PieFedxkcd: Groundhog Day Meaning
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3202/
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HamartiogonicYou gotta have some standards. If you use a different rodent every year, you can’t realistically compare the results with one another. Who knows how wildly the measurement error varies from species to species?
I mean, the one thing the comic gets wrong is that we never really settled on a standard, there are like 36 different regional rodents that are used., my favourite being Wiarton Willie:
The story of Wiarton Willie dates back to 1956. A Wiarton resident named Mac McKenzie wanted to showcase his childhood home to his many friends, so he sent out invitations for a “Groundhog Day” gathering. One of these invitations fell into the hands of a Toronto Star reporter. The reporter travelled to Wiarton looking for the Groundhog Day event. None of the townspeople knew about a festival, but one suggested he check at the Arlington Hotel, the local watering hole. There the reporter found McKenzie and his friends partying and was invited to join them. The next day, the reporter lamented to McKenzie that he needed some kind of story to take back to justify his expenses. So McKenzie grabbed his wife’s fur hat, which had a large button on the front, went out to the parking lot, dug a burrow in the snow and pronounced a prognostication (which no one remembers). The picture of Mac and the hat ran in the February 3, 1956 edition of the Toronto Star. A year later, about 50 people arrived for the festival.
Americans will use any unit besides the metric system /s
Groundhog (Gr), a unit of uncertainty in weather predictions. The value of 1 Gr means the prediction is as good as pulling it out of a hat.
Weirdest? Please, take a look at any religious holiday.
Let’s take Easter, we celebrate resurrection of man-god who allowed himself to be killed so he could save us, and immediately after resurrection he transformed into god-god and moved to the sky. So anyway we make dyed eggs to celebrate it.
celebrate resurrection of man-god who allowed himself to be killed so he could save us, and immediately after resurrection he transformed into god-god and moved to the sky.
Man-god allowed himself to be killed to save us from the wrath of god-god. A being who was mad that the creatures he created weren’t spending all day every day worshiping him exactly as he said to, after giving them the free will to do otherwise.
renzhexiangjiaothe eggs thing predates christianity, so these things weren’t all invented at once. people just kept on adding more and more outrageous shit
TuuktuukThe word “celebtate” fits the comment surprisingly well!
EDIT: The celebtation is over. Now were back to merely celebrating. Ah well, guess that’ll do.
Or Christmas, where we cut down trees to set up inside and decorate to celebrate said man-god’s birth, except the date is nowhere near his actual birthday
It’s a good holiday because it has the responsibility to not have a facade. What even is Christmas? A solstace celebration? A celebration of the natural forest? The birthday of someone who was probably born early fall? An excuse to give children gifts? Idk anymore man.
Shepherds only really stay out in their fields during calving season, i.e. And in Israel, that’s mid-December to mid-January.
But really, anything actually written about Jesus before the age of like 30, is likely completely made up during the Council of Nicaea in 325AD.
Before that, the Trinity wasn’t fully mainstream, because Jesus was considered a created being and not god himself. At least by a large percentage of early Christians.
e8CArkcAuLEwhat is Walter White doing in this cartoon?
MontaggeI mean, it doesn’t have anything to do with the movie Groundhog Day in which the main character relives Groundhog Day over and over again? I don’t think anybody used “groundhog day” as a synonym for “personal time loop” before the movie.
Why do you think they named the movie and holiday “Groundhog Day”? From the rodents waking up from a months long coma? That’d be silly. It has always been about time loop.
What about the one where we celebrate nailing a guy to a tree by distributing eggs via a bunny.
Well, actually, we celebrate the guy becoming zombie three days after nailing him to wood.
Also, the guy is often called “the lamb”.
So we naturally eat roasted lamb as a traditional celebration, while the bunnies hide colored eggs for us to search.
Technically, he retained his powers after resurrection, so he was a Lich, not a zombie. I don’t know if anyone figured out his phylactery, but my best bet would be the wood he was nailed to.
And so it was decided to transform some bread into his flesh using ritual magics to partake of the lichs power
I mean, a guy sneaking into your house at night and leaving you “presents” under a tree you’ve cut down and brought into your house for no other reason has to be up there too, right?
And don’t get me started on how fucked up Thanksgiving is.
Not to mention that Santa is a prolific home-wrecker, as millions of children have witnessed him making out with one of their parents’ partners.
Probably the weirdest thing to me about Thanksgiving is that it wasn’t even remotely real in the sense of being founded on a historically coherent event. Perhaps this is just the nature of mythology. Thanksgiving was a religious fasting ritual at the time. Sharing a meal with indigenous people was a coincidence during a harvest festival, which isn’t exclusive to any one religion or even spirituality at all. It’s two, entirely unrelated things that got crammed into a single tradition because they occur roughly during the same season. Also, there was a lot of ethnic cleansing before and after, but that doesn’t go well with primary school history class, so let’s leave that bit out.
Hey, don’t blame the bunnies!!!
They’re definitely up to something, building their underground bunkers like power-addled billionaires.
That’s a little unfair. We also adjust our clocks forward one hour.
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the weirdest US holiday is all the ones where they call it a holiday and don’t get time off work
so most of them?
hey, I’m not the one calling non-holidays, holidays.
It’s the difference between a cultural holiday and a federal one.
I speak english, not yankee cowboy. Holiday is holiday. Celebration is celebration.
Pre edit : I also speak turkish, there’s a difference between “Bayram” and “Tatil”.
One of the people who wrote or produced that movie said they thought Bill Murray was in the loop for 1000 years before he became a good person. I don’t think it’d take that long, but sure.
Thought the script said he repeated that day for million years. Just watch it last night always a joy.
I would also recommend checking out Palm Springs, same formula, but very good.
Happy Death Day is my favorite. I love that movie it’s my guilty pleasure.
I think the 1000 or millions years was just in one version of the script but was deemed a little too dark. But maybe I’m wrong.
I also watched it last night and it is indeed always a joy!
I just saw it again this week, too!
It sounds like he learned two new languages. That’s several years right there. He mastered the piano at a professional level at a late age. That’s nearly impossible for most people, and would take a decade or so.
He has an intimate knowledge of every single person in the entire town, such that he can effortlessly rattle off the entire life history of any one of them. That’s at least another ten years. More importantly, he’s able to predict what people would do in different situations. He didn’t just memorize the routine of the town and everyone in it, he memorized most of the variations of the routines. That’s information orders of magnitude larger than just the history of everyone in the town and their actions in a single day. He was there for a long time. 1000 years isn’t unreasonable.
Still, we only see his experiences for a few days. It’s possible that was the intent of the writers and director, but at a certain, point it doesn’t matter, because art is as much about what the audience perceives as what the author intended, perhaps more so as time goes on. I think it’s safe to assume he was there for at least hundreds of years in the cannon of that story. We just see his first day, his last day and a few days scattered in between among the myriad of those during his time loop internment.
Plus the movie would be hard to finish if it was real time over 1000 years.
It’s not too bad if you put it on octuple speed and watch it while doing some chores.
If you’ve seen him at the US Open it’s a conservative estimate
You probably know this, but it’s what remains of the Celtic festival of Imbolc. It’s the first of the three spring festivals. Ostara you definitely know since it was coopted by the church along with the eggs and rabbit symbology.
This claim is marked “citation needed” on Wikipedia :)
You can add my post 😀.
Wikipedia gets strange in some articles, and this is definitely one of them. St Brigid is a Catholic thing, not a wheel of the year feast. Why the conflation here? I don’t know.
There are a number of articles that talk about the “awakening” aspect of Imbolc, and it is associated with other hibernating animals peeking out of their dens to see what’s up. So the groundhog in the American context is a natural one.
the ground boy saw his shadow for anyone wondering
Drat, 6 more decades of fascism!
I always wanted that when I was a kid cause I wanted lots of snow. I live in a place with no snow, so it doesn’t matter to me anymore (not believing in magical thinking aside). Anyway, good job Phil.
It is what it is
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