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Brickbat: Without a Paddle

Charles Oliver | 12.31.2014 6:00 AM

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Japanese prosecutors have charged artist Megumi Igarashi with distributing obscene data, namely computer code that would allow 3-D printers to create a kayak shaped like her genitalia. She faces up to two years in prison if convicted.

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  1. F. Stupidity, Jr.   10 years ago

    Kayak? I never touched her!

  2. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    I wonder how buoyant my genitalia are.

  3. Suthenboy   10 years ago

    "a kayak shaped like her genitalia."

    I want one.

    1. Libertarian   10 years ago

      Maybe a model. Yeah, that's it. Just a model, a small model.... for, you know, putting on display on a shelf.

      1. Steve G   10 years ago

        And maybe make it out of a soft material so that it, you know, doesn't break if it were to fall off said shelf.

  4. Gene   10 years ago

    Really, this in the land of the iron penis festival?

    It must be patriarchy.

    1. Suthenboy   10 years ago

      What a bunch of dicks.

      1. Suthenboy   10 years ago

        I am trying not to make a joke about the size of those lollipops which I suspect are supposed to be as realistic as possible, and about the orientation of the kayak pussy.

  5. Copernicus   10 years ago

    No surprise here.
    If you've ever seen Japanese porn, the most sexually weird humans on the planet can't stand to see un-pixilated genitals.

  6. Adans smith   10 years ago

    If it's built to real size the tidy bowel man won't fit inside

  7. SugarFree   10 years ago

    Episiarch did the same thing, even if no one would want to go boating in it.

    1. Adans smith   10 years ago

      A banana boat?

    2. Rich   10 years ago

      Easy to find the man in *that* boat!

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        Note to self: Read through comments before commenting.

  8. antisocial-ist   10 years ago

    (Insert little man in the boat joke here)

  9. daniellebegum   10 years ago

    I didn't believe ...that...my friends brother woz like realie bringing in money part time from there new laptop. . there uncles cousin haz done this less than twenty months and by now paid the mortgage on their house and got a great new Lancia Straton .
    see this site :::::----- http://www.jobsfish.com

  10. Steve G   10 years ago

    obscene data

    Fuck off Cunts!

    1. UnCivilServant   10 years ago

      Is that what the Japanese Authorities were telling the 'artist' and her followers?

      1. Steve G   10 years ago

        Wierd, I read that as "the 'artist' and her flowers" ...which also fits, but makes me giggle.

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