Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - Heroes

[55DJL]

This is brilliant, although pressing 9 on my keyboard makes me feel somewhat ill...

[cordia96]

So this was one hero and one Bad Ass

[richardathome65]

You can buy clocks and watches with kanji as opposed to arabic numerals on them, but they honestly aren't all that common and I see them more as novelty items than anything else. It doesn't make any difference whether they are in places foreigners tend to visit or not, and none of the Japanese I know own any, including my in-laws or the people I work with,and I've lived in Japan for over twenty years.

[fujikokun]

you know what else i just noticed? that clock looks like somebody just hand wrote the characters in. i bet they couldn't even find a clock with kanji on it...that's how preposterous it is.

[vanillaorchid]

@fujikokun I've got a clock with kanji on it.

[fujikokun]

@vanillaorchid really? where did you get it?

[vanillaorchid]

@vanillaorchid Japan.

[fujikokun]

wow...a clock with kanji on it...seriously? do those even exist? i've lived in japan for 3 years and i've never seen one.

[pxdud]

@fujikokun lol i thought it was a bit odd aswell, probably gonna get one to help with my kanji =)

[noodlezombie]

@fujikokun

They aren't kanji, they're Japanese numerals. They've been largely supplanted by Roman numerals these days, but you can still find them from time to time. My guess with this particular case is that some producer insisted they get a clock with Japanese numbers because they felt the audience would get confused otherwise.

"What? But he's Japanese right? Why does his clock have American numbers????"

[fujikokun]

@noodlezombie i'm confused as to why you would reply to correct me with incorrect information. they are kanji. and not to be a pedant, but they're technically chinese numerals (japanese borrowed them). being that they are, in fact, kanji, you would agree with this on the basis that the word 'kanji' means 'chinese character'. :)

[noodlezombie]

@fujikokun

I stand corrected. My understanding was that kanji only referred to 'words', not numerals. I stand by my comment about why they used such an outdated and uncommon set of characters though.

[ThwartedVillainy]

@noodlezombie Not really... you see kanji numerals all the time in Japan. It's not uncommon at all. They use western numerals where both foreigners and Japanese people need to understand them, like prices in a store or times on a bus schedule, but otherwise people use whatever they want. Just because it's not western doesn't mean it's "outdated".

[fujikokun]

@ThwartedVillainy you're somewhat right, although using them is pretty outdated and carries a traditional air to it. you tend to see kanji numerals in more traditional settings (prices in restaurants serving traditional japanese food, for example), but largely western numerals are used. and i have never, ever seen a clock with kanji numerals on it. not on a company wall, not for sale, not even in any old grandma's house.

[runeboard99]

Toilet Humour - predictable - BUT FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!

[soooyeahhh]

i was expecting him to say, 'I DID IT! That was my quickest wank yet!'

...I'm just sayin'...that would have been legendary..

[sayno2lolzisback]

YATA!

[goniochromism]

one person who watched this video was constipated

[aRomanSoldier]

I was hoping he would say more about it.

[1mcool]

saw that coming

[amig90]

YATTA!

[Yammahoo]

"I'd been constipated for hours.."

[fleamarket3000]

comic relief for people who have no concept of humour

[goulygliu]

why no red veins in his eyes?

[REdirectURL]

I love Heroes.

[angelicMisha]

Charlie Brooker is my hero.

[GeorgePedrosa]

Could anyone tell me which episode is this one taken from?

[erix]

S4E1.