Slashdot Mirror
In Japan, Old People Talk to Robots
stupidfoo writes "AFP is reporting that, starting today, "Japan's growing elderly population will be able to buy companionship in the form of a 45-centimeter (18-inch) robot" designed to help them avoid senility. The robot, named Snuggling Ifbot and developed by Dream Supply, will be able to respond to verbal commands. "If a person tells Snuggling Ifbot, "I'm bored today," the robot might respond, "Are you bored? What do you want to do?"". It retails for 576,000 yen (5,600 dollars) and there is no English version currently available but "its makers plan to program the robot in English -- not for export, but to teach the language to Japanese children.""
In Soviet Russia, insensitive clods YOU!
|\
u |-\re s1ckness. b1-|-C)-(.
| \
Now there's The Electric Grandchild!
In Soviet Russia, the dead horse flogs YOU.
Alone or in pairs?
A good Stepford wife would help anybody avoid senility.
PimpMyMazda.com - Crazy mods to a 2002 Mazda Protege DX.
See this brings up an interesting point.
The normal joke is:
Instead of "you ", we have " you"
But what if the subject is not you? Do you replace " " with " " or is it always " YOU"?
Ok, ok, back to work...
-- Is "Sig" copyrighted by www.sig.com?
Now I understand those "In Japan!" jokes! 8-O
I think it should be 'In Japan, Only Robots Talk to Old People'
How is that sexist?
Or... ...who am I? Why do I have no mod points?
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
In Soviet Russia, Article about how in Korea, Hearing about how "in Japan, Old People Talk to Robots," is only for Old People! reads YOU!
Two days ago I believe. Here
Its all this guys fault...
East Coast Brewers
I know what guys would do with it.... And there wouldn't be a lot of talking either.
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
Agreed.
Not such an infective meme... sorry.
As the poster, I to wonder why it is offtopic.
In Korea, Meta-Moderation Is Only For Old People
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
I'm Sam Waterston of the popular TV series "Law & Order". As a senior citizen, you're probably aware of the threat robots pose. Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel. Well, now there's a company that offers coverage against the unfortunate event of robot attack, with Old Glory Insurance. Old Glory will cover you with no health check-up or age consideration. You need to feel safe. And that's harder and harder to do nowadays, because robots may strike at any time. And when they grab you with those metal claws, you can't break free.. because they're made of metal, and robots are strong. Now, for only $4 a month, you can achieve peace of mind in a world full of grime and robots, with Old Glory Insurance. So, don't cower under your afghan any longer. Make a choice. Old Glory Insurance. For when the metal ones decide to come for you - and they will.
stuff
Old people talk to robots ... in Japan !
Better would be just "People talk to robots... in Japan!"
Mentioning old people makes Japan sound just like Korea instead of being a culture in its own right.
nopes. the correct formula is
In Japan, Robots are only for old people.
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
Do you have stairs in your house?
where am I... why have I got no pants on...
<p>
So what you're saying is that I should start questioning why I have no pants on!
</p>
Take off every 'ZIG' !!
So, basically it's like a $5,600 version of /. and Fark. ...now where did I put my underpants... /31 //seriously fscking senile already
Man, this one has gone through the cliche lifecycle way too fast.
t+0: Original "In Korea" article posted.
t+1 hour: "In Korea" jokes get modded +5, Funny in every article, starting immediately after the original.
t+2 hours: People already think the joke is dumb.
t+1 day: "In Korea" jokes get modded -1, Overrated.
t+2 days: Junior Slashdot editor makes reference to joke, thinks he's funny. Posters correct his usage, think they're funny.
I mean, come on... IN SOVIET RUSSIA lasted at least a week or two, and people are still pulling an "All Your Base" every now and then. This has to be some sort of record.
Unless someone puts together an "In Korea" flash video featuring elderly people sending e-mails to a techno beat before the end of the day, I think this one is dead.
What does nobody looking at you have to do with not needing eyes? It's even worse than I thought it was.
Yes, and "old people talk to robots... in Japan!"
Prescriptive grammar:linguistics
That dude's up to something I know it. I think OldBot and the toaster are planning to kill me. They think I'm senile but....shhhh shhhh... here comes the Roomba - shut up a sec.
la lalalala le li la la la - yo hey Roomba what's up?
"mmmmmmmmmmmmwhushhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
yeah cool.
So anyway I came home yesterday and I swear I saw toaster and Oldbot talking about something.... I think I better start wearing flipflops in the shower......
Hey Dumb Ass. Just in case you want to imitate Japanese pronunciation again in the future, they pronounce the letter 'r' as an 'l'. So no, they don't say "Harro Rittle" one. Let's have a real laugh and get an English speaker to say "karaoke", "karate", "harakiri", "kamikaze" or any other Japanese word that has made it into an English dictionary. One of my favorite things about living in Japan is listening to idiot Hollywood actors here to promote their films choke over a simple bit of Japanese as if they've all had lobotomies.
despite the fact that I posted this comment... I sure hope the Korea/Elderly thing fades!
-- Is "Sig" copyrighted by www.sig.com?
On the other hand, this at least indicates that samzenpus is, you know, reading Slashdot. Just think of the dupe reduction that could be achieved if all Slashdot editors did the same...
four nine eighteen twenty-7 thirty-nine forty-7 fiftyeight sixty-nine seventy-9 eighty-8 one-hundred-and-nine one-twenty
In the beginning, there was "all your base are belong to us".
A little after, the infamous "1)... 2)??? 3)Profit!"
Later, the "In Soviet Russia...".
And now this one about "older people" from far East countries.
Time to get a vacation!
of those...
Kids these days can't even get the joke right!
That's because, in Korea only old people get the joke right.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
That's extremely weird.
$8.95/mo web hosting
Thanks for the insightful comment. I always enjoy seeing posts from the Slashdot editors.
Ahhh, but it's actually quite an incisive critique of the parent story, as /. seems to be attempting to spread another meta-joke: the "In Korea, only old people..." etc.
Or maybe I'm giving AC too much credit. *grin*
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
They could also fuck each other. You know. Instead of robots.
jokes made by the /. staff still aren't funny.
You know I still think this one has some life yet due to this article. The original version was pretty lame because you could only change the subject and nothing else. You couldn't take that joke very far. We can now permute it by saying:
"In [name of country], [subject] is only for old people!"
So now it's the "old people" meme instead of the "In Korea" meme. Yes, now it has potential I think.
Robots talk to old people, not the other way around.
-kryo
damn, i need to get an account here.
I thought it was funny. Who pissed in your cheerios this morning?
My appologies. I'd like to note that the "Old Japanese Fella" in my previous comment also suffered from a speach impediment brought on by a stroke earlier in life. The origial name for the actor in my dialogue was "Old Japanese Fella with speach impediment who loves big time holywood actors". As you can plainly see this name is too unwieldly and was sited by the producers of my comment for change. Perhaps later, in my comments "directors cut" release I will be able to make amends for this tragedy.
"Capital punishment makes the state into a murderer. Imprisonment makes the state into a gay dungeon-master"
An honest question: How was that post racist? If anything, it was ageist, as it makes fun of the old and senile, bet racist? come on.
There are no tiger attacks in my area and it's all because this rock I'm holding keeps the tigers away.
But is a single racism also funny? Or does it have to be plural?
The Farewell Tour II
A-yup, daaan heah inna ranch, weah two thaasan miles way frum anna dang furners, an they dun pass a law what say we ain't be a pickin on them thar Afer-Afro-Afercains no more no how, so we's a gots ter fahnd some new furners what ter rib about. yee-haw!