Posts Tagged wtf
WTF Friday – KANCHO!
Posted by Christa Watson in WTF Friday on March 19, 2010
Our IT team has a pretty sick sense of humour (which I love), but their jokes always seem to err on the side of…well…just wrong. They also always find a way to run a joke dead and into the ground for over a year later (I have been witness to this). So I was NOT surprised to find their newest *thing* is a Japanese child’s prank called Kancho.
They even dedicated a statue to it in Japan...
The wikipedia definition of Kancho:
“is a prank often played in Japan, performed by clasping the hands together so the index fingers are pointing out and attempting to insert them sharply into someone’s anal region when the victim is not looking.”
[Pause for taking it all in...]
“…It is similar to the wedgie or a goosing, although, as compared to kancho, the former mentioned acts do not involve physical contact which is quite as intimate or direct. A Kancho is often executed simultaneously as the offending party loudly expresses the second syllable of “Kan-CHO!”"
Yea, I think this WTF moment is pretty explanatory, and on 2 levels. First – WTF JAPAN?? Who teaches kids to go poking others in that *out only* hole?! How is this funny? And secondly, WTF my IT guys for always yelling kanCHO and making me think about goosing another person in the ass. :/
Avatar WTF?!
Posted by Christa Watson in WTF Friday on January 2, 2010
I’ve decided to ban Avatar from my want to see movie list. I know, I know, everyone is in love with this Pocahontas meets Matrix graphic rich story, but I’m irked. I mean you spend millions upon millions of dollars on cutting edge CGI effects that have never been seen before and you left the movie logo creation to an intern? At least that is what I assume happened since the creative for the movie was the word “AVATAR” spelled out in crappy papyrus font with an applied glow filter:
Guess which one I created in 2 seconds in Photoshop and which one was from the exclusive avatar movie website?
So Avatar the movie, I’m disappointed. No you will never receive my box office $$ and this WTF is for you!
WTF Friday – Cute & Cuddly, but Dead?
Posted by Christa Watson in WTF Friday on December 11, 2009
OK I am not that old, but back in my day, stuffed animals were cute & cuddly, but definitely not dead. Imagine my surprise as I strolled into Toys R Us and found this lovely display of Skelanimals. That’s right folks, dead animals that according to their makers: “…are adorable little animals who have met an untimely end-mostly due to their own reckless and ill-advised behavior.”
Oh wait, there’s more… “They like people who have a warm heart, after all they’re just bones. They need you to keep them warm and cozy.”
Toys R Us Skelanimals display
What happened to the days of My Little Pony and Popples? I’m not sure whether to say A’www’ or ‘WTF?!’, but what I do know is there are plenty of them to go around. In fact, there are 26 different characters to choose from (yes, again, ALL DEAD)
The Gang
I think the most WTF moment I had was visiting the Skelanimals site. I found out that each of the 26 lovable (and dead) plushes had a story as to how they met their fate:
Marcy the Monkey – How Marcy Became A Skelanimal
Marcy would swing and hang.
Each morning out of bed she sprang.
Her tail was sleek and strong.
She hung for hours long.
She bragged about the strength of her tail.
If all the monkeys pulled, it would stick like a nail.
The challenge was met the very next morning.
Only the tail was left, the monkeys now mourning.
All in all my verdict is still out. In a morbid way I think the concept is kind of adorable, and I mean hey, who doesn’t love a soft, plush bag of bones? I dunno, what do you think?
First Edition of WTF Friday!
Posted by Christa Watson in WTF Friday on December 4, 2009
I just realized that I spend a lot of time saying wtf to many different situations throughout the day. Of course being on twitter is great for these aforementioned moments, because I can usually quickly post my wtf moment and move on. Then there are those moments when you feel like they are enough wtf’upness that you should dedicate an entire Friday segment blog post for them…and here we are! So for this fabulous WTF Friday I present to you an ad from Muscle & Fitness magazine:
Extreme Fitness Photo
Oh where do I begin? Let’s bypass the obviously horrible photoshop work and skip right to the question of, where is this girl’s Pamela Anderson inspired barbed wire tattoo? I mean I understand they tried to make up for it with that uber cool “ultra hardcore” stamp tat (aka horrible photoshop job) across her rip roarin’ stomach… but I have found in my experience that whenever you have to actually label something with what it is, it usually turns out NOT to be (ex. ads for cars that proclaim to have “never been raced”).
Alright alright, I know, I’m just being nit picky now, but come on let’s face it… Ultra hardcore tat girl is curling a 10 POUND WEIGHT! My grandma curls 15 pounds- IN HER SLEEP! How could you possibly expect bodybuilder enthusiasts to get excited about what looks to be miracle juice in a syringe when the spokes model can only curl 10 lbs?! They could have at least used those awesome adobe skills to photoshop out the number so us readers could imagine it was something heavier.
OK, last and most disturbing piece… SHE’S SMOKING A CIGARETTE! Does this ad agency even understand the audience here? WTF?!? You are talking about men and women who spend hours upon hours in the gym a day, watch everything they eat down to each gram of protein, and carefully balance their supplements (which they are so conveniently advertising) and you have her SMOKING A CIG? What were you thinking? NOT TO MENTION they added in the cigarette with photoshop! What self respecting photographer would allow this to happen to their photograph?…*Pause for speechlessness*
All in all, the early 90′s madonna net gloves, patent leather bikini, and knee high stripper boots are probably the better selling points of this advert. So much for that $100k wasted on a design and marketing degree, it’s back to the drawing board for you!
/End Rant
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