Would someone please shut down this lab before this research gains traction?
It gets worse: “Lin’s long-term dream is to create a fully-functioning Robot Theatre of Taiwan, with an ensemble of life-like robots able to sing, dance and entertain.
“Two robotic pioneers, Thomas and Janet, appeared before an audience in Taiwan in December, performing scenes from The Phantom of the Opera, but that was just the beginning, Lin said.”
All that high-tech skill creating advanced robots, and you wanna make them warble saccharine tunes from an over-exposed, cheesy and witless musical?
We humans do just fine at producing crap entertainment, thank you very much. Let’s leave the robots for jobs that only they can do — like being an honorary KMT chairman.
The cute craze has reached epidemic proportions, and at the Neihu household at least, barfbag supplies are running low. And I’m worried, because at this delicate time, Taiwan’s “Hello Kitty” hospital has made it back on the radar, thanks to a couple of bloggers and the “Weird Asia” site.
But kudos to the site for at least running photos of the “Hello Kitty” assault rifle (though the mouthless cat should be in front of the rifle, not plastered on its side), Hello Kitty douches, Hello Kitty beer and, yes, Hello Kitty vibrators (www.weirdasianews.com/2009/09/14/kitty-funny-weird-horrifying/).
Speaking of the mouthless wonder, my favorite quote of the week comes from Betelnut T-shirt’s Ma Chunfu (馬君輔), courtesy of this rag’s Features page on Wednesday.
Ma defends one of his company’s shirts, which depicts Hello Kitty assuming the oral pleasure position before Mickey Mouse, whose pants are pulled down.
Ma said: “It isn’t meant to be misogynistic. For one thing, Hello Kitty doesn’t have a mouth, so she can’t give blowjobs.”
Ironclad logic, that.
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