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WEIRDEST PICTURE IN JAPAN!!! I found it outside the Apple store in Tokyo...

thinkwasabi.com — On a recent business trip to Tokyo, I happened to stop by the Apple store. There was this guy selling magazines or something right outside the store...I happened to take a photo.

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  • davetcg, on 10/12/2007, -132/+95Loosely translated the text reads : " Steve, I feel so bad for pwning you all these years that I wipe man sauce from your back."

    • mdhauke, on 10/12/2007, -139/+13A WHICKEY WHICKEY WHA WHAAAAAA?????
    • gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -102/+17I don't know which is more disturbing: the iPhone being tied to AT&T or that picture.
    • mrlost117, on 10/12/2007, -72/+12you guys are bad
    • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -22/+135It's like they're the Kevin and Alex of Japan.
    • Ndric, on 10/12/2007, -6/+364It's tough to say 'weirdest' in Japan. If anything, that's normal
    • halobender, on 10/12/2007, -37/+6@davetcg

      that's some funny *****.
    • texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -14/+71Brokeback Bathhouse! *eek*
    • AirPortPanic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+163This is an image of an 'onsen' in Japan. Hotsprings, similar to turkish baths. Usually they have seperate baths for men and women. Sometimes you can go to a private onsen and go with your partner of the opposite sex. It's really a great relaxing thing, imagine sitting in a hot tub drinking sake and looking over the mountains or ocean. In ancient Japan guys and girls all bathed together, it was only later that western civilization influenced them to seperate the boys and girls.

    • FunkyChicken, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45The only thing remotely weird about it is that it looks like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates hanging out together at a bathhouse. :) - And that alone is only somewhat funny.
      Otherwise, I don't get what's so 'INCREDIBLY weird?' about that picture. Geesh.
    • Terc, on 10/12/2007, -16/+40Welcome to Digg, new home to youtube users.
    • panicofficer, on 10/12/2007, -12/+17It may have something to do with Windows being subservient to Apple. An example of this would be in sumo where the lower ranks have to assist in bathing the higher ranks:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumo#Life_as_a_professional_Sumo_wrestler
    • bumi1984, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5"it was only later that western civilization influenced them to seperate the boys and girls."
      And before that, you could also pay for girl so you get really GOOD service.
    • syco123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Odd as it might seem to a sexually and socially repressed society like ours, not every all male bath house is gay. In the picture the man is washing his friends back and is a form of social interaction and not sexual.
    • LiveFastDieOld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Um, it's not the gayness that's getting this Dugg. It's weird because it's Bill Gates giving Steve Jobs a massage. Which, c'mon, is a little weird.
    • scotticus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Looks like Jobs is the bottom...
    • JesusIsSatan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It looks more like Steve Jobs and longtime buddy Wozniak
  • Elephant789, on 10/12/2007, -11/+134I don't get it. Why is it weird? The monkey?
    • Thoric, on 10/12/2007, -29/+4Neither do I... probably because the two old mans are bathing together?
    • gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -9/+144It's Jobs and Gates in a scene most people don't care to see.
    • DextaRussell, on 10/12/2007, -16/+7Bill Gates is massaging Steve Jobs.
    • marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -4/+66The monkey is a metaphor for us, the users.
    • hafniOum, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Gates seems pretty much enjoying it....
    • Sidicas, on 10/12/2007, -10/+88Two men bathing together in Japan is not unusual... In fact, it isn't uncommon for 20+ men to bathe together.. You've never heard of a bathhouse? You've never seen Spirited Away or Memoirs of a Geisha or any of thousands of other Japanese movies with strong cultural ties? Usually men bathe together and women bathe together, but unlike Memoirs of a Geisha, men and women do NOT bathe together.. At least, not unless it's an Anime called Love Hina or something..


    • chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23notice the little picture of Steve in the bottom left doing the YMCA? lol.
    • super_spyder, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3I wouldn't want to bathe with other guys, because I know I pee in the shower sometimes.
    • megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -5/+63Okay. Since I am a giant Japanese monster, I can speak authoritatively about the significance of the monkey in the pool.

      You must understand that while stomping across the countryside of Japan, I frequently observe rhesus monkeys furtively dipping into volcanic hot springs while humans are doing the same. Since the Japanese are a fastidious people and object to the presence of hairy primates with their bacteria-laden fur, in their beloved pools, they entice the monkeys back out of the pool by imitating the grooming behavior of said monkeys, a ploy which, owing to the universally-known law of "monkey see, monkey do," never fails to have the desired effect upon the hairy, red-faced interlopers. The ever-fastidious Japanese then utter thanks to whatever spirit watches over that particular pool, take several tablets of chlorine from an alcove in the shrine, and toss them ritually into the pool. Then, with the monkeys now utterly distracted by their grooming, the humans catch them unawares, suddenly jumping with a roar like Susano, back into the pool, the invevitable result being that the monkeys depart the vicinity of the pool with a shriek and completely forget about entertaining any notion of a swim for at least fifteen minutes.

      So, you see, it is clear from the illustration that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are well-acquainted with the customs of the Japanese.

      I hope that clarifies things a bit.
    • gann, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7I've read tons of manga and I can assert you that this is no where close to weird.
    • RandomHugs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It's the monkey. It's always the monkey.
    • johnnykalma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10translated it means: The age of Intel Mac's Mac and Windows smart joint ownership & coexistence

    • Zaetha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12"I don't get it. Why is it weird? The monkey?"

      The monkey is Steve Ballmer. Jobs and Gates are just keeping him away from their chairs.

      http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4860483760049380308
    • Dylan47, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1AHAHA @ google vid above, is that how low microsoft is going to advertise its products now... i had no idea
    • rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How can you people think that drawing was about gay sex?

      I mean, just because they're both naked, and Bill is rubbing down Steve's back... and they... Then they... They...

      OH MY GOD.

      And the monkey! Where does the monkey fit in?
  • nailPuppy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+135I think you need to spend more time on the internet if you think that is the weirdest picture in Japan.
    • gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17He clearly hasn't seen some of the latest hentai to hit the streets of Akihabara.
    • sabarsky, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7Bukkake!
    • Sanchez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Evidence: http://imagesocket.com/view/Mjthrillerb08.jpg
    • fearofcorners, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2For those wondering about the subject matter of an image linked directly below the word "Bukkake" I would say it is pretty SFW (non-pornographic) but in unbelievably poor taste.
    • MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Tubgirl. Ahem.
    • ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Bukkake is a style of Japanese art. I recommend doing a google image search.
    • film42, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3dupe, this has been on digg and engadget a few times before!
  • Bean945, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4Calm Down.
  • urpwnd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12same sex public bathing is commonplace in Japan. I don't quite get why this is weird either. In Japan, before you get into the bath, you clean yourself off *outside the tub* so that when you get in, you don't dirty the water. The tub is for soaking and relaxing, not washing off. It is also quite common to ask another man that is bathing to help you wash your back since it's something that isn't easy for everyone to do. The monkey in the tub is funny, but not really all that weird either, because there are mountain hot springs in Japan that the native monkeys happen to like sitting in too.
    • baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -16/+9"It is also quite common to ask another man that is bathing to help you wash your back since it's something that isn't easy for everyone to do"

      umm, i dont know about everyone else but i can wash my back just fine without some freaks hands all over my skin
    • hooksie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Look closer, its Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
    • urpwnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13If you've ever been to a Japanese bath before, either the ones that are nothing but a bath, or the ones that are in hotels and stuff, you will see that sometimes they have staff members that will wash your back for you. It's not any more erotic that getting a normal massage either. Some people must have repressed anxiety towards being touched by other people. Either way, it doesn't make this weird.

      In fact, the showing of these men together in the bath shows that they are probably friends. Public bathing in Japanese society has long standing roots in the culture. For example, the concept of you being naked in a bath with strangers shows that you are just as vulnerable as they are, and that you might as well relax and enjoy the hot water. There are many anecdotes of this in stories of samurai as well. They have no armor, or their sword, in the bath. They are just men in a bath together, so they might as well be polite and friendly. I'm sure many friendships have started in this exact situation.
    • texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"I'm sure many friendships have started in this exact situation."

      Actually, lots of business meetings happen this way in Japan. It makes the interaction between parties more honest and open as they symbolically (and physically) have nothing to hide.
    • beggersfunk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It is not common for Man and Man asking to wash their back especially friends, stranger or etc. That is totally gay if it happened. Traditionally only your son, wife and daughter have a permission to wash your back or son in law (meaning between Father in Law and Son in Law NOT mother in law and son in law but Mother in Law and daughter in law are fine). In japan basically if you wash your Dad's back it mean you asking a huge permission and etc. Like big things especially Marriage ( for Father and Daughter) To keep it simple you are just kissing your dad's ass or something.

      That photo between Jobs and Gates mean something else probably.
    • rlombardo, on 11/05/2008, -0/+4Do the monkeys have to wash themselves before getting into the bath also?
    • aristotle0dude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This is similar to the Sauna in Finnish culture. Many business meetings have taken place in Saunas. When you are naked, you are vulnerable and more likely to be honest in your dealings with other people.

      It is quite sad now twisted and repressed Anglo-Saxon culture is.
  • baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2This must be the US weekly for tech news in japan. they just make up BS stories about celebrities having sex
  • LaweranceOak, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Nothing like this to start my weekend!
  • tunacubes, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Kinda' looks like a japanese Bill Clinton, on the right..
  • NiGHTSChao, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Wheres the linux guy?
    • BladeMelbourne, on 10/12/2007, -9/+9Linus is bathing at the playboy mansion.
  • AFR0Samurai, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4INTEL Inside
  • dumpling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2funny, not so weird
  • yongfookathome, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39JAPANESE TRANSLATION:

    The two big words say:

    Kyoyuu - "share"

    Kyozon - "coexist"

    It's talking about Mac/Intel/Windows.
    • buzzert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The title on the top says "Mac and Windows"

      So it's Mac and Windows's share.
    • sputnike, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2It looks like Steve Wazniak and Leo Laporte :)
    • saxonthebeach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8More Fully:

      The title from the small text to the red and white boxes reads:

      "Mac and Windows' wise cooperation in the Intel Mac era." ("Intel Mac" refers to the recent switch to intel hardware)

      Red vertical text reads:

      "What to expect for file extensions, fonts, file services, etc. here!"
  • will4042, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0All i have to say is What the *****
  • markhp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3It says something like: Windows and Mac's smart sharing and coexistence for the Intel mac era. Important points for connectors, fonts, and file handling here!
  • Cyrusman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If the metaphor in this photo is clear, then why is the picture weird?
  • GeoP, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Now kids these men are "homosexuals"!
  • ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33NOT ENOUGH CAPS IN TITLE
  • expatasia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Yawn....zzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZ
    I live in Japan. If you think this is the weirdest thing in Japan then you need to get out more. This isn't the weirdest thing anywhere, let alone Japan. Just go to any magazine section at any konbini (convenient store) and you'll see 10 times more weird. Turn on the TV here and see 100 times more weird.
    • beggersfunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Totally agreed.
    • Schmerz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I once saw a magazine called "Dogs Arses", I left that shop pretty quickly...
    • mrFREEZE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"I once saw a magazine called "Dogs Arses", I left that shop pretty quickly..."

      With the magazine, I'm assuming?
  • aragami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5dugg for the bizarre combination of steve jobs and bill gates and a monkey chilling in a jacuzzi, and the picture of steve jobs doing the ymca in the corner there,

    i think it must be a ad about how apple/ms/intel can coexist now (intel based mac with parallel/bootcamp running xp/vista)
  • billizm, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4Its not that weird. Its just gay looking.
    • Ahnteis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15To some people EVERYTHING is gay looking.
    • Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Especially mirrors.
    • billizm, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3@ Ahnteis
      > To some people EVERYTHING is gay looking

      Yea, like 2 steamy older men, clad in nothing but towels, smiling, while one dude firmly holds the other by the shoulder and rubs his back. If ANYTHING looks gay, this is it, my friend - short of gay porn.
  • WanderLink, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1It is wierd. Maybe it's a commentary cartoon on how Bill Gates has always been top dog and Steve Jobs has always been the underdog, and now suddenly within the past few years Jobs has fast become a hot commodity what with the popularity/hype of the iPod, iTunes, and now the iPhone. It makes sense seeing as how Bill Gates is trying to replicate Steve Jobs' success with the Zune and how Apple suddenly is no longer a niche market. That's my interpretaion of the picture at least, since I only speak English. In other words, now Apple is no longer Microsoft's bitch and they want to replicate each other's respective successes.
  • inarguable, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7 what *****.
    This is front page worthy?

  • yoshitx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4In traditional Japan the apprentice always scrubs the back of the master at the bath.

    Not weird, just a slap at microsquish.
  • leethefilmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thats actually pretty clever. I like it.
  • mediamanbkk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Is it not ... I'll rub your back... if you'll rub mine...
    • Schmerz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Normally in the geek world, it's "I'll rub your back and you'll stick a knife in mine".
  • Pifko, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5WEIRDEST PICTURE IN JAPAN

    TRUE STORY

    NO EXAGGERATION, HONEST!

    CAPS WHORE!!!!!
    • ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4buried because you forgot "A MUST SEE!!!!"
    • Pifko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Damn, thanks for that

      THANKS!!!!
  • graemee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow, it's the PC & MAC guys in retirement.
  • Elec, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I got talked down in another thread for inarticulately stating that I feel that "weird Japan" stories are simply a product of a deliberate and willing ignorance of Japan. I mean, lots of stuff is funny, for sure, and of course it is meant to be; I live in Japan too, like some of the others and yes I see lots of 'funnier' or 'weirder' things, but like the others have mentioned already, it's a very common situation being depicted on the cover.

    I wish you could bury for multiple reasons! :-P

    The picture Sanchez linked provided me with enjoyment, however.
    • texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I must say, the Kim Jong-Ilkeman image was pretty disturbing. So disturbing, in fact, that I saved it to my desktop. :D
  • jonny5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3hey its just two gaijin's chillin out at an Onsen, its a pretty normal practice in Japan
  • blackbrutha, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Seems like each day dumber and dumber posts are on digg's front page. The past few months posts are becomming more and more useless and watered down. There are still a ton of good ones though. Hope the users start screening out these ***** posts, like this pic we are comenting on (***** STUPID).
    • manifestdata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dude shut up, look at the stuff you have submitted. Looks like what you "digg" is ***** STUPID.
  • galore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Oh no. Two old guys where one is rubbing the others back.
    The horror!!!

    Maybe it is weird that some Americans find this "gay" or "weird". I think it is less weird than men in the USA wearing over-the-knee-long swimming "trunks" because they are sooooo afraid to display their male body (or worse, appear "gay").

    What a bunch of prude repressed insecure dudes.
    God Bless.
  • ElectricSoup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"I don't get it. Why is it weird? The monkey?"

    That has to be Ballmer.
    • ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9how can you tell, he's not throwing any chairs
  • spongebillyboi, on 10/12/2007, -13/+0yea i've heard of bathhouses. disgusting.... a place where slutty gay men go to work out disgusting fantasies. am yes i'm gay myself so i can say this without reservation.
    • urpwnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is not a "bathhouse" in the sense that you are thinking. Public baths ("onsen" in Japanese) are everywhere in Japan. Many people live in terribly small houses/apartments that don't have room for a bathtub that is large enough to actually sit and soak in. They go to these baths and enjoy it. Men and women generally have separate baths these days, but there are still some baths where everyone is welcome. In Japan, for families that have a bathtub large enough to fit several people in, it's quite common for a father, mother, and children to have a soak together. It is not considered dirty, or sexual, at all.

      In Japan, the thing you are thinking of is called a "Soapland". Despite your admission of being gay, most of these soapland establishments in Japan cater to the heterosexual male crowd. But you don't go there to have sex with other patrons. You go there for a sensual massage, and possibly more, with the cute, young, and attractive women they have to provide all the services, illicit or otherwise. Hell, you don't even need to go to a soapland really. Go to Roppongi Hills, in the south part of Tokyo. Women will ask you right on the street if they can help you out.

      There are places for gay men and women to go as well, but I've never seen one on the streets, which would make it seem that they are fairly rare. Gay society in Japan is very very private and underground for the most part.
    • TheZorch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This whole thing has been lost in translation.

      The Japanese are a very social people. Their culture is unlike anything seen in the Western world and their ways may seem rather strange to us. The culture of Japanese bath houses is on such place where we're left scratching out heads.

      On the male side of a bath house, a man letting another man scrub his back is a sign of respect ... not homosexuality. On the women's side of a bath house, a woman letting another woman scrub her back is a sign of friendship and trust, and can even mean that the two women are either sisters or best friends. Bathing together like this is commonplace for the Japanese. Traditional bathing practice in Japan is to bath out of the tub with cold water and then soak in a hot tub after rinsing off. In Tokyo, bath hoiuse soaking tubs are kept really hot. To Westerners its almost to the point of scalding. That's why you'll see a lot of old men at Tokyo Bath Houses, because the really hot water sooths pains in the body.

      I'm not Japanese and I'm no expert on their culture but I do know a great deal about them. Also, being Gay in Japanese Society carries with it a terrible stigma that is worse than that in the West. For teenagers found out to be gay, most families would disown them and remove them from the Family Registry ... effectively taking away their family name and making them a Ronin. Ronin can be translated in two ways; either as a samurai without a clan (meaning he was thrown out of his or lost his in a war), or it can mean a student who is retaking college entrance exams. Its hard for a clanless Ronin to find work in Japan or a place to stay. In more modern times things are changing slowly but the old cultural biases are still very strong in Japanese society despite progress.
    • codyfrisch, on 10/12/2007, -11/+0No that is the bath houses in San Fagcisco...
    • nanboya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, the bathhouses are 'sentou' while the hot springs are 'onsen'.
    • actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ urpwnd

      Dugg for making me think about Soapland.
    • aristotle0dude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You are one sick man and it's got very little to do with you being gay. It has everything to do with the english culture you were brought up in. How sad for you.
  • scjones, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This is like false advertisement, 99% of the time a digg topic with the word "weird" in it turns out to be very not weird making the one who posted it a certified ignorant dick. Sometimes this site makes me think "Idiocracy" isn't so far off base.
  • Asriel86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2...not that there's anything wrong with that....
  • jamie939, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1it's weird.....it's weird....it's weird...ok....for god sakes....i know for the hyper cool nothing is weird and everything is blase and you see bill gates giving jobs a back rub every time you order a double latte half decaf with soy, low foam..and the last time YOU were in japan you saw louis armstrong getting a back rub from elanor roosevelt and you were sumarily unimpressed. IT'S WEIRD.
  • rudygetz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0you happen to use happen too often and it happened to bother me....happened.

    If you digg me down you're gay
  • wilhoitm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I didn't know that Bill Gates was gay. This proves it, he is on the down low!
    • manifestdata, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1You are right wil, Bill hides the fact better than his flamboyant counterpart Steve Jobs.
  • Dabisu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Wasn't this on Digg before? I could've sworn saw this image before on digg a couple months ago.
  • Dolomite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What exactly is weird about this?
  • malavalla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1ite not a pic, looks like folk art, public baths are big over there
  • arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I get weirder things than that free in my breakfast cereal.
  • DogmaticAtheism, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0further proof that apple is gay
  • iMoth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4apple rules.
  • Induane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I'm pretty sure anyone with any google skills at all could top that. Here is what I found looking for weird japanese stuff:

    http://pharyngula.org/images/hokusai_octopus.jpg

    An octopus going down on a chick - I'm going to go out on a limb here and say its weirder than this articles image.
    • djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WTF. EXACT same wavelength.
      Scary. :-p
    • hcl40u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey Japan is country made up of islands so I guess "interaction" with the sea life there would lead to something like this.
    • Induane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ djdole - no kidding. I refreshed after I posted and voila there was yours right under mine, and I was like "AUUUGH!! He's trying to steal my thunder with a post that looks better! AAAAAaaaahhh!!1"

      Anyways...

      great minds....
    • actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh dude, there are TWO octopi in that pic. Now that's just freakin' sick.
  • djdole, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Not remotely Digg-worthy.
    But definitely worth marking as inaccurate.

    For many reasons too, but my top two reasons are:
    1. Submitter obviously doesn't understand Japanese cultural traditions.
    2. If the submitter thinks that is the "WEIRDEST" picture in japan!!!!!, then he/she has obviously never seen the Japanese "Fisherman's Wife" painting ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dream_of_the_fishermans_wife_hokusai.jpg ).
    Main Wikipedia page:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle_porn
  • Render, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Sidicas (Can't reply)
    Actually, men and women always bathed together before the Americans came and basically flipped a ***** that men and women were naked together in a hot bath. There are still some onsen that are for both sexes (don't get too excited, chances are that it'll be 100% old people), some have a big bar down the middle though. Recently some people think it's a problem that mother's bring their (male) young children to the onsen with them.
    • djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2(Just curious) Why can't you reply? What browser are you using?
    • Salgat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Its called our culture. We percieve things differently. If you have a problem with that, then your being a bigot to Americans.
  • NoBullet2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3That's racist. Only because if it was an american artist drawing some asian exec, people on digg would call racism.
    • kattapoga, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1this is front page stuff? dugg down.
    • mikewhalley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"if it was an american artist drawing some asian exec, people on digg would call racism"

      Doesn't mean to say it is racist, any more than your flipping it round and calling this picture racist. The whole world is too sensitive these days. If the colour of the skin and cultural differences are intentionally attacked in a picture/film/article, then yes it could be considered racist. This isn't.
  • hanshasuro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Translation:

    Headline: The Wisdom of Mac and Windows in the Intel Mac era
    Red & White badges: (joint ownership) (coexistence)
    Steam bubble: File name extension, font and file handling cautions here!
  • n3tfury, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1oh, this got on the front page because of the word "apple" which has nothing to do with the pic. on top of that, what the hell is so weird about it?
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