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I just learned about this- the Caganer

ca Offline Grant Lamontagne

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I just learned about this- the Caganer
on: December 14, 2017, 03:01:01 PM
In all of the Nativity scenes I have seen growing up, I never realized there was one missing- the figure known as the Caganer, which translates as the Crapper or the smurfter.

Don't look at me like that, I didn't make it up.  It is tradition in Catalonia to have the Caganer in every Nativity scene because (apparently) it is supposed to depict every day life, and pooping is a part of that.

Apparently it has grown somewhat, and now there is a whole industry built around making custom Caganers to supplement your "incomplete" Nativity scenes.

https://www.caganer.com/en/

There's a Scottish Separatist one, an Elvis one (why not, he died doing what he loved) and even a Canadian PM Justin Trudeau (aka Megan's boss) one, which might be seen as offensive except that it is multicultural so it's ok, even if they do make him look fat.

This is a thing, and I thought you should all know about it.

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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #1 on: December 14, 2017, 03:07:14 PM
Grant! You are smurfing me?


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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #2 on: December 14, 2017, 03:07:54 PM
No Pabloing here, this is actually real.

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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #3 on: December 14, 2017, 04:11:15 PM
 :rofl:
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #4 on: December 14, 2017, 04:20:11 PM
No Pabloing here, this is actually real.

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Should I report you to the boss for attempting to get around the smurf filter ? 


Yeah,      nah, that'd be a total waste of both our time    :rofl:

So many in-jokes around here these days (NLC, The punishment chicken (with lard or the latest "in" lubricant), smurf word replacement, blame Kirky, and now Pabloing) we need some kind of initiation ceremony/initial user guide for newbies so they know what the hell we are awl talking about.
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #5 on: December 14, 2017, 04:41:27 PM
For starters I would like to know what is :kirky: all about?? And I am not even new around here!  :ahhh
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #6 on: December 14, 2017, 04:44:17 PM
For starters I would like to know what is :kirky: all about?? And I am not even new around here!  :ahhh
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #7 on: December 14, 2017, 05:07:33 PM
Does the Trudeau one start crying for no apparent reason  :rofl:
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #8 on: December 14, 2017, 05:10:27 PM
Does the Trudeau one start crying for no apparent reason  :rofl:

Careful, we don't want to get political.

If we did, I'd suggest that site list a Twitter Action Pack that includes a Donald Trump and a Kim Jong Un one, since that seems to be what they like to do to each other!

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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #9 on: December 14, 2017, 05:12:42 PM
Does the Trudeau one start crying for no apparent reason  :rofl:

Careful, we don't want to get political.

If we did, I'd suggest that site list a Twitter Action Pack that includes a Donald Trump and a Kim Jong Un one, since that seems to be what they like to do to each other!

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Sorry I couldn't help myself  :rofl:
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #10 on: December 14, 2017, 06:22:11 PM
not my photograph, but I always laugh when I pass this statue, in the centre of Traiskirchen (three churches) in Austria









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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #11 on: December 14, 2017, 06:45:44 PM
I guess I feel bad for the guy who had to model for that statue.   :ahhh

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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #12 on: December 14, 2017, 06:50:58 PM
No Pabloing here, this is actually real.

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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #13 on: December 14, 2017, 06:54:32 PM
Some tiles showing how this was a big thing in the 16th century.

https://www.spijkertegels.nl/thema-s/mensen/kakkers


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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #14 on: December 14, 2017, 07:30:56 PM
I guess I feel bad for the guy who had to model for that statue.   :ahhh

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What about the Carver?.  :rofl:
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #15 on: December 14, 2017, 07:38:33 PM
Or that last poor coin... stuck in Pabloum until the end of time.


 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


Poor Pablo... we should stop...NOT hehehe
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #16 on: December 14, 2017, 08:08:00 PM
no real surprise for me, here in Catalonia we've had them since centuries ago.  :salute:

"Cagar " is the infinitive for "to poo", and thus one that is "Caganer" is one that "does poop".
It's a very popular figure here, and you can easily find them on all homes that decorate for Christmas (here is as common as the Tannenbaum, the socks for Santa Claus or the Christmas crib (or do you call it manger?), in fact it's one of the always-present figures at the crib/manger each year, next to the Three Kings, baby Jesus or the angels)   ;)

It's also sold in most stores, and tourists often find them as "hawaiian dancing figures" to put in your car, or funny toys and figures to decorate home or wear on your keychain, like there's figures of the Pope, Michael Jackson, Freddy Krueger or Donald Trump

yeah we have weird traditions and characters here   :rofl:
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #17 on: December 14, 2017, 08:27:20 PM
Or that last poor coin... stuck in Pabloum until the end of time.


 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


Poor Pablo... we should stop...NOT hehehe
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #18 on: December 14, 2017, 08:49:50 PM
Does the Trudeau one start crying for no apparent reason  :rofl:

Careful, we don't want to get political.

If we did, I'd suggest that site list a Twitter Action Pack that includes a Donald Trump and a Kim Jong Un one, since that seems to be what they like to do to each other!

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My new purpose in life is to make a nativity scene consisting of Caganer world leaders...


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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #19 on: December 14, 2017, 09:37:01 PM
For starters I would like to know what is :kirky: all about?? And I am not even new around here!  :ahhh


Pff.. That was a thing when I was around here regularly, already. I recon it's too old to remember how it started? :facepalm:
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #20 on: December 15, 2017, 12:01:19 AM
I guess I feel bad for the guy who had to model for that statue.   :ahhh

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What about the Carver?.  :rofl:
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #21 on: December 15, 2017, 12:02:19 AM
For starters I would like to know what is :kirky: all about?? And I am not even new around here!  :ahhh


Pff.. That was a thing when I was around here regularly, already. I recon it's too old to remember how it started? :facepalm:
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #22 on: December 15, 2017, 12:20:28 PM
Why do I want to buy the girlfriend one for her nativity scene...? >:D
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #23 on: December 15, 2017, 12:57:26 PM
I (for obvious reasons) already knew about them.

IMHO, no nativity scene is complete without one...
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #24 on: December 15, 2017, 01:39:32 PM
Holy smurf!


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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #25 on: December 15, 2017, 02:53:00 PM
Need pics as proof.  :pok:


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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #26 on: December 15, 2017, 02:54:09 PM
Why do I want to buy the girlfriend one for her nativity scene...? >:D

Because no authentic Nativity scene is complete without Pac Man taking a dump in the corner.....   :ahhh

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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #27 on: December 15, 2017, 03:34:43 PM
Why do I want to buy the girlfriend one for her nativity scene...? >:D

Because no authentic Nativity scene is complete without Pac Man taking a dump in the corner.....   :ahhh

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So let me be very clear here. Although Spaniards and god knows who else seem to think it important to depict a beast having a bowel movement in a nativity scene, be it the nativity scene for anyone of us (my birth, your birth or Jesus), BREAKING NEWS

We all eat..and therefore defecate...so each and everyone of us smurfs.

Now I feel better...gosh it was like having a good bowel movement.

 :B:
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Re: I just learned about this- the Caganer
Reply #28 on: December 15, 2017, 03:38:13 PM
I seem to recall there being a book about that...

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Reply #29 on: December 15, 2017, 03:41:25 PM
I seem to recall there being a book about that...

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Its called “Grey’s Anatomy”...


 

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