What’s there to explain? It’s an advanced bobblehead figure in the colors of our flag.
Sure.
En hoptimist.
A way to make Danes purchase plastic from China at high prices. No one likes them, no one ever bought it for themselves. It’s just a thing you can give to a colleague or family member as a present if you have no idea what to give.
No
It’s an idol symbolising the Danish god. We put it in our homes for good luck and as a shrine for prayers and sacrifices.
Around the winter holidays, people with place a bowl of sacrificial rice porridge or ‘risengrød’ in front of it to appease the god and get good crops in the new year.
When we gift these to foreigners, it’s actually a fulfillment of the duty all Danes have to mission for the Danish god and spread our sphere of influence and grow the Danish empire and the domain of our god.
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No
What’s there to explain? It’s an advanced bobblehead figure in the colors of our flag.
Sure.
En hoptimist.
A way to make Danes purchase plastic from China at high prices. No one likes them, no one ever bought it for themselves. It’s just a thing you can give to a colleague or family member as a present if you have no idea what to give.
No
It’s an idol symbolising the Danish god. We put it in our homes for good luck and as a shrine for prayers and sacrifices.
Around the winter holidays, people with place a bowl of sacrificial rice porridge or ‘risengrød’ in front of it to appease the god and get good crops in the new year.
When we gift these to foreigners, it’s actually a fulfillment of the duty all Danes have to mission for the Danish god and spread our sphere of influence and grow the Danish empire and the domain of our god.
If you ask a proper question, sure.
A modern pacemaker.
One of them has been in space [https://www.berlingske.dk/design/hoptimist-foelger-andreas-mogensen-ud-i-rummet](https://www.berlingske.dk/design/hoptimist-foelger-andreas-mogensen-ud-i-rummet)
I wouldn’t even know where to start
It is a souvenir we sell exclusively to tourists.
*Boing Boing* hehe denmark