I actually unironically love the pope smoke thing. More stuff should be like that. I don't know what or how, I just know I want a lot of things to be announced via ancient symbolic acts
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I expect it would be cheaper for, say, Red Lobster to do the smoke thing instead of giving strangers expensive buzzers to alert them their table is ready.
I suspect if we did have more stuff like that, there wouldn't be quite as much temptation for people to shake the AI Magic 8 Ball or see chem trails instead of clouds.
Love this. I was in Siena on a random Sunday evening in July and was treated to the announcement of the Palio participants, as the flag of each contrade was raised above Piazza del Campo. Cheers, parades, more cheers. A delightful surprise.
I liked this then remembered I live in the UK where a lot of stuff that really should be done in some kind of sensible modern manner is instead done via ancient symbolic acts and I'm not sure I still agree.
honestly, though. We get our king to open the parliment every so often, but he just holds a boring speech.
There should be more pomp! more ceremony! the new prime minister should be made to ride down Drottningatan on horseback while dressed in ceremonial armour or SOMETHING
Look at it this way, the text they send is a message from space. Primal energy of the universe has been bent to human will so you may know the joys of spinach!
There was a restaurant in New Orleans (maybe a chain) that had little flags at the table you could raise when you needed service. It was such a cool feature!
The smoke has actually only been a thing since like 1939, weirdly enough. I do like that my university has a pretty long and very specific list of when we light the belltower (main symbol of campus) with red light (scroll down)
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The question being - Continue to rape planet or stop?
McRib is back
Smoke is white
No McRib tonight
However, the Groundhog and the Thanksgiving Turkey say hi.
(For a given value of 'ancient' admittedly)
Some of your militaries' ceremonial swords look anime as fuck too, if that counts.
Something anyway
Not just like... two social media posts and then back to breakfast
I mean they're useful for so many things!
I grab the golden phone on my desk
There should be more pomp! more ceremony! the new prime minister should be made to ride down Drottningatan on horseback while dressed in ceremonial armour or SOMETHING
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