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ravengrim
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 |  Subject: Man Marries Pillow  Sat Mar 27, 2010 8:24 pm | |
| Man Marries PillowTrue 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.
The pillow marriage is not the first similarly-themed unusual marriage in recent times - it comes after a Japanese otaku married his virtual girlfriend Nene Anegasaki, a character who only exists in the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, last November.
videoI always find these stories fascinating(that's why so many of them are here in the relationships subforum.
I do wonder if this is a modern sort of thing as I don't know of any hisotircal cases of this being documented(with the exception of ghost marriages). _________________   @themorrigan1972 |
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Madelchai
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:00 pm | |
| I'll never be able to look at Fate the same way ever again. _________________ We are Toy Soldiers marching for the cause, to build robots and babies with buzzsaws. It's the grand master plan, a Utopian Playland.  |
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MoonRaven
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:21 pm | |
| How weird that they fall for material objects.
What kind of comfort can they get? _________________  |
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Ginger_Snaps
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:23 am | |
| Well, this is not so uncommon, except people don't usually marry the object. _________________ I'm a werewolf, not a vampire!   |
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Madelchai
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:18 pm | |
| One guy married his "girlfriend," which was just a character in a Nintendo DS game.
There seems to be some backing behind getting a law into making the marriage to comic book characters legal, too.
I don't know what it is over in that hemisphere. _________________ We are Toy Soldiers marching for the cause, to build robots and babies with buzzsaws. It's the grand master plan, a Utopian Playland. |
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La Diva Carlotta
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:00 pm | |
| Shhhhh...don't tell my husband about this! He might want to try to marry our bed. That boy loves to sleep.  |
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helen damnation
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Sun Mar 28, 2010 5:41 pm | |
| If I wasnt already married, I would marry my duvet tomorrow.  I love my bed _________________ 
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Zelda!
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:46 pm | |
| O.o;
Does this mean I can marry the Coca-Cola label? I love Coke dearly. I always have. If that doesn't pan out, my pirate boots are always waiting in the wings. Though, I wonder if that would be considered polygamy...? _________________  |
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RedAngel
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:29 pm | |
| ^^Lol! Makes me think we need a new thread: "Objects We Would Marry If We Were Only A Little Crazier." |
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Emmature
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:37 pm | |
| You see, when people criticize gay marriage saying that allowing it would open up a crazy can of worms, they must be sure that it will lead to men marrying pillows and video games!
Haha- sorry, couldn't help myself! |
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Emmature
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:38 pm | |
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:48 pm | |
| | Emmature wrote: | You see, when people criticize gay marriage saying that allowing it would open up a crazy can of worms, they must be sure that it will lead to men marrying pillows and video games!
Haha- sorry, couldn't help myself! |
as long as no one goes marrying a can of worms I'm, ok... ok-ish with some of this crazyness.
| Emmature wrote: | | Can I marry pie? |
pick a pie, I'm sure you can if you find a place crazy enough to do it_________________ Love's light blue led me to you through all the emptiness that had become my home-HIM-  Amor est vitae essentia |
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:34 am | |
| So I could marry an ottoman or a tea-cozy, but it's debatable whether I'm allowed to marry another human-being if they have the same kind of genitals as I do? FTW. _________________  |
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RedAngel
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:49 am | |
| | Emmature wrote: | You see, when people criticize gay marriage saying that allowing it would open up a crazy can of worms, they must be sure that it will lead to men marrying pillows and video games!
Haha- sorry, couldn't help myself! |
| Spooky wrote: | | So I could marry an ottoman or a tea-cozy, but it's debatable whether I'm allowed to marry another human-being if they have the same kind of genitals as I do? FTW. |
Bingo. That is the infuriating aspect of this issue. |
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Nightmistress
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:12 am | |
| Not what is to happen if he should start beating the pillow? Would it be considered abuse? Can you go to jail for beating up your pillow wife?  Just wondering.
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She's sees a handsome horse and rider pass she says " That man's gonna be my death 'cause he's all I ever wanted in my life" ~ EA
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Ginger_Snaps
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:04 am | |
| Can I marry a smoothie or sleep? _________________ I'm a werewolf, not a vampire! |
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RedAngel
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:53 am | |
| ^^ If I give you a good smoothie recipe, am I a matchmaker? |
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Ginger_Snaps
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| | Subject: Re: Man Marries Pillow Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:15 pm | |
| Costco does carry a Yoplait smoothie mix (triple berry--raspberry, strawberry, and blueberry) that is really really good. _________________ I'm a werewolf, not a vampire! |
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