tag:fubar.com,2010:blog-345932 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:46:51 -0800 A fubar user blog. http://www.fubar.com/blog/345932 noreply@fubar.com (Thursdays Child) fubar tag:fubar.com,2010:BlogRSS-345932.post-1168238 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:46:51 -0800 2012-01-15T04:46:51-08:00 <p><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/7/2012/01/ccfcbc91cbe5dca69f049506791b0b91.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="360" /></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong style="font-size: medium;">Japanese Department Store May Want to Look Up the Word &lsquo;Fucking&rsquo;</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;">If only we could have sat in on the meeting where the marketing team for this Osaka department store came up with the idea for their "Fuckin' Sale," spotted early this month by a reader of Jake Adelstein's Japan Subculture blog.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;">-<em>There should be some cool English words on these signs.</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>-How about "Fuckin' Sale?"</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em> -What's that mean?</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em> -Fuckin' means, like, really good. So it's a really good sale.</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em> -And there's no other meaning to "fuckin'? </em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>-Nothing at all that might embarrass us on the internet? Remember what happened with our Save-a-Shit-Ton promotion&hellip;</em> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Update: <span style="color: #ff0000;">The fuckin sale has been cleaned up</span></span></p> noreply@fubar.com (Thursdays Child) http://www.fubar.com/blog/345932/1168238#viewcomments http://www.fubar.com/blog/345932/1168238