40 points zdw 1 day ago 11 comments

_vertigo 1 hour ago | parent

These are great. First 3 are brilliant. The second one is golden, I wish I had thought of that.

happytoexplain 1 hour ago | parent

Some of these are very humorous because of the cultural disconnect (as an American, I have never experienced somebody asking to put their seat back).

"An expert on a very niche subject" made me laugh out loud the hardest, because it's the one that's most "just a guy", and yet it's also exactly how it's described.

numpad0 1 hour ago | parent

The last one refilling detergent is a parody of The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer; everyone has seen it on textbooks and it has become a meme template on Japanese Twitter in recent years.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Milkmaid_(Vermeer)

swingandamiss 1 hour ago | parent

HN's weird obsession with Japan continues. Daily Japanese related posts. It's extremely weird.

happytoexplain 1 hour ago | parent

If I may gingerly throw a stone within my glass house, your username checks out.

Klonoar 15 minutes ago | parent

Yup.

You don’t see this kind of post rise for any other culture.

PCI-eX16 1 hour ago | parent

Maybe this is a different type of mundane costume, but I like costumes that just look like guys. When the anime initial D was popular, I would wear a white T, blue jeans, part my hair down the middle and say I'm cosplaying as Takumi Fujiwara...

skyberrys 56 minutes ago | parent

Love how long each consume caption is. It could just be called Halloween costumes that take many words to explain.

michaelbuckbee 55 minutes ago | parent

I saw video of a costume contest this year where one participant was wearing an Amazon delivery driver vest, flung a cardboard box across the stage and then took a picture of it (all to wild applause).

henearkr 43 minutes ago | parent

They are more like "situational haikus", or the transposition to practical humor of the concept of haiku.