Tokyo metro manner poster

 

The new Tokyo Metro manners poster for November is a good one. Ha ha ha… good before and after pictures. By the way, my American friend said that he doesn't care if women put on makeup on the train, but I feel that doing makeup in public is wrong because for me, putting on makeup is related to getting dressed, so personally, I wouldn’t do it in public. Maybe many people feel the same, because we had a similar "makeup" poster in May 2008 too. Which of these do you agree with and which seem strange? (I mean which activities seem strange, not which have strange English, he he)

Wow this is the meat towel for meat lovers. The packaging is good too; in the past, we used bamboo leaves to wrap meat (sometimes meat shops still do this).

 

 

The line and dot notebooks ranked among this year's hit items. Japanese people like quad-ruled notebooks very much and I read some funny news about it: an American engineer thought it was crazy when he saw Japanese people using excel as a quad-ruled sheet. For example, he made this great diorama and he used the grids on excel to design it. We usually use excel like this. Is this strange?

Ahhh, what a good idea! I want these origami teabags. Speaking of tea, Gogo no Kocha (afternoon tea) is the most popular bottled tea brand in Japan. I like their double tea leaf milk, which is dark and sweet.

Comments

[alice]

i often put on makeup when i'm in the station, waiting for the train. but i wear very little makeup, so i only apply eye shadow in public and it takes less than one minute to do it, so nobody ever notices.

hmmm, i have never used excel as a quad-ruled sheet. i think most people in the US use it to list and sort data, so all the columns have different widths.

[Javi A.]

We've been in Japan for one month and I think girls making up is just a tradition ! (unless in Tokyo...)

I hope girls keep making up for many years !

[muhlange]

i always have the horrible image of women using eyeliners on trains/cars and accidentally poking their eyes when the car/or train stops suddenly...

brrrr...

and some men in america shave while driving. some read. and some even text message - how they do it successfully i don't know.

and some men in america shave while driving. some read. and some even text message - how they do it successfully i don't know.

and some men in america shave while driving. some read. and some even text message - how they do it successfully i don't know.

[bshock]

If you talk on the phone or do your make-up in public, perhaps these private actions suggest that you are marking out too much of the public space as belonging to you. I can see how that would be interpreted as very rude.

[Valerie]

I think most of the train posters make sense to me. But I also don't understand why the make-up one is considered inappropriate. Is it because it'll make a mess or you might get hurt if the train stops (and you poke yourself with a brush or something)?

It did make me think of women who drive here and try to put their make-up on while they're stopped in traffic. Very unsafe! But on the train, it seems ok.

I wouldn't do either myself, since I try to leave the house ready, but still :)

[WC]

I can't tell from that second image. Did you use Excel to lay everything out, or just to make quadrille printer paper?

If you used it to lay everything out, I'm not surprised that he thought you were crazy. :D For just printing out some quadrille paper, it's a pretty good idea!

As for the train sign, I see women in America go shopping with curlers in their hair. If they are willing to be seen being that ugly out in public, it doesn't surprise me that they would do their makeup on the train as well. (Some do it in their car here, while driving!!)