Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by lqet on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @12:53PM
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Impressively low. When I was a student (in Tübingen, Germany), I regularly had to use a similar tunnel under an old freight train depot, but this one had a luxurious height of 1.9 meters: https://www.tuepedia.de/images/b/be/Eisenbahntunnel.jpg
Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by aidenn0 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:08PM
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Somewhat OT, but why is it that (I'm assuming native from the accent) English narrators in Japanese produced shows seem to always have a certain recognizable ebullient tone to their narration?
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It's not just the effusiveness, but also there seems to be a high-rising terminal.
Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by drak0n1c on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:32PM
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It's an in-demand cultural speaking affect for those in the service industry or doing public narration - whether it's in Japanese or English. Think of it like Chick-Fil-A's policy of saying "my pleasure". Also, as a native English speaker you will notice your natural tone and accent change after years of living in Japan - though not necessarily in this exact style.
Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by autoexec on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:35PM
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I assumed it was a computer voice. Does anyone have an example of an on-camera human speaking that way? I think it'd be very off-putting to hear someone speak to me like that in person.
Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by aidenn0 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:00PM
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I've definitely heard intonation like this from before computer voices were of this quality. I don't know if I've seen an on-camera human speaking this way because it's often narrators or English dubs of Japanese content.
Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by adhesive_wombat on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:25PM
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I hate that voice so much. So many videos that are just a vapid TTS reading some ChatGPT-esque summary with some stock footage but you only find out that's what it is after the unskippable advert.
Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by wrp on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:21AM
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That style of narration is what I'm accustomed to hearing in children's programming in the USA. I've often found Japanese English-language productions rather irritating because the script and narration style seem targeted at 5-year-olds.
Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by interlaken24643 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:10PM
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This reminds me of a tunnel outside of the Interlaken Ost train station in Switzerland. It was roughly 5 ft tall and there were many people using it as a shortcut to the train station.
Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by kurthr on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:19PM
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There are mixed pedestrian/vehicle underpasses for the Yamanote train tracks in Tokyo as well, though a bit taller (1.5m).
My understanding is that when the tracks were originally put in they were near the edge of the bay so there were still boats. However, as Tokyo expanded and the land filled in the boat tunnels were filled as well and became pedestrian and vehicle underpasses.
Most people duck while cycling through, but i find it better to slide forward off the saddle and hang off to one side, because you can keep looking forward more easily.
Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by billybuckwheat on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:25PM
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Watching that brought back a few memories. I walked (well, quickly scuttled) through that tunnel the last time I was in Japan. For me, a mild claustrophobe, it was a somewhat scary but at the same time somewhat exhilarating experience.
Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by TacticalCoder on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:42PM
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I saw some (in a Youtube vid) so narrow, in whatever mountain, that people doing MTB rides had to... unscrew the handlebar to make it loose enough so that the handlebards could then be turned 90 degrees. Otherwise the bike simply wouldn't fit (and there was no other way than that tunnel).
I forgot where that was.
EDIT: found it, it's in Switzerland. These people are insane: https://youtu.be/vZgiWYY9euM (just look at the intro and you'll see both why they're completely insane and the narrow tunnel)
Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by civilitty on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @09:37PM
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> These people are insane: https://youtu.be/vZgiWYY9euM (just look at the intro and you'll see both why they're completely insane and the narrow tunnel)
That is definitely a cry for help/involuntary psychiatric hold.
Re:Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
by _nalply on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:56PM
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Probably Valais. It's a deep, dry valley with rain shadow. What they were biking along is an irrigation canal. At the top of the mountains the glacier gives meltwater even during dry spells. Thanks to these irrigation canals villages have enough water for their crop.
It was regularly flooded, however.
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It's not just the effusiveness, but also there seems to be a high-rising terminal.
This voice too may very well be AI. Nowadays it's really hard to tell.
If you pan through here on a Google Maps streetview you can see people making their way to the railway station: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CzA5FVmWMbryCQFe9
I usually duck a little bit when biking through...
My understanding is that when the tracks were originally put in they were near the edge of the bay so there were still boats. However, as Tokyo expanded and the land filled in the boat tunnels were filled as well and became pedestrian and vehicle underpasses.
https://thetokyofiles.com/2013/06/30/sengakuji_underpass/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlSd0LW0XdU
Most people duck while cycling through, but i find it better to slide forward off the saddle and hang off to one side, because you can keep looking forward more easily.
I forgot where that was.
EDIT: found it, it's in Switzerland. These people are insane: https://youtu.be/vZgiWYY9euM (just look at the intro and you'll see both why they're completely insane and the narrow tunnel)
That is definitely a cry for help/involuntary psychiatric hold.
Folks ride insane trails all the time: https://youtu.be/CNgOmcYCOPw?si=ohazg3Cl9poKLDNj
No kink shaming, please.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Switzerland#Irr...