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The story
On 5ch’s “News VIP” board, a rainy-morning chat thread called “Sulking Nap Club,” featuring emoticon characters, was started. Participants posted one after another about low-pressure headaches and fatigue, unrealized gains on semiconductor stocks, a typhoon approaching Chiba, and everyday topics like dentist visits and laundry. Replies sympathizing with the complaint “Feels like my head’s being hit with a hammer, maybe because of the air pressure” piled up, and the ongoing rainy-weather malaise became the thread’s main topic.
What people said
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(´･ω･`)Nope, you're wrong
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つ🌀と
l⌒O⌒O⌒lI'm hunkering down in a shelter
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investment trust, and
the next day it jumped
about 7%.
Missed out on around
¥400,000 in profit.
(´･ω･`)Gagaa-rin
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(´･ω･`)Cut it out
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(´･ω･`)Your futon looks nice and fluffy
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(´･ω･`)I wonder if that's the real one
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(´・∀・｀)Ahh, ahh, ahhh~ (mock moaning, ahegao-style)
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(´･ω･`)Begone
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(´･ω･`)I totally saw through it
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(´･ω･`)That's the one
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(´･ω･`)Yup-ola
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(´･ω･`)Piling on more again
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Did you go to the laundromat?
(´･ω･`)Not yet, gotta go today
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This is the classic 'lounge around till noon' pattern
./ *・ω・ヽMorning, everyone
Tokyo's had low pressure 30 days straight
What is even going on!
(´･ω･`)Even for the autumn rains, this is really pouring
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૮₍ #)∀ ･᷆ ₎ა Mornin'~
Maybe it's the air pressure, but my head feels like it's getting hit with a hammer
૮₍ ･᷇ ∀ ･᷆ ₎ა Thought a shower might perk me up, but nope, no good
My head's so heavy 😭
(´･ω･`)っ🧪Here, this medicine works great
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./ *・ω・ヽTry running a dehumidifier
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૮₍･᷇ ∀ ･᷆ ₎ა Off I go!
Ο┳Ο ) *shuffle shuffle*
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(´･ω･`)I wonder if the rain's okay [over there]
It's raining like crazy
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૮₍ ･᷇ ∀ ･᷆ ₎ა It's stopped raining over here right now so I'm good
Another typhoon's headed for Chiba
Gonna offer a sacrifice to dodge it
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(u_u)I'm in Chiba~ Since I'm on the Tokyo side of Chiba there's no major damage, but it's been nothing but rain lately ☔
(´･ω･`)Cut it out
Background and Discussion Points
The sensation described in the thread — “my head hurts, maybe because of the air pressure” — is medically known as weather-related illness (kiatsu-tsū, or “barometric headache”), a phenomenon in which changes in air pressure are thought to stimulate the inner ear, throwing the autonomic nervous system out of balance and triggering headaches and fatigue. That said, figures like “30 days of low pressure straight in Tokyo” are exaggerations based on posters’ personal impressions, not official Japan Meteorological Agency data, and should be read with that caveat. “Sulking Nap Club” is also the informal name for a recurring chat thread on News VIP that uses emoticon characters; it isn’t tied to any particular incident or news story, but exists mainly for posters to narrate and share everyday small talk about weather and daily life as it happens. The way topics like unrealized gains on semiconductor stocks, dentist visits, and laundry are interspersed reflects the casual, live-narration feel typical of this kind of thread.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News VIP) thread “(´･ω･`) This Is the Members-Only ‘Sulking Nap Club’ Thread.”
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