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Happy new year from the Philippines!

Day 4,790, 08:27 • Published in Philippines

• by Boy Pick Up

Season's greetings to everyone!

I hope everyone's doing great during the holiday season. It's already midnight here in the Philippines, so I just wanted to greet everyone a happy new year! The past year was shitty because of the pandemic (among other things), but here's to 2021 being ~~better~~ less shitty! Cheers! 🥂

Do you know how Filipinos celebrate the new year? It's usually with a bang—figuratively and literally! Here's an awesome Polandball comic (Is that still a thing?) by u/taongkalye illustrating the yearly Filipino habit of excessively using ~~improvised explosive devices~~ firecrackers to begin the year: