Excellent! I love those mad films. Also, at 9sec, you hear the voice-over pronounce a name that sounds like Godzilla. It is Godzilla, but we only know it as Godzilla because the execs who first brought the franchise to the US couldn't pronounce the name in Japanese, so they renamed the character to something they could pronounce.

You probably knew that...

-laughs- Ouch.... Still, it was a good outcome :-)

Well... there is a really awesome canyon nearby that I've been wanting to explore a bit. I'm gonna go for a little run and see what there is to see.
Later, everyone :-)

Have fun :-)

Happy Halloween and happy Reformation Day everyone *big hugs and waves* :)

How are you all doing?

Ah, no I didn't know that story :)
Yeah, I'm interested in those original Japanese films. There's a whole bunch of these creatures, another is Mothra or something like that...

I like the fact that it's political. Originally it was to be a burning in effigy of an enemy of the state. But lately it's more of a celebration of a freedom fighter. And I think this was so even before Alan Moore.

Religion is kind of a funny thing over here.

You see up until the death of the little fat cunt, the official name of the fascist regime was national-catholicism. Religion, more precisely, catholicism, was present at every level of society, with priests moonlighting as civil servants. After democracy arrived, the separation of church and state became an actual thing, although there's still more than a few leftovers and loose ends that remain from that era.

The thing is despite such strongly religious influence not so long ago. Most people, with the exception of those guys (you know which ones I mean, we all know at least one) don't give a rat's ass about religion itself. Very few people I know actually bother going to church, and no one cares what they have to say.

The problem is when you confuse idolatry with religion, which catholicism is rife with. Most of which is even officially sanctioned. For example I live in a town that is famous for its fervour when celebrating the "semana santa". When the time comes, everybody's out showing the utmost reverence to the images being paraded, and wearing more religious medals around their necks than B.A. Baracus, while declaring themselves devout christians. The thing is; outside of worship for, "their virgin" and "their christ" they don't think much at all about religion and seldom go to church. In fact the different brotherhoods and guilds that form around these images are more like social clubs than actual cults.

And in the process making it completely unpronounceable to the original japanese since the concept of a closed syllable is anathema to them.
Which causes many hilarious mispronunciations.

*hugs everyone* :)

furankenshutain! :)

hai! *hugs* :P

Hello there, how are you? :)

Hey there :D
Happy Halloween !!
**Big spooky hugs with gummy bears**
I'm about to carve 2 massive pumpkins...
then wait for some kids to fall in my trap >:-|
How are you doing ?... :))

*hugs the owl* Still recovering from last night but good and yourself? :)

Recovering from what ? ô__ô ...
I'm good !! I hope you'll feel well soon !?

Recovering from many alcoholic drinks. :P

Happy Halloween, Wings! :-)
**Big scary hug** :-O
Good luck with the kid-catching. I might carve a pumpkin as well (probably won't carve it well, but...)
Doing okay here, how about yourself?