Tossoff ago

so "liking creepy stuff" is now all you need to deem someone or place "suspicious"? you have cp on the brain. i find that suspicious. more suspicious than "liking creepy stuff" in fact.

anotherswingingdick ago

so "liking creepy stuff" is now all you need to deem someone or place "suspicious"?

in the real world of loss-prevention and risk-amelioration, "liking creepy stuff" is an EXCELLENT predictor of future trouble-making.   

There is a free market in underwriting surety bonds on folks who need to be trusted. I sincerely invite you to put your money where your mouth is, and start writing surety bonds on people who surround themselves with and/or create - creepy shit.

you have cp on the brain. i find that suspicious. more suspicious than "liking creepy stuff" in fact.

  so then, you'd probably be more comfortable if you stayed away from here.

Tossoff ago

"excellent predictor of future trouble making", eh? more highly subjective anecdotal suppositions from the crack amateur human trafficking investigators here at pizzagate central. no facts in your retort, as usual. just more of the same. if you want to really do some legit anti-trafficking work, go hang out at truck stops along the ohio/indiana turnpike.

PM_Me_Your_Clam_Pics ago

This is a bit off topic and I didn't want to mention it as I thought it was nothing BUT on the show King of Queens there is a chair on the set with Pedo Swirls all over it. Every morning TBS plays reruns and it was bright as day this morning with Jerry Stiller sitting on it.

Silverlining ago

Carroll Beckwith | Robert Snow Reincarnation & Past Life Regression Case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML0z0nUne0o http://archive.fo/3t1eE

thomasmeyerclydes Pink manaquins

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQvJnnyBDmQ/ http://archive.fo/8iDsA

PHOTOS: Clyde’s Restaurant Group selling off historic artwork, antiques in online auction http://wjla.com/news/local/gallery/photos-clydes-restaurant-group-selling-off-historic-artwork-antiques-in-online-auction#photo-1 http://archive.fo/w3v0i

anonOpenPress ago

Hey, he's drawn one of Podesta too! https://www.instagram.com/p/BQvJnnyBDmQ/ (needed to have some fun while digging all sad stuff, sry)

neverobey ago

yes, that caught me, too. pink mannequins … and they are so little …

TimeOutofJoint ago

Everyone in New Orleans eats king cakes at Mardi Gras time. You don't eat the "baby" so it's not that weird. Usually, whoever gets the baby has to bring the next cake. Beans were traditionally used, but the FDA banned beans as unsafe a long time ago. The plastic baby was substituted because they are cheap imports.

equineluvr ago

Mardi Gras is the N. American (French) Catholic equivalent of Carnival that is celebrated in Central and South America. As the name suggests, it is French ("Fat Tuesday"). The King Cake is a Mardi Gras tradition down there. (I should know, as I was born and raised in Louisiana.)


Wikipedia cites this history. It's from the website of a large bakery in the New Orleans area that ships king cakes all over the world.

"The Mardi Gras or Carnival season officially begins on January 6th or "King's Day" - also known to Christians as the Epiphany. Epiphany comes from a Greek word that means "to show." Bethlehem is where infant Jesus first showed himself to the world. As a symbol of this holy day, a tiny plastic baby is placed inside each King Cake."

Carnival historians say the something-in-the-cake tradition started here with a golden bean baked into a cake by the Twelfth Night Revelers on Jan. 6, 1870. The king cake was served to young women, and the one who got the bean was crowned queen. (They still do this, by the way.)

The whole tradition of king cakes came from France, and the king cake included a favor, or feve. Feve means "broad bean" or "charm." Early charms were a bean, painted or wrapped in foil, or a pecan. (Does a pecan represent the Baby Jesus?) Small bisque German-made dolls known as Frozen Charlottes were used as favors for a time and are highly collectible. The king cake doll pendant sold by jeweler Mignon Faget depicts one.

New Orleans and the South have other favor traditions that involve foreign objects in food and fortune-telling. Old-line jeweler Adler's sells sterling silver wedding cake favors or pulls to be attached to ribbons and put in or under the wedding cake. Before it's cut, the bride's girlfriends pull them out. The Adler's ones have, for example, a house on one side and "happy home" on the other. (One depicts a thimble and needle and says "old maid" on the reverse.)

http://www.mardigras.com/news/2015/01/what_does_the_king_cake_baby_r.html

neverobey ago

and please check this: http://www.carnaval.com/saturnalia/

neverobey ago

thanks for the info. I know everything about it. And the origin is much older than wikipedia claims. And is it even an official holiday?

duhiki ago

It's a cultural thing.

I used to work customer service for an online retailer with a warehouse in Louisiana and come January, we (office on west coast) would get daily shipments of King cake. I shit you not, the stack of bakery boxes was six-foot high. From my understanding it was a way to use up all the rich foods (eggs, butter) before Lent kicked in; the additions of figures isn't that unheard of. The Irish have a similar custom, with a sixpence and ring.

MyNameIsLuka ago

Just a note, you are confusing Fat Tuesday (also called Shrove or Pancake day,) with Epiphany (or King Cake day.)

Epiphany is observed on Jan 6, the day the Kings came to visit Jesus. It is celebrated with a cake with a baby in it that represents Jesus showing himself as King. It is also the beginning of the lenten season, but Lent doesn't begin until Ash Wednesday, the day before being Shrove. On Shrove (Fat) Tuesday, everyone eats pancakes to use up all the stuff like sugar and eggs for lent. It's a day of indulgences.

And that brings me back to my pancakes = pedo theory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday

neverobey ago

alright. I see. But I am one of those christians who is even sceptical about christmas. I feel like those pagan celebrations are a strange kind of symbol, how society never questions its origins and behaviour.

duhiki ago

Skepticism is good. And you're right, many festivals are pagan in origin. It's how the early church got the pagan masses to convert. Hey, you celebrate the 'sun' being born every year in mid-winter? So do we! But we spell it "Son." Same goes for Easter/Ostara; the renewal of spring and the promise of rebirth.

What gets me (I don't identify as Christian; more of an atheist with Jesuist leanings and a pagan background) is that the Bible specifically states "don't be like the heathens and bring greenery into your house" which is like the whole mainstream western symbol of Christmas; a marriage of pagan and Christian beliefs yielding a cultural norm.

neverobey ago

exactly what I think! There are plenty more quotes in the bible dealing with pagan rituals and that we should not celebrate them. However, this is the big influence of the church …