Japanese love of tenteki, or getting an intravenous drip from a doctor whenever they feel under the weather, and anyone who is sick or tired can head up to the local clinic for a quick addition of nutrients directly into their body. Now it looks like the Japanese affinity with IV's might be blossoming into the Next Big Thing, with the rise of "IV Drip Bars" located in busy train stations and shopping areas, where men and women can relax in a chair while a drip of nutrients flows into their arm. Many opt for the optional injection of garlic esse nce into their veins, too, to ward off colds.

Any one familiar with this? (From JList blog)

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Date: 2011-01-17 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashura-oh.livejournal.com
Not familiar with it at all, and I wonder how girls will try to explain arms looking like a heroin pinboard in summer when sleeveless is hot again.

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Date: 2011-01-17 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karadin.livejournal.com
Yeah, I was wondering about the marks!

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Date: 2011-01-17 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] excused-early.livejournal.com
...........WUT??? *major headdesk*

In all my 21 years there, I only had IV once. =________=
Either this article is full of BS and exaggerations, or Japan has shifted.

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Date: 2011-01-17 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karadin.livejournal.com
I do notice that the article says 'might be!' and sometimes things are exaggerated in the media for those 'kooky things they do in Japan' but I was thinking that the concept would be ripe for a mystery/crime story ...

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Date: 2011-01-17 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mirien.livejournal.com
Oh that's just weird. But that could be just me freaking out because I'm a scaredy cat about IVs.

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Date: 2011-01-18 01:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aidannwn.livejournal.com
It will probably keep the vampires away. But really, that is not exactly a positive next big thing

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Date: 2011-01-18 01:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] irisangel.livejournal.com
That sounds like potential for badness. I hope it's just some crazy exaggeration.

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Date: 2011-01-20 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tanfouk.livejournal.com
Reminds me of the Beatles song "Dr. Roberts." There was a clinic in NYC where some doc shot all the beautiful people up with a mix of B vitamins - a a little 'speed.'

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