Penguins are a Christmas animal because they're all catholic.
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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I see the ongoing slide into labelling anything mildy analytical as autistic is in full swing.
Disability as a subculture or identity is just really cringe. Especially the deaf/blind organisations lobbying against curing childrens deafness/blindness.
Not arguing here. But just want to point out that disability subculture usually arises as a survival response in the face of discrimination and segregation. Everyone has a need for community and a sense of belonging. When broad hegemonic culture rejects you and your presence, belonging is found in the one distinctive feature that is the cause for the rejection and the source of cohesion with your peers. See also gay subculture as a response to homophobia, US black culture as a response to racism, feminist sorority subculture in response to misogyny, etc. So it is not rare to see disability subculture as a response to ableism. These communities are very important for security and preservation of individuals. Just as everywhere else, security is always a trade-off with something else.
Context is important. In this case, it wasn't the place for that kind of analysis.
Although ironically it matches the meta-context perfectly (displaying signs of autism in an exam to detect autistism).
I blame finance bros.
I can't say I've ever seen penguins in relation to christmas
I'm part of the problem. I have a penguin inflatable on my lawn. (I also have a dragon and a dinosaur, also not known for Christmas)
Apparently you haven't seen the seminal classic from 2014, "The Christmas Dragon". Lovingly covered by Mystery Science Theater 3000 in season 13 episode 13.
Just snagged the movie to watch next week
The latest Coca Cola slop ad probably.
I thought Coca Cola used polar bears
The latest slip ad has sloths and pandas. Don’t recall if it has penguins too but probably.
You don't recall "Topper" from Santa Claus is Coming to Town?
Yes, but
Not sure I wanna know what comes out when you finally... um... .. reach your peak.
According to any documentary about avian species, predigested fish for their young.
Core dumps.
Santa essentially has teleportation. Space is meaningless to the entity we know as Santa.
Puffins are cuter, usually less, ahem, fragrant, too.
Not exactly north pole.
To be fair, neither are reindeer IRL.
Santa's sleigh should be pulled by 8 murderous polar bears.
It's a ton better, you're not going to get many that are literally at the North Pole.
What limits their migration further north in western Eurasia?
Murderous flying polar bears.
But santa lives in Finland...
...And commutes to the North Pole workshop M W F and works from home on Tue and Thu. Try and keep up, OK?
Snow and cold weather is christmasish to me
Aren't they only called penguins because of their resemblance to the now extinct great Auk, a Northern pole bird? Which would justify the attachment to the North pole and Santa?
Probably. Humans driving real penguins to extinction, travelling to the geographic south:
Eh, close enough. Tis a penguin.
Am I missing something? A few penguin references / associations with Christmas, sure I've seen that. But, at least in my part of the world, they're not a major part of the lore -- or am I having a moment?
Either way, this can be easily explained: It's called being inclusive. The last thing you want is a north pole versus south pole world wide Christmas turf war, best to extend an olive branch andlean into that diversity and inclusion metric for the good of the world's children and the fate of humanity.
What has the north pole to do with Christmas? Santa lives in Rovaniemi, Finland. Jesus was born in the middle east. Presents are made in China. Your house is whatever it is, surely not on the north pole.
Santa lives at North Pole, Canada. Poatal code H0H 0H0. You can write him a letter and he will reply.
Puffins are penguins if they didn’t give up on the whole flight thing
Well, Topper the penguin, did help Santa when he was trying to deliver his toys in Sombertown.
If ranting about cultural associations of animals makes me autistic, I don't want to be autistic!