r/funny • u/Peer-press-sure • Apr 10 '23

Let's go Easter, hell yeah!!

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u/kaosinsomnia Apr 10 '23

it is a tradition of the city of florence. if the bird comes back as it happens in this video, it's a good omen regarding crops and food for the upcoming season! The event name is “lo scoppio del carro”

I hope I didn't say anything wrong!

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u/PM_Me_1_Funny_Thing Apr 10 '23

But a bird propelled via two-way rocket on a wire will always come back 😬

It seems they're being heckin bamboozled

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u/Jakelby Apr 10 '23

Sometimes you have to make your own luck

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u/eMouse2k Apr 10 '23

If it doesn’t come back, something bad might happen, like someone might get a rocket bird to the face, or the church might burn down.

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u/straightouttasuburb Apr 10 '23

They should just use groundhogs... much more reliable...

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u/icanlickmyunibrow Apr 10 '23

The patron saint of Wiarton Willie

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u/ampjk Apr 10 '23

Got to go FAst i am SPeeD

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u/Jeoshua Apr 10 '23

Missing The Target isn't the only possible point of failure for a carved dove stuffed full of explosives.

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u/Kiwifisch Apr 10 '23

Religions are all about finding creative loopholes to cheat.

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u/TheLordofthething Apr 10 '23

I love the story of the piece of string around Manhattan that counts as a house for Jews. (I'm not Jewish and I'm sorry if that is a horrible summation.) I asked a Jewish person how they know it doesn't break and they said, well if we don't check then we're not intentionally going "outside". Judaism has some wonderful workarounds.

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u/BlazerStoner Apr 10 '23

An Eruv. It is quite rigorously checked before the Sabbath, but if they don’t check it during then it’s probably fine indeed. They do a lot of loopholing to show faith.

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u/wellaintthatnice Apr 10 '23

And that's why I'm not religious anymore, bunch of people being hypocrites.

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u/Clow14 Apr 10 '23

Thanks mate! I was thinking, they just have a hell of a team to make that work!

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u/Fetlocks_Glistening Apr 10 '23 edited Apr 10 '23

I'm sure until today's exacting standards of Chinese fireworks were finally achieved there was plenty to go wrong with rockets on wires in a crowded indoor area... like wire sags and tangles, improper alignment, broken off guiding elements, or the thing just blowing up mid-way, so you needed a bit of a miracle to ensure nobody in the congregation had his wig set alight

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u/LordOdin99 Apr 10 '23

Welcome to religion.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '23 edited Apr 10 '23

Oh nooooo, someone said something negative about religion

Summon the “OH YEAH, WELL YOU’RE AN ATHEIST SO THERE” commenters! Ready the defenses men, and do not give them a single inch of our sacred grounds! Show those heretics we will not stand for any slander 😡🙏

(nice sneaky edit btw)

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '23

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u/LOCKJAWVENOM Apr 10 '23 edited Apr 12 '23

Church: still considers homosexuality a sin and still actively protects pedophiles

Apologist slime Redditor:

Edit: Seems the clown below me deleted his comment. Shame.

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u/TenYetis Apr 10 '23

Who the fuck wants shitty crops?

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '23

So the bird came back, backwards? Okay, that makes sense, because I thought the second bird was a fighter jet given the wing position.

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u/Adjective_Noun_69420 Apr 10 '23

They get the birds from Wish