And, really, shouldn’t it be spelled “doughnut” if only for old-time’s sake? He’s an old-fashioned boy at heart, ya know.
Looks to me like ol’ Homer here is simply taking advantage of the “Special Relationship” to coax the Cerne Abbas Giant into a friendly game of ring toss. You’ll notice that Homer is proudly wearing tighty whities, while his British counterpart goes sternly commando. This is traditional with what’s known in a certain crowd as “Special Relationship Games:” the Yanks just do it to the Brits over and over and the Brits just take it. Just be glad it’s not lawn darts they’re playing.
According to the Sun, Limey pagans are threatening to perform terrifyingly effective rain dances that will wash away every trace of the offending Yank. Oh, that’ll teach ’em! A bunch of loopy New Ageists holding hands and pretending to be Lakota Sioux.
I have a feeling this is Churchill‘s fault, but I’m gonna blame Thatcher anyway on general principles.
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“It’s very disrespectful and not at all aesthetically pleasing.”
–Ann Bryn-Evans, joint Wessex district manager for The Pagan Federation
As opposed to a nude giant with an erection painted, presumably, by student druids with a coarse sense of humour.
I see the difficulty.
I suppose to some this might be the equivalent of spray-painting a Cathedral, but it’s hard to see how, really. Homer is in the neighbouring field. If someone puts a crack house next to the cathedral, well … $#!7 has happened, right? Had the promoters replaced the giant’s club with a doughnut, that would have been a problem.
Of course the crack house comparison is unfair. Homer is built more like a brick outhouse … well, tin maybe … or asbestos. And if someone builds an outhouse next to the cathedral, then $#!7 is definitely happening, right?
I have to side with the pagans on this one, since I’m a bit pagan myself. However, I wouldn’t be out there performing rain dances, I’d be getting a long hose (no pun intended) or a bucket brigade going. This is absolutely a ridiculous publicity stunt. Desecrating a church is a crime. Desecrating a synagogue is a crime. But let’s all have a giggle over this. Ha ha.
What’s weird is, although most Britons think it dates to ancient times, that carving was actually created in the late 1600s. The late 1600s? With Oliver Cromwell and the Glorious Revolution and such? I didn’t know there were any pagans around then — or at least, I thought they kept a low profile, you know?
Definitely ring toss
(that link was sent to me by a pagan, btw, who thinks this is all a lot of fuss about very little)
When your temple is nature, unnatural things happen to it, like the installation of the giant in the first place. I’m with Metro on this.
Don’t get me started on contemporary paganism. I know several, and I’m cool with their beliefs as long as they don’t get started on that ridiculous “survival of ancient religion” thing. It’s not a survival. It’s a completely new, syncretic religion. Just be okay with it or quit. I mean, either you cut the heart out of a living human being or you do not; religions that do that don’t have much in common with ones that don’t.
az, that link is genius! I’m posting that!
Yeah, my friend said it was “way more fun” than the pic in the newspapers. Clearly she wasn’t offended.
And it should probably be spelt ‘dohnut’.
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You call it donut, I call it cock ring…
Yep, and the funny thing is, most pagans I know have cock rings.
Even a couple of the girls.
A couple of the girls? DO explain as that flew over my head.
Well, some of them switched teams in midlife if you know what I mean. One of them made a fortune selling off her old cock jewels when she had it cut off.