazy stuff.
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Re: CONduit Reading
« Reply #74 on: May 25, 2005, 02:22:48 PM »
Actually, I have seen that episode. There was something to do with really expensive honey, too.
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