Bloody Lanyard

“Bloody hell. She's lying, right?” – quoted from Ron Weasley (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie)

That’s what I said when I looked at the picture above, which I first saw it in Leslie Katz’s post at

Crave. And maybe you said like that too, or perhaps you’ll say something else like: “Oi, have people gone mad?” Putting your own blood in a small flask, and then hang it around as a lanyard for your mobile phone…?

Well, apparently the bloody lanyard is only for parody, meaning it’s not real blood after all. It even has the injector replica as well, making it look real enough at first sight. This distinguishable accessory comes from a popular belief in Japan that a person's ABO blood type or ketsueki-gata (ketsueki-gata?) is predictive of their personality, temperament, and compatibility with others. – as quoted from Wikipedia --

Confirmed by Leslie’s colleague, who lived in Japan, it is very popular in there. Sold around $5.82 at

Tokyo’s Strapya World store. Even dating services in Japan use blood type to make matches, employers use it to evaluate job candidates, and morning TV shows and newspapers there regularly feature blood type horoscopes.

Leslie also got a good insight; who knows, maybe someday this kinda accessory might comes in handy for medical emergency. Aside than that, at least it can be used to get you a date. ~LOL~

”Astounding what a few drops of your blood will do, eh, Harry?” – Voldemort (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie)

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