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My Protest Friend and I decided this time to go to the protest in Glendale, her hometown these days, rather than go downtown, which we did for Hands Off.
It was a nice, peaceful, mixed gathering outside of city hall. I am bad at estimating crowd sizes and can’t seem to find an official estimate.
Fairly strong police presence, mostly on foot circling around grumpily, but no confrontations of any kind that I could see, beyond one officer wanting my friend to take her sign off the cardboard wrapping paper tube (!!) she was using as a pole.
She made a big show of squashing it flat instead and going ahead to use it.
A few drivers flipped us off, but mostly honks of support, flags out of car windows and sunroofs, etc. General level of wittiness of signs not quite as high as downtown, but all pretty earnest and sincere and friendly.
Glad we chose to help round out the numbers in a historically more conservative suburb since downtown was pretty well-represented, I hear. :)
Highly recommend!
An older dude was walking around writing these notes in chalk throughout. Here’s a few.
shout out to Billin! It’s a real place!
And of course…
WaterGirl
I love the sign, and it made me laugh, but what does Boki Boki mean?
edit: ANSWERED, thank you!
CindyH
@WaterGirl: I think it’s Bok! Bok! as in sound chicken makes? or maybe I don’t get it either
Belafon
@CindyH: The last one is an exclamation point, so I’m sure the previous one is as well.
Baud
I thought the sound the chicken makes is cluck-cluck. Or sometimes “Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
DFH
Might have used “bawk bawk” but no quibbling.
jonas
Speaking of Glendale, has anyone heard recently from our friend Bill out there? Hope things turned out ok for him.
scav
The spelling used does visually echo (and thus empathize) the small cock, so . . .
I’m rather all for polyglot chickens. Co-co-ri-CO!
LeonS
I was at Glendale! I noticed that all the male cops did look quite grumpy (but all behaved reasonably), but many of the female ones seemed happier. Go figure.
Baud
@jonas:
He’s been around recently, but I don’t know if he’s provided an update.
scav
@scav: I need more coffee. Emphasize!
WaterGirl
@CindyH: @Belafon: Great work!
I have never seen that word in print, and I think I would have spelled it bawk, so that’s what threw me. thank you .
WaterGirl
@scav: You can’t go wrong with empathy, it’s always good. :-)
WaterGirl
So many great signs in this set.
Belafon
@WaterGirl: We should ask chickens how to spell it just to be sure.
H.E.Wolf
@scav:
Bien sûr!
Almost80
Thank you again! Good to see. You’ve done a lot of work….
Snowlan01
Chicken sounds: searching memories of my grandparents’ chicken coop, I seem to remember “cluck-cluck” was the sort of sound they made while walking around, hanging out . “Bawk-bawk” (how I would spell it) was more of an alarm/anger sound or the sound made when laying an egg, so they were usually sort of stirred up one way or another when they made that sound.
And these are chickens as heard by an English-speaking boy . . . not sure how the sound would have been reproduced in other languages.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@jonas: I’m around, but due to my day(well, afternoon to night) job and my night job(the astro stuff), I usually end up on dead threads. Things have stabilized here, I paid off the rent owed and really want to thank everyone who helped out. There are some really good astro shots in everyone’s future here(maybe even next week).
I didn’t make it to the local No Kings rally, it was a work day for me(my Monday), but it is nice to see some shots.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Snowlan01: We do have a large Armenian population here in Glendale, that might factor in. It is true that different languages have different ways of saying what sounds an animal makes. In Korean a dog doesn’t roof-roof, but meong-meong.
Xavier
So proud of the turnout in Albuquerque (my guess 20,000, based on what might fill a reasonably sized stadium?) and also that there were very few police, all of which were involved in traffic management.
WaterGirl
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA: Interesting!
@Xavier: As a country, we did good on Saturday.