happy holidays

[KAI]

Happy holidays guys

[KennyMan666]

Edit: Okay that was bigger than I thought, enjoy lorg snek

[BIL]

Merry Christmas buds（＾w´ ）

[GaijinPunch]

Merry Christmas buds（＾w´ ）

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[BIL]

Now that's some older gentleman swagger

[Randorama]

Happy Sol Invictus, everyone.

Fun Factoid:

In the more westernised Chinese cities (i.e. the Greater Bay Area ones, Beijing, Shanghai), Christmas is celebrated in a manner that resembles Japan's or, frankly, western countries sans the hypocrisy.
It's an optional holiday ("take the day off if you've met your goals") for everyone in some companies; in other cases foreigners can informally take the day off.
As I grew up in a family of inveterate atheists, rationalists, Priest- and Church-bashers, it remains but one proof that folks are queer, for the lack of a less problematic generalisation.

Still, consumerism is important, isn't it? So businesses have been promoting this season period and connected it to Spring Festival (a.k.a. Lunar New Year, a.k.a. whatever is called in English).
Especially when Spring Festival starts early (e.g. this year: 28th of January), we are treated to weeks and weeks of Christmas-y atmosphere that seamlessly blends with celebrations of the New Zodiac Year.
I may upload pictures of the "Santa Tiger Year (TM)", but I guess that you folks might be too easily traumatised by the culture shock.

[Sima Tuna]

Merry shmupmas to all to and to all a 1cc.

[BulletMagnet]

Christmas is celebrated in a manner that resembles Japan's

Presumably Colonel Sanders is involved.

[Randorama]

Christmas is celebrated in a manner that resembles Japan's

Presumably Colonel Sanders is involved.

Ah yes, definitely, and of course the yellow M guys and their competition could print money, during this period.
What's more Christmas-y than eating something that gives you an heart attack?

I would say any western-y food is becoming a Yule-ish tradition.
I went to eat out for lunch at a nearby pizza place and we had to queue a bit (...pizza being a typical Christmas-y thing, of course).
Let's not even talk about the Seattle company making horrible, ultra-sugary fake coffees: I think that I could see the queue for the nearest of 6 shops from a good 500 metres (the wife: "it's me, or every tea/coffee/sweet stuff shop has people queueing to enter?").

Then again, my experience so far is that the Chinese are ten times worse than the Yankees when it comes to understanding of nutrition, healthy diets and physical education (no, really!).
I am the only non-overweight person in a faculty of 45 people, aside a colleague who is Chinese but studied in France and is a great fan of cross-fit (and, of course, a great fan of advertising this passion until your ears bleed!). I only teach graduate students and I have times in which I would like to give them assignments and a 2-year diet plan ("graduate a drop 20 kgs/45 pounds!").

The party is of course opposing this madness! So, you can imagine that sooner or later you will read titles like "EVIL SOCIALIST CHINA FORCES DIET AND SALAD ON ITS CITIZEN! EVIL SOCIALIST PLOT TO MAKE PEOPLE SLIM AND HEALTHY! HEART ATTACK AND OBESITY, THE PILLARS OF AMERRIKA, ARE UNDER ATTACK!"*. Actually, they've already begun with a number of policies promoting less crazy alimentation, less than 2 packs of fags a day, no booze (ok, no 100 proof booze) and a modicum of daily exercise. I wholeheartedly approve, of course (#1 Socialist Lizardian overlords fan, here!).

Merry Yule Tide, everyone!










*Also, I mean: CCP is Chinese COMMUNIST Party. Socialism is, like, the vanilla version of Communism. Why the crazies and the Robs of this world want a vanilla "Socialist" version as their bogeyman? Bah...

[Udderdude]

Time for a MANLY Christmas. For MEN.

https://twitter.com/jojorama_/status/14 ... 6614209545

[Specineff]

Here's some good wishes for peace and quiet this holiday season for all of you.