Japanese culture post

[karadinart]

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)

Comments

[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.

[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.

[mirien.livejournal.com]

Oh that's just weird. But that could be just me freaking out because I'm a scaredy cat about IVs.

[aidannwn.livejournal.com]

It will probably keep the vampires away. But really, that is not exactly a positive next big thing

[irisangel.livejournal.com]

That sounds like potential for badness. I hope it's just some crazy exaggeration.

[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.'