"Roob" for Short

December 20, 2017 12:13 AM

Reindeer Boob is the new (NSFW) holiday trend you need in your life.
posted by Literaryhero (24 comments total)

This has been around for a while, but remains confusing and delightful.
posted by poe at 2:04 AM on December 20, 2017 [4 favorites]

I have to agree. As with so many human activities, my mind immediately goes to "What chain of thoughts brought them to this concept, and made them think it was worthy of realization?"

Also, I have to agree with one of the comments: why not #cariboob?
posted by mkhall at 4:06 AM on December 20, 2017 [7 favorites]

See also: Christmas tree brows. I guess that it's all a matter of what you think you can get away with at your office party.
posted by Halloween Jack at 4:52 AM on December 20, 2017 [2 favorites]

Boobs. Is there anything they can't do?
posted by GallonOfAlan at 5:21 AM on December 20, 2017 [6 favorites]

I feel sad.
posted by agregoli at 5:32 AM on December 20, 2017 [3 favorites]

Maybe I take mine too seriously but there is no way.
posted by perrouno at 5:39 AM on December 20, 2017 [1 favorite]

I feel sad.

I suspected I would before even clicking.
posted by 41swans at 5:55 AM on December 20, 2017

for the people who are breastfeeding this makes a lot more sense. but don't you need to have both accessible then? for balance.
posted by jb at 6:02 AM on December 20, 2017

In that case, I think the owners would decorate both and wear something adjustable. Some who possess boobs individualize them with names: perhaps things like Dasher and Dancer.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:12 AM on December 20, 2017

See allso SantaCon and its Carol Book
posted by jeffburdges at 6:18 AM on December 20, 2017

This is a young person's thing. On someone my age after motherhood past, Rudolph would be making a break for the floor, wildly swinging around looking for eggnog. More like earrings for my gut.
posted by 80 Cats in a Dog Suit at 6:44 AM on December 20, 2017 [16 favorites]

I do some maternity care in the hospital and those first few days trying to establish breast feeding can be very difficult and anxiety-provoking. Now I have another suggestion:

“Have you tried dressing them up as friendly looking cartoon animals?”

I’ll have to remember to duck when the breast pump gets thrown at me.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 7:03 AM on December 20, 2017 [14 favorites]

Some who possess boobs individualize them with names: perhaps things like Dasher and Dancer.

Lucy and Ethel.
posted by schadenfrau at 7:04 AM on December 20, 2017 [2 favorites]

As someone who breastfed through four Christmases, all I can think when I see these is, That looks COLD!
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 7:20 AM on December 20, 2017 [4 favorites]

I was thinking the Christmastree-brows would be more an old-man with crazy going-everywhere unibrow kind of delight. Sadly disappointed.
posted by k5.user at 7:24 AM on December 20, 2017 [2 favorites]

my mind immediately goes to "What chain of thoughts brought them to this concept, and made them think it was worthy of realization?"

Because they're there?
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:12 AM on December 20, 2017

Cariboob gorn.
posted by flabdablet at 8:16 AM on December 20, 2017 [1 favorite]

Christmastree-brows

... are a good example of why I hate how publications scrape social media for new content. Someone tries something silly on Instagram, it gets noticed, and suddenly it's a "trend" because some freelancer can get a few bucks for it and marie claire needs clicks.
posted by Kutsuwamushi at 8:56 AM on December 20, 2017 [2 favorites]

Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came to say,
"We can drive it home
With one headlight"
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 8:56 AM on December 20, 2017 [7 favorites]

Such a double standard in this society that “reindeer boob” gets a glowing write-up in Marie Claire while “Thanksgiving turkey dick” gets me ejected from the Safeway.
posted by ejs at 9:00 AM on December 20, 2017 [31 favorites]

As one commenter pointed out, it should really be both, as reindeer are usually in teams.
posted by Chrysostom at 9:09 AM on December 20, 2017 [5 favorites]

a good example of why I hate how publications scrape social media for new content. Someone tries something silly on Instagram, it gets noticed, and suddenly it's a "trend" because some freelancer can get a few bucks for it and marie claire needs clicks.

I'm pretty sure this was happening long before the internet, except they just made things up or got it from a friend or somebody they saw at a party once.
posted by bongo_x at 9:12 AM on December 20, 2017 [1 favorite]

... are a good example of why I hate how publications scrape social media for new content. Someone tries something silly on Instagram, it gets noticed, and suddenly it's a "trend" because some freelancer can get a few bucks for it and marie claire needs clicks.

Judging by the article photos, only like 3 people actually did this so I think it counts just the same as that. Dressing as Progressive Flo for Halloween has like 10X the number of practitioners.
posted by The_Vegetables at 9:23 AM on December 20, 2017

As one commenter pointed out, it should really be both, as reindeer are usually in teams

Everyone wants to be the reindeer with the red nose.
posted by biffa at 9:44 AM on December 20, 2017 [1 favorite]