Quickie: Japanese Comedy

Posted on 13. Nov, 2006 @ 1:23 pm by in Humor Views: 116

Here is a quickie Japanese comedy skit a friend showed me on YouTube.

The skit starts at about 1:17 into the video. The setting is, some old lady has just showed up after shopping for groceries in time to discover that her car is about to be towed.

It’s funny because the old lady speaks in Kansai-ben (everything is funnier in Kansai dialect), and she is desperately pleading with the officer not to tow her car. She offers him beer, some super market coupons, a green onion, and even threatens to sue the cop.

ありえへん！ 認めへん！

After the main video there are also a few funny comic skits that you won’t need Japanese to understand, give it a look!

Remember to study up on your Kansai-ben before watching! The key is that the negative verb ending ない becomes へん。

On a technical note, I tried to embed a YouTube video into a post once, and my provider froze the site because as people viewed it from my site it was using too much bandwidth. Anyone know anything about this, or how I could embed videos without making my provider mad?

- Harvey

  • http://pixelscribbles.com/journal Heather Meadows

    Hmm…the embedded video itself should have been using YouTube’s bandwidth. The embed code is just an iframe.

    People might have just been linking their friends to the video at your blog instead of at YouTube. So every time someone wanted to see it, they would load the page on your blog where the iframe was. Conceivably, if enough people wanted to watch that video, that could run up your bandwidth.

    And your site is dynamic. It’s built every time someone visits. That takes up more bandwidth than a static site. So imagine all those people clicking to view the video…and the page the video was embedded into being rebuilt every time.

    Yeah, that would do it.

    So it is the video’s fault, but indirectly. There isn’t really anything you can do about that, unfortunately.

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    Hrmmm maybe the dynamic stuff is screwing it up huh?

    Darn, that’s too bad!

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