MutantScalper
Dogmeat
I'd much rather have sex with black women then get into nasty fights but hey, we all have our lot in life.
MutantScalper
Dogmeat
Well you're from the land of the Vikings always hankering to get into Valhalla. I thought this whole scenario would be right up your alley.
The old school Vikings were pretty rapey too so maybe there is a middle ground, hmm...
We only raped outsiders to our clans!
This year I learned about viking traditions during yule/jul, which actually surprised me. They would smear themselves and their surroundings (walls, tables) in blood. This blooded out interior makes me think of the red table cloths and curtains that are common today, during x-mas. Probably not a coincidence!
The bearer of gifts is seen repeatedly, for example, the three kings bringing gifts, but Odin himself would appear and give candy to the children - in socks no less!
Gifts are offerings though, a gift is offered, and offering is central to solistice, and probably has been for countless eons back in time
MutantScalper
Dogmeat
Fascinating. That could very well be where the origin of red as "Christmas colour" comes from, funny. Those Vikings, crazy rascals.
In Finland we used to celebrate St Knut's day. Even today Santa Claus is known as "Christmas Goat" in Finnish, due to the pagan traditions.
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On Nuutinpäivä, there has been a tradition somewhat analogous to modern Santa Claus, where young men dressed as a goat (Finnish: Nuuttipukki) would visit houses. Usually the dress was an inverted fur jacket, a leather or birch bark mask, and horns. Unlike Santa Claus, Nuuttipukki was a scary character (cf. Krampus). The men dressed as Nuuttipukki wandered from house to house, came in, and typically demanded food from the household and especially leftover alcoholic beverages. In Finland the Nuuttipukki tradition is still living at areas of Satakunta, Southwest Finland and Ostrobothnia. However, nowadays the character is usually played by children and now involves a happy encounter.[9]
Dialectical proverb from Noormarkku says: Hyvä Tuomas joulun tua, paha Knuuti poijes viä or "Good [St.] Thomas brings the Christmas, evil Knut takes [it] away."[10]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Knut's_Day#Finland
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Christmas Goat, I like how that sounds.
Thinking about it, I kinda wish sometimes the viking/germanic religion would be the dominant religion in Europe and not christianity. The only true god of Europe can only be Wotan! Jesus was midle eastern after all!
Thinking about it, I kinda wish sometimes the viking/germanic religion would be the dominant religion in Europe and not christianity. The only true god of Europe can only be Wotan! Jesus was midle eastern after all!
That's cool too, goats were part of Norwegian christmas in the old days, but has gone out of style in the latter half of this century, "julebukk" "christmas-goat" describes the same custom you're describing, mostly with kids going from door to door in a "haloween"-like fashion.
Once again it shows a lot of overlapping customs once we rewind the traditions around christmas
Although easily to disregard if one is unacustomed to see wider connections, all of christmas/solistice goes all the way back to first human urban societies' need to control the growth and cycle of fermentable crop.
Alcohol, without understanding of the yearly cycle, will only be available during autumn. Allready in those conditions, an understanding of the year is important, but even more so when you want to take full advantage of the whole year, it pays off to know exactly when winter turns to summer, and that's when solistice comes in.
The alcohol focus is probably only in the very beginning, but a lot of human organization and spirituality was catalysted by our drunkedness (which was, in the stone-age seen as a very spiritual thing, a change of reality, seeing the world of the gods), as crops grow, urban communities grow exponentially, and solistice is seen as a source of great fertility
Even so, the core of alcohol has remained in a lot of these rituals, such as the connection between Jesus (who is a solistice marker) and wine (his blood, life-force)
Vikings would drink non-stop during christmas. One can lol it off as "oh, those vikings!" or once again, see a strong connection between solistice and alcohol.
Again, the core origins here go back way beyond recorded history, and is likely mesolithic, and by the time we're talking about "pagan traditions", like the vikings and such, a lot of this ritualism has become symbolic and traditional, kind of like it is today.
Talking about Christmas and New Year's Eve traditions: anyone going to Cologne for some of that culturally enriching taharrush gamea? I already bought me a bucket full of fire crackers and a bottle of lube. I'm so fucking excited! It's gonna be awesome!
I keep hearing these instances of criticism towards Cesar Millan, and every time, it's stupid ignorant criticism.
The way he relates to dogs is not magical, special, "whispery" - or even less abusive - it's VERY simple: He imitates dog behaviour, down to the biting. He doesn't get down and bite dogs, he imitates the "nip" with the pinch. This can be debated endlessly, wether it constitutes as "abuse", but it IS a language that dogs understand.
My aunts dog, in Spain, is unfairly described as "unruly", but she behaves _perfectly_ with me. Per, fect, ly. I show my aunt, how I sometimes keep the leish dangling from my little finger, and the dog will follow my subtle body language cues as to what direction to walk, what speed, etc. No pulling, no nipping, no tension whatsoever. ONLY posture!
But she doesn't GET it, she now regards ME as a "whisperer" and the dog STILL "unruly" but temporarily under my spell. It is frustrating.
People seriously shouldn't have dogs, unless they really research them first. Dogs aren't some automatic "mans best friend", they are ALIEN to us. They are a FOREIGN species, a quadrupedal predator that speaks a different language.
I hate when people go "he knows what he did", no - in 90% of the cases the dog has no fucking clue what he did. The "guilty look" is an in the moment reaction to an owners aggressive stance.
I'm not even a fucking "dog expert" and I know this, only from a bit of minimal research.
Same with cats, cats are different species, and research is required. People told me you can't teach cats stuff, you can't call them by name, etc etc, my cat came when I called, she stopped misbehaving then I "hummed" at her (mimicking cat growling), and I was able to develop a repertoire of subtle eye movements, facial cues and short, consise sounds to communicate with her.
Yes, watching dog-whisperer right now, and it triggered me, I admit it. People are so clueless though... now Cesar is helping them, and they're regarding him as some kind of wizard, instead of learning wtf is going on.
All while PETA types, and my aunt, goes "hey now, that's abusive!"
The way he relates to dogs is not magical, special, "whispery" - or even less abusive - it's VERY simple: He imitates dog behaviour, down to the biting. He doesn't get down and bite dogs, he imitates the "nip" with the pinch. This can be debated endlessly, wether it constitutes as "abuse", but it IS a language that dogs understand.
My aunts dog, in Spain, is unfairly described as "unruly", but she behaves _perfectly_ with me. Per, fect, ly. I show my aunt, how I sometimes keep the leish dangling from my little finger, and the dog will follow my subtle body language cues as to what direction to walk, what speed, etc. No pulling, no nipping, no tension whatsoever. ONLY posture!
But she doesn't GET it, she now regards ME as a "whisperer" and the dog STILL "unruly" but temporarily under my spell. It is frustrating.
People seriously shouldn't have dogs, unless they really research them first. Dogs aren't some automatic "mans best friend", they are ALIEN to us. They are a FOREIGN species, a quadrupedal predator that speaks a different language.
I hate when people go "he knows what he did", no - in 90% of the cases the dog has no fucking clue what he did. The "guilty look" is an in the moment reaction to an owners aggressive stance.
I'm not even a fucking "dog expert" and I know this, only from a bit of minimal research.
Same with cats, cats are different species, and research is required. People told me you can't teach cats stuff, you can't call them by name, etc etc, my cat came when I called, she stopped misbehaving then I "hummed" at her (mimicking cat growling), and I was able to develop a repertoire of subtle eye movements, facial cues and short, consise sounds to communicate with her.
Yes, watching dog-whisperer right now, and it triggered me, I admit it. People are so clueless though... now Cesar is helping them, and they're regarding him as some kind of wizard, instead of learning wtf is going on.
All while PETA types, and my aunt, goes "hey now, that's abusive!"
Throatpunch
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Signed up to Reddit and I prefer it there so you won't be seeing much of me anyway.
I played through Fallout 4 and really enjoyed it. I then realised I have a couple of hundred hours on Fallout 3 and Skyrim. So I guess I'm not welcome here, since I am now a fan of Bethesda's games.
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@Kadscaner I still love you brother
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MutantScalper
Dogmeat
Went to a night club on NY eve. First watched the fireworks at the city square then went to a night club. I don't drink much at all these days so I was pretty sauced up from some wine and beer I had earlier. At the bar these two a-holes started messing around with me. Didn't become a full blown fight but could have. Bars and night clubs can be dangerous places. In UK they checked your pockets at the door to see if you any weapons on you as you entered the bar and used a metal detector wand on you. In Finland we have none of that so everyone in a bar could be packing heat or a knife. Still people start shit.
Earlier that day I bought new boxing gloves. Almost did some actual 'boxing' later, haha.
Earlier that day I bought new boxing gloves. Almost did some actual 'boxing' later, haha.
Mr Fish
Slippy sloppy, The
You just dont understand fashion. Stop being a sexist pig and let the strong independant womyn do what yhey want cause they dont need no mans "criticism".
I wish Alec would have never mentioned it. Now I find my self constantly looking at the eyebrows of females I see, and thinking sometimes "what the hell is that?".
Mr Fish
Slippy sloppy, The
Well my issue is knees. They look disgusting. Here i am mirin some gals legs and then i pay attention to the knees and wonder what the hell is wrong with that bodypart.
I can say that is one issue I don't have.
MutantScalper
Dogmeat
I mean, don't mean to derail the eyebrow-convo but, is it really so that everyone has to become armed now just to defend themselves? I might be ok with it but I just need to know the 'rules'. I mean, we even have a gun - thread right here on gen discussion on NMA.
The problem is when you get robbed just for the simple fact you have a gun, here have two different stories of it happening (one was in 2014 and the other was in 2016):
http://wonkette.com/597548/open-car...-stolen-at-gunpoint-and-we-cant-stop-laughing
http://gawker.com/open-carrying-guy-has-his-brand-new-pistol-stolen-at-gu-1644022889
Mr Fish
Slippy sloppy, The
Is there any part of the body you find unappealing?I can say that is one issue I don't have.
The male genitals.
