Found this post on IG and I’m wondering what this community’s stance is. With winter now officially here*, I think it’s a valid question.
Edit: *where I live
This is why there are 12 types of Christianity. No it’s not a stick and I will crusade against anybody who claims it is.
Bread sticks
Stick of butter
Stick of dynamite
Carrot sticks
Stick shiftI feel like there’s enough precedent to allow the Ice stick, given the circumstances
Local variants of sticks are acceptable.
Throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Well played.
I just realized there is an entire continent where there are no trees, and thus no sticks.
And it isnt a small continent either. it is larger than all of Europe and also larger than Australia. We arent talking about an island or archipelago or even some random landlocked desert. It is a continent.
the fact that there are no sticks that naturally occur there at all… it confuses and concerns me.
This is deeply unsettling to me.
Don’t worry, flowers are starting to bloom more and more on Antarctica.
Soon, trees will start to grow so even that continent has sticks!
Wait … that is even a bigger concern to worry.
When humanity has to move to the poles to survive, I’d rather have trees than not.
Coastal Norway is also pretty warm in this sense, but there aren’t any trees far north. I suspect there’s more than just warmth they want
Warmth and daylight would be the limiting factors. But there have been trees much further north than the current boreal zone in the past, e.g. https://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/farthest-north-fossils
Before it slipped down to the bottom of the world, it used to be covered in jungles.
also larger than Australia
Not all that well-known, but Australia claims about 42% of Antarctica as part of it’s territory.
Claims vs. recognized.
Well, yeah. That’s the word I used.
Australia can go fuck itself
Okay.
Maybe but usually when people talk about Australia in this context they mean the continent, not the country.
Don’t worry. At this rate, the ice will be gone soon and… oh
So i did a little research. The sad/fun part about my realization is… if you go back far enough in time, before the ice and nothingness, archeologists have pointed out that Antarctica was once a massive forest continent.
Millions of years ago, it had trees, and thus, sticks for days and days.
Once again we are living in the wrong time. Too late to explore all continents having sticks. But also too early to live where all continents have sticks. In the grand scheme of things, we exist in the uneven ground.
It’s a sad equilibrium to be sure.
There’s also stuff we’re pretty sure first evolved there. Because it used to connect south America to Australia
It makes sense why there are no sticks. But I agree, the thought of a lack of sticks seems to be unsettling, not a lack of trees or bushes.
Are we that naturally attracted to sticks because of primate evolution? I wonder if the earliest human ancestors developed this awareness of sticks as it is a primitive tool used to survive.
It’s hell for doggos.
So what did doggos do to make their hell freeze over?
We grant you the rank of honorary stick.
Motion seconded
“This is acceptable! This is fair!”
This is likely an extremely powerful weapon that can only be used once before it breaks so save it for the last boss.
Fuck, I beat the last boss and I forgot this was in my inventory…
That’s an icicle, sticks are wooden. I like his spirit though, that icicle has stick vibes.
I’d say an icicle defines as a stick. A stick does not need to be wooden (like a stick of dynamite).
I guess it depends on how much of a stickler you are.
the “stick of dynamite” argument really gums up the works here. i reckon it’s under the larger stick-umbrella, but still doesn’t meet the criteria of JUST “a stick”. think like, a capital-S-stick in the same way christians refer to capital-G-god.
an icicle is the “other minor deity” of sticks.
Yes, it’s a stick of ice.
ice-stickle
My first glance I thought it was a narwhal tusk o_o
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You can melt and solidify metal but that is considered a rod, not a stick
You can melt and solidify water
That is a rod of ice
It is an ice sculpture of a stick.
Nope. Ignore the pandering milquetoasts.
A stick is a stick. This is not one. Do we have no standards?
What are you, some kind of stick adjudicator?
It does.
Can you poke things with it? Can you swish it around and pretend it’s a sword? Does it bring joy to your heart? Then it’s a stick.
Nice stick
Is there no flotsam from elsewhere washed ashore in Antartica?
But independent of that, I think that’s an awesome ice stick!
I now need to know whether there is flotsam in Antarctica
