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"Hey Grandad, can you cock my gun for me?"

Past - Japan

Saturday, 14 June 2008

Parents. Don't matter what country you're in, you'll always find crap ones. Happy fathers day...

Fathers day is supposed to be a day for celebrating the good fathers in society. Well actually, the only qualification for getting a gift on the special day (another commercial holiday) is to be a father. I guess you don't have to be a good one. Not that I would know. I'm not a father, yet.

I happened to have a great father and am very grateful. He didn't get a gift from me today though, for a few reasons. 1. I'm in California, and he's in Slough(UK), and it's not fathers day in the UK (lame excuse) 2. I have no money (main reason).

I would say that the perfect ingredients for a good father are as follows: Wisdom (always nice to have a dad that can help you with your homework, and give you great advice), presence (he's gotta be there), love (he has to like you, otherwise it won't work), and last but not least, cash (not overly important, but it sure does help).

The problem with the father (or grandfather I presume) in the picture above is that he doesn't seem to have the essentials. Cash, yea maybe; presence, yep he's definately there. Wisdom...not quite. Well I guess that could be open to debate, but personally, I wouldn't buy my children toy guns to play with in a park full of people at a flower festival. I can just imagine the kind of advice he's giving them.

Grandson: Grandad, there's this guy at school that always disagrees with me.
Grandad: Upstairs in the laundry cupboard, third drawer, and don't forget the bullets.

Grandson: Grandad, there's this girl that I really like at school...
Grandad: Upstairs in the laundry cupboard, third drawer, and don't forget the bullets.

Grandson: Grandad, am off to the park for a bit, you coming?
Grandad: Yea, hold on, I'll just get the gun. You grab the bullets.

I didn't really peg Japan as being a gun totting nation, but if the scene above is a regular occurance, then it won't be long, and stuff like the Akihabara stabbing spree could be more common. From what I know, it's not quite there yet, and I may well be over exagurating. Japan is still one of the safest countries in the world.

Whatever the case, I wasn't expecting to see the above at the Oyabe Flower festival of 2004. I wonder how the kid's will out in 15 years time.

Mutan Kids

The above picture doesn't fill me with hope. Might as well have 'mutiny' written on the back of his top.

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Isaac Goodfellow

|06-26-2008 13:02:54

I don't understand what you are referencing when you say their shirts appear to
read "mutani", could you explain?

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K - oops

|06-26-2008 13:17:01

What I meant to write was 'mutiny', not 'mutani'. Thanks for pointing that out
for me, my rubbish sense of the English language strikes again :P

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Isaac Goodfellow - thanks for clarifying

|06-26-2008 23:13:26

I was confused, wasn't sure if it was the last name of a famous murderer or
something.

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Gray	\|07-16-2008 17:52:26

If that's japan. Then it's not a real gun. It's extremely hard to get a gun in
japan. Black market is the only way.

But they do really like airsoft guns
there. People will spend almost as much as a real gun, on a plastic and metal
version that shoots little plastic pellets. So this is a kid playing with a
plastic toy, and people freak out about it.

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veence

|07-16-2008 22:05:01

I agree, it's most likely an airsoft gun. It's a HUGE thing there, I've imported
quite a few really good Japanese guns. They're mostly harmless but some can be
extremely powerful. I have a couple that can easily shoot through clothing.

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