Obaasan

[sageb1]

http://www.brightblack.net/japan/obaasan.html

This link is so hilarious.

I can imagine titles like "My gramma was a battarion and I survived!"

[rice cracker]

Did you write this?

[kimpossible]

Great Scott! I thought the same thing.

[yuuteya]

this is too funny and too true :biggrin:

actually the reason they have bad posture is because alot of their generation are from country backgrounds where they did lots of work of bending and planting. but also its connection to a lack of calcium in the diet that caused that. thats what i was told.

but even more dangerous than the general obaasan, are those 'obahan', especially the notorious deadly obahan from osaka, the osaka ones are the elite, they are faster than the other japanese obaasan, their reflex even are faster than teenagers. obahan never say excuse me or sorry, they totally ignore you, and they cut their finger nails in the subway and the nail pieces fly up and land at your feet (this is true!) and yah they can physically hurt us young people, especially if we are riding in the subway at rush and there is only one seat left, you should never race the obahan, because they will elbow you, or sit on your fingers and your napsak crushing your sandwich, or pretend to be sleepy on the subway and fall on you and push you aside just to sit down! :mad: .... the worst is when obahan are in a group, then you have no chance.

[Faithless]

Cute, but not entirely complete.

Some obaasans are rather frisky, and continue to urge the "old man" to continue to "play along". (Of course, this imagery can warp your mind, if you think about it too hard.) And if they like to tell you how relatively active they are -- discourage them with "TMI".

Some obaasans have mouthes like sailors, and love the shock value of well-placed f-words in quiet Japanese restaurants -- i.e., "What the fuck is this in my yoso-nabe?"

And though old and weathered looking, some obaasans stay awake an average of 20 hours out of a day -- practicing their violins or pianos, or filling MaryKay orders for friends and relatives, sometimes, half their ages. :rolleyes:

[yuuteya]

some obaasan and obahan also use the money that they manage from their salaryman husbands who they never see because he is stuck at work all day. and then these ladies go to the 'host club' so they can select a young handsome guy who they will financially support for some time as his patron, (great wages!), then this young host's job is to tell the obaasan/obahan sweet things, like how pretty she is, chat and joke with her, sing karaoke together, have dinner, maybe flirt in the host club, and do other things to spice up a lonely old lady's life... (i will stop at this point)