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Giving his father a Viking sendoff

Flaming Viking memorial boat

Greg Cook and some friends gathered on a North Shore beach last night to honor the memory of Cook's father on the first anniversary of his death:

My Dad was a community college teacher who raced sailboats on weekends for years.

He sometimes talked of hoping to have a Viking Funeral.

I spent a couple days building the boat out of cardboard and paper and glue and string and tape.

(No human remains.) It was about 4-feet-long.

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and beautiful idea for a memorial. Thank you for sharing.

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Until you realize embers can travel over 1/4 mile and have to explain to the folks why you burned their house down.

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From the looks of it, your strawman is far closer than any houses that could be endangered.

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Is this cultural appropriation or nah?

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No for-real Vikings have been burned in for-real longships for hundreds of years. If you don't see any difference between this and the MFA, you're being willfully stupid and a jackass.

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about the MFA exhibit. Some non-Japanese Asian and non-Asian 'advocates' decided they were insulted by a MFA Japanese themed exhibit. Naturally, most people mock these self appointed 'advocates', and think they should act their age.

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... there was one Japanese-American (whose hometown was La Jolla) who was part of the protest crew.

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Naturally, most people mock these self appointed 'advocates'

And if you're the kind of person who thinks that cultural appropriation is a silly idea and that other people shouldn't be bothered by it, then there's no possible way to communicate to you, because your mind is utterly closed. Are you that kind of person? If not, you might wonder (as I did) why someone felt compelled to comment on this nice photo with a gratuitous and pointless sneer at the idea of cultural appropriation.

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you cant help but to post immensely self righteous bullshit every chance you get

i guess im slower than most people, i'm still working on wondering about the other guys motives

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I was specifically 'sneering' at the people who got mad about the kimono exhibit at the MFA, not the 'idea of cultural appropriation'

You might have the broadest brush in all the land.

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Thank you everyone for the kind thoughts. <3

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Done on a mass scale today in Japan still:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_2KuEidK7s

We used to have a similar event here in Boston -- at Forest Hills Cemetery. Sadly, this was discontinued a couple of years ago.

This sort of memorial is very powerful.

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