SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
It's that time of year again where the good folks of Gavle, Sweden build a gigantic goat and the bad folks of Gavle try to burn it down. For five decades, Gavle has built a Gavlebocken, a large scale Yule Goat made out of straw. For decades Santa will be putting coal in their stocking for trying to destroy the gigantic goat. In its 52nd year, technology and goat protection methods have improved including fireproofing and a live web cam. Only 15 out of 51 goats built were not destroyed in years past. Let's hope this one survives.
[The linked story has incorrect spelling of the name of the town in Sweden and goat — it should be Gävle and Gävlebocken, respectively. --martyb]
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 54 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Grelb's Reminder:
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above
average drivers.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Tuesday December 25 2018, @11:39PM (18 children)
I'm just waiting for the day when someone gets both the inspiration and the connections to use incendiary grenades on it. These days the fireproofing and exclusion zone are doing such a good job it's bound to up the arms race.
(Score: 4, Informative) by NPC-131072 on Tuesday December 25 2018, @11:44PM (14 children)
Hello fren, multiculturalism has your back [politico.eu]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by coolgopher on Wednesday December 26 2018, @12:03AM (2 children)
Don't I know it. The open borders together with gutted police force has made things go to shit. And yet the major parties keep pretending there's nothing wrong (and that they've done nothing wrong). And when the only party leader with common sense is the one of the supposedly far right extremist Sweden Democrats (SD), you know things have gotten out of hand. And still the regular parties are more concerned with keeping SD out than addressing the issues the country faces. Damn farce it is.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @03:45AM (1 child)
Same like the AfD in Germany - but there the MSM is programmed against them too. I don't know if that is the case in Sweden.
You'll hear the epithet "neo-Nazi" thrown about whenever the AfD is mentioned in international media. But at least their official platform is similar to what Merkel's party, the CDU, used to stand for in the 1980s. Yeah, probably every Nazi is currently attracted to the AfD, just like every KKK member probably votes Republican. But it doesn't make the party "neo-Nazi", nor the concerns of the people voting for them irrational.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:28AM
Yeah that sounds quite similar. SD has historically been known as the neo-nazi party, though they've cleaned up their act considerably since. Their policy platform isn't too dissimilar to that of the Moderates ("Moderaterna"), albeit with a more pronounced "we have to put our citizens before those of the world" slant. Which honestly, should be common sense. That's the priority I expect *every* country to have.
Now that's not to say there aren't still some rotten eggs [twitter.com] in the party still. I couldn't find any good English write-ups of the whole story, but they guy seems to be an ass-hat at best.
(Score: 4, Informative) by RandomFactor on Wednesday December 26 2018, @01:24AM (4 children)
Grenades bad.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday December 26 2018, @02:24AM (3 children)
Try a classic like the #76 [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Wednesday December 26 2018, @03:59AM (2 children)
Speaking of classics, I think defense next year should include an alligator filled moat. That would be some awesome.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:29AM (1 child)
Not sure they alligators would agrees in with that in the freezing temperatures though. In principle I fully agree though!
(Score: 3, Funny) by RandomFactor on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:24PM
pfftpt, the burning goat should keep things warm :-p
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @06:58AM (4 children)
That is really sad.
How is Sweden going to fix this problem?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:11AM (1 child)
Pick an minority or create a grouping that seem to involved to some degree, then denigrate and oppress them. That'll fix the problem. Extra points if you can create a media circus to blame them and direct as much fear and hate towards them as you can. That way you can set up an 'us vs them' mentality in the population.
That's the best way to deal with these problems. Nothing can go wrong with this approach.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:29AM
If this continues muslims will be the majority in these places.
What then?
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday December 26 2018, @11:39AM
From the looks of it, by having the supposed adults bicker for over three months [telegraph.co.uk] over who gets
the mantle of responsibilityto bask in their own sunshine while neglecting the needs of the country and its citizens.(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:08PM
good thing those guns are illegal. that should make the swedish sleep better at night or more likely to send their teen daughter to the store for bread.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:25AM
It looks like their best bet for a working police is to shoot people at the border.
Seriously.
Why are hundreds of thousands of young men flooding into other countries instead of staying in their own to fight for their freedom?
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:07AM
I'd like to see it destroyed with style. Steal or recreate the T-Rex robot from Jurassic Park, and send it in to dismember the goat.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:04AM
They've already tried flaming arrows. Reading the description:
I'll bet that wouldn't stop a drone carrying a load of petrol.
Just saying...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:05AM
Just tell ISIL about it. They love blowing this kind of thing up