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i already know the answer to this but here's a poll:
for the record, this is in texts, emails, emails to people outside the organization, everywhere
i already know the answer to this but here's a poll:
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A collection of diving birds.
A kingfisher, a pelican, an osprey, and a booby.
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Please enjoy this updated meme:
a modest proposal
[ID text–
Various images of the smiling Pillsbury Doughboy with accompanying text:
Pillsbury Doughboy with arms raised joyfully in the air – "HE IS RISEN! HAPPY EASTER!"
Pillsbury Doughboy with arms raised joyfully in the air, but with his usual puffiness replaced by the mottled appearance of unleavened crackers – "HE IS NOT! HAPPY PASSOVER!"
Pillsbury Doughboy with one arm raised as though signaling – "HE IS OFF LIMITS UNTIL SUNDOWN! HAPPY RAMADAN!"
Pillsbury Doughboy with arms folded across his chest – "HE IS AN OFFERING TO THE ANCESTORS! GOOD WISHES FOR QINGMING!"
End ID.]
All these are references to some belief systems and their connections to food, around the world:
- The Easter Doughboy's text is a play on the leavening of baked products made by the Pillsbury company, as well as the belief of Christ's resurrection ("He is risen") celebrated at Easter;
- The Passover Doughboy's text is a reference to the practice of consuming unleavened cracker-like flatbreads (matzah or matzo) at the Jewish festival of Passover, when leavening is forbidden;
- The Ramadan Doughboy's text is a reference to the fasting month of Ramadan, when Muslims are forbidden from eating anything (including, presumably, a halal Pillsbury Doughboy) from dawn to sunset;
- The Qingming Doughboy's text is a reference to the practice of offering food to deceased ancestors at the Chinese Qingming festival (including, presumably, an edible Pillsbury Doughboy).
This year (2023) all four of the above religious observances fall within close proximity of each other, in the month of April.
Reblogging because it's that time of year again.
This year (2024) all four of the above are still in fairly close proximity to each other, although they cross over from March into April:
- Ramadan – early March to early April (dates may vary according to region).
- Easter – 31 March 2024.
- Qingming – 4 April 2024.
- Passover – 22 to 30 April 2024.
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Reblog to let the demon come to you. Like to enlarge their power.
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Viktor Zaretsky (Ukrainian 1925-90), Glowing Sky, 1988, Oil on canvas
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Matazo Kayama
help
ebird did a site redesign and it's so ugly
but then again it has added some nifty features
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intactics-deactivated20211231
huh, there's a fox hanging around this morning, that's new
are they catching up now to their UK cousins in terms of habituation to suburban/urban living?
eta: it caught a rabbit
eta2: yeah, seeing plenty of articles now from the US about increasing numbers of urban/suburban foxes. kind of depressing really
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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.
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okay new requirement you have to defend your answer
me and the one other person that voted morning shower we are in this together
re: the earlier ask meme, i kind of wanted to elaborate on the "people get weird about liquor stores"
i worked for about a year in a liquor store in a shopping plaza that was within walking distance of my apartment. it was a fun job--i like customer service just fine, when it's a setting like that, small family shop with no bullshit Big Corporate Rules like not sitting down or not reading when there's no one around. i like taking care of a shop and helping people get what they need.
anyway another guy who worked there and was sort of the second-in-command was a super nice guy, father of two, whose primary job was driving a school bus. i'm sure he was an excellent school bus driver--sometimes kids would come in with their parents and recognize him and be really excited, and he'd say hi and know everyone's name and maybe have a lollipop for them, and it was obvious that he was a beloved part of the school system
one day when he wasn't there a woman came in with her little daughter. the daughter asked if mike was there and was sad that he wasn't--and her mother murmured something to me about it maybe being a little weird and inappropriate that the school bus driver also worked in a liquor store, she always felt a little weird about that--obviously he was fine, he was a good guy, but.....
which
like
what the fuck
it did not surprise me, but. what the fuck.
it was apparently lost on her that she was the one a) shopping there in the (*gasp*) liquor store, and b) bringing her child along with her to the (*gasp*) liquor store. i guess that's okay for her, but not for the school bus driver (who didn't even drink). also lost on her that c) she was talking to someone else who (*gasp*) worked at a liquor store and was presumably being exposed to the same alcohol cooties
(.........to be strictly fair there were DEFINITELY some weird and unsavory stories from that job, but they were not contagious)
(I should add: this is very much also a case of people being weird about teachers and anyone else connected with schools)
i can't deal with a hot vintage tv star poll where vintage goes up to the year 2000
eta: oh sorry 2004
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thinking about this book i found on archive.org that’s a kid’s book from the perspective of one of the ponies on the terra nova expedition. the ponies that sucked and were sickly and got shot and eaten. those ponies. never before have i been so mad a book wasn’t available to borrow i need to read this so badly.
i found an ebook copy. do i read this.
by popular demand. i’m doing this. below the cut because this got long
chapter two!
chapter two continued + chapter three
time for chapter four. i took a break from reading because i couldn’t handle any more of this but now we’re back to it
chapter five everyone give it up for chapter five. also it turns out this book was published in 2011 which feels far too recent
chapter seven.
another day another chapter. i also want to apologize about how long this post is getting. but anyways here’s chapter 8.
chapter nine. took a break from reading again which was a mistake because now i Do Not want to keep going. but we will persist.
chapter ten! we are so close to finishing this