Obsession
After the last post, which was a serious thing in humorous coating this one is all fun. It’s also not about me
First of all I doubt there is an actual wedding certificate . . . but here we go
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/816601-man-marries-pillow
Man marries pillow
True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
Lee Jin-gyu fell for his ‘dakimakura’ – a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.
In Lee’s case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the ‘magical girl’ anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.
Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between ‘obsessive’ and ‘nerd’) has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media.
‘He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,’ said one friend.
‘They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal,’ they added.
To make sure you get the complete picture he now falls asleep next to (and dines with etc) this girl:
Disclaimer: If it makes the guy happy, I’m all for it.
And for my quote of the day. It’s not just the asians doing stuff like that
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Quote of the day:
You have different stereotypes based on ethnicity and whatnot. Mexicans, Arabs, Africans. You all have this clear, if inaccurate, picture of what you can expect of them. But Asians . . . I mean you look at something like this and . . . What the hell. You never know what to expect of them. Are they nice? Are they sociable? Are they out of their freaking mind
- Some guy here