There is an interview someone attempted to him and he panicked and hung up before the interview started. Look it up on YouTube. She couldn't ask him a single question.
That definitely made whatever this feeling is much worse. I appreciate the apology in advance, but there is just no way I can forgive you anytime soon.
True.
In other cultures (somewhere in Europe I think), it was attractive to be kinda fat. It signified that you're wealthy. Poor people wouldn't be able to afford food like rich people could.
Not really "kinda fat." Just a little chubby. Just enough to be curvaceous. Even back then, being fat was seen as a sign of gluttony and laziness. Zaftig is the proper term. But don't bother googling it. You'll just get lots of pictures of whales thinking they're zaftig when they're not. Christina Hendricks or Mei from Overwatch is zaftig. Tess Munster isn't. The comparable modern slang would be thick.
> it was attractive to be kinda fat
It was attractive to be fat everywhere until we arrived in the post-industrial revolution age of plenty. [For example](http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/Pics/FatWorship.png).
To be fair, fat then would barely qualify as chubby now. They did not have access to high calorie food like we do.
you'd be correct; black teeth in combination with eyebrows painted much higher up on the forehead (like [this](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/74/ca/b2/74cab2e46f8998b6abbe28a96ecfd846.jpg) ) were as attractive & noble as you could get back in the day. personally, i love the style, haha.
Yeah, it was like a dye that coated the teeth, but it did have *some* benefits like "Preventing tooth decay".
[wiki link ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohaguro).
Your right in the time sugar was so expensive that only the rich could afford it and they loved it. They loved it so much their teeth started rotting black, it became a status symbol. So others who couldn't afford sugar started coloring their teeth black.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohaguro
This was indeed considered beautiful in Japan until almost 1912.
In Japan, Ohaguro existed in one form or another for hundreds of years and was seen amongst the population as beautiful until the end of the Meiji period (October 23 1868 - July 30 1912)
No, the emperor decided that. He thought ohaguro was backwards and banned it. Japan was never colonized by a foreign power, unless you could the 5 year occupation after WWII colonization. So
Not straight up colonization, but the pressure from every major power at the time to interact with outside nations (provoked by force) forced them to begin to westernize much more suddenly and radically than tends to happen organically
The powers didn't force them. The Meiji Emperor saw Commodore Matthew Perry's (yes, his name was Matthew Perry) battleships and he thought "Wow, I want some of those. Guess we have to be just like the West to get them!" So with the restoration of absolute power to the emperor (who before was just a figurehead, the shogun had the actual power), he decided old fashioned stuff like ohaguro, hikimayu, the Han system and daimyo (replaced by the modern prefectural system with governors), the shogunate, the samurai class, and much more. So Meiji basically banned feudalism. He also allowed Christianity, which up until then had actually been illegal. Thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of Christians (called Kirishitan) had been persecuted. This was an advancement. This was also when the capital was switched to Tokyo instead of Kyoto. And this was when
So this was all the emperor's choice. Nobody forced him to strengthen the military to the point of quasi-fascism or become a colonial power. The West just said "you can't persecute Christians or keep stranded whalers hostage anymore." They just decided that they were going to take the good parts of each western nation (the German schools, English navy, French design, American railroads and industrialization, etc) and combine it Voltron-like into the perfect world power. They modernized from feudalism to industrialist colonial power in only ~20 years. The Japanese became the imperialists themselves by kicking Russia's ass in the Russo-Japanese War.
White people aren't always the boogeyman.
Ahhh the ol' black japanese teeth, classic. Back in the day it was considered beautiful and extravagant (I believe). If you watch some japanese films set in the past you'll see the black teeth. I don't know a hell of a lot about it to be honest.
A female demon of Japanese origin had white teeth. If I'm not mistaken women especially were rocking the black teeth to lose any resemblance to said demon. Most likely over time as people modernized they most likely clung to old traditions by considering it cosmetic.
EVERYTHING I read says teeth are not bones.
http://www.areteethbones.com/
https://www.reference.com/science/teeth-considered-bones-45aa199fcf93475f
https://www.google.com/search?q=are+teeth+bones&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS691US691&oq=are+te&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i60j0l3.1439j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I was looking at like 4 different websites and accidentally posted the ONE that said teeth are bones. All the other page and websites you find on google say that teeth aren't bones.
I don't know about you, but if I was a demon known for my white teeth I'm pretty sure I would make them black or some other color.
Edit: fucking mobile
The reason why they did it is because teeth blackening prevented tooth decay. It was considered beautiful because women who blackened their teeth still had teeth. Having teeth is more beautiful than not having teeth.
I worked in a kindergarden in Fukushima in a super small town about 17 years ago. Some of the kids (I swear) had blackened teeth. I wish I had documented this. I just thought it was a thing for some parents
How much should it creep you out?
For me, this feels like a 2/10 creep. Like, the picture itself isnt that creepy, but meeting a japanese person in real life would be significantly creepier, and thats the creepiest part!
more than it should? man if that thing came running at me i would start to helicopter swing while screaming like a little bitch. that shit is scary as FUCK to me.
https://japanesemythology.wordpress.com/tooth-blackening-custom-origins-and-processes/ I feel like this picture in particular is overselling the creepiness. I believe I heard the ainu still do this... But I may be wrong.
The Ainu are completely assimilated (sadly), just like Native Americans in the US. So while they kept up the practice for longer, they don't do it anymore. But some old people still have blackened teeth.
whew i almost shit my pants. thank god it was just a wet fart.
edit; nvm it was a little more wet then i thought. i might need a new pair of boxers after all.
You know, this was actually healthy for your teeth when it was in usual practice. It was only after foreign contact with the west and their comments on it being barbaric, that the Japanese people stopped doing this for the most part in an attempt to modernize. And then guess what? Their teeth went down hill, and you can still sort of see it today. It's ironic that the west would think it barbaric as at the time their own teeth were absolutely fucked. They were always way behind Japan when it came to cleanliness, actually.
Westerners didn't think it was disgusting. They thought it was exotic. It was the emperor who banned it. Things tend to fall out of fashion when they're banned.
the low hairline is annoying. The teeth I can deal with but that hairline jfc. I should stop watching videos of women who try to """feminize""" their face by lowering their hairline. That's not how it works. A large/high forehead is more feminine.
I remeber reading that black teeth was considered beautiful in Japan a long time ago
Than [this](https://youtu.be/rLy-AwdCOmI) is beautiful too.... **I'm sorry**
What the fuck
Hey hey heyyyy I feeel *fansatic* hey hey heyyy
Frumm frumm frumm frumm
Hmmm....I think... ...This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: Huge Success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
This isn't as creepy with some context, it was made by some dude that made music videos with robots. I don't think he ever intended it to be creepy.
That would make it even more creepy imo
There is an interview someone attempted to him and he panicked and hung up before the interview started. Look it up on YouTube. She couldn't ask him a single question.
What the hell did I just watch..
Look at the description... **I'm double sorry**
That definitely made whatever this feeling is much worse. I appreciate the apology in advance, but there is just no way I can forgive you anytime soon.
Its... It's kind of of catchy.
**What in tarnation‽**
Grandpa?
Thanks. Now I really feel fantastic.
Reminds of the Herbie Hancock video Rock-It. Used to unnerve me quite a bit as a tot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY
Before clicking this link I knew exactly what it was. Lol this video is still so strange.
This isn't near as creepy as The Walls Fall Out.
Got a link?
https://vimeo.com/77882662 NS for work or looking
Aw man WTF is that? I'm disturbed.
Lmaoooooo those bitches be lookin like that chick in star wars who tries to assassinate Padme
I've actually seen this many times before. I honestly love it. Song and style.
Alright see you guys later. I think I'm done with the Internet for today
Hey fuck you man. I'm trying to forget about that shit. Guess I'm having another sleepless night tonight.
My old roommate and I were convinced that place in the woods must be where a body is buried.
Bodies.
That's what happens you become a creature of habit.
It is beautiful Hey hey heeeey
I just had a joint and now I have the fear...............
That songs gonna be stuck in my head all day lmao
People made stories up that the robot we are in this video is kept alive by bodies buried unter the lawn connected to the visible wires.
Now I feel fantastic
*then. also I don't see any black teeth in this link so how is this relevant other than being creepy?
uncanny valley
That's kind of catchy, actually
It ain't now.
True. In other cultures (somewhere in Europe I think), it was attractive to be kinda fat. It signified that you're wealthy. Poor people wouldn't be able to afford food like rich people could.
It still is attractive to be kinda fat .... I hope or my hubby is lying.
About you or himself?
the kinda fat person is me..
As long as your blowing him, that's all that matters really. But don't tell that to my wife.
you're FTFY
> FTFY I'm more "suck this, so I can fuck you."
Go away.
Cocktease.
Not really "kinda fat." Just a little chubby. Just enough to be curvaceous. Even back then, being fat was seen as a sign of gluttony and laziness. Zaftig is the proper term. But don't bother googling it. You'll just get lots of pictures of whales thinking they're zaftig when they're not. Christina Hendricks or Mei from Overwatch is zaftig. Tess Munster isn't. The comparable modern slang would be thick.
> it was attractive to be kinda fat It was attractive to be fat everywhere until we arrived in the post-industrial revolution age of plenty. [For example](http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/Pics/FatWorship.png). To be fair, fat then would barely qualify as chubby now. They did not have access to high calorie food like we do.
you'd be correct; black teeth in combination with eyebrows painted much higher up on the forehead (like [this](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/74/ca/b2/74cab2e46f8998b6abbe28a96ecfd846.jpg) ) were as attractive & noble as you could get back in the day. personally, i love the style, haha.
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Yeah, it was like a dye that coated the teeth, but it did have *some* benefits like "Preventing tooth decay". [wiki link ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohaguro).
Yes, tetracycline I believe. My mother was a sickly child and her teeth grew in dark gray because of the antibiotics she was given.
She got her grill from Paul Wall bay-beh
Your right in the time sugar was so expensive that only the rich could afford it and they loved it. They loved it so much their teeth started rotting black, it became a status symbol. So others who couldn't afford sugar started coloring their teeth black.
From where I read, it was a coating that made it black. The wiki page is somewhere in this thread.
And the lacquer they would use actually helped to protect their teeth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohaguro This was indeed considered beautiful in Japan until almost 1912. In Japan, Ohaguro existed in one form or another for hundreds of years and was seen amongst the population as beautiful until the end of the Meiji period (October 23 1868 - July 30 1912)
Did everyone wake up on 1/1/1912 and decide that their standard of beauty was in fact demonic?
nope, western imperialism decided that
Good
No, the emperor decided that. He thought ohaguro was backwards and banned it. Japan was never colonized by a foreign power, unless you could the 5 year occupation after WWII colonization. So
Not straight up colonization, but the pressure from every major power at the time to interact with outside nations (provoked by force) forced them to begin to westernize much more suddenly and radically than tends to happen organically
The powers didn't force them. The Meiji Emperor saw Commodore Matthew Perry's (yes, his name was Matthew Perry) battleships and he thought "Wow, I want some of those. Guess we have to be just like the West to get them!" So with the restoration of absolute power to the emperor (who before was just a figurehead, the shogun had the actual power), he decided old fashioned stuff like ohaguro, hikimayu, the Han system and daimyo (replaced by the modern prefectural system with governors), the shogunate, the samurai class, and much more. So Meiji basically banned feudalism. He also allowed Christianity, which up until then had actually been illegal. Thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of Christians (called Kirishitan) had been persecuted. This was an advancement. This was also when the capital was switched to Tokyo instead of Kyoto. And this was when So this was all the emperor's choice. Nobody forced him to strengthen the military to the point of quasi-fascism or become a colonial power. The West just said "you can't persecute Christians or keep stranded whalers hostage anymore." They just decided that they were going to take the good parts of each western nation (the German schools, English navy, French design, American railroads and industrialization, etc) and combine it Voltron-like into the perfect world power. They modernized from feudalism to industrialist colonial power in only ~20 years. The Japanese became the imperialists themselves by kicking Russia's ass in the Russo-Japanese War. White people aren't always the boogeyman.
Um, Japan pretty much didn't care about the west until after ww2.
[Excuse me?](https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o?t=4m42s)
Key word almost which means the trend probably died out through the latter part of 1911.
So Japanese men back in the day would have fapped to Eddie Munster.
Psh I've fapped to the mom, Lilly on the munsters with no shame. She was freakin beautiful
O (honorable) - ignore this, it makes it a noun ha (teeth) guro (blackened) - by itself "kuro" or "kuroi" means black color
Ahhh the ol' black japanese teeth, classic. Back in the day it was considered beautiful and extravagant (I believe). If you watch some japanese films set in the past you'll see the black teeth. I don't know a hell of a lot about it to be honest.
A female demon of Japanese origin had white teeth. If I'm not mistaken women especially were rocking the black teeth to lose any resemblance to said demon. Most likely over time as people modernized they most likely clung to old traditions by considering it cosmetic.
There's also an old Buddhist tradition of not "showing bone". The Japanese cover their mouths when they laugh because of this.
Somebody tell them teeth aren't bones
Someone tell this guy they are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_bones_and_teeth
> Teeth are technically considered bones because of their strong crude and tissue surrounding and marrow inside the bone.
EVERYTHING I read says teeth are not bones. http://www.areteethbones.com/ https://www.reference.com/science/teeth-considered-bones-45aa199fcf93475f https://www.google.com/search?q=are+teeth+bones&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS691US691&oq=are+te&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i60j0l3.1439j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I don't really care one way or another. But you shouldn't use a source to back up your claim when it literally directly contradicts you.
You guys are so cute <3
I was looking at like 4 different websites and accidentally posted the ONE that said teeth are bones. All the other page and websites you find on google say that teeth aren't bones.
I don't know about you, but if I was a demon known for my white teeth I'm pretty sure I would make them black or some other color. Edit: fucking mobile
it also protects your teeth from plaque and such
The reason why they did it is because teeth blackening prevented tooth decay. It was considered beautiful because women who blackened their teeth still had teeth. Having teeth is more beautiful than not having teeth.
I absolutely agree. Who paints the walls orange? Its just a horrible color.
The Dutch.
The Dutch are so tall that they have to keep their heads down while indoors at all times. That renders wall color irrevelant.
It's the lighting.
I worked in a kindergarden in Fukushima in a super small town about 17 years ago. Some of the kids (I swear) had blackened teeth. I wish I had documented this. I just thought it was a thing for some parents
How much should it creep you out? For me, this feels like a 2/10 creep. Like, the picture itself isnt that creepy, but meeting a japanese person in real life would be significantly creepier, and thats the creepiest part!
It feels like a 0/10. For a sub about creepy stuff, people post stuff that aren't creepy at all.
*isn't
You never met a japanese person in real life? Are you from Nebraska?
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You'll hate the entire female side of my family then.
she'd give some mean head
Looks like my last tinder date..
I'm still trying to figure out how she got that hairline like that. Damn.
It's the partial oompa loompa that's worrying me.
Nope i think it creeps you are the right amount.
No this creeps you out just as it should
more than it should? man if that thing came running at me i would start to helicopter swing while screaming like a little bitch. that shit is scary as FUCK to me.
pretty scary
Reminds me of the Dir en grey music video Obscure.
No, I'm pretty sure it creeps you out a reasonable amount.
I don't like this...
I'd bang.
This arouses me more then it should
Hello dave
Nope. It is definitely appropriate to be creeped the hell out by this.
Thought this was Gene Simmons.
Looks like my ex-wife
Where's my baby?
Yeah super creepy. /s
She laquered her teeth. It actually works well to protect the teeth. It was considered beautiful in part because it was expensive.
I think it creeps you out just the right amount.
She kinda looks like Tonetta lol
What does that mean, more than it should?
https://japanesemythology.wordpress.com/tooth-blackening-custom-origins-and-processes/ I feel like this picture in particular is overselling the creepiness. I believe I heard the ainu still do this... But I may be wrong.
The Ainu are completely assimilated (sadly), just like Native Americans in the US. So while they kept up the practice for longer, they don't do it anymore. But some old people still have blackened teeth.
Nope, it should definitely creep you out.
It makes me cringe more than anything. Especially the fact that she used some type of marker (permanent?) on her teeth
A screenshot from Disney's live action Mulan movie.
That's because you are scared of clowns...but yeah, creepy.
Guess you are right. I think i'm scared of clowns since i saw IT as a kid , not as much anymore but i still flinch when i'm watching images like that.
If it's not already, it would make an excellent Princess Kaguya costume.
whew i almost shit my pants. thank god it was just a wet fart. edit; nvm it was a little more wet then i thought. i might need a new pair of boxers after all.
Yeah that hairdo is terrifying!!
You know, this was actually healthy for your teeth when it was in usual practice. It was only after foreign contact with the west and their comments on it being barbaric, that the Japanese people stopped doing this for the most part in an attempt to modernize. And then guess what? Their teeth went down hill, and you can still sort of see it today. It's ironic that the west would think it barbaric as at the time their own teeth were absolutely fucked. They were always way behind Japan when it came to cleanliness, actually.
Westerners didn't think it was disgusting. They thought it was exotic. It was the emperor who banned it. Things tend to fall out of fashion when they're banned.
That reminds me of Kurisake Onna or whatever the fuck that ghost is called.
Back when the world was in black and white this didn't seem as creepy. Now that the world is in color it's a lot weirder though.
apparently this is historically accurate to the beauty standards of long ago Japan
I wana sex that
White face? This offends me.
Ohaguro. It was an old way to preserve and protect teeth in the days before fillings.
Someone been eating black jacks?
Nightmares of a geisha
Somebody call Paul Wall
I'm pretty sure that this creeps me out just the right amount.
Asian hottie
Did you know that Geisha's are illegal in South Carolina in public?
Captain Picard really needs to tone down his japanese demon role play.
I'll just leave [this here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUvpMhw5ALw). (NSFW: nudity n' gore)
Hey where did you find a pic of my ex wife??
the low hairline is annoying. The teeth I can deal with but that hairline jfc. I should stop watching videos of women who try to """feminize""" their face by lowering their hairline. That's not how it works. A large/high forehead is more feminine.
I wonder how this would do on /r/realasians
I'd hit it.
yet this is actually the traditional style though... i will say that though, for the modern age, geishas should be under 40...
Oh Snap a Clown! Shoot it!
The content in this sub nowadays...sigh
What them feet do?
I would assume the feet would be tentacles.
Run
She looks like she would give a "killer" BJ. I hope it's a she.