Couldn’t find it in nihongoresources.com’s giongo/gitaigo dictionary, so it’s probably derived from “弛む [たゆむ] (v5m,vi) (1) to slacken, to loosen, to relax, to droop (e.g. loose or flabby skin), to sag (ceiling), (2) to slack off (e.g. one’s work, attention), to not put one’s heart in”. Based on what I remember of the “plot”, probably the second sense, given that’s it about one guy fooling around with the six girls his age in the village. He is of course the only guy his age.
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H’mm. With Amazon’s books, they usually give you a link labelled “Look Inside”. But not this time.
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It seems like “pyon-pyon” is onomatopoeia specifically for jumping or hopping. Apparently “burun burun” is also translated as “boing boing” and represents the sounds of breasts bouncing. I can’t find any onomatopoeia that matches “tayu tayu” exactly, but also apparently “tapu tapu” and “tayun” are jiggling-related onomatopoeia, so it might be some play or variant on those…
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Ah but is Boing Boing specifically about bouncing breasts? Pretty rarely, compared with Baywatch, whereas jumping and hopping are everyday events around here. The defense rests.
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Imagine all the opportunities to “Just look at it”.
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Oh, and since you have a referral link, FYI it does contain rape and incest, and I don’t usually think of the former as going over well with this crowd even when the rapists are two sisters and their victim the not entirely unwilling guy they threatened with farming implements when they caught him peeping on them having sex.
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Coffee themed you say?
It’s got a 5 star review average. Impressive!
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Oh, and since you have a referral link, FYI it does contain rape and incest, and I don’t usually think of the former as going over well with this crowd
I see your point, but then again Game of Thrones seems pretty popular here.
(Personally, I read/watch it for the 60% that’s not rape and incest.)
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Just look at it.
This is funny to me on a coupla levels - usually when I’m talking to people about the site or articles on it and they don’t know about BB, I have to add the disclaimer ‘no, it’s not porn’ because some assume that it is porn from the name alone. Guess now I’ll have to be doubly specific that ‘no, it’s not hentai/manga either’.
Though this thought just occurred to me too: what am I even doing, what kind of terrible world am I living in, talking to people who don’t know about the wondrous BB?!
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By “wondrous BB” do you mean the hentai/manga?
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It’s not being a good host, and there’s no need to be so snotty because you have the sort of job where everyone walking by your cubicle could see cartoon-breasts and not make a complaint or be made to feel uncomfortable.
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Ah-ha I finally get it after all these years!
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I mean, I agree we should try to be considerate and try not to make each other uncomfortable.
It’s just weird to use “whatever offends the boss” as the standard for what will be censored or not. What if I work at a conservative religious institution, and BoingBoing’s sacrilegious headlines would upset my boss and get me fired?
If we accept like @OtherMichael suggests that creators should have your backs and pre-emptively censor stuff that could get workers in trouble by offending their bosses, then anything any of us publishes ends up catering to the most repressive boss with the most Victorian censorship policy. Most of us don’t even work for that guy, but we conform our expression to his moral standards rather than our own.
I do want you to slack off, though, and I don’t want you to get fired. I just also don’t want your boss to decide what I see on my favorite blogs. I dunno.
I already knew about this because once I mentioned I was reading an article on here and the person I was chatting with assumed I meant… that…
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Yep. Totally.
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I don’t get that attitude. Don’t you work when at work? Isn’t the act of wasting your employers time and money by procrastinating deplorable by itself? Why is it ok to look at cat pictures instead of working but looking at cartoon nipples is a problem?
If you don’t want to get fired you should probably stop surfing the web and do your job (except your job is writing excerpts of boingboing articles or some such).
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Who’s to say my employer isn’t wasting my time? I’m only here because they pay me money when I’m here. I could be doing many things that are much more fun and fulfilling than being at work. The only reason I come to work and get paid is because I’ll literally end up dead without that money (in the form of the health insurance).
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People who are self balanced workers outperform constant workers almost every time in most lines of work.
In many jobs there is an eb and flow of work that is inconsistent.
Some people take their breaks at their desks surfing online.
Many workplaces have internet filters and deem some content inappropriate for the workplace, mainly stuff that has potential to make a co-worker feel uncomfortable if they saw, which is what originated the term you’ve probably seen around NSFW (Not Safe For Work). This is similar to how many workplaces have dress and conduct codes.
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