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April 15, 2006
Japanese Instruction Booklets
Read this manual if you have questions or just plain surprised.
The Japanese are either crazy or just prone to doing stupid things if one is to believe all the warnings inside Japanese instruction booklets.
For instance, a reader over at the Ars Technica forum posted pictures of his imported Nintendo DS instruction booklet. Of course he couldn't read it so he came up with some nifty translations of his own based on the comical diagrams.
more diagram translations after the jump
Do not play your DS while driving.
Do not microwave your DS for 3 minutes and 15 seconds.
Do not drop your DS on a baby.
Do not encourage your mom to scratch the DS with the stylus.
If you think you're dying, put down your DS and go see a doctor.
Do not put your DS by a heater or stick it in an angry snowman.
Do not play your DS secretly under the covers.
Do not wear headphones while using the DS or someone might smack you from behind.
Do not try to eat your stylus.
Do not try to beam signals to people with pacemakers using the wifi connection.
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Comments
Actually the pictures are pretty self explanatory and easy to understand what they mean.
But thumbs up for the humorous explanations. (some were hilarious).
Posted by: Knight at April 21, 2006 12:51 AM
The world would be so dull if it not for the Japanese, big up.
Posted by: Sam at May 16, 2006 2:42 AM
Quite funny.
Posted by: OpenMLS at May 16, 2006 7:43 PM
lol funny
Posted by: rich930 at May 17, 2006 1:00 PM
Actually Knight, they arent. What do the 4th(mom) and tenth(pace maker) ones mean?
P.S. I'm so glad we have you to point out that "pictures are pretty self explanatory".
I never would have guessed.
Posted by: Innomen at May 24, 2006 3:38 PM
I don't think many of the pictures are self-explanatory. I get the mom one (don't use the stylus to open the battery case). I REALLY don't get the one with the doctor or the one under the blankets though - his explanations seems like the most logical (and funny);
Posted by: marco at October 5, 2006 12:14 PM