Wednesday, April 01, 2020

From VNexpress International:
Vietnamese turn to online services for ancestor worship
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, many Hanoi families use online ancestor worship services to conduct ceremonies and pray on their behalf.
People perform important rituals to worship ancestors during the Qingming or Ching Ming tomb- sweeping festival, on the 13th of the third lunar month, which falls on April 5 this year.
But constrained by the outbreak, some families have ordered food items online to make offerings and hired people to worship at the cemetery.
So, I saw this article, and it made me think of a new parlor game.  Think of something that is entirely inappropriate to do online, and then write up a parody article about how people are starting to do it online because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Okay, go....

...hmmm...

...actually this is a little bit harder to do than I thought, because just about every facet of the human experience is now being done through computers now, isn't it?  What's left to parody?
The most intimate aspects of human physical contact were one of the first things to become popular on the Internet.  I had a brief idea of parodying people hunting through the Internet, but turns out that's already a real thingVirtual hiking is already a thingVirtual scuba diving is a thing.  I give up.

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