Wow, Japan.
<div class="IPBDescription">Are you SERIOUS.</div>KABUTO MATSURI! The strongest beetle tournament in the world!
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2EZRTZx0rc" target="_blank">Part I</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzIpdqEGFFQ" target="_blank">Part II</a>
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One of the greatest things I have ever watched.
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2EZRTZx0rc" target="_blank">Part I</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzIpdqEGFFQ" target="_blank">Part II</a>
<img src="http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/7452/beetlesmq2.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
One of the greatest things I have ever watched.
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To prep them for the fight they tickle them with lil beetle tickler thingies to get them angry then put them in the ring. First one to get 'pinned' (held in the air by the opponents jaws for a full count) or fall off the arena (in the proper battles all the arenas are inclined rather than flat like in that spoof) loses.
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Japan's a ###### up place.
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I've actually seen this a few years back on Discovery Channel
Used-Panty Vending Machines
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buh!!!!??!!
After that first fight I was rooting for Brazilbeetle all the way. Gotta give Nipponbeetle credit for the lightning-quick moves it did, and for its ability to offset lack of size and weight with sheer determination.
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bwahaha <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/asrifle.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::asrifle::" border="0" alt="asrifle.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/asrifle.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::asrifle::" border="0" alt="asrifle.gif" />
buh!!!!??!!
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I believe they're outlawed now(Like Child ######), but they had them.
Beetle Battles, Pointless Robotic Dogs, Used-Panty Vending Machines and Censored ######...
Japan's a ###### up place.
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I was almost going to edit this post... but I'm going to allow this because frankly Japan is one weird country.
That Brazilian one is tough.
edit: i wonder if they would benefit from combat mittens...
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For those of you who didn't instantly search google for "Used panty vending machine" When you saw it in Liku's post.
That Brazilian one ftw! it's a pure wrestler!
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For those of you who didn't instantly search google for "Used panty vending machine" When you saw it in Liku's post.
That Brazilian one ftw! it's a pure wrestler!
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...packages may not contain cigarettes.
Oh yea, the <strike>beatles</strike> beetles are all cool and stuff too.
I so wanted to see this <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":angry:" border="0" alt="mad-fix.gif" />
I so wanted to see this <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":angry:" border="0" alt="mad-fix.gif" />
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Indeed.
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For those of you who didn't instantly search google for "Used panty vending machine" When you saw it in Liku's post.
That Brazilian one ftw! it's a pure wrestler!
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Cunning disguise. Cigarettes indeed...
They are cigarettes, but shaped as used trousers.
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Maybe it's just an advertising trend in Japan: putting panties on stuff.
Western tourists just assumed that they're selling used panties and trying to disguise them as cigarettes, and no one in Japan corrected them because they were embarassed that they hadn't thought of it first.