Notices by mcc (mcc@mastodon.social), page 3

Public service announcement on the Osaka subway admonishing you NOT to have meet-cutes on the subway!! You could damage your vintage 2007 flip phone!!!

Promotional signage by Rene Magritte

Nyaan and Nyaang

"Please refrain from hitting, kicking, or poking the artwork", a prerecorded voice said

We're gonna see some projection mapping tonight!

Ok I got a explanation from a protected account abt this https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113400800877383368

Apparently "image" is "Wasei-eigo"— an English borrow word that took on a distinct meaning unlike its original meaning. This happens in all languages, it's why reborrowing exists, but it happens so much EN->JA there's a word for it.

The English word "Image" in a Japanese sentence means "impression" or abstract mental picture. So someone left "image" in a Japanese sentence untranslated, bc it was "already English"…

Normal Trees

Beans

Found an egg

Toilet paper with unusually intricate branding

There's a guy on the Osaka subway wearing a full penguin costume… he's got a good vibe. I trust him implicitly

E G G G G G G G

Me when I am in a subway and suddenly the train bursts out from underground into daylight and is now outside traveling across a bridge over water

Okay, Mina-san, it's time to go to Nagoya! Time to get in your travel bag!

Okay wait re: last post I just realized if I'm going to post about the orange juice robot machine I PROBABLY should have mentioned the reason I was by this vending machine in the first place, was because it was on the street outside a gorgeous, UNESCO-World-Heritage-recognized 1200-year-old Buddhist temple overlooking on one side the entire city of Kyoto from above and on the other side a literal magic waterfall. That's probably relevant

We passed by another of those "Feed Me Orange" juice-squeezed-while-you-watch vending machines (see upthread) but this time I just looked at it and was like… well, actually I could really go for some orange juice right about now.

So I tried it and… okay!! It was actually some really good orange juice!!

Thanks, Google Translate

Anyway if you choose to drink from the waterfall whose water possesses mystic powers, it turns out they dealt with the sanitation problems inherent in this by storing the ladles used to capture and drink it in a machine that constantly sterilizes them with UV light. Japan has this religion thing down to a science (spoken approvingly)

What was interesting about this temple (Kiyomizu-dera) was it was really more of like… a complex? There's a part built in the 8th century, and a part built in the 1600s, but then there's just all this other … stuff, all around the site, which seems to be its own thing with its own individual history, some of it very mysterious if you can't read Japanese signage (attachment #2: why are there dogs? why do they look so friendly? are they meant as guardians? or are they just happy to see you?

Sorry I didn't mention this detail earlier