#harold the giraffe

[aardvaark]

the healthy harold school program was so fucking wild looking back on it. like after telling us kids not to get into stranger’s vehicles even if they offer you toys or candy, the teachers literally made us go inside a stranger’s windowless white van, who lured us in with a giraffe puppet. and then they were like "hello 11 year olds, do you know what DRUGS are?"

#healthy harold #harold the giraffe #australia #australian nostalgia #00s nostalgia #wren speaks #drugs tw

[gottabezoo]

Meet Harold the Giraffe - inspired by One Direction's Harry Styles.

Harold is a 3 year old giraffe who is a bundle of energy. He enjoys listening to music and attempting to dance along (he is quite clumsy though). He is also a very stubborn giraffe and only answers to the name of 'Harry'.

If you would like to know more about Harold the giraffe, feel free to send us an ask.

Art by @enchantedlandcoffee

Disclaimer - Gotta Be Zoo is a fictional place made up by Hani and Ash to share their love of animals.

#harry styles #gotta be zoo #Giraffe #Harold the giraffe #Harry the giraffe #ot5 #ot5 animals

[purple-haired-faerie]

Really random and not entirely sure what made this pop into my head but did anyone else have Harold the Giraffe at school??

#Harold the Giraffe #english school #Becca thought

[pygmy--tyrant]

y'all spin the whole 'kavinsky made ronan worse' angle too often. I don't think we're giving ronan enough credit here for how much he did not give a single fuck about anything kavinsky said. poor man was trying his absolute HARDEST to give effective villain monologues and expose ronan's repressed homosexuality and every time he was like ok. are you done now. also stop saying you fucked my mum she would do no such thing

#like if anything he made ronan better because he looked like fucking harold the giraffe compared to him #that's a very aotearoa reference but you catch my meaning. he quite literally tells kavinsky 'there's more to live than sex and drugs' #also never forget in that same scene when kavinsky was like HA I'm in ur subconscious ronan I Know What You Are. you're fucking gansey #and ronan was like yes that's correct good job. not the gansey part though we're just bros. I am gay though. #or how his reaction to the 'see you in the streets' threat was just to drive away. unbothered king. put some respect on his name #sapphire's random thoughts #the raven cycle #trc #ronan lynch #joseph kavinsky

[sidetongue]

someone said Sprig looks like a baby giraffe and honestly

#where's the lie #it's the same picture #*inserts picture of giraffe* #sprig #harold #henry #moby #budgie #dogs

[curiositycryptid]

school doodles!

look I will not be getting close ups of EVERY single one of these

#total drama #tdi #total drama island #tda #tdwt #total drama world tour #art #drawing #art style #my art #Traditional art #giraffe #mike td #zoey td #heather tdi #heather kasuga #tyler tdi #gwen tdi #cody tdi #cody anderson #cody emmett jameson anderson #trent tdi #trent cooper #duncan tdi #duncan tarun #harold tdi #harold mcgrady #harold norbert cheever doris mcgrady v #bridgette tdi #bridgette summers

[alilaro]

all my little guys so far!

#furby #furby 1998 #theres meant to be one more but they got lost in the mail when i moved :'( #my mom found the giraffe one in a antique store today for $60—i had to get him #there may be one more—a koala one #they're pre-op! these bitches are getting a clean and some surgery! #also YES. this hurt my wallet VERY badly; its called a year of my bills savings gone in a manic impulse spending spree #class too low to be in this fandom and yet here i am baybee. its the bipolar harold

[abandoned-as-mustard]

If i had a nickel for every time harry styles casually mentioned cocaine in a song then I'd have two nickels. Isn't much, but weird it happened twice.

Harry. Dude. Do we need to have the talk in the giraffe van

#Harry's house #i mean it took me to the third listen of driving to notice #and then a fourth for daylight #🥴 #aussies will get the giraffe ref #in primary school we get the drugs talk incursion in a giraffe van #harry styles #love on tour #the irony is that the giraffe is actually called harold

[vykko]

my schools attempt with don’t do drugs kid through healthy Harold was weird

I’m in yr 6 at the time, you go into a white van with this picture on it, also this is the inside of the van

we got told a bunch of stories on how if we even think about drinking energy drinks, you will die. Not adults are safe as this storey about this definitely real truck driver dying because he drank a red bull proves it

Also we never got drugs talk but a very specific scenario about Panadol and peer pressure :

you have to go take 2 Panadol tablets at the office, but suddenly the (1of2) office ladies faints and so you walk to the bathrooms while the other office lady sees if she’s ok. (At my junior school the bathrooms at really close the the office like probably 50meters max)

you go into the bathrooms and your friends are there and they ask

“can I have some?”

“no it’s mine, my doctor told me to takes these”

“but we could just spilt them”

and then we ask what we would do and kinda got judged for the hypothetical use in their program getting into the situation,

then we were ask if we wanted to pay the scary giraffe head puppet

here’s a photo for reference, outs wasn’t this new. It was like at least 10 years old the eyes where life less and the fabric was oily and the texture of a Pom Pom from woolies

Even tho it was 2018 we for some reason had the 90s puppet

#Healthy Harold #Australia #we also learnt stranger danger in here from a complete stranger #also there was the lady thingy #I did not like Harold he felt horrible and he scared me #bye kids since you’re been so good Harold feels brave enough to come back out #Welp we told you you’ll die if you do this and this now who wants to pet the 20 year old giraffe head puppet with lifeless eyes

[kansananna]

Learning that a major thing from elementary school was only local to your area of the state and was copied from New Zealand is wild

#it was learning about the human body via harold the giraffe and TAM in what was essentially a dark carpeted trailer #tam meaning totally awesome mannequin #3rd best day of the school year (play day and field trip day beat it) #id be surprised if ive never mentioned it on here yet

[wp100]

i swear i remember as a kid we did these fire safety quizzes or games on the computer. and we got special stationery (rulers i think) with the fire safety logo on it whatever it was called

i swear we did something like this. and it's probably lost/deleted media now. sobs.

kinda like a harold the giraffe situation. you only really experience it in the moment. and you dont remember much about it except the smells and the feeling of being there and you were having a fun time, not a care in the world. it'd never be recorded so the experience is only a memory. maybe there are recordings of it, but probably not from the 2000s

#if youre a kiwi you would understand #i dont know if aussies had harold the giraffe. they probably did lol #but it was so fun... a caravan would visit your school and a nice lady or man would be #using a harold puppet from behind the wall and it was so wholesome and we'd learn certain things #like health and exercise and all that i miss it #i miss primary school. miss not having a care in the world #ramblings

[brooklynisher]

Do you have any other obscure spg characters u wanna ramble about bc I genuinely didn't know taggart was like . A Thing (am I even spelling his name right)(I do not know how to spell)

WELL I'm not as thinky thonky with these other characters as I am with the Babclocks, but here are some random ones to throw at you!

Marylin Verato and Jaquelyn Pomene [x]

Harold (from Steam Powered Giraffe accounting, been working since he was 5)

Diet Seven-Up (Engineer in the aesthetic prosthetic division, came from Cherry Cola Slovakia)

Lars (stuck in the hedge maze, became a Gardner, but he's having a pretty fun time)

[x]

I'mma keep them to Patreon but those guys are definitely some guys

Whatever this thing is??????

[x]

EDIT: ALSO here's some ones I barely remember existed

Bip Has the soda brand Also a place in Kazooland, "The capital of Merveille was named after its founder, and is a favorite spot for vacation for Peter Walter VI. It was also in Bip that the Great War of 1823 was ended by a mysterious mime with a magical kazoo." [x]

Doctor Laborday An old hero Rabbit compared to Rex Marksley

Howard Lloyd "This large sprawling landscape of suburbia is a metropolis of 1950's ideals, where the beautiful residents are protected from the ravages of time by a blue matter rich force field over the city. Created by a visionary man from Earth after slipping through an interdimensional rift, Howard Lloyd saw the potential of the unstable rift and created what some have called the 1950s utopia of mankind. Those who enter the city rarely decide to leave the prospect of eternal youth, but some do choose to escape Preferbia's roving gangs of fish mutants and frequent attacks by the Hypexion Moon Worms" [x]

The Highwayman

Lily Brennan

Boft

^ I remember reading about The Highwayman but I don't know where

#steam powered giraffe #spg #ask #dumbdless #marylin verato #jaquelyn pomene

[mrghostrat]

Hear me out.

Surely you were exposed to Healthy Harold in the life ed van, and if you were like me you also had the life changing experience of seeing the person who just spent the better part of an hour teaching you about the dangers of nicotine chain smoking behind the van during lunch.

Crowley and Azi would definitely be that couple to travel Australia with Harold the Giraffe (Harry the Rabbit??) trying to help kids while immediately committing all the sins that they just warned against.

I'M WHEEZING AZIRAPHALE WOULD ABSOLUTELY RUN THE HEALTHY HAROLD BUS OH MY GOD 🥺 and CROWLEY WOULD BE SO GOOD WITH THE KIDS 🥺

my primary school was straight up bush, and that bus was always parked in the big kids area by the fence line where it got real wild and you couldn't see much. so i had a pretty fantastical experience and COMPLETELY BELIEVING that vegetable enthusiast was a real ass giraffe, and refusing to believe the year 6's who SWEAR they saw the chick's arm controlling it

(were you also a local celebrity if you got to pat him????? i never ogt to pat him. the jealousy raged inside me, like. next year. next year i'll be the one)

#ask a rat #(and 100% they would live in filthy sin) #every day someone mentions healthy harold i get whiplashed back a century holy shit my childhood #good omens aussiefication #RAAAAR I JUST GOOGLED PICTURES #REMEMBER WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT DOWN AND THE HUMAN BODY LIT UP AND MADE NOISES? HSKSKSK #dont mind me just realising how fucking autistic i was/am by how that shit scared the hel lout of me #OHHHH BUT THE VELCRO FRUIT THAT STUCK ON THE WALL #I WAS DOWN FOR THAT

[thr-333]

Leo: Ham starts with ‘H’ so does healthy, therefore-

Donnie: HEART FAILURE

Leo: HAROLD THE GIRAFFE!

#random roommate quotes #rise of the tmnt #save rise of the tmnt #rottmnt

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

"William stole Africa from him???? 'The giraffes and the elephants are all mine'???? What??? I knew he was jealous of the Tusk foundation but this is ridiculous…and untrue because Harry had two major projects in Africa, and he went there every summer. He did several Africa documentaries. How did Will steal it from him?"

Spoken like a true colonialist. Well done, Harold.

Besides, how could this possibly be, considering that Harry is the one who actually has a "second family" who "brought him up" in Africa?

It sounds very late 1890s or early 1900s. “Prince X stole Africa from his brother after sending reinforcements to the rebels who had run out of horses and bayonets.”

[misterah13]

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