Hong Kong Lipton teaJUN 07 2003
Hong Kong Lipton tea. hyperviolent, but thirst-quenching
There are 7 reader comments
13 08 2003 5:13AM
I'm with Stewart, but I'm a lot more angry about it - c'mon, you missed the "hk" in the url? You couldn't understand it but you saw that everyone was Asian and assumed it was those wacky Japanese again?
36 08 200312:36PM
here's japanese lipton.
http://www.lipton.co.jp
less violent.
08 08 2003 1:08PM
I see international incident written all over this. Soon we'll hear on the news that the Japanese are launching an attack to remove the tyrannical Kottke server from power.
09 08 2003 1:09PM
My mistake. It looked like Japanese kanji to me, and I assumed incorrectly. I changed it in the title of the post.
So does that mean that you both understand what they're saying? I'd love a rough translation. Is this site affiliated with Lipton in any way?
16 08 2003 3:16PM
You are all missing the point.
That was the best ad in the history of advertising. I'm off to the store to buy as much Lipton as my bank account can muster.
11 09 2003 9:11AM
It looked like Japanese kanji to me
"Japanese" kanji are from Chinese, so it's an easy miss if you aren't used to hearing either. Good rule of thumb: If the Asians are kicking ass, figure they are probably Chinese. If they are evil Asian businessmen, they might be Japanese. Here in Japan, Lipton is now pushing sparkling tea.
Learn kanji site
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.
Stewart Butterfield10 08 2003 1:10AM
That ain't Japanese -- 's from Hong Kong (hence the Chinese, and the hachet: hachets and "choppers" (meat cleavers) are common tropes in HK horror.