Christmas Animals

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• Egonallanon@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Penguins are a Christmas animal because they’re all catholic.

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• Redacted@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I see the ongoing slide into labelling anything mildy analytical as autistic is in full swing.

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  • AstaKask@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Disability as a subculture or identity is just really cringe. Especially the deaf/blind organisations lobbying against curing childrens deafness/blindness.

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not arguing here. But just want to point out that disability subculture usually arises as a survival response in the face of discrimination and segregation. Everyone has a need for community and a sense of belonging. When broad hegemonic culture rejects you and your presence, belonging is found in the one distinctive feature that it the cause for the rejection. See also gay subculture as a response to homophobia, US black culture as a response to racism, feminist sorority subculture in response to misogyny, etc. So it is not rare to see disability subculture as a response to ableism.

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  • caradenada@feddit.cl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Context is important. In this case, it wasn’t the place for that kind of analysis.

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• TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t say I’ve ever seen penguins in relation to christmas

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  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m part of the problem. I have a penguin inflatable in my lawn. (I also have a dragon and a dinosaur, also not known for Christmas)

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    • Cascio@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Apparently you haven’t seen the seminal classic from 2014, “The Christmas Dragon”. Lovingly covered by Mystery Science Theater 3000 in season 13 episode 13.

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    • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The latest Coca Cola slop ad probably.

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    • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I thought Coca Cola used polar bears

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t recall “Topper” from Santa Claus is Coming to Town?

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    • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      First time hearing of santa claus is coming to town ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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• Una@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, but

  big hand patting tux penguin

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  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not sure I wanna know what comes out when you finally… um… … reach your peak.

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    • genuineparts@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Core dumps.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  Not exactly north pole.

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair, neither are reindeer IRL.

    Santa’s sleigh should be pulled by 8 murderous polar bears.

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Murderous flying polar bears.

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Uh well technically I guess but it’s a ton better.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But santa lives in Finland…

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Above the Arctic Circle at least.

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• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Am I missing something? A few penguin references / associations with Christmas, sure I’ve seen that. But, at least in my part of the world, they’re not a major part of the lore – or am I having a moment?

  Either way, this can be easily explained: It’s called being inclusive. The last thing you want is a north pole versus south pole world wide Christmas turf war, best to extend an olive branch andlean into that diversity and inclusion metric for the good of the world’s children and the fate of humanity.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Santa essentially has teleportation. Space is meaningless to the entity we know as Santa.

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• Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What has the north pole to do with Christmas? Santa lives in Rovaniemi, Finland. Jesus was born in the middle east. Presents are made in China. Your house is whatever it is, surely not on the north pole.

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  • moody@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Santa lives at North Pole, Canada. Poatal code H0H 0H0. You can write him a letter and he will reply.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fake news! maps.app.goo.gl/2aYT9gQfh29zr8V58

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Puffins are cuter, usually less, ahem, fragrant, too.

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Puffins are penguins if they didn’t give up on the whole flight thing

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• militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Snow and cold weather is christmasish to me

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, Topper the penguin, did help Santa when he was trying to deliver his toys in Sombertown.

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• Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aren’t they only called penguins because of there resemblance to the now extinct great Auk, which was a Northern pole bird?

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• SoyViking@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My mom bought some awesome South American Christmas ornaments way back in the day. One of them is a parrot and it has been on the tree as long as I can remember.

  Parrots are Christmas animals now.

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• FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If ranting about cultural associations of animals makes me autistic, I don’t want to be autistic!

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