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Submitted 2 months ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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MTZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“what layout would you like for your magazine?”
“Eeehhh… Just gimme the ‘benadryl’”
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Reading it feels like I took a handful and started furiously sprinting to the bad side of town, you know, cause of the “implications”.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ohhh. Cyber!
CleoCommunist@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Love that pink
Enzy@feddit.nu 2 months ago
Not bald Not obese enough No vest No sunglasses
Must be the 70s
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’m one hypnotic frenzied writing session away from a giant winding post about how magazines gave us curated, focused cross-sections of the world around us, and how we interacted with them before the dopamine reptile brain event horizon era. I really have a lot of thoughts on this.
I don’t know if this is real and I almost don’t want to
affenlehrer@feddit.org 2 months ago
I used to go to work by public transport for many years before smartphones where a thing. Every day I want to the store in the train station and browsed / bought magazines. It was expensive but I miss it dearly.
I tried it again a few years ago but it’s not the same. A lot of information is really available online. So I bought only niece magazines focused on medieval history or those cheap stories, everything else just wasn’t intending any more.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Honestly, I don’t even care if it’s real. I just want a translation.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“Be the American the Japanese thinks you are”
DearMoogle@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Those fries are going to get cold!
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Is this what .ml means when they say to find a trustworthy source?
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Law and order the Muck bang division
Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 2 months ago
This, btw, is the depiction of extreme obesity in Japan
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s what peak performance looks like.
CleoCommunist@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Thats the professional obesisty
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I see at least 3 different fast food chains in a single meal. Now that’s dedication
klugerama@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s the cup barely visible on the left? I’m wondering if that one explains the gigantic taco.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You’re right. At least 4.
I see McDonald’s, a&w, Carl’s jr, and whatever that cup in the left is (no idea, but I don’t recognize it as one of the other 3).
cdnwaffleiron@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Damn it… Now I’m hungry…
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
What’s the doubled-over ketchup/avocado waffle running along the left forearm
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Kiernian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My eyes are such that I can’t tell if the script on that cardboard container is Tamil, Thai, AI, or something else.
This is made more difficult by google search continuing to suck out loud and returning results that include nicknames for people and TikTok home recipe challenges instead of historical facts on international menu items.
Even “verbatim” barely works anymore.
Anyone know what other names the McTaco may have gone by in the past?
CleoCommunist@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They made tacos? Why? Fr cabt they Just keep doing burgers?
Well The good thing Is them not existing but…
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Where dafuq do they sell this glorious monument to capitalist hubris?
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Something from Red Burrito perhaps? Based solely on the Carl’s Jr stuff on the table.
klugerama@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You mean Green Burrito?
Stamau123@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Might be a chalupa of some kind
Surp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used chatgpt for this so no idea if it’s valid.
Here is a full translation of all the Japanese text from the magazine cover. (Some phrases are stylized or old-fashioned “magazine hype,” so I’ve translated them naturally but kept the tone.)
American Police
(アメリカンポリス)
Top-right: 定価 1,800円 — “Fixed price: 1,800 yen”
Blue header: ワールド・ワイド・プレス — “World Wide Press” Wild Mook 44 — (Mook = magazine + book)
Main Yellow Text (Center-left column)
アメリカの熱気とニオイが、立派にポリスたちをもちメリットいっぱいのぞこんだ32ページ！ ページをめくるキミの手が、あつくなる！！
“A full 32 pages packed with the heat and atmosphere of America and its police! Your hands will get hot as you turn the pages!”
Middle Text Block
アメリカポリスの特殊部隊 “Special Units of the American Police”
SWAT大特集
“Special Feature: SWAT”
ロサンゼルス・ポリス アトランタ・ポリス フィラデルフィア・ポリス “Los Angeles Police Atlanta Police Philadelphia Police”
SWATを中心に、ポリスの攻撃力について迫っています。 緊迫した突入、制圧の作戦がわかる！！ “Focusing on SWAT, we explore the offensive capability of the police. Learn about high-tension entry and suppression tactics!”
極秘ファイル：SWAT攻撃マニュアル “Top-secret file: SWAT assault manual”
ビッグ・プレゼント!!
“Big Giveaway!!”
とっておきのアメリカン・ポリス・プレゼントを 抽選でドッサリ大放出！ “A massive lottery giveaway of special American police goods!”
**アメリカン・ポリスのウソ・ホンベン
BEST 218** “American Police: Truths & Lies — BEST 218”
Right-side Column
素晴らしきかなアメリカンポリスの世界 “The wonderful world of the American police”
ポリス映画・TVについて語ろう！！ ポリスの歴史を語ろう！！ 武力を伴ったポリスの権力について考える！！ そして『ワイルダー・ザーン(ザ・ソウル？)』をさぐる！！ “Let’s talk about police movies and TV!! Let’s discuss the history of the police!! Let’s consider police authority and the use of force!! And let’s explore the ‘wilder side’ of the police!!” (“ワイルダー・ザーン” seems to be a stylized or foreign phrase used for flavor.)
〈アメリカン〉ポリス 映画・TVカタログ “American Police: Movie & TV Catalog”
Bottom-right (small text)
監修 水野晴郎 “Supervised by: Haruo Mizuno” (a known Japanese film critic)
Editorial Advisor | Haruo Mizuno (repeated in English)
If you want, I can also: 📌 translate the cover into smoother natural English magazine wording 📌 identify the foods shown 📌 explain the cultural context behind this type of 80s–90s Japanese “mook” magazines
MTZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Very cool and interesting. Thanks! 😮
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
My wallet can taste this meal. That whole table of food was only $37.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Uh maybe like 5 bucks in 1987
Saltycracker@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Carl jr or macdonalds. Did they bring fries to Carl jr
KumaLumaJuma@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Uhh, is no one going to ask why this is like $18??
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Closer to $12 at current exchange, and a cursory search suggests some popular magazines are 1500yen per issue, so doesn’t actually seem that off.
KumaLumaJuma@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Man it has been ages since I had to exchange, I’m shocked at how different it is, although I have to remember it’s been bloody 12 years since I left 😱
I’m old.
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Multiple fountain drinks weren’t enough so he called in the can of root beer for backup
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That’s multitasking! You can’t even see his boot on the throat of an immigrant underneath the table.
tym@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So we’re not going to talk about the “wild mook” in the upper left?
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 2 months ago
Let’s talk about it. I have absolutely no idea. Is this setting like “obvious plant”?
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Average Carl’s Junior enjoyer
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I live for strange Japanese 90s printed media