Its the "Shiny red button" in highly flammable giant straw goat form.
Its gonna burn.
Its nature doing what nature does.
Its gonna burn.
Its nature doing what nature does.
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Gävlebocken is back and will attempt to survive a record four years in a row
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For real, this is the most bizarre shit... So people just burn it just because? How random.
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Basically. It was intended to be a large scale version of a traditional icon, partly as a then marketing strategy. It was destroyed in an act of vandalism the first year, so when it was rebuilt in subsequent years, some smart alecs thought, oh, it should burn again, just like the first year. Thus it became an unofficial tradition where someone has a damned go at it; on one occasion by an American tourist who'd been convinced it was an actual, official tradition.
I eagerly await Radio Dead Air's weekly Goat Watch reporting on the main goat and the lesser goat.
Yes, really: There is always a lesser goat.
Yes, really: There is always a lesser goat.
I'll laugh like Hell if Odin takes it out with old fashioned lightning (though lightning this time of year would be rare there).
Yup, the Wikipedia entry is one of the funniest things I've ever read. They even have a Twitter account that I amusingly check periodically during the holidays. Whoever runs it does a pretty good job personifying it. The bio description is hilarious. "I'm THE straw goat of the world, I fancy Christmas and I don't play with matches."
I would love to see it in person someday.
I would love to see it in person someday.
Just heard about this tradition at a Cultural Diversity presentation at work, but yeah, this guy needs to burn!!
Explained this tradition of sorts to my immigrant students the other day and the more I explained the less sense I felt I made. But in that moment I think I started to appreciate the bockjävel more than before, and now I'm truly hoping for a spectacular burning heist as 2020 draws to a close.
It's a little past Christmas but if any Americans have been following it, the goat is still standing. There's one more week to go so anything can happen.
Apparently a man stole the goat and put it in his back yard. He got 2 years in prison for grand larceny.
I think you're right. It's been left standing for the last three tears, after all. This is a tradition that might be over.
Was it the same size back then? If so, that's really impressive, should have given the man a more lenient sentence for that impressive deed. I mean, how do you even start to move that thing around on your own?
A quick googling in swedish suggests that it weighed "several tonnes". So yes, that is quite impressive.
Nothing is impossible, you just have to dream big
What about flaming arrows? Swedish archery geeks, where are you at? This is the time you have practiced for all your life!
It's been done. By a gingerbread man, no less.
Oh my god! I just realized the wittiness of that tweet. A sight for sore eyes AKA suck it haters and would be arsonists. I told a friend of mines who's half Swedish, half Danish but her parents live in Sweden about it. She never heard about it.
I don't see the goat burning either. I hope whoever runs that Twitter account gets a raise though. They've been doing a great job.
I don't see the goat burning either. I hope whoever runs that Twitter account gets a raise though. They've been doing a great job.
One last update for you all: it got away with it.
This was fun! Until 11 months when it happens again, I wish a safe and joyous new year to the Swedes here. I hope to hit up Sweden when I eventually go to Europe someday.
This was fun! Until 11 months when it happens again, I wish a safe and joyous new year to the Swedes here. I hope to hit up Sweden when I eventually go to Europe someday.
As someone who has never heard of this until now I blame this for 2020. The gods demand a sacrifice and have been denied one for years. 2020 is our punishment.
Does to get taken down today? New Years Eve seems like a prime time for it to be lit up
Edit: This post is literally the first ive heard of this thing, so it's elicited a chuckle due to the wiki/twitter.
Not sure what a mini could carry. I have an Air 2 and was thinking you might need a Phantom or something.
Flamethrower drone incinerates wasp nests in China News
https://apnews.com/article/asia-pacific-china-chongqing-84436504dbf59c587cb227eb4c1fe0c5 Wonder if it can work for murder hornet?
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It can be done.
Straw and hubris.
Flamethrower drone incinerates wasp nests in China News
https://apnews.com/article/asia-pacific-china-chongqing-84436504dbf59c587cb227eb4c1fe0c5 Wonder if it can work for murder hornet?
It can be done.
Well, looks like we just got a sneak preview of the next CoD kill streak.