October 27, 2011

Don’t Forget Your Umbrella.

Don't Forget Your Umbrella

I really struggled trying to pick which images to post from this collection of vintage Tokyo subway manner posters. I feel remiss not including the Santa Says You’re Probably Drunk poster. Or the Hitler Is Inconsiderate of Others’ Personal Space poster. Or the These Sumo Wrestlers Are Basically Just Fucking poster.

There’s a real obsession with left-behind umbrellas here. And chewing gum, which can apparently fell even the superest of superheroes.

Don't Throw Chewing Gum on the Platform

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  1. Sheila Ryan on October 27th, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    They are all more or less wonderful, Jonathan.

    The subway car Lebensraum poster is a mindfucker.

  2. Deron Bauman on October 27th, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    That Marcel Marceau’ll give you nightmares.

  3. Sheila Ryan on October 27th, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    Is it a gaffe to abandon your umbrella because “finders keepers, losers weepers” is un-Japanese? In other words, umbrellas are not deemed to be items to which anyone may claim ownership? Hence an abandoned umbrella poses a societal conundrum?

  4. Sheila Ryan on October 27th, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    There’s something faintly nasty about the cat who’s stepped on gum.