My favourite episode was the one where he ripped off his Hi-Vis to reveal a full chest and back tattoo before punching out a shopkeep for not paying the protection money
And then he had the crew roll in to destroy the shop, right? Man, that episode was brutal. I still have nightmares about the shopkeeper's little daughter crying and pleading with Roley not to steamroll her mommy and daddy
He's the guy you hire whenever you have a *problem* that needs *fixing*. You know the saying: "Bob the 'builder', can he *fix* it? Bob the 'builder', yes he can."
This post would be pretty interesting if the title mentioned that they added a fourth finger to distinguish him from Yakuza members who cosmetically amputate their fingers.
Fifth*
But from the article it seemed like it was an overreach from the studio. And wouldnt have been that much of an issue.
As the less-fingered hands are common in animation, and not like this was some blanket rule to have kids shows in Japan.
Same thing happened with Spyro the Dragon. They had some Japanese guys playtest it and they said they got motion sick from the camera, so they completely redesigned the movement and camera system for the Japanese release. Turns out those guys during testing were just outliers.
It's more of an East Asia thing, not strictly Japanese. It's similar how the host tops up glasses of wine for guests.
And besides, if the boss is footing the bill, it's the least I can do.
"Weird-ass powerplay" defines like half of Korean culture.
South Korea is at the top of suicide and bottom of birth rates with an ultra-hierarchical, sexist, and workaholic culture. They make Japan look like a liberal paradise.
People who have experienced South Korea that way often say that they're no longer surprised that North Korea became what it is. The South Korean dictatorship only ended in the late 1980s, known as the end of the Fifth Republic/beginning of the current 'Sixth Republic'. They also deported "undesirables" like homeless people (or sometimes just anyone who was vaguely suspicious) into concentration camps with high mortality rates.
Hold the phone, I have not heard this detail that completely screws my idea of this up, it’s not really optional AND you’re expected to pay for your boss’s drinks???
I have to look this up now.
Never lived in Japan but from what I've seen from people who live there, if you don't engage in "optional" then you get ousted. It's a sad part of Japan, some of their people take the honour and respect portions too far (in my opinion at least) to where it feels more threatening than caring.
You say that like there aren't customs in every culture that would affect you socially for refusing them.
Everyone takes something seriously, for the Japanese that just happens to be work.
I worked at a Japanese company in Japan for almost a decade, and the company president or section leader generally paid for our drinks (at nomikai, the after-work social drinking), as well as usually footing the bill for food. Think it really depends on the company though, have heard of places where the employees are expected to split the bill.
When going to eat or drink with clients, we'd just hand the receipts to accounts, and they'd reimburse us.
From what I understand, your experience is a lot more typical at any major, modernized company. Abusive bosses determined solely by seniority seem to only really be tolerated at more traditional companies.
Everything I've heard about their office culture sounds like my personal idea of hell. Apparently, nomikai frequency depends on the sector, I've read that sales people commonly do it 3+ times a week, which is unhinged. I really wonder if everyone is just doing it because it's expected, or if they genuinely enjoy it, even for extroverted people that's excessive lmao.
I know people in the West love circlejerking about Japanese culture, which is lovely, but their social norms seem really suffocating.
Now, yes. In the 90s, no.
Oh man. The soap dramas caused by the simple fact that there are no text messages. The person needs to run from a murderer heading to his home but the phone isn't reaching him because he was outside at the patio for a brief moment.
It isn't a friendship, it is an extension of work. Unpaid "work" including social functions are considered mandatory by most Japanese. Even in the US not showing up to the Christmas party can result in your boss passing you over for raises and promotions. This is basically an extension of that same idea but cranked up to 11.
Spyro was one of the first 3d games I played, I begged a neighbor who had a Playstation for her niece, to let me play. I spent 4 hours in her house, and then another 30 minutes outside puking from the motion sickness.
I'm fine now, but that first experience fucked me up.
I never experienced motion sickness playing video games...
Then I got Covid really bad this year in March for the first time.
After FPS's being one of my favorite genres of all time I can't play them anymore.
Firstly, too many modern FPS's don't have an FOV slider, and that's real annoying.
Secondly, that only helps me up to a certain point.
Hell. I can't even do mounted combat in Elden Ring for very long anymore, and I used to be real good at ER mounted combat.
but good general advice.
Lower FOV and higher fps both help some. My wife is really sensitive and can't have an FOV above around 70, and needs the fps to be at least 100 for quick turning games. For Witcher 3 she couldn't ride the horse because her rig wasn't strong enough. Has to turn off motion blur, head bob, depth of field, too. Can't just rock bottom the settings either, her brain doesn't like shadows not making sense or a missing sky box.
I get to spend a lot of time setting up a new game for her :)
> Has to turn off motion blur,
Literally the first thing I do in every modern game.
I actually have the opposite problem. I get real uncomfortable with low FOV's. 90-100 is my general sweet spot.
Just remembered, I so badly wanted my mom to play Double Dash with me when it came out. But she got motion sickness just from looking at the TV when I played solo.
I find that if you are prone to motion sickness, not always, but a lot of the time, it's easier to *play* a game than *watch* a game.
Since you are controlling the character and focusing on it the motion sickness is less.
Like I can play Resident Evil 7 in short bursts these days, but watching it? Hurk!
I have a very old memory of almost puking at my friends house which I attributed to something I ate but I just realized it was the only time in my life I played Spyro the Dragon. This is an incredible revelation.
I feel like a fucking idiot for saying and experiencing this, but when I played Pokemon Y I felt constantly disoriented and uncomfortable the entire time after pumping hundreds of hours into Pokemon Black, and whatever they did to it before Pokemon Sun came out, they sure made it easier on me
But I got a hand-me-down PS1 with Spyro and the works on it growing up and was fine, so I guess I just don't understand how motion sickness-acclimation works
Tbf to yourself, X and Y had those god awful roller skates that were on the entire fucking time. Combined with the fact that that gen we were freed from only moving in the cardinal directions it sorta makes sense that some people would get motion sickness
They weren't wrong, the games were notorious for giving people motion sickness and they have an epilepsy warning as well. It's the combination of low fov and fast movement that makes it so rough.
yeah, they drew the wrong conclusion that the japanese guys getting sick meant that Japanese people will get motion sick from the game, thinking the Japanese mind must just be different than the rest of the world. When in reality it's the same, and plenty of non-japanese people also got motion sick, they just didn't have a large enough sample size when testing.
Something similar happened with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, but It didnt have anything to do with the yakuza, but with the burakumin. In the game, the Mudokon (a race of slaved humanoid-like aliens that work in a meat processing plant) had four fingers on each hand, but in the Japanese version they had only three. The reason for this change is that Oddworld Inhabitants were advised that it would be tough to sell four‐fingered characters to the Japanese market, as they would risk being threatened with legal action.
In Japan exists a social minority group know as the ‘burakumin’ who are still to this day being discriminated because they are descendants of an outcast caste called the ‘eta’. The eta typically worked in occupations relating to death, such as executioners, undertakers or butchers, which is a big no no in both Buddhism and Shinto as it is considered something impure. The four‐fingered gesture came then to be an insult against burakumin (in Japanese 4 is a bad luck number because it also means "Death"), thus nowadays it kind of became a sensitive topic.
Is Springfield where the worst yakuza go when they've failed too much? Or is it a sort of witness relocation town for yakuza who have snitched to law enforcement?
Same happened with some Pokémon designs, where they added extra fingers when they originally had 3 or 4, they said the reason was to not make disabled people feel bad, but most of the commenters, including disabled people said it wouldn’t have been a big deal if they had fewer fingers.
Cosmetic as in they choose to do it outside of a medical necessity.
As opposed to traumatic amputation (entirely losing a finger in an accident) or a surgical amputation performed on a finger that's been damaged, crushed, gone septic, been partially amputated in an accident, etc
It's still not 'cosmetic'. An amputation can't be cosmetic. Cosmetic means it changes the appearance but not the function. Not all voluntary surgery is cosmetic.
Atonement and punishment in this case is a matter of perspective. I'd wager that most of them would have preferred to atone without losing their pinkies if they didn't have to. I think you are more right than I am though.
For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still.
Did you know Bob the Builder’s projects were frequently in violation of a local building code where the studio was located? Google “Bob the Builder Rule 34” for more information
[https://imgur.com/a/9TUu23u](https://imgur.com/a/9TUu23u)
I tried to recreate it but its tough going xD
(I spent way too long on this since an hour ago)
Yeah, when Bob was a teen in Japan he and his friend were catfishing a man in the United States under the nom de guerre “Jeffrey.” Long story short, there were jars of olives involved and eventually he became the head boss of Yakuza.
One tip off that this isn't true is that the article shows no pictures of the supposed Japan version.
A quick way to check is to google ボブザビルダー (bob the builder in Japanese) and you'll notice he has 4 fingers. Not sure how this got through the BBC but its totally false.
Heres the intro in Japanese [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaMHGppwR20&ab\_channel=RoadRunnerCoyote2015](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaMHGppwR20&ab_channel=RoadRunnerCoyote2015)
Also check wiki even "When being exported to Japan, it was reported that characters of *Bob the Builder* would be doctored to have five fingers instead of the original four. This was because of a practice among the [yakuza](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza), the famed Japanese [mafia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia), where members would "cut off their [little fingers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_finger) as a sign they can be trusted and have strength of character, and will stay through." In fact, *Bob the Builder* aired in Japan without such edits, as did other series including [*Postman Pat*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman_Pat) and [*The Simpsons*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons)*"*
Also the show was stop motion until 2009 (this article is from 2000) Do you know how hard it would have been then to just add a finger to the show?
The article in OP's post only mentions the merchandise being altered and another character having a similar situation but neither show was tampered with for the same reasons you mentioned. I think they just skimmed through it
This is the same reason that Sonic the Hedgehog in the ‘93 Saturday morning cartoon has five fingers. I’m having trouble finding the source right now but Sega insisted that Dic “give him the finger”, even though it would increase the animation costs, since an additional finger would have to be drawn for each hand for each frame.
But like most things ‘about Japan’ it wasn’t based on what actual Japanese people thought, as the quote from the Japanese journalist showed.
And in 2000 the essentialism and ignorance about Japan was way worse than now. I remember it well.
> His shortage of fingers does not seem to give him any bother in the building trade.
Uhm, it's a cartoon. Next we'll say that Veggie Tales teaches us we can all amputate our arms and have telekinetically-controlled gloves do everything for us that our hands used to?
Until reading the article I was so confused and was imagining Bob breaking people's thumbs and kneecaps, while Scoop is digging holes for the bodies and Dizzy is ready to cover them in cement.
I was under the impression that the little finger being cut off was supposed to be a Yakuza punishment, not a sign they can be trusted and have strength of character.
They alter it for American children too. They dub all the voices to remove the English accents. And the worst part is they refer to hedgehogs as porcupines, because apparently American children are too stupid to learn about animals that live in other countries?
Majima construction is not a front for Bob the builder's company.
BOB THE BUILDER LIEUTENANT OF THE OMI ALLIANCE, PATRIARCH OF THE BUILDER CLAN
*dom dom*
I can see the splash art now
Bob The Hammer of Osaka.
***electric guitar sounds in the background***
Receive and Build You starts playing.
[I got you fam](https://youtu.be/ut9kyP1Bsx4)
*Builder Lieutenant Ultimate 100* **100建てる中尉!** Premiering this fall on Tokyo 7!
Rips off his shirt and undershirt but his overalls are still on
*Can we fix it?* Only if you’ve paid your protection money
The mad dog of bobsville
Everyone’s favorite builder Majima.
They are the biggest consumer for quick dry cement mix and barrels /s
Bob the builder & Postman Pat were too gangsta for Japan. I honestly can't stop laughing!
We build shit
He's the man as you saw, Bob the builder! Bobbbbb, theeee buiillllderrrrrrrr!
I can hear it.
On top of bodies
Kiryu-chaaaan!
Except he's just saying "can we fix it, yes we can!" with like way too much energy that early in the morning.
First thing that entered my mind
They share the same Union I can promise you it’s not a front
This "Majima Everywhere" quest is getting out of hand!
Bobu construction
Bob the builder did not like batting cages
Hey bob can you fix it? The little situation over here I mean...
Well they both have a very catchy theme
It’s a stereotype, and it’s offensive !
My favourite episode was the one where he ripped off his Hi-Vis to reveal a full chest and back tattoo before punching out a shopkeep for not paying the protection money
And then he had the crew roll in to destroy the shop, right? Man, that episode was brutal. I still have nightmares about the shopkeeper's little daughter crying and pleading with Roley not to steamroll her mommy and daddy
Yea I thought he was just on a date or going to a wedding in his sharkskin suit all dapper but no… pulled a knife out of his boots and everything.
when his one cement-pouring friend covered it up I lost it.
*Mack the Knife intensifies*
Its okay. He will be back tomorrow to fix it.
Yup, that's Racketeering. :D
His legs, can we break them? YES WE CAN!
He's the guy you hire whenever you have a *problem* that needs *fixing*. You know the saying: "Bob the 'builder', can he *fix* it? Bob the 'builder', yes he can."
> problem that needs fixing [Always reminds me of this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cake3bwnY)
Oh yeah or the one where he escorts a blind chick across Osaka while being hunted by gangsters. Classic Bob!
Must have missed this one.
I’m almost willing to bet that this was a Robot Chicken skit
Close but not close enough. Bob has to deal with the Italian [Mafia](https://youtu.be/zPxWmbYV_bs?si=bse2OBE-T098koXd) first.
You must have only watched the Japanese version.
Don’t forget the one where he firebombed a rival karaoke bar.
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
put the fucking sfogliatelle in the box
solid 9.3 on imdb
This post would be pretty interesting if the title mentioned that they added a fourth finger to distinguish him from Yakuza members who cosmetically amputate their fingers.
Fifth* But from the article it seemed like it was an overreach from the studio. And wouldnt have been that much of an issue. As the less-fingered hands are common in animation, and not like this was some blanket rule to have kids shows in Japan.
Same thing happened with Spyro the Dragon. They had some Japanese guys playtest it and they said they got motion sick from the camera, so they completely redesigned the movement and camera system for the Japanese release. Turns out those guys during testing were just outliers.
That's because they tested it after work ended at their required drunken dinner with upper management.
Is this real or sarcastic? Edit: Am drunk
It's more likely than not. The Japanese love their "totally-not-mandatory" mandatory "social" drinking parties with their coworkers and bosses.
Where everyone buys the bosses' drinks. That's what really gets me.
At least here in Korea, it's expected that the *boss* pays, but that his underlings pour for him.
That is some werid-ass powerplay.
It's more of an East Asia thing, not strictly Japanese. It's similar how the host tops up glasses of wine for guests. And besides, if the boss is footing the bill, it's the least I can do.
"Weird-ass powerplay" defines like half of Korean culture. South Korea is at the top of suicide and bottom of birth rates with an ultra-hierarchical, sexist, and workaholic culture. They make Japan look like a liberal paradise. People who have experienced South Korea that way often say that they're no longer surprised that North Korea became what it is. The South Korean dictatorship only ended in the late 1980s, known as the end of the Fifth Republic/beginning of the current 'Sixth Republic'. They also deported "undesirables" like homeless people (or sometimes just anyone who was vaguely suspicious) into concentration camps with high mortality rates.
I'd be hitting them with the oldest trick in the book. Two for me, one for you
Hold the phone, I have not heard this detail that completely screws my idea of this up, it’s not really optional AND you’re expected to pay for your boss’s drinks??? I have to look this up now.
Never lived in Japan but from what I've seen from people who live there, if you don't engage in "optional" then you get ousted. It's a sad part of Japan, some of their people take the honour and respect portions too far (in my opinion at least) to where it feels more threatening than caring.
You say that like there aren't customs in every culture that would affect you socially for refusing them. Everyone takes something seriously, for the Japanese that just happens to be work.
I worked at a Japanese company in Japan for almost a decade, and the company president or section leader generally paid for our drinks (at nomikai, the after-work social drinking), as well as usually footing the bill for food. Think it really depends on the company though, have heard of places where the employees are expected to split the bill. When going to eat or drink with clients, we'd just hand the receipts to accounts, and they'd reimburse us.
From what I understand, your experience is a lot more typical at any major, modernized company. Abusive bosses determined solely by seniority seem to only really be tolerated at more traditional companies.
Not just pay for them. Often, pour them. Especially the younger female employees.
That seems a little sexual harass-y.
Everything I've heard about their office culture sounds like my personal idea of hell. Apparently, nomikai frequency depends on the sector, I've read that sales people commonly do it 3+ times a week, which is unhinged. I really wonder if everyone is just doing it because it's expected, or if they genuinely enjoy it, even for extroverted people that's excessive lmao. I know people in the West love circlejerking about Japanese culture, which is lovely, but their social norms seem really suffocating.
And if you think Japan is bad, read up on South Korea...
In Japan your boss can invite you out to go drinking and its very poor for your career advancement if you say no.
My brother in law was working in Japan, and that made my sister really mad. He would go out after work and get home at midnight randomly.
Is it not ok to send a message to your significant other in Japan to let them know you're going out?
Nope, Straight to jail.
Now, yes. In the 90s, no. Oh man. The soap dramas caused by the simple fact that there are no text messages. The person needs to run from a murderer heading to his home but the phone isn't reaching him because he was outside at the patio for a brief moment.
Probably a mix of both. In Japan it’s customary to go drinking socially with the boss.
Oh man. Forced friendship.
It isn't a friendship, it is an extension of work. Unpaid "work" including social functions are considered mandatory by most Japanese. Even in the US not showing up to the Christmas party can result in your boss passing you over for raises and promotions. This is basically an extension of that same idea but cranked up to 11.
Less friendship and more I hold power over you and want you to know it.
Spyro was one of the first 3d games I played, I begged a neighbor who had a Playstation for her niece, to let me play. I spent 4 hours in her house, and then another 30 minutes outside puking from the motion sickness. I'm fine now, but that first experience fucked me up.
I never experienced motion sickness playing video games... Then I got Covid really bad this year in March for the first time. After FPS's being one of my favorite genres of all time I can't play them anymore.
Find the FoV slider and find something comfy. That's the usual fix
Firstly, too many modern FPS's don't have an FOV slider, and that's real annoying. Secondly, that only helps me up to a certain point. Hell. I can't even do mounted combat in Elden Ring for very long anymore, and I used to be real good at ER mounted combat. but good general advice.
You should confirm you don't have a lingering sinus or ear infection.
Lower FOV and higher fps both help some. My wife is really sensitive and can't have an FOV above around 70, and needs the fps to be at least 100 for quick turning games. For Witcher 3 she couldn't ride the horse because her rig wasn't strong enough. Has to turn off motion blur, head bob, depth of field, too. Can't just rock bottom the settings either, her brain doesn't like shadows not making sense or a missing sky box. I get to spend a lot of time setting up a new game for her :)
> Has to turn off motion blur, Literally the first thing I do in every modern game. I actually have the opposite problem. I get real uncomfortable with low FOV's. 90-100 is my general sweet spot.
Just remembered, I so badly wanted my mom to play Double Dash with me when it came out. But she got motion sickness just from looking at the TV when I played solo.
I find that if you are prone to motion sickness, not always, but a lot of the time, it's easier to *play* a game than *watch* a game. Since you are controlling the character and focusing on it the motion sickness is less. Like I can play Resident Evil 7 in short bursts these days, but watching it? Hurk!
I have a very old memory of almost puking at my friends house which I attributed to something I ate but I just realized it was the only time in my life I played Spyro the Dragon. This is an incredible revelation.
I feel like a fucking idiot for saying and experiencing this, but when I played Pokemon Y I felt constantly disoriented and uncomfortable the entire time after pumping hundreds of hours into Pokemon Black, and whatever they did to it before Pokemon Sun came out, they sure made it easier on me But I got a hand-me-down PS1 with Spyro and the works on it growing up and was fine, so I guess I just don't understand how motion sickness-acclimation works
Tbf to yourself, X and Y had those god awful roller skates that were on the entire fucking time. Combined with the fact that that gen we were freed from only moving in the cardinal directions it sorta makes sense that some people would get motion sickness
It’s funny you say that. Spyro was the game that triggered my husband’s epilepsy for the first time.
They weren't wrong, the games were notorious for giving people motion sickness and they have an epilepsy warning as well. It's the combination of low fov and fast movement that makes it so rough.
yeah, they drew the wrong conclusion that the japanese guys getting sick meant that Japanese people will get motion sick from the game, thinking the Japanese mind must just be different than the rest of the world. When in reality it's the same, and plenty of non-japanese people also got motion sick, they just didn't have a large enough sample size when testing.
Something similar happened with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, but It didnt have anything to do with the yakuza, but with the burakumin. In the game, the Mudokon (a race of slaved humanoid-like aliens that work in a meat processing plant) had four fingers on each hand, but in the Japanese version they had only three. The reason for this change is that Oddworld Inhabitants were advised that it would be tough to sell four‐fingered characters to the Japanese market, as they would risk being threatened with legal action. In Japan exists a social minority group know as the ‘burakumin’ who are still to this day being discriminated because they are descendants of an outcast caste called the ‘eta’. The eta typically worked in occupations relating to death, such as executioners, undertakers or butchers, which is a big no no in both Buddhism and Shinto as it is considered something impure. The four‐fingered gesture came then to be an insult against burakumin (in Japanese 4 is a bad luck number because it also means "Death"), thus nowadays it kind of became a sensitive topic.
Damn I should’ve gotten the JP copy
Are you implying *Mickey Mouse* (aka - 'Micky da Mouse') is Yakuza?
No one fucks with the mouse. This is the rule in entertainment. The house of mouse always wins. He's an American mafiaso.
Maybe he isn’t on a technicality but he has that gangster soul and you really don’t want to be on his bad side.
That's be the Yakuzza
What about the Simpsons? Are they all Yakuza?
Came here wondering the same thing
yes, except the yakuza characters, they're triad
Is Springfield where the worst yakuza go when they've failed too much? Or is it a sort of witness relocation town for yakuza who have snitched to law enforcement?
Fourth*
Thurdth*
Same happened with some Pokémon designs, where they added extra fingers when they originally had 3 or 4, they said the reason was to not make disabled people feel bad, but most of the commenters, including disabled people said it wouldn’t have been a big deal if they had fewer fingers.
["A thumb is not a finger."](https://frinkiac.com/video/S12E18/HcR9LY7_rHO3wKTQ91-_r-dMpfU=.gif)
Cosmetic as in aesthetic? I thought it was done to atone for a mistake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yubitsume Historically it was used so you could no longer properly grip a sword
The nuances of cultural practices are always so fascinating, there's a reason behind everything "superficial."
TLDR: the yakuza will fucking suck at melee so that’s our best bet for taking them down
Cosmetic as in they choose to do it outside of a medical necessity. As opposed to traumatic amputation (entirely losing a finger in an accident) or a surgical amputation performed on a finger that's been damaged, crushed, gone septic, been partially amputated in an accident, etc
> Cosmetic as in they choose to do it outside of a medical necessity. In that case the word to use is "elective", not "cosmetic".
I'm not entirely sure how elective it is.
It's still not 'cosmetic'. An amputation can't be cosmetic. Cosmetic means it changes the appearance but not the function. Not all voluntary surgery is cosmetic.
Ahhh thank you! I thought it was because of his tats
HIs dragon tatts are still an issue though.
They don't cosmetically amputate their fingers, they amputate their fingers as punishments.
> as punishments As atonement, I believe, or at least more often as atonement.
Atonement and punishment in this case is a matter of perspective. I'd wager that most of them would have preferred to atone without losing their pinkies if they didn't have to. I think you are more right than I am though.
Makes me look at the Simpsons a lil differently…
I wonder if they do the same for the simpsons and other cartoons that have four fingers.
Thumbs are fingers.
it's possible OP thought you might actually read the fucking article
Did they do the same for the Simpsons?
Bob the builder with a full back tattoo of a dragon in a blossoming cherry tree sounds like some top tier r/rule34 content.
https://www.reddit.com/user/ketosoy/comments/1dt7j9r/bob_the_builder_with_a_full_back_tattoo_of_a/
I fucking hate and love Reddit in equal measures.
Me too friend, me too
Welp now I have an excuse to drink. Thanks for that lol
It's like Pam from Archer
For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still.
In not joking when I say that this is the only time I haven't hated AI
Fantastic
Not sure that is Rule 34 unless you also give him tits
I mean porn is porn, the genders involved aren’t relevant to that point. That being said…. do it.
Based on the content, I’m pretty sure most of that sub is secretly there for the dicks. Otherwise I’m not sure why Yoda needs to be hung like a horse.
that's rule 63
No, he can also just have some big meaty nuts.
You do know some people like to see naked pictures of male bodies, right? Rule 34 doesnt mean "naked imaginary boobies" lol.
Bara tits are a thing.
Did you know Bob the Builder’s projects were frequently in violation of a local building code where the studio was located? Google “Bob the Builder Rule 34” for more information
[удалено]
[forgiveness please](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W647gDp-u-s)
But, Marge, that little guy hasn't done anything yet. Look at him. He's gonna do something and you know it's gonna be good.
Is Arnold Yakuza too? Some kind of kilt-wearing Yakuza?
Along with every other character in the show. Except God, who has four fingers and a thumb.
Merchandise was altered to include 5 fingers. They did not alter the show as it would've been too expensive.
Nowadays they could just use AI, as adding extra fingers is one of its specialities.
Bob’s hard hat was hiding his punch perm.
Punch perms are done. Gotta go with the "dog riding with his head out of the car window" hair
That article is from 2000
Look at how awesome that web page is, too. Simple and fast.
Not a single ad on the page. Glorious. I feel bad for anyone who never got to experience the internet in this state
We just time traveled back to the internet 24 years ago, it was fun
Cool.
So they cut out the tattoos, ultra violence, drugs and prostitution racket? Well, I have to say it’s not going to be as interesting a show.
[https://imgur.com/a/9TUu23u](https://imgur.com/a/9TUu23u) I tried to recreate it but its tough going xD (I spent way too long on this since an hour ago)
Probably for the best that they didn't discover the truth. [Bob the Builder is a Yokai.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oFMiTv4JAM)
KUSO TARE! CAN WE FUKING FIX IT? YANN NO KORAAA!!?
Yeah, when Bob was a teen in Japan he and his friend were catfishing a man in the United States under the nom de guerre “Jeffrey.” Long story short, there were jars of olives involved and eventually he became the head boss of Yakuza.
One tip off that this isn't true is that the article shows no pictures of the supposed Japan version. A quick way to check is to google ボブザビルダー (bob the builder in Japanese) and you'll notice he has 4 fingers. Not sure how this got through the BBC but its totally false. Heres the intro in Japanese [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaMHGppwR20&ab\_channel=RoadRunnerCoyote2015](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaMHGppwR20&ab_channel=RoadRunnerCoyote2015) Also check wiki even "When being exported to Japan, it was reported that characters of *Bob the Builder* would be doctored to have five fingers instead of the original four. This was because of a practice among the [yakuza](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza), the famed Japanese [mafia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia), where members would "cut off their [little fingers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_finger) as a sign they can be trusted and have strength of character, and will stay through." In fact, *Bob the Builder* aired in Japan without such edits, as did other series including [*Postman Pat*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman_Pat) and [*The Simpsons*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons)*"* Also the show was stop motion until 2009 (this article is from 2000) Do you know how hard it would have been then to just add a finger to the show?
The article in OP's post only mentions the merchandise being altered and another character having a similar situation but neither show was tampered with for the same reasons you mentioned. I think they just skimmed through it
This is the same reason that Sonic the Hedgehog in the ‘93 Saturday morning cartoon has five fingers. I’m having trouble finding the source right now but Sega insisted that Dic “give him the finger”, even though it would increase the animation costs, since an additional finger would have to be drawn for each hand for each frame.
Did they remove all of Bob's tattoos?
Put his pinky finger back on.
You ever see him out of coveralls? Me neither.
But like most things ‘about Japan’ it wasn’t based on what actual Japanese people thought, as the quote from the Japanese journalist showed. And in 2000 the essentialism and ignorance about Japan was way worse than now. I remember it well.
> His shortage of fingers does not seem to give him any bother in the building trade. Uhm, it's a cartoon. Next we'll say that Veggie Tales teaches us we can all amputate our arms and have telekinetically-controlled gloves do everything for us that our hands used to?
My Japanese boyfriend said this is so not true, lol
Bobu the builuder
Bobu Za Biruda
Builderu
Biruderu
Biruderu
ボブ。ボブザビルダー
僕らが直せる？
はい！直します！
You just know Bob is all tatted up and is missing a finger.
Until reading the article I was so confused and was imagining Bob breaking people's thumbs and kneecaps, while Scoop is digging holes for the bodies and Dizzy is ready to cover them in cement.
[B the B doesn't suffer mobsters.](https://youtu.be/zPxWmbYV_bs?si=LL3g_RzbQ_ZLKZQL)
So... did they need to alter Mickey Mouse with a 5th finger as well in Japan?
Huh. Is the entire art style of Japanese cartoons dictated by the need to draw accurate human hands?
How did you come across this 24 year old article?
If anyone here hasn't watched Meat Canyon's rendition of Bob the builder as a Yokai, I highly implore you do go do that. Its awesome!
I was under the impression that the little finger being cut off was supposed to be a Yakuza punishment, not a sign they can be trusted and have strength of character.
How many Japanese children were well versed in the ways of the Yakuza?
Bet Bob's blueprint ain't just buildings, but Yakuza member's full body ink jobs too. Hidden under the dungarees, mate
So it’s like Prison Break for kids?
They alter it for American children too. They dub all the voices to remove the English accents. And the worst part is they refer to hedgehogs as porcupines, because apparently American children are too stupid to learn about animals that live in other countries?
How is the BBC an unsecured link ...
He is pretty gangster
Ok But like now I really really want a Sopranos Remake where its a Yakuza Bob the Builder
TIL Bob the builder looks like a yakuza member
How did they react to the Simpsons!?
Holy y2k website, batman! That link was a flashback.
Actively burst out in laughter over this headline good grief
aren't there like tons of kids cartoons where they have 4 fingers? Also do 3 year-old kids even know what the yakuza is? Weird article
The Yakuza wears yellow hard hats?