Insipid

WELL AKCHYUALLY, Christmas isn't as much about Christ as Western culture would like to pretend. You see, the holiday we celebrate today is less an unbroken thread of pure Christian tradition and more a delightful mishmash of Saturnalia debauchery, Yule rituals, and the occasional Victorian reinvention. The Roman Saturnalia? A week-long festival of gift-giving and partying. Yule? An ancient pagan celebration of winter solstice, complete with evergreen trees, feasting, and gasp wreaths! The audacity of contemporary Western culture is its insistence on acting like traditions exist in a neat little vacuum, ignoring how these rituals have been appropriated, co-opted, and rebranded for centuries. What we call "Christmas" is really the historical equivalent of a patchwork quilt—just with a shiny "Jesus is the reason for the season" embroidered over centuries of pagan partying and cultural exchange. So, while we’re all sipping our eggnog, let’s at least be honest about what we’re really celebrating: humanity’s perpetual love for stealing good ideas and calling them timeless. tl;dr: AI abuse a la Packard. I actually really like this drawing.

I think it has some charm to it.

Bah humbug. Keep Christ out of Christmas. Debauchery is the reason for the season.

Spirited Away is one of the most poignant anti-capitalist movies ever made.

I am so drunk. I noticed I've never been a belligerent drunkard. I guess I have a few redeeming qualities. What the fuck ever.

lol, let's not get too morbid.

Maybe we're missing the point. That's to decrease the life expectancy and ensure he passes before becoming too feeble 🤷‍♂️

I've made friends with people from third world countries, and when the going gets tough I'll take their advice, not yours.

Nobody wants financial advice from you.

lol, everything you said can still be true while not liking Packard. There is a difference between not liking and disliking, and this is not nitpicking at words.

What really annoys me about Family Guy is that if there is an Asian character, something is always said or done about that character being Asian. They can never just exist as a person. Not even South Park is that bad.

This is giving me daddy going out for a pack of smoke vibes . . .

Speaking of The Ronettes, the Monster anime on Netflix seems to have lost the rights to play Be My Baby on the one episode featuring a short guy named Baby, so the guy is now awkwardly dancing to some horrible generic filler garbage.

I think I have to take back what I said. I didn't know The Ronettes sang this version.

It's cause fuggs showed off her hooha.

nah

beef vegetable soup. So hearty on a snowy day.

Joyeux anniversaire mon ami

Shrek 3 really isn't that bad . . . it's just not that good.

It's such a shame Russia is they way it is when they have such a beautiful culture.

I want fuggs to be unbanned.

I remember a yt comment that stuck with me from years back: they spend half their budget animating the chicken fights.

Looks like NYC is on its way back to the 1970s, the fabled time you keep idolizing. Is that not what you want?

This never fails to cheer me up.

There's also the phrase "eat, drink, and be merry," that doesn't have to do with the holidays. I'm pretty sure they sell that as a sign you can hang on your wall at Hobby Lobby, and you do seem like the type who would do just that.