![]() While I can totally sympathize with this fictional (but probably more-than-a-little-bit based on the illustrator) character, she does also reveal some surprising double standards in Japan’s largely patriarchal society. “How many more times do we have to go on ‘home dates’ before you take me out for once?!” “You’ve got money to spend on video games and yet we always go dutch on dates?! I’ll destroy you!” “You’ve got so much time to play video games but no time to message me?!” ![]() ![]() “How much time and money do you think I spend on makeup just so your friends won’t think you’re dating some uggo?!” When it comes to relationships in Japan, a lot of guys seem to have trouble planning dates, it appears, and are-at least in the eyes of this illustrator-maybe a little too obsessed with video games and their hobbies.īelow are our loose translations of the artist’s panels, which are being shared on Japanese social media like wildfire, with, presumably, a lot of sympathetic head-nodding from women: While everyone’s relationship woes (or lack thereof) will obviously be unique to each person and each relationship, it’s probably safe to say that women and men alike encounter a lot of common relationship frustrations. The thing is, they might just be right on the money… This year, Dudderidge is planning to open a software development centre at Old Street's Silicon Roundabout - and his personal dream is to "move to Hampstead when I can afford a house big enough for my large family.A Japanese illustrator has shared a handful of images in a new series that depict the angry girlfriend stereotype unleashing rants and physical violence in response to an inept boyfriend’s romantic bungling. The company now has an office in America, another two in Hong Kong and China and sales staff worldwide. At Christmas, Best Buy in the US sold more than 10,000 units of Gear4's Angry Birds products each week." We've sold hundreds of thousands of Angry Birds speakers around the world, including Latin America, China, and Russia, and millions of Angry Birds cases. "If I wanted one today, it would be onerous. "We were very lucky, we met Rovio when the game had only been downloaded 50 million times, so it was really easy to get a global license at the end of 2010," Dudderidge says. Now Gear4 has logistics contracts around the world, and 20 factories in China making its products, which include the Unity Remote - which turns an iPhone into a remote control which is able to zap TVs and speakers on and off - docking stations and (only on sale in America, although a UK launch is imminent), the Renew SleepClock, a bedside radio and docking station which monitors sleep patterns and wakes owners up during light sleep cycles. SPONSORED Saving money on bills starts in the kitchen – and these tips can help London Metal Exchange faces probe into $4 billion nickel market chao.FTSE 100 Live: EG Group property sale, CBI boss steps aside.The chemist asked Dudderidge for a £250,000 order of iPod cases, chargers, cables and in-car docking stations. Then Boots decided to launch a range of iPod accessories, and phoned Gear4 "out of the blue". "I found a Taiwanese manufacturer selling a product enabling people to play iPods via car radios, and used all my money to buy 1200 units."ĭudderidge sold them all to specialist stores on Tottenham Court Road and online, and invested the takings in a new batch. With that experience behind him, the entrepreneur scraped together £23,000 of savings, and went to a consumer electronics exhibition. ![]() "The iPod was still quite new but I got one for Christmas and thought it was going to change the music business forever - and I wanted to be a part of it." Dudderidge had left school at 16 and helped set up a mail-order Apple computing business before working for a string software start-ups. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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