# Peculiar Japanese English language instructional video.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peculiar-japanese-english-language-instructional-video/361260>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 19, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peculiar-japanese-english-language-instructional-video/361260 "2006-06-19T05:37:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peculiar-japanese-english-language-instructional-video/361260/1 "2006-06-19T05:37:19Z")

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[Right here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-QNWpJaiY0). (YouTube video.)

Synopsis: Cute girls in unitards do weird aerobics while monotonously chanting stuff that sounds like it might have been on the page after “My hovercraft is full of eels,” with a groovy synth & drum machine soundtrack.

It made me feel vaguely like someone dosed me with something.

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**Author:** ![groman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@groman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groman)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peculiar-japanese-english-language-instructional-video/361260/2 "2006-06-19T06:49:11Z")

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You know, if you have been dosed with something I would seriously suggest not ever clicking that link.

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**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peculiar-japanese-english-language-instructional-video/361260/3 "2006-06-19T07:10:37Z")

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I love how some of the lines appears to be how to react to a mugging. Why are they fanning their asses while chanting “Let’s go Dutch!” What do they _think_ that means!?

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**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peculiar-japanese-english-language-instructional-video/361260/4 "2006-06-19T07:38:45Z")

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OMG, there’s [another one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5qoMfBJUeI). “How dare you say such a thing to me? It’s your fault that this happened.”

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**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peculiar-japanese-english-language-instructional-video/361260/5 "2006-06-19T07:51:02Z")

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Damned dial-up connection…

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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peculiar-japanese-english-language-instructional-video/361260/6 "2006-06-19T07:51:35Z")

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a) The clothing and makeup styles look old. Like late-80’s / early 90’s.

b) Around the time that [Yoshihiro Hattori](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Hattori) was murdered while going to a Halloween party in 1992, there was a brief “survival English” fad in Japan, teaching people what to say when they get attacked on their next trip to America.

If I had to take a guess, someone tried to cash in on two fads at once and made a “learn English while you exercise” video that included a bunch of phrases about getting mugged.

Weird. Not the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen, but weird.