Comments on: Tokyo Metro: Do it at Home, Biyatch!

By: rene

rene — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:13:47 +0000

there’s really so many posters created and they are all good
http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/tokyo-metro-posters-please-do-it-at-home/

By: Jehova C. Clarke

Jehova C. Clarke — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:07:35 +0000

A friend of mine has a brilliant picture of a crazy (gaijin) friend re-enacting the famous “please do gymnastics at home” poster. I don’t know how he did it, but he’s doing an upside down rings number using the train hand straps as rings. The surrounding Japanese passengers looked more congratulatory than the spectacled drone we see in these posters.

By: Billy W

Billy W — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:41:45 +0000

No, I don’t have a problem, but if you’re looking for a fight, step outside, tough guy…

By: marc

marc — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:32:24 +0000

Hello! Your post (Tokyo Metro: Do it at Home, Biyatch! | Tokyo Filter) does so well that I would like to translate it into French, publish on my french blog and link to you. You have something against it? Regards

By: Antonio Fidalgo (Zanucki)

Antonio Fidalgo (Zanucki) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:24:30 +0000

The funny thing I noticed on these posters is that the guy who is somewhat bothered and complaining about others’ behavior is always the same person. A sinister figure I must say. It seems a character from Blake & Mortimer comics’ series.

By: Billy W

Billy W — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:41:02 +0000

You might be onto something, but if they really support the impregnating of other people’s wives, why not just put in a row of closet-sized rooms in train stations for that purpose?

By: reesan

reesan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:44:22 +0000

i completely misread the sign.

i thought that the paternity tests had come in and the nerdy looking guy was confronting the young dude (as he preyed on his next victim) for knocking up his wife after an intimate moment they shared in the women-only carriage 8 months before.

i interpreted the sign as saying that if you want to knock up other people’s wives don’t do it on the train.

given the declining birth rate in japan, tokyo metro obviously doesn’t want to discourage people having sex so they are requesting for people to impregnate other people’s wives at home instead. a community service really.

By: Billy W

Billy W — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:33:56 +0000

@Blue Shoe:
I rarely see a man give up a seat for a woman just because she’s a woman. In fact, I often see men sitting while their wives stand, sometimes holding shopping bags.

@Roaf:
Haha. You might be onto something.

By: Roaf

Roaf — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:48:36 +0000

I think the weird guy with no eyes should be a man and ask the young couple to give up a seat for his pregnant wife. What a spineless creep, afraid to approach teenagers. Where’s the chivalry? It’s a wonder he ever got laid in the first place!

By the way, maybe I’m paranoid, but doesn’t the phrase “please do it AT HOME” printed in English stink of a thinly veiled xenophobia.

By: Blue Shoe

Blue Shoe — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:17:38 +0000

Yeah, and I guess there are different standards of politeness depending on where you go. Overall Japan is a pretty courteous country, but I find that you can’t take anything for granted when you’re commuting - that’s when it often becomes every salaryman, grandma, and kindergarden kid for himself. I mean, I’ve stood up from my seat on the train quite a few times after a throng of people have gotten on (intending for a woman or old person to take my place) only to have some a-hole salaryman swoop in.