https://asiatimes.com/2020/10/2020-will ... halloween/Halloween is big business in Japan: Over 135 billion yen ($1.2 billion) was spent in 2016. While trick-or-treating is not the norm, costumes sell out on Amazon, Halloween-themed menu items show up at high-end and low-end restaurants and pumpkins sell like hot-cakes.
And it draws big numbers. In 2015, a 3,000 person costume parade in Tokyo’s Roppongi district drew 98,000 onlookers, while the informal October 31 gathering at the capital’s famous Shibuya Scramble Crossing, and its surrounding area, customarily draws over 70,000 costumed partygoers.
Spirit of the Season
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Re: Spirit of the Season
Brace yourself for Japan’s scariest-ever Halloween
She irons her jeans, she's evil.........
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I love the traditional monsters. Especially the crazy gambling degenerate frog.
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila
Re: Spirit of the Season
I kinda like the larger than life Orange POTUS who makes lots of people pee on themselves.Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:14 am I love the traditional monsters. Especially the crazy gambling degenerate frog.
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Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who do thanksgiving.
Remember if the cops show up to break up the gathering, it's a protest, not a celebration.
Holiday Hints:
If you want to avoid getting arrested and spending Thanksgiving in jail...... you need to be prepared to:set something on fire, break some windows, vandalize the cop car, spray paint some BLM graffiti, and get two inches away from the cop's faces and scream at them
Oh yeah, if any of the cops are black, don't forget to yell "Uncle Tom!" and "Race Traitor!" in the faces.
Don't forget the bricks and spray paint when you are picking up your Thanksgiving supplies!
Remember if the cops show up to break up the gathering, it's a protest, not a celebration.
Holiday Hints:
If you want to avoid getting arrested and spending Thanksgiving in jail...... you need to be prepared to:set something on fire, break some windows, vandalize the cop car, spray paint some BLM graffiti, and get two inches away from the cop's faces and scream at them
Oh yeah, if any of the cops are black, don't forget to yell "Uncle Tom!" and "Race Traitor!" in the faces.
Don't forget the bricks and spray paint when you are picking up your Thanksgiving supplies!
Re: Spirit of the Season
they keep trying to bring american black friday in over here when traditionally our mega sale are the boxing day sale after christmas.
even more amusing - black friday is already a concept over here, its when Victoria nearly burnt down last century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_bushfires
even more amusing - black friday is already a concept over here, its when Victoria nearly burnt down last century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_bushfires
ultracrepidarian
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Re: Spirit of the Season
She irons her jeans, she's evil.........
Re: Spirit of the Season
Happy Thanksgiving to all the 'Merkins
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
Re: Spirit of the Season
A Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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Here's hoping for a better 2021 than this year!
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Happy Hopery! I think 2020 turns 21 and starts drinking.
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila
Re: Spirit of the Season
A happy New Year 2021 to all.
明けましておめでとうございます。
9JYc9tiY_IE
明けましておめでとうございます。
9JYc9tiY_IE
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
Re: Spirit of the Season
noddy,
you sir, are far too perceptive regarding the human condition to actually be human.
Kelpie or Cattle Dog?
2I_haW_2YHc
you sir, are far too perceptive regarding the human condition to actually be human.
Kelpie or Cattle Dog?
2I_haW_2YHc
Re: Spirit of the Season
A happy Australian Day to the all the Aussies in the Antipodes and everywhere.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
Re: Spirit of the Season
A Happy Lunar New Year 2021 to all who celebrate.
Year of the Ox.
Year of the Ox.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila
Re: Spirit of the Season
Happy International Women's Day
In particular to Miss Faucie Fishtits, who has one of best nom de plume, and to ansuchin - wherever she may be.
In particular to Miss Faucie Fishtits, who has one of best nom de plume, and to ansuchin - wherever she may be.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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Scary Stuff.
"I fancied myself as some kind of god....It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” -- George Soros
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O'Reilly's Daughter
As I was sittin' by the fire
Tellin' lies and drinkin' porter
Suddenly a thought came to my mind
I'd never shagged O'Reilly's daughter
cho: Giddy I ay, giddy I ay
Giddy I ay for the one-balled Reilly
Giddy I- ay, no balls at all
Rig-a-jig-jig, shag on!
Up the stair in into bed
There I threw my right leg over
She didn't mind a goddam bit
Laughed like hell when the shag was over.
Suddenly a noise upon the stairs,
One-balled Reilley out for slaughter
With a brace of pistols in his hands,
Lookin' for the man who shagged his daughter.
I grabbed O'Reilly by the neck
Shoved his head in a bucket of water
Rammed the pistols up his ass
A damn sight faster than I'd shagged his daughter.
Now all you ladies sweet and good
Yours is the choice to make entirely
Take it like a good girl should
Or up the ass like the one-balled Reilly
O'Reilly's Daughter
As I was sittin' by the fire
Tellin' lies and drinkin' porter
Suddenly a thought came to my mind
I'd never shagged O'Reilly's daughter
cho: Giddy I ay, giddy I ay
Giddy I ay for the one-balled Reilly
Giddy I- ay, no balls at all
Rig-a-jig-jig, shag on!
Up the stair in into bed
There I threw my right leg over
She didn't mind a goddam bit
Laughed like hell when the shag was over.
Suddenly a noise upon the stairs,
One-balled Reilley out for slaughter
With a brace of pistols in his hands,
Lookin' for the man who shagged his daughter.
I grabbed O'Reilly by the neck
Shoved his head in a bucket of water
Rammed the pistols up his ass
A damn sight faster than I'd shagged his daughter.
Now all you ladies sweet and good
Yours is the choice to make entirely
Take it like a good girl should
Or up the ass like the one-balled Reilly
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila
Re: Spirit of the Season
A happy St. Patrick's Day to all who celebrate.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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