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Woman ordered to pay damages to neighbor over noise from hitting futons
(Thanks to Joe in Japan)
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So that's what they're calling it now...
Posted by: Alex | August 25, 2010 at 11:01 AM
wasn't "hit the futon" a single by the clash back in '83?
"sharif doesn't like it..."
Posted by: mudstuffin | August 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Is that a sexual euphemism I've somehow missed?
"Yeah, Snooki's hitting the futon right now. She'll call you back."
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | August 25, 2010 at 11:11 AM
I hope People for the Ethical Treatment of Cheap Household Furnishings doesn't hear about this.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | August 25, 2010 at 11:56 AM
I'd be happy to hit the futon twice a day. Although 10 mins. isn't really long enough.
Posted by: nursecindy | August 25, 2010 at 12:12 PM
I fear they're running amok in Japan.
Posted by: NotSherly | August 25, 2010 at 12:45 PM
1.86 Million JPY is only 22 Thousand USD. Still seems excessive.
Hitting the futons -- with a dust beater -- is common practice for cleaning.
Posted by: Richard the Weasel-Hearted | August 25, 2010 at 12:54 PM
From Episode 3 "The Futon Strikes Back"
A short while ago*
In a prefecture far, far away...
(*Actually, this article comes from the future!)
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | August 25, 2010 at 12:57 PM
Richard, you just took all the romance out of this story.
Posted by: nursecindy | August 25, 2010 at 01:32 PM
Hitting the futons -- with a dust beater -- is common practice for cleaning.
More than twice a day for more than 10 minutes at a time? Now where would the futons be used more than twice a day?
Posted by: mm | August 25, 2010 at 02:11 PM
See how women, while insisiting men change their ways in the workplace, refuse to modify their "rule of the roost"?
It's a blatant double standard. I hope next time they take her beater away from her. Being powerless over the dust, and hair, and dirt, and grit, slowly accumulating in those futons, bit by bit, step by dirty step, without her ability to control their cleanliness, will drive her nuts.
You don't hear women complaining about men doing too much cleaning, do you? So who's to say whose standard should prevail?
Posted by: bonmot | August 25, 2010 at 04:22 PM
*pours bmot some sake*
Posted by: NotSherly | August 25, 2010 at 04:46 PM
Domo arigato.
Posted by: bonmot | August 25, 2010 at 05:32 PM
*hits bonmot with a futon*
Posted by: nursecindy | August 25, 2010 at 06:36 PM
I thought if you hit our futon too often you would go blind?
Posted by: mikey | August 26, 2010 at 07:38 AM