It's tradition

This ... makes me remember one of my saddest memories. I'm Danish, and I used to do the whole whopping my parents out of bed with my fastelavnsris when I was little. Until one day in kindergarten, where we had made our own fastelavnsris, I saw one of them thrown on the ground outside when it was time to go home. It belonged to the sweetest little girl from my group, who had really awful parents, and it turned out that they had thrown it away because she had been enthusiastic about it. She came back and told us, innocent like kids are, that she wasn't allowed to have one because her parents would beat her if she used it on them.

That was the straw, and child services was involved. I was only very little, but I remember feeling sad every time I saw a fastelavnsris after that.

It's never been festive to me since.

@Aslaug The story is sad and all, but out of context it seems funny. Child services were involved because a child wasn't allowed to beat a parent with a stick in the morning? They sound like bad people, probably deserve it.

@leoleosuper Not just because she "wasn't allowed," but because the parents specifically threatened to beat *her* up for real. These sticks, in contrast, are just for tapping people.

@Aslaug So, the tradition proved to be helpful. Otherwise, nobody would have learned these parents beat their kid.

"But we decorated them" "So its very festive" "Now don't run like Sweden" This....this right here had me dying XD they say it with such sweet smiles because that somehow makes it all better

@Ibekyme14 same

Thought the next comic would be about the Norwegian Olympic team ordering 15,000 eggs. Ahh well. this is still cute.

@Dragonkingofthestars How about the 6000 doses of asthma medicine they shipped there instead. ;P

@solstickan
That rulebending is sickening. Norwegians have been obscenely salivating since the days of Björn Daehlie. And incidentally that is exactly when they started cleansweeping the podiums (like today), since 1992.

When I first moved to Scandinvia I asked what the colorful branches were and got told that it's called 'fastelavnsris'. I misunderstood and thought they said they're celebrating 'faste lave pris' (everyday low prices). Given the price levels in Scandinavia for everything I figured it was a sarcastic celebration.

Oh, the memories.
When I was a kid, we used to do this, only with baseball bats, and go: "Say, this is a nice house you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it..."

@DarkMage7280 That line sounds oddly familiar... and recent.

"Kinky........." *notices Denmark is dressed like Shrek* "NOPE! NOT KINKY! NEVER MIND! NOPE!"

Seems that if England stays around, he may find himself in a STICKy situation. (my brain can't stop making puns ;-;)

Sweden decorate sticks to but for Easter o.o

can I mention Humon already made a comic about this?
http://nielsg.com/happy-fastelavn

it's a special holiday for furry S/M fans!

Too bad Sweden didn't STICK around.

@Chalponkey OMG

@Jennifer_Pevensie very punny indeed

@Chalponkey *chokes on tea and DIES*

@Jennifer_Pevensie XD