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TJATAW t1_j1qtp3h wrote

Are you familiar with the Willy Wonka character Veruca Salt? "I want it now, Daddy!"

He didn't want to wait for his prayers to work. He wanted a fig, and he wanted it now, and because he didn't get it right then and there, he destroyed the tree, so now it will never give him or anyone else a fig.

He got short term satisfaction, at the expense of everyone's long term satisfaction. Odds are there was a family who owned that tree, or harvested from it, either saving up for the long term, or selling them to have the money to live on, but did he think about them?

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Chairboy OP t1_j1qtesh wrote

I've been out into that yard once since they got the bull back and he did indeed leave some bull exhaust. My biggest concern now is whether or not the dogs will do something gross like roll in it because man, dogs are seriously gross sometimes, even supposedly sophisticated ones like Corgs. They are not sophisticated, they are very much dogs.

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Chairboy OP t1_j1qqb8e wrote

Our corgis went nuts and bolted out to the back back yard and when I looked at what had them so excited, they were circling maybe a half a ton (guessing livestock weight is not my specialty, bad code is) of irritated bull.

They wanted to herd him soooo badly, but we didn’t want them to herd him into our house or get yeeted into the next county so we called them in and set up a few barricades to keep him in this part of the yard (while trying not to think about how he pushed his way through a fence already).

We tracked down the farm owners next door and they came over to collect him, pulling apart some of the fence to entice him back with alfalfa (there were some exciting moments when he was running around our yard patch and charging at me then feinting, that was neat and by neat I mean kinda scary but I hardly screamed at all.

They reassembled the fence and will put up a hot wire a few feet over but it was an exciting Christmas.

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tesseract4 t1_j1qlwnj wrote

Mary, if she was actually a real person who lived, was certainly not white, so I don't see how portraying her as other than white could be "sacreligious". I mean, the rules of religion are all made up anyway, so if you wanna go that route you certainly can, I just figured you wouldn't want to acknowledge that.

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