lmao on the edinburgh zoo site it says “there is a daily penguin parade at 14:15 but it may be cancelled last minute as it is a voulntary parade, we do not coax the penguins with food, and they may not want to go out” lmao anarchopenguinism
this is the cutest goddamn thing i’ve ever heard
I saw the penguin parade. It was a very slow parade, because the
pingüinos take their sweet time and aren’t very fast walkers to begin with.
can I volunteer to be a penguin
I feel like the world needs to know the context of the edinburgh zoo penguin parade, becausr I’ve been going there my entire life and I only found out about this the other year.
So a while back (I can’t remember exactly when but I think it was some time around the 40s/50s), a bunch of penguins escaped. A keeper left the gate open so a bunch of penguins just… followed them. And the people loved it. Look at these adorable birds outside their cage just following that guy around! So they get all the penguins back inside and realise that none of them really ran off, they just followed the keeper and went back inside and crowd thought it was amazing, so why not make it a regular thing? Get enough people there that if one of them goes to make a run for it (which at least one has in the past), they can’t get past the people, and let the ones who want outside have a little wander. So every day, they get a crowd, they open the gate, and whatever penguins want to get out can go, waddle about, squawk at people, and then hop back inside.
Also, one of those penguins is Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III, Colonel-in-cheif of the Norwegian King’s Guard. This isn’t really related to the parade at all, I just love the fact that there’s a penguin in the Norwegian army
Reblogging with Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III inspecting his troops.
Part of me thought he loved me, that he’d chosen me because I was special and I was sure he’d change. He did. He stopped letting me out, took my keys away, got violent when I didn’t do what he said. Looking back, I think he was out of his depth. He wasn’t much more than a kid himself, panicking about getting found out. He had to break me before I could pull him under, only I wasn’t easy to break. Last time he hit me, something just clicked. No more! So I pretended to pass out, lifted his keys when he was in the bog and I drove his own police car to the station and told them he’d beat me up.
Robert and Aaron went to the cinema tonight, stopped by this new pub in Hotten for a quick drink and then went home and spent the night chilling, watching some gardening program that Robert desperately wanted to see and Aaron couldn’t stop making fun of him for.
And after a good, long makeout in the sofa, they went upstairs and had a couple of rounds of mind-blowing sex and fell asleep in each other’s arms.
