People link the weird game shows and stuff to prove Japan's really wacky until you realize America had a semi-popular series of movies wherein one guy drinks horse cum and another sticks his balls to a frozen pole.
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And hell, I'm tired of pretending Jackass wasn't funny!
I like asking people to take a step back and consider how objectively fucking weird a character like Batman is.
He's a billionaire who has untreated PTSD so he dresses like a fuking bat and drives around in his bat shaped car to fist fight a clown with untreated mental issues.
"Japan so wacky!" gets clicks, "Japan is pretty normal in a lot of respects" does not.
People link the weird game shows and stuff to prove Japan's really wacky until you realize America had a semi-popular series of movies wherein one guy drinks horse cum and another sticks his balls to a frozen pole.
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And hell, I'm tired of pretending Jackass wasn't funny!
I like asking people to take a step back and consider how objectively fucking weird a character like Batman is.
He's a billionaire who has untreated PTSD so he dresses like a fuking bat and drives around in his bat shaped car to fist fight a clown with untreated mental issues.
Fucking. Weird.