These are great. First 3 are brilliant. The second one is golden, I wish I had thought of that.
happytoexplain•44m ago
Some of these are very humorous because of the cultural disconnect (as an American, I have never experienced somebody asking to put their seat back).
"An expert on a very niche subject" made me laugh out loud the hardest, because it's the one that's most "just a guy", and yet it's also exactly how it's described.
numpad0•34m ago
The last one refilling detergent is a parody of The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer; everyone has seen it on textbooks and it has become a meme template on Japanese Twitter in recent years.
HN's weird obsession with Japan continues. Daily Japanese related posts. It's extremely weird.
happytoexplain•23m ago
If I may gingerly throw a stone within my glass house, your username checks out.
PCI-eX16•24m ago
Maybe this is a different type of mundane costume, but I like costumes that just look like guys. When the anime initial D was popular, I would wear a white T, blue jeans, part my hair down the middle and say I'm cosplaying as Takumi Fujiwara...
skyberrys•19m ago
Love how long each consume caption is. It could just be called Halloween costumes that take many words to explain.
henearkr•6m ago
They are more like "situational haikus", or the transposition to practical humor of the concept of haiku.
_vertigo•46m ago