Tens of thousands of ‘burners’ urged to conserve food and water and shelter in place in Nevada’s Black Rock desert

You have to laugh … I remember Glastonbury, up to my knees in mud - it’s all part of the fun. Having said that, it’s unlikely turn into a survival situation in a field in Somerset, so not really that comparable …

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s short for “Burning Manny”. There’s one guy, Manuel Asada, and they burn him every year. It’s cool though, he’s into it.

    What’s the story behind this? Who is Manuel Asada?

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
      12·
      1 year ago

      “Manuel Asada” is the closest I could get to a person’s name that means “burning man”. Asada is Spanish for roasted or grilled.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Lol ah ok. I was wondering if that was a joke comment or if there’s some actual real lore behind the founding of Burning Man, etc.

          • Crismus@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Santa Fe has a pretty decent festival.

            But it has been a few years since I lived in New Mexico. It could have devolved into Corpo garbage.

              • Crismus@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                I went to Zozobra a bunch in the late 90’s and early 00’s. Then I just got sick of the tourist trappings of it all.

                Balloon Fiesta really traumatized my dog. Now she growls and barks at any hot air balloon she sees. Even after moving to Colorado, she still can’t stand balloons.

                Living in a tourist town really isn’t as fun year-round like it is on vacations.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            And it is generally human shaped because that made it a lot easier to spin it as “This effigy represents The Other tribe across the river. They are the bad people and the cause of all your problems” as needed.

            It’s too bad that the “other tribe” technique still works so well in today’s politics.

            If people ever started paying attention to the meta of the species, they’d realize we’re all more like each other than we think.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            And in all seriousness: if you ever get the chance, go to an ACTUAL effigy burning festival.

            I would, the way you describe it makes it sounds like a really nice event to see.

            That is, as long as there’s not heavy torrent of rain washing everything out.

            Thanks for the reply / explanation, it was a good read.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            If you like it, feel free to take it and expand upon it

            Nah, that’s fine. I’ll take the chuckle the explanation gave me, and move on.