WTF, YAMJH? LOL...TGIT!!

[Taro Toporific]

Yikes! TGIT*! Thursday, August the 11th, is YAMJH—Yet Another Mysterious Japanese Holiday— Mountain Day/山の日

*Thank God It's Thursday

A third of Japan unaware of Mountain Day as holiday makes its debut
japantimes.co.jp | 2016/08/10
Nearly a third of people have never heard of Mountain Day, according to a new survey, as the newest official public holiday is set to be celebrated for the first time on Thursday...
...With the addition of Mountain Day, [slacker] Japan's 16 official holidays will be the most among the Group of Eight major powers, and double the number observed in Britain...
More...

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[matsuki]

More mobs of people and expensive flights errrrywhere! Woohooo! (probably not a bad thing for the economy though)

[Taro Toporific]

More mobs of people and expensive flights errrrywhere! Woohooo! ...

Oh, I hear you. I refuse to drive on 3~4 day Japanese holidays unless I leave well after midnight and return in wee hours of the morning the one day after the end of the official holiday.

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Summer holiday gridlock on the Tomei Expressway, w00t!~

[Samurai_Jerk]

A lot of people who don't work as traditional salarymen or women don't pay attention to most of the holidays since it doesn't affect their work schedule.


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[matsuki]

A lot of people who don't work as traditional salarymen or women don't pay attention to most of the holidays since it doesn't affect their work schedule.

Of course...some people end up working overtime because what they do has an increased workload....but it's pretty hard not to pay attention to either missing or masses of people.

[Hijinx]

I still can't figure out if this holiday was designed to add a day to the Obon holidays or take one away.

[Samurai_Jerk]

A lot of people who don't work as traditional salarymen or women don't pay attention to most of the holidays since it doesn't affect their work schedule.

Of course...some people end up working overtime because what they do has an increased workload....but it's pretty hard not to pay attention to either missing or masses of people.

People realize on the day but they don't necessarily notice in advance. A lot of my friends do blue collar jobs and pay no attention to most national holidays. Add to that the fact a lot of people were already getting Obon Yasumi and they probably just forgot about Yama-no-hi. It's not like there was a huge campaign to remind people.

[legion]

or just to hear the note of their forty four gun

[kurogane]

I still can't figure out if this holiday was designed to add a day to the Obon holidays or take one away.

Yes, that was the stated purpose at the time.

[Hijinx]

Happy Mountain Day, everyone! Hope it doesn't tick you off.

[yanpa]

Go take a hike...

[Takechanpoo]

its even strange there had never been mountain related holiday here in japan where 70% of the land area is mountain while there already has been marine day since 1996.

[Hijinx]

its even strange there had never been mountain related holiday here in japan where 70% of the land area is mountain while there already has been marine day since 1996.

I hope you get to the root of the matter.

[kurogane]

Happy Mountain Day, everyone! Hope it doesn't tick you off.

OOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There's no Lyme Disease in Japan is there?
I don't even find their mosquitoes very impressive.

[wagyl]

OOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There's no Lyme Disease in Japan is there?

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9 ... 0%E7%97%85

[kurogane]

ＯＯＯＫ！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！
Thanks

http://www.nih.go.jp/niid/ja/kansennoha ... -lyme.html

疫 学
　欧米では現在でも年間数万人のライム病患者が発生し、さらにその報告数も年々増加していることから、社会的にも重大な問題となっている。
　本邦では、1986年に初のライム病患者が報告されて以来、現在までに数百人の患者が、主に 本州中部以北（特に北海道および長野県）で見い出されている。欧米の現状と比較して本邦でのライム病患者報告数は少ないが、本邦においても野鼠やマダニの 病原体保有率は欧米並みであることから、潜在的にライム病が蔓延している可能性が高いと推測されている。感染症法施行後 の報告数としては、1999年4～12月に14 例、2000年1～12月に12例となっている。

OOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK. That's your neck of the woods, and my old ones, no? I don't remember ever hearing of it back in the mid-90s except as a Connecticut thing.
You be careful out there among them Lymies!!!

[Hijinx]

Happy Mountain Day, everyone! Hope it doesn't tick you off.

OOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There's no Lyme Disease in Japan is there?
I don't even find their mosquitoes very impressive.

The ticks have something worse here.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/0 ... 628k7VN2MQ

It's been moving east.

[Russell]

Happy Mountain Day, everyone! Hope it doesn't tick you off.

OOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There's no Lyme Disease in Japan is there?
I don't even find their mosquitoes very impressive.

The ticks have something worse here.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/0 ... 628k7VN2MQ

It's been moving east.

All the good things come from the west after all...

[Russell]

its even strange there had never been mountain related holiday here in japan where 70% of the land area is mountain while there already has been marine day since 1996.

I hope you get to the root of the matter.

[Mike Oxlong]

Happy Mountain Day, everyone! Hope it doesn't tick you off.

OOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There's no Lyme Disease in Japan is there?
I don't even find their mosquitoes very impressive.

The ticks have something worse here.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/0 ... 628k7VN2MQ

It's been moving east.

All the good things come from the west after all...

They found a case in Okinawa last week, and suspect the patient was infected locally.

www.japanupdate.com/2016/08/first-ever- ... n-okinawa/

[kurogane]

Is that a military news site or one for Special Kids?

[Hijinx]

Military short bus new service--dem wheels go round and round.

[wuchan]

DAT BONER AGAIN?




Wait, this isn't about the olympics?

[Taro Toporific]

DAT BONER AGAIN?
Wait, this isn't about the olympics?

Breaking Asian stereotypes
Japanese pole vaulter’s penis gets in his way at Olympics
nydailynews.com |NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | Monday, August 15, 2016
Well, that's a hard way to go out.
First, Japanese pole vaulter Hiroki Ogita’s leg touched the bar; then what’s in between his legs touched it, too, knocking it loose from the 5.3 meter height...more...

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See also ...
Daily Mail: The only time a man wishes he had a SMALLER penis! Japanese pole vaulter’s Olympic dream crushed because his own manhood

[matsuki]

I dunno...he'd be in micro phallus territory if he was any smaller than that.

[Russell]

Maybe time for him to think of a second career as a pole dancer...