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    apeshapedmanMax Rivlin-Nadler
    12/22/13 10:24am

    Will the goat burn?

    If you're not asking yourself this at least once in your life, you're not living.

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      PetyrBaelishapeshapedman
      12/22/13 10:33am

      Police have released this sketch of the suspect.

      GIF
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      nothinglikeadamePetyrBaelish
      12/22/13 10:43am

      This whole thing really gets my goat.

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    snugbugMax Rivlin-Nadler
    12/22/13 11:30am

    The Swedes have another lovey pre-Xmas tradition.. The Feast of St. Lucia, where young girls wear crows of evergreen whortleberry sprigs anchored by nine lit candles upon their personal heads. Recipe for disaster, if you ask me—but it looks soooooo beautiful.

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      cheerful_exgirlfriendsnugbug
      12/22/13 11:51am

      My bff in grade school was Swedish. I got to wear the crown and be in some St. Lucia festival. I really love Swedes.

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      madamerolandcheerful_exgirlfriend
      12/22/13 12:37pm

      Pepparkakor (yes, I looked up the spelling) is sooo delicious!

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    김치전!Max Rivlin-Nadler
    12/22/13 10:28am

    In the arsonists' defense, a 40-foot-high bonfire fueled by 6,000 pounds of straw sounds like a lot more fun than a big straw goat.

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      HaighaMax Rivlin-Nadler
      12/22/13 10:51am

      I'm surprised we haven't seen a kitschy seasonal IKEA knock-off. And flame would be the only thing for that in the end - everyone knows that once you disassemble and reassemble it, an IKEA product is never the same again.
      If we ever do get a Christmas Goat kit (Gävlebocken!), I certainly hope the designers are really juvenile when figuring out where you have to stick the allen wrench.

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        VivaTerlinguaHaigha
        12/22/13 10:59am

        Uhh ...

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        snugbugHaigha
        12/22/13 11:35am

        Maybe they retail these only in Sweden? I visited the IKEA outside Stockholm years ago—the IKEA MOTHERSHIP!—and was delighted to discover that they stocked amazing items that were not available for purchase at our IKEAs.

        For example, finger puppets that looked like members of the Swedish royal family.

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      HellephantMax Rivlin-Nadler
      12/22/13 10:31am

      Can they not afford a real goat?

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        spidyredneckjediHellephant
        12/22/13 10:42am

        At this point, they're worried by switching to a real goat, the same fate will befall the creature, and the smell of burning goat takes a lot longer to clear away than the smell of burnt hay.

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        SUSPECT__IS__HATLESSspidyredneckjedi
        12/22/13 11:16am

        But burn it at a low temperature and, baby, you've got a stew going.

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      Cherith CutestoryMax Rivlin-Nadler
      12/22/13 11:39am

      It is that Viking soul just laying inert in the Swedes waiting for the right target.

      Seeing the ravaged frame of the goat standing alone made me inexplicably sad. I grew really attached to that goat over the course of 15 seconds. It is adorable. I want to bring the Yule goat to America where we will protect it from harm by monitoring the phone of e-mail of all would be arsonists.

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        MyWifeThinksIShouldntReadJezebelMax Rivlin-Nadler
        12/22/13 11:03am

        I have but one question:

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          MamasMilkMyWifeThinksIShouldntReadJezebel
          12/22/13 12:20pm

          There can be one and only Wicker Man, the original:

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          MamasMilkMamasMilk
          12/22/13 12:41pm

          Sorry the other image is not working:

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        Ryan1981Max Rivlin-Nadler
        12/22/13 10:26am

        Nothing worse than a burning erection. Especially for the holidays.

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          blue-haired_lawyerRyan1981
          12/22/13 11:02am

          Somewhere Liev Schreiber is laughing.

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        cuntybawsMax Rivlin-Nadler
        12/22/13 7:50pm

        Just lose the horns next time, guys: without them you have a schnauzer, and no-one would have the heart to set fire to one of these.

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          toothpetardMax Rivlin-Nadler
          12/22/13 11:25am

          It's hard to tell which ritual structures in sweden aren't for burning though Especially at this time of year.

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