• うんちドッサリ！お腹スッキリ！(unchi dossari. o-naka sukkiri) = lit. "excrement floods, your gut is clean"
• 自然でやさしい滑らかなお通じ(shizen de yasashii nameraka na o-tsūji) = "natural, easy, smooth regularity" ⇐ What's
"natural" about a laxative?
Japanese young women know that constipation is bad for the complexion, but starve themselves anyway, so drugstores do a roaring business in laxatives (and, more recently, fiber supplements).
• 便秘(bempi) = "constipation"
• 肌荒れ(hada-are) = "rough dry skin"
"Only in Japan" department: Even turds are turned into cute (漫画チック) characters. うんたろう (♂) and うん子 (♀) would be one possibility.
腹 has at least two kun readings.
• お腹(o-naka) = "appetite , bread basket, hunger, midriff , mother's womb ,
stomach, tum, tummy , tumtum, waistline"
• 腹(hara) = "abdomen, belly, gut, stomach"
• どっさり(dossari) = "all of a heap, in shoals, oodles, slew"
• すっきり(sukkiri) = "clearing, refreshing, relieving"
• ぽっこり(pokkori) = "flabbiness"
• お通じ(o-tsūji) = lit. "honorable passing through" = "relief from
constipation"
• うんち(unchi) = うんこ(unko) = "crap, doodie, doo-doo, doody, number two, poo, poo-poo,
squat"
• 糞(kuso) = "big hit, buffalo chip, cack, clinker, cow chip, cow pie,
crap, defecation, dog dirt, dog litter, dog-doo, doggy do, dog-log,
droppings, dung, excrement, faeces, feces, horse biscuit, manure,
muck, ordure, poop, rabbit pellets, road apples, scat, shit, skat,
spoor, turd, turds, worm cast”
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Manako 88 months ago | reply
Ha, ha, that was quick! Would the uninitiated Westerner know what the cute brown characters represent??
ipernity.com/home/nicoleb / No to censorship [deleted] 88 months ago | reply
Oh - yaks - and I always wondered why many of them are so skinny....
Nemo's great uncle 88 months ago | reply
@manako: "Have camera. Will travel." I was in the drugstore, remembered Hana's picture, noticed all the tricky words ending in -ri, so decided to contribute to the discussion.
Thanks for reminding me that I'd forgotten to include my 漫画チック remark.
Nemo's great uncle 88 months ago | reply
@rainmountain: A TV commercial for a different brand—famous little pink pills—reminds young women that the keys to regularity are proper amounts of fresh fruit and vegetables, lots of fluids, and proper exercise. "But when you still need help..."
nelson.kamo83 72 months ago | reply
LMAO that's too funny!! s);oB
Nemo's great uncle 72 months ago | reply
@nelson: If you liked this photo, you'll love this one.
money luck (金うん)
Look carefully for the piggy bank.
©Pacifist 26 months ago | reply
Ahhh very funny capture! xD
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Nemo's great uncle 26 months ago | reply
@pacifist: Check out "Invite..." on the Actions menu.
©Pacifist 26 months ago | reply
Sorry, don't work in my old pc-win-browser-flash... all old... :(