[2018-09-21] Weird Things Japanese People Do [30Nt6gRk5PE]

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a coffee machine! It's making coffee for

me. Give me a second. Okay, so give

me a second, I'm just gonna make the

coffee quickly and then we'll start

today's video. Ouch, I hate it when the

cup's really hot and you can't grip the

handle because the handle's so tiny and

you can't get a proper grip on it, and

then you end up touching the cup And then

you burn your fingers. Anyway, let's put

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It looks like someone's— looks like

someone's arse cheeks and they're

squirting white liquid out of their anus.

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with the video? I'm so sorry, but I just

get excited over coffee very easily. Do

you ever just get really excited over the

thought of coffee? So let's just take a

quick sip.

Oh, the Nespresso is a lot better than

that drip pod stuff or that instant stuff.

Anyway, today we're not talking about

coffee. I'm just trying to drag, drag this

video out so I can get to 10 minutes.

Have you noticed yet? I'm just such a bad

boy. Anyway, today we're going to be

talking about annoying things. Get this,

get this, guys, never done before on the

channel: annoying things Japanese people

do that irritate me. Now don't get

worried, I'm not going to be racist. I'm

not saying that Japanese people are silly

or that Japan is a silly country. I'm just

I'm just gonna point out a few things that

I've only noticed Japanese people do that

I think are a bit, a little bit silly.

I'm not gonna say they're stupid or dumb,

I'm just gonna, you know,

I'm not saying they're stupid. I'm not

racist, I have a black friend and my wife

is Asian. Okay, so, okay,

so number 1 silly thing that Japanese

people do is they let me into their

country and they gave me a visa. No, I'm

just kidding. I'm just kidding. Thank you

very much for the spouse visa, much

appreciated. But number one silly thing

that I've noticed Japanese people do is

when you go outside, sometimes you see a

middle-aged man or middle-aged woman just

spraying the pavement with a hosepipe

using water. And when I first saw it, I

thought, oh, maybe there was a puddle of

vomit on the pavement or some kind of

disgusting substance he was spraying away.

But most of the time, they're They're just

spraying a completely clean pavement which

has nothing on it. Maybe it's clean

because he's been spraying it, I don't

know, but I don't think that there was

anything on the pavement in the first

place and they were just spraying it for

fun. So I asked my wife, why do Japanese

people like to spray the pavement?

Usually it happens outside of restaurants

or shops, and she said that it's to— it's

to cool down the area and to keep the dust

away. So I looked this up on Google and

there's actually a thing called uchimizu,

which is like a traditional Japanese

thing.

It's some kind of traditional Japanese

thing where back in the olden days they

used to sprinkle water using those little

bucket spoon things they have. They used

to sprinkle water on the ground to wash

away the dust and to keep the area cool

during summer. Now, I'm no, I'm no

scientist, but I think that's kind of

ridiculous. And if it's a hot summer's

day, just spraying a little patch of

pavement with a hosepipe isn't really

going to make any huge difference in the

temperature in the area. No one's going to

notice any difference, and no one's going

to be standing around that area where he's

spraying. They're just going to walk past

and and carry on walking to wherever

they're going. What's the point in

spraying concrete to cool down the area?

It's not gonna make any difference.

Then the second— and the second thing she

said, to keep dust away, doesn't make

sense either. Why would there be dust

outside on the streets? In England, we

don't have dusty streets, and no one's

spraying the pavements in England. Why

would there be dust? Why would— how would

dust settle? On the pavement outside when

there's wind blowing it around. The reason

why dust isn't really a thing outside is

because you have wind to blow it around

and it gets mixed up in the atmosphere,

in the air, and you don't really notice

it. And the reason why dust settles inside

of a building, inside of rooms, is because

there's no wind blowing around and it just

settles on surfaces and you,

you see it build up kind of like this.

You see this? This is dust. And the reason

why there's dust on my TV— on what's

actually my wife's TV— is because no one

cleans it and there's no wind in here and

it just settles.

Maybe back in the olden days when they had

dirt roads it made sense because they

would spray the dirt away back onto the

dirt roads, but then if you're spraying—

that doesn't make sense either. If you're

spraying a dirt road with water, it's not

going to make it less dirty, it's just

going to turn it into a big puddle of mud,

and no one likes mud. And the reason why I

find it a little bit annoying is because

whenever I see it outside, I think to

myself, what are you doing? Why are you

spraying the pavement? No one else does

this in the entire world. No one does this

in England, no one does this in America.

Why are you just spraying the pavement for

absolutely no apparent reason? And when

you're trying to walk past them, you have

to try and be careful not to get splashed,

otherwise they just continue spraying And

they don't even care that you're walking

past and they spray you. I've been sprayed

a few times. Most of the time they stop

spraying to let you go by, but sometimes

it's some dickhead old guy— but sometimes

you get these dickhead old guys who think

they're so tough and they think they can

do anything they want just because they're

old and everyone should respect them

because they're old, and they just carry

on spraying and it's like they don't care

about the people who are trying to get

past. Well, how about I buy a water pistol

and then spray you back right in the face?

And then we'll see who's, who's smiling.

Number 2 irritating thing Japanese people

do that I find irritating is they like to

put bottles of plastic water bottles

filled with water all over the place. You

go outside any residential area in Japan,

you'll see rows and rows of plastic

bottles filled with water just lined up

against walls, against lampposts. Along

people's gates in front of their houses.

And the reason why they do this is because

for some reason the older generation of

Japanese people have convinced themselves—

they believe that this keeps cats away.

I know it sounds ridiculous. They think

that it stops cats coming onto the

property and urinating on the walls or

on the lampposts or on the little

driveways they have. And apparently

there's no evidence that proves this.

Cats don't really care if they see a

reflection of themselves. They're not

going to walk up to a water bottle and go,

oh, it's a reflection of myself, better

run away. Cats are too stupid to even

recognize that it's their own reflection

most of the time. They don't even

understand what it is. They're not

intelligent enough to be able to

understand the concept of what a

reflection is. They just see some shapes

and Funny wobbly colors on a plastic

bottle, and they they might sniff it and

go, "Oh, what's this?" They're not going

to run away. It's not going to prevent

cats from pissing all over the place. And

wouldn't you rather just have a little bit

of cat piss outside than have lines and

lines, rows and rows of plastic bottles

all over the place? That makes the area

look like some kind of plastic bottle

recycling bin.

I've been to a lot of different countries

during my lifetime on this planet. I've

been to most of the countries in Asia,

and I've never seen this water bottle

thing in any other country outside of

Japan. Why is it that only Japanese people

do this? It's really strange.

I guess I could Google it and find out,

but I'm too lazy. Someone else Google it

and then tell me. Tell us all about it in

the comments section.

Next— ne— next annoying thing is for

some reason they can't differentiate

between the colors blue and green when it

comes to traffic lights. You know traffic

lights? When it's red, it means stop, and

when light goes green, it means go. And in

English, we'll say the light's red and the

light's green. Some countries you have a

light in between and it's yellow. It goes

red, yellow, green. But in Japan, they

have traffic lights and they have red and

green, but instead of calling the green

light green, they call the green light

blue. They'll say, oh, the light's gone

blue. The light's blue now, let's cross

the road. The light's blue now, we can

continue driving. And in the back of my

head, I'm just thinking, that's not blue,

that's green. Why are you calling a green

light blue? And then I asked my wife, I

said, what's that color on that traffic

light? She says it's blue. I said, no,

it's not, it's green. What are you talking

about? And then I said, look at this leaf,

what color is this? And she'll go green.

And I say, what's that color on that

traffic light? And she says it's blue.

No, they're both green!

Again, I don't understand why they think

that the green light on the traffic light

is blue, but for some reason they do. And

they'll never— you'll never hear a

Japanese person call the green light on a

traffic light green. They'll always call

it a blue light, and it's just really

silly. I just don't understand why can't

they just call the green light green? Why

do they have to call the green light blue?

It's just kind of annoying because I keep

thinking, that's not a blue light, it's a

green light. Just call it a green light.

Next annoying thing is when you're at the

supermarket, when you're at some

supermarkets, and you're about to pay and

you're at the cash register and the sales

assistant is scanning your items. In some

supermarkets, they'll read out the item,

the name of the item they've scanned, and

the price. So for example, if they've just

scanned a box of mushrooms, they'll go,

beep, mushrooms, ¥100. Beep, bananas,

¥150. Beep, pork,

¥500. And it just feels kind of

unnecessary because there's a little

display right next to the cash register

that I can look at. I don't need you to

read out all the prices of everything

you've scanned. I can just look at the

little display, and most of the time I

already know what the prices are because I

check the price before I pick the item and

put it into my basket. And it makes me

feel bad because I feel like I have to pay

attention to what they're saying when

really I just want to look at the floor

and kind of zone out until they finished

scanning all the items. And it just seems

like a big pain in the neck. Sometimes I

just want to say, it's okay, you don't

have to read out everything. I don't know

if they would actually listen to you,

because if they didn't read out the prices

of everything they're scanning, they'd

probably get told off by their supervisor

for not reading out every price tag. This

is why I would hate to work in a

supermarket. Welcome to the end of the

video, and I'm going to talk about our

final thing, or my final thing that

irritates me about Japanese people, and

this is the number one thing that

irritates me most. We have to go back to

the traffic lights and we're going to talk

about jaywalking. Most Japanese people

refuse to jaywalk. They refuse to cross

roads unless the traffic light has turned

green. Not blue, not indigo, not violet or

purple, but green. It's this color.

This is what green looks like, by the way.

Even if it's just a tiny little lane and

there's no traffic at all, there's no cars

to be seen anywhere, they'll still just

stand there waiting for the little light

to go green, and they won't cross the road

until it's gone green. I'm sorry, but if

there's no cars, there's no traffic

anywhere to be seen, I'm not just gonna

stand there waiting for a traffic light to

tell me to cross the road. I can think for

myself, I can see for myself, and I've

got better things to do than standing

there waiting for a little light to turn

from red to green. And the reason why it's

really irritating is because if you're

with a Japanese person, for example your

girlfriend— for example, when I was with

my first Japanese girlfriend, this

happened all the time. We would cross a

road and there would be no cars or traffic

anywhere, so I would just cross the road

even if the light's red. And guess what

she did? She would just stand there

waiting for the traffic light to go green,

and I'd be standing on the other side of

the road waiting for her to eventually

come and cross over. And we even had

arguments over this. She would say, this

is Japan, we have to follow the rules in

Japan. When the light's red, we're not

allowed to cross the road. And I said, I

don't care if the light's red or if it's

green or if it's bloody rainbow-colored.

I'm gonna look left and right, and if I

see— if I see no cars, I'm gonna cross the

road. And then she started crying about it

like a bloody baby. If the traffic light

told you to jump off a cliff, would you

jump off a cliff? No, I'm not gonna let a

traffic light tell me how to live my life.

I can think for myself, thank you very