Yup, it's America all right!
Here we have the latest in weird stuff coming out of Japan: a sudden and seemingly arbitrary fascination with black American culture. Something tells me that there's a secret Japanese weirdness community that gathers every now and then. They all gather in a big room, and throw a dart at a giant dartboard with different cultural trends on it. Whatever the dart lands on, that's what Japanese youth adopt. I wouldn't put it past them...
After Gabby Douglas's stellar gold medal performance in the individual all-around gymnastics competition on Thursday, NBC aired what can only be described as the worst-timed commercial in their long, tape-delayed history of Olympics coverage. Just watch for yourselves...
She puts in a valiant effort to tackle English, and her effort is admittedly more than 99.9% of what Americans would put into learning French, but it's still funny.
As if the Shakeweight wasn't enough, Korean manufacturers have created perhaps the most suggestive workout device we've seen yet. Warning: Contains gratuitous amounts of pelvic thrusting.