Sometimes the headline says all that needs to be said.....
"Student drowns while testing concrete canoe"
No kidding!
OSAKA -- A university student here died after a test on a concrete canoe in the Yodogawa River went disastrously awry on Sunday afternoon.
This story has all the elements of exquisite comedy....a preposterously preposterous engineering idea, supposedly brilliant Asians attempting it, and an unintentionally hilarious headline describing it. But my favorite part was the phrase "disastrously awry".....dumb kid refuses a life-jacket and then proceeds to drown.....yeah, I'd say things went awry.
Actually...
ReplyDeleteConcrete canoe races are a primary staple of American Engineering schools. Wikipedia has a good article on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_canoe
The Japanese students were just following suit. Now if they guy had himself strapped in with a seatbelt, that would be a different story.
Bad Japanese inventions are also a cultural phenomena there. Check out these items:
http://www.methodshop.com/picts/chingdogu/index.shtml
Yeah, I know about the amazing, engineering principle of water displacement and how steel, and even concrete, ships stay afloat but, still, Asians are supposed to be smarter than the rest of us. I'm only 1/4 Asian and 1/2 dumb American and even I know not to climb into an experimental boat without a life jacket. Perhaps it's the other 1/4 of me that's German that accounts for my engineering instincts.
ReplyDeleteActually, being smart is an Asian stereotype. Just like the fact that all Americans are 'stupid' It's not true.
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