Puffins are penguins if they didn’t give up on the whole flight thing
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Not exactly north pole.
I believe the geomagnetic pole falls somewhere in that region
Nope.
To be fair, neither are reindeer IRL.
Santa's sleigh should be pulled by 8 murderous polar bears.
Murderous flying polar bears.
It's a ton better, you're not going to get many that are literally at the North Pole.
Exactly. Ain't nothin alive up there besides scientists running from student loan debt.
What limits their migration further north in western Eurasia?
But santa lives in Finland...
...And commutes to the North Pole workshop M W F and works from home on Tue and Thu. Try and keep up, OK?
Above the Arctic Circle at least.
Well, Topper the penguin, did help Santa when he was trying to deliver his toys in Sombertown.
Am I missing something? A few penguin references / associations with Christmas, sure I've seen that. But, at least in my part of the world, they're not a major part of the lore -- or am I having a moment?
Either way, this can be easily explained: It's called being inclusive. The last thing you want is a north pole versus south pole world wide Christmas turf war, best to extend an olive branch andlean into that diversity and inclusion metric for the good of the world's children and the fate of humanity.
What has the north pole to do with Christmas? Santa lives in Rovaniemi, Finland. Jesus was born in the middle east. Presents are made in China. Your house is whatever it is, surely not on the north pole.
Santa lives at North Pole, Canada. Poatal code H0H 0H0. You can write him a letter and he will reply.
Penguins are a Christmas animal because they're all catholic.
What’s the clip from? Looks hilarious, curious to see more.
If you've not seen the Blues Brothers go watch it right now. Order the DVD if you have to. Its absolutely worthwhile. Its an SNL spinoff film with a Legendary soundtrack featuring the biggest names in the Blues and Jazz scene. Great soundtrack, brilliant gags, incredible car chases and just a ton of rediculous chaos.
Blues Brothers. Legendary movie.
“We’re on a mission from god”
Aww, cute penguin feeding her young
Yes, but
Not sure I wanna know what comes out when you finally... um... .. reach your peak.
Core dumps.
According to any documentary about avian species, predigested fish for their young.
I see the ongoing slide into labelling anything mildy analytical as autistic is in full swing.
Disability as a subculture or identity is just really cringe. Especially the deaf/blind organisations lobbying against curing childrens deafness/blindness.
Not arguing here. But just want to point out that disability subculture usually arises as a survival response in the face of discrimination and segregation. Everyone has a need for community and a sense of belonging. When broad hegemonic culture rejects you and your presence, belonging is found in the one distinctive feature that is the cause for the rejection and the source of cohesion with your peers. See also gay subculture as a response to homophobia, US black culture as a response to racism, feminist sorority subculture in response to misogyny, etc. So it is not rare to see disability subculture as a response to ableism. These communities are very important for security and preservation of individuals. Just as everywhere else, security is always a trade-off with something else.
We wouldn’t need a subculture if we weren’t oppressed and excluded from normal culture.
Context is important. In this case, it wasn't the place for that kind of analysis.
Although ironically it matches the meta-context perfectly (displaying signs of autism in an exam to detect autistism).
I blame finance bros.
I can't say I've ever seen penguins in relation to christmas
You don't recall "Topper" from Santa Claus is Coming to Town?
First time hearing of santa claus is coming to town ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's a classic animated Christmas movie. I highly recommend.
I'm part of the problem. I have a penguin inflatable on my lawn. (I also have a dragon and a dinosaur, also not known for Christmas)
Apparently you haven't seen the seminal classic from 2014, "The Christmas Dragon". Lovingly covered by Mystery Science Theater 3000 in season 13 episode 13.
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The latest Coca Cola slop ad probably.
I thought Coca Cola used polar bears
The latest slop ad has sloths and pandas. Don’t recall if it has penguins too but probably.
Aren't they only called penguins because of their resemblance to the now extinct great Auk, a Northern pole bird? Which would justify the attachment to the North pole and Santa?
Probably. Humans driving real penguins to extinction, travelling to the geographic south:
Eh, close enough. Tis a penguin.
Santa essentially has teleportation. Space is meaningless to the entity we know as Santa.
Snow and cold weather is christmasish to me
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