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Is nothing sacred anymore?
Okay, I can’t really talk. We lost the Baby Jesus part of our nativity set when I was very young. I probably stole it and accidentally dropped it in the toilet or something and it was later replaced with Sesame Street‘s Ernie sitting in a bathtub scrubbing his back. But that’s neither here nor there because you can’t hold a five-year-old to very high of standards when their main objective in life is avoiding getting a swirlie.
But this is too far.
This $130 “Hipster Nativity Set” (produced by Modern Nativity) minorly ruined my day when I saw it. Christmas has already become a commercialized holiday where people rip each other’s hair out in attempts to get a toaster oven at half price, but if we actually start decorating our homes (serious or not) with a bunch of asshole hipsters on Segways taking selfies, we as a society deserve everything wrong that’s coming to us. See for yourself.
Hipster wisemen riding on Segways with Amazon prime gifts?
Joseph with a man bun taking a selfie with Mary who’s making a duck face while Jesus wears a handmade beanie?
An organic cow eating gluten-free feed?
Makes me fucking suck. And what makes me even more sick is the $130 price tag on this ‘limited’ set, because, of course, it’s limited. Heaven forbid these scenesters mass produce anything. The founder of the producing company, Casey Wright, said, “[When] the illustration came back … it was just too good not to make,” before explaining how polarizing this set actually is, via Mashable:
“We have quickly found out that this product is very polarizing,” Wright said. “It’s usually, ‘This is hilarious, I need one,’ or ‘This is sacrilegious, I hope you burn in hell,’ and almost nothing in between those two extremes.”
I don’t care what your religion us. All I know is that if you have this on display at your house, I don’t want to actually be at your house.
[via Modern Nativity / Mashable]
Image via Modern Nativity
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I heard Duda bought 5.
Outraged, this shouldn’t have been posted until after Thanksgiving!
#MakeThanksgivingGreatAgain
WTF
I’m a little in the “sacrilegious” camp but more so in the “this is literally one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen” camp.
I’m with you. As a lapsed Catholic, the religious parts of Christmas still give me the warm fuzzies of remembering childhood. So this is kind of a slap in the face to all that. But it still bothers me more that this is just flat out dumb, regardless of sacrilege.
Lapsed Catholic? I’m sad now.
I still ride with you, J-man. It’s just your boys that liked boys in an uncool way kinda turned me off.
This set looks more basic than hipster to be honest. Hipster has become so common that hipsters are going even more hipster until they become homeless people.
“Makes me fucking suck.”
I bet it does.
Maybe I just grew up different, but who is giving 5-year-olds swirlies?
Older brothers
I guess that’s a silver lining to growing up with just 3 younger sisters.
We’ll it’s been real everyone. Probably gonna go play in traffic now. Deuces ✌️️
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