Go big or go home!:D i thought there surely was gonna be a papal joke somewhere in there, too, after dedication :P
The procession pics I have dont have a pole as big as this one! Just rows and rows of people cosplaying as jesus and showing off ridic pretty national costumes :D
A. It's kinda religious, after all, so papal jokes sponsor it by default and by proxy. ;) and B. Papal presence in Poland is like yarmulke in that one joke about Moses - goes without saying. ;)
Just rows and rows of people cosplaying as jesus and showing off ridic pretty national costumes :D Sounds about right, especially the latter. :D The 25m pole is supposed to be just a mammoth version of the ones the people in that procession carried. In recent years/decades it's become a thing to have one in front of the local government building (so, the Town Hall in this case; it's not within the frame because reasons; I mean, composition, lighting and such), like a Christmas tree. And Palm Sunday in the countryside tends to be a festival of showing off, mostly about length and/or decorativeness. One village is even famous for running an annual contest for almost sixty years straight. (Not so far from Kraków, actually.)
<3<3 Cool about it not really being tilted but looking that way! I watched a show on TV the other day that showed us a road... I think in Italy...? Where the road looks like it is going up hill, but it really isn't. They get a ton of people on the weekends just coming to put their car in neutral and coast "up" the hill :D
Where the road looks like it is going up hill, but it really isn't. I heard it grows local legends about magic sites where water flows upward. Optical illusionas are awesome. :)
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Wow. O.o
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(Not asking about America. America has the overgrown everything, so decorations don't count. Especially decorations.)
(Then again, there was that Polish joke: everything is the largest in Soviet Soyuz, even krasnoludki [those folktale gnomes, you know])
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Last year I took pictures of them erecting a May pole but never posted them, maybe I should do that this year when the time comes!
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The procession pics I have dont have a pole as big as this one! Just rows and rows of people cosplaying as jesus and showing off ridic pretty national costumes :D
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B. Papal presence in Poland is like yarmulke in that one joke about Moses - goes without saying. ;)
Just rows and rows of people cosplaying as jesus and showing off ridic pretty national costumes :D
Sounds about right, especially the latter. :D The 25m pole is supposed to be just a mammoth version of the ones the people in that procession carried. In recent years/decades it's become a thing to have one in front of the local government building (so, the Town Hall in this case; it's not within the frame because reasons; I mean, composition, lighting and such), like a Christmas tree. And Palm Sunday in the countryside tends to be a festival of showing off, mostly about length and/or decorativeness. One village is even famous for running an annual contest for almost sixty years straight. (Not so far from Kraków, actually.)
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I heard it grows local legends about magic sites where water flows upward. Optical illusionas are awesome. :)
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