So classic thnx for burning it!: Gävle goat celebration/prognostication/mourning thread

pizza has secret explosives

2015: Nothing Happened

http://tv.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/nyheter/article61842.ab

u win this time, goat

Goat's back. http://www.visitgavle.se/sv/gavlebocken

The goat spent the Spring/Summer in china this year as an exchange goat in honor of year of the goat! He was covered in thousands of flowers.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_VJZoKVIAIYFd_.jpg

http://atlasobscura.tumblr.com/post/70959120078/the-unfortunate-fates-of-the-gavle-goat-timeline

2015 year of the G.O.A.T.

it is a joyful moment when this thread reappears in my bookmarks

otm

hi goat

It's the 25th in Sweden and the goat is still up. God jul, Gävlebocken!

Celebrate with some Swedish Christmas goat carols: http://www.actionaid.se/all-i-want-christmas-goat

Glad to see it made it to xmas. Some of them have been burned down in late December or even January though. It's weird - the burning tradition is what attracted my attention to it in the first place, but I'm now of the opinion that the goat should remain unvandalized. It is a very nice-looking goat.

https://twitter.com/Gavlebocken/status/678581190975168512

Apparently someone vandalized the smaller goat earlier this week though.

http://i.imgur.com/wc8zVzR.gif

still love the "nothing happened" entries. this was on a news wrap up here recently! and thanks to ilx i was ahead of the curve.

1976 Hit by a car.[21][22]

lol

It's gone.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article22001401.ab

http://gfx2.aftonbladet-cdn.se/image/22001414/485/normal/9ea5c2b68d2a4/julbocken.jpg

A police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns

:)

"de brände det! shiiit!"

Back!

http://i.imgur.com/qtnr1Xe.jpg

Aw man, it just feels wrong for him to burn before December even starts. RIP, next year in Gävle.

Aw. Today was the 50th birthday celebration, too.

RIP. ;_;

2016's brutality continues

It gets worse. http://www.thelocal.se/20161205/gvles-baby-yule-goat-run-over-by-car

again it was kicked to pieces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaaRJpA6WOw

where can i get a wicker gavlebocken decoration

make one

Jey! Even though my head’s not quite screwed on I’m starting to feel like myself again. Soon I’ll look as dashing as ever! Who’s with me this year? #itsgoodtobeback #gävlebocken pic.twitter.com/abCKZ4dEGS

— Gävlebocken (@Gavlebocken) November 30, 2017

hii

jey

the most wonderful time of the year

https://twitter.com/Brannbocken

Nej

Phew! Awfully nervous when this thread gets bumped.

I'm all in for "nothing happened" this year.

to late im on my way to kick it to pieces

totally misread this as Gayle goal celebration.

2017 Double fence, cameras, guards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat

1775: malaria
1777: malaria
1780: "gout of the chest," dysentery, yellow fever, manchineel poisoning
1781: mysterious swelling of left arm & leg
1782: scurvy
1784: malaria
1787: fever
1794: blown up twice, 2nd time resulting in detached retina
1797: shot in arm (amputated), septicemia
1798: piece of shrapnel pierces skull
1799: bedridden with unexplained malaise
1801: heatstroke
1802: dysentery, fever, more numbness in hand
1805: shot through spine, dies

1799: bedridden with unexplained malaise

at this point it would be fair to say he might have been better off giving up the game.

I am reborn! I am immune to disease and mysterious swelling! I am made of straw!

We've quoted most of the Wikipedia article but missed the GOAT WAR

The creator of the original 1966 goat, Stig Gavlén, thought that the Natural Science Club's goat had unfairly won the title of the largest Yule Goat because the goat was not as attractive as the Southern Merchants' goat and the neck was excessively long. The next year there was a Goat war: the Southern Merchants understood the publicity value, and erected a huge goat, the Natural Science Club erected a smaller one in protest. The Southern Merchants had intended that their huge goat would reclaim the world record, but the measurement of the goat showed it fell short. Over the following seven years there were no further attempts on the world record, but there was some bad feeling between the Natural Science Club and the Southern Merchants, evidenced by the fact that the Natural Science Club put up a sign near their goat wishing a Merry Christmas to everyone, except the Southern Merchants.[8]

ha

it's the most wonderful time of the year

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtKTKjpWkAEkl2o.jpg

stoked for the madness

It was necessary. That Wikipedia page was getting way too green.

to everything turn, turn, turn
a time to leave the goat unburned and a time for burning

rip big man

A huge thank you to everyone that made my 2022 inauguration special, moments like this warms a simple stawgoats heart. pic.twitter.com/BLCZUs7tkO

— Gävlebocken (@Gavlebocken) November 28, 2022

there he is the big goat

feel like it should be burned this year

I'll warm that strawgoat's heart. Warm it into flames.

Damn, last year's arsonist got six months in prison.

nobody better burn this fucking down this year!!!!!

― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Thursday, November 26, 2020 3:49 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

it needs to be burned one more time and then i will root for it to not be burned every year after that

BURN IT BURN IT BURN IT
― A victim managed to capture evidence of the gimp (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 November 2019 21:28 (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 November 2020 07:05 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.visitgavle.se/sv/gavlebocken

My holiday spirit is deeply lacking this year. But no one burning the goat--as of this posting--helps.

<3

Due to the straw used to construct the goat containing higher than usual amounts of seed, the goat has been damaged by flocks of jackdaws foraging for food.[80]

wtf jackdaws

Finding myself missing twitter this winter - I usually follow the goat to see how he's doing but no more updates for me.

he does also have an instagram account

Ah true, I just never got that into instagram (I prefer text over images). But I can duck back into my account to check in on the lil yule goat, for sure.

still standing but, as mentioned above, mostly eaten by jackdaws

https://static.bonniernews.se/bildix/api/images/c66e4f01-b920-431d-8d26-6468a8fe0a91.jpeg