Some Japanese claim that they enjoy speaking English as they can be more direct, enabling them to cut through the occasionally cryptic content of a Japanese conversation. An approach that is also adopted by some manufacturers – and especially makers of condoms it seems – in order to create products that clearly state their content and consumer base; the possible addition of an image further reducing the risk of confusion.
Presumably the inability to find an animal more suitable than a horse leading the other maker of colossal condoms to simply stick with just English. The size of the text alone a tell-tale sign for the product’s target audience.
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Ha ha! Ultra Big should have a picture of a hiking sock on the front cover.
When you take photos of this stuff, are you overt (i.e. ask the shopkeeper?) or discreet? I only ask because they’re not blurred or shaky or anything.
they should have put a photo from torre agbar in barcelona or 30 st mary axe in london hahahahahaha
I do try and be discreet Paul, but as a western foreigner I tend to stand out regardless of what I do – or indeed don’t do. So as people often have a second look anyway, at least if I’m doing something unusual it at least gives them something to look at other than my ‘tall’ nose and pasty complexion.
That said, I took the condom pictures in the medicine/health section of a big-ish shop, but the pharmacist spotted me and kept walking past the aisle to see if I was still there and to presumably work out what I was up to. Fortunately though this is still – at least to a certain extent – the land of non-confrontation, so he didn’t say anything; although I was rather embarrassed and made a hasty exit without looking back.
Without, I have to admit, packets of either Super Big Boy or Ultra Big…
I hear, from a reliable source, that Super Big Boy is actually the single largest condom made by a Japanese maker.
I can tell you, and not brag, that big boy aint big enough. In fact, they’re downright painful. There are better, slightly bigger, and more subtly boxed condoms out there.
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