Beer Made with Coffee from an Elephant’s Butt!

Hey all you beer lovers out there! I want to tell you about the best beer I’ve ever had. It’s a coffee stout made with elephant droppings!

Now, I know what you must be thinking; “Coffee and beer, ewww!” But really, this beer is insanely delicious.

It’s called Un, Kono Kuro which is a pun on the Japanese word for crap (unko). The name has two meanings phonetically: “Yeah, This Is Black” or “Sh!t Black.” In English it’d be like saying “Blackish, It Is” (say that really fast a few times).

■ This Is Really Sh#t Beer!

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/04/06/we-try-beer-made-with-coffee-from-an-elephants-butt/

by The Punjapit Alliance

Japan’s Favorite Alcohol: Beer Outranks Japanese Rice Wine and Shochu

When asked to pick your poison what do you choose? In a recent survey, people in Japan were asked to select their favorite alcoholic beverage. The results, as we’ll see after the break, were quite surprising.

 

(The following survey was conducted by Japanese website Shunkan News, and was taken by a total of 20,048 people. Respondents who answered, “I don’t drink alcohol” or those who were underage have been omitted from the results.)

Japan’s favorite drinks:

Beer: 34.9%

Wine: 12.6%

Nihonshu (Japanese Rice Wine): 10.5%

Shochu: 17.7%

Plum Liquor: 13.6%

Makgeolli (Korean Rice Wine): 0.9%

Whiskey/High Ball: 4.3%

Other Alcohol: 5.5%

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/02/14/japans-favorite-alcohol-beer-outranks-japanese-rice-wine-and-shochu/

by Arthur Furrowfield

Why one Man Refuses to Sit: Standing up to Pee “A Matter of Honor”

No matter how much you love someone, once you start living with them minor irritations are bound to come to the surface. The object of your affections – that perfect specimen of a human being whose every movement used to be cute, sexy or endearing in some way – suddenly becomes just another person with flaws of their own. Perhaps they slurp their coffee too loudly. Maybe they have a habit of leaving hair in the plug-hole or not changing the toilet roll when the old one is finished. These minor issues are the kind of thing that we only come to notice after the initial “honeymoon” dating period when we were always dressed to impress and only have to keep our bad habits in check for the duration of a single evening at a time.

In a recent story about marital relations, Japanese website News Post Seven heard from both relationships experts and a number of married women who were distinctly irked by their husbands’ bad habits. While issues such as of a general lack of help with the housework or cooking frequently cropped up as the cause of arguments and unhappiness, one of the most common complaints made was of husbands making as mess while peeing. Told to take a seat while draining his spuds, however, one Japanese man was seemingly morally offended by the mere suggestion, stating that to pee standing up is “a matter of honour”.

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/02/15/why-one-japanese-man-refuses-to-sit-standing-up-to-pee-a-matter-of-honor/

by The Punjapit Alliance

Call for pants on Michaelangelo’s David

The residents of a Japanese town have asked for a replica of Michelangelo’s David to be fitted with underpants.

The 16ft statue was erected in a park in Okuizumo where it towered over people visiting nearby sports facilities.

But it is also close to a children’s play area, which prompted residents to object to the Renaissance statue’s nudity.

“It’s frightening the children and worrying the adults with its nakedness,” said an official in the small mountainside town.

“Several people have asked us to cover it up with underpants.”

The statue, along with a replica of the ‘topless’ Venus de Milo, was presented to the town by a local businessman.

Local officials said they hoped that residents would in time come to appreciate the value of the sculptures, reports the Yomiuri Shimbun.

Town official Yoji Morinaga said: “They are statues of unclothed humans, and such pieces of art work are very rare in our area.

“It’s the first time we have had anything like this in our town. Perhaps people were perplexed.”

 http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Call_for_pants_on_Michaelangelos_David

by The Punjapit Alliance

Something Dark And Bittersweet Is Brewing — Chocolate Beer!

Produced by the Sankt Gallen Brewery based in Kanagawa Prefecture, this so-called “chocolate beer” surprisingly isn’t made from real chocolate or cacao/cocoa. It’s made mainly from a combination of high temperature roasted chocolate malt and regular roasted base malt, which gives it a distinct rich flavor, not to mention the dark chocolaty color, all quite different from the typical light, golden-colored beer that we’re accustomed to. And in case you’re wondering, many women in Japan go crazy buying chocolates (some of them quite expensive too — Pierre Hermé, Jean-Paul Hévin and Pierre Marcolini , to name just a few of the chocolate brands popular in Japan) for Valentine’s Day, hence the chocolate beer promotion at this time of year.

This year’s chocolate beer line-up was released on January 10th, and our lucky reporter had the chance to sample some of the dark, bittersweet drink and even received some tips from the folks at Sankt Gallen on how to make the most of your chocolate beer experience.

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/01/18/something-dark-and-bittersweet-is-brewing-for-valentines-day/

by Arthur Furrowfield

Treat Your Loved One’s Penis to Something Special this Christmas with Hand-Delivered Tenga

Tenga is a Japanese brand of stylish male sex toys made by a company of the same name. As sleek as Tenga products look, however, most people aren’t going to line their collection up on their bookshelf. Even if it’s common sense that practically everyone masturbates, it’s still embarrassing to have other people stumble upon evidence of your alone time.

And that’s the beauty of Tenga Express, a limited-time service where you can have a cute Japanese university girl hand-deliver a Tenaga masturbation aid. What better way to show someone you care than by sending a complete stranger to their home to implicitly say, “Hey, I know what you do at home, and I support that.” 

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/12/17/treat-your-loved-ones-penis-to-something-special-this-christmas-with-hand-delivered-tenga/

by The Punjapit Alliance

Man Leaves Box of Fish at Japanese Orphanage

is this Arthur Furrowfield’s doing…..

Another tale of anonymous Japanese winter philanthropy, this time from Toyama prefecture.

At around 2:30 pm on December 8, a female staff member at an orphanage in Takaoka city noticed a man pulling up in a white vehicle and placing three large boxes, two styrofoam and one cardboard, at the base of a telephone pole near the entrance. The man, who seemed to be in his 30s, beckoned the staff member over with his hand and, without saying anything, left the boxes and drove off.

In the cardboard box were five daikon, or Japanese radishes. In the styrofoam boxes were two large, plump yellowtail, accompanied by a letter that read: “The men of the ocean have braved billowing waves, putting their lives on the line for these kan-buri (winter yellowtail).” The letter was signed: “Yours truly  A Man Who Loves the Ocean”.

At first, vegetables and fish may seem like a rather strange combination to leave outside an orphanage, but the man had actually gifted the children with a luxurious winter feast: winter yellowtail are a major seasonal delicacy that normally sell for anywhere between 30-40,000 yen ($350-$480) a fish. 

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/12/14/mysterious-man-leaves-box-of-fish-at-japanese-orphanage-this-is-a-good-thing/

by The Punjapit Alliance

Get Laid, Get Paid: Japanese Adult Video Company Recruiting Sex Industry Reviewers

Soft on Demand, the Japanese adult video producer and manufacturer of condoms, sex toys and cheeky underpants, has made the dreams of thousands of men come true this week by announcing that it is searching for men to sample “soap land”, “health” and sex parlours across the country, with the money spent during each visit refunded in full.

The catch? Visitors to these red light establishments must write a full, detailed review of their experience that will become part of Soft on Demand’s sex industry survey, which aims to stamp out shady (well, shadier) venues and provide men looking for a place to get their rocks off with a detailed database to study before heading out for some fun. A Trip Advisor of hanky panky, if you will.

After the company made the announcement via its official Twitter feed, many wondered whether Soft on Demand were merely playing a prank on us easily excitable men. A quick trip to the company’s official website, however, reveals that they’re deadly serious.

Ooh. La. La.

 The Japanese sex industry is one of the world’s largest, with pretty much any fetish that the human mind can envisage catered for. Groping women dressed as schoolgirls in a room designed to look like the inside of a train? No problem. Having your face sat on by a woman twice your size? Sure. Being bathed and massaged by a girl (literally by a girl- they clamber all over you and use their entire body) slathered with green gel? Come on; you’re not even trying to be creative!

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/12/10/get-laid-get-paid-japanese-adult-video-company-recruiting-sex-industry-reviewers/

by Dr. Vince

Japanese Adult Toy Maker Asks You to Masturbate for Charity

Now, in honor of World AIDS Day, Japanese adult goods maker TENGA is asking men across the globe to take matters into their own hands by selling a line of limited-edition designer male sex toys and donating all the proceeds to AIDS awareness and prevention.

 Each toy was designed by one of twelve international fashion brands and artists, and will be sold as a part of the “Respect Yourself Project,” an annual fundraising initiative started by TENGA in 2010 to raise awareness and of AIDS and HIV in Japan and abroad.

Though the percentage of the population living with HIV/AIDS in Japan remains one of the lowest in the world (.01% as of 2006), the number of new cases have been increasing rapidly over the past few years, due to fear of social discrimination and overall lack of awareness among the general public, and apathy among the government and media.

According to Inter Press Service, the Japanese government bases their official HIV/AIDS statistics on tests, which greatly understates the actual figures. In addition, voluntary testing has been dropping in recent years, despite it being free, and the the use of condoms has plunged from 700 million annually in 2001 to 200 million in 2011, which has further contributed to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

TENGA, which has sold over 19 million male masturbation toys worldwide since production began in 2005, launched the Respect Yourself Project three years ago in hopes of reversing this trend.

As they explain on the Respect Yourself Project 2012 website:

Worlds AIDS Day is on December 1 and was established in 1988 to increase awareness of and fight the stigma surrounding people living with HIV and AIDS.

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/11/25/japanese-adult-toy-maker-asks-you-to-masturbate-for-charity-and-to-do-it-in-style/

by The Punjapit Alliance

 

Vale remora….

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of remora.

remora was a founding member of Punjapit & a great friend to all at the shed.

With sincere sympathy,

robin