• @MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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      91 month ago

      “Are we the baddies?” Ask the people who also forbid any media coverage of their actions.

      “Muahahahaha!”…

      Sorry, a deep resonant haunting laugh is how I cope when faced with a difficult moral conundrum.

      (Paraphrased from “Better Off Ted”.)

    • @kreskin@lemmy.world
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      21 month ago

      There are ghouls and trogolodytes among us and they arent going anywhere. We have to find a way to maximize humanities better nature and minimize the bad stuff. We just have no idea how to do that.

      For starters, Religion in general has clearly failed us and been more of a problem than any sort of help. How much better of a world would it be without any concept of holy lands or tribal traditions that are worth dying over?

  • @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    551 month ago

    What the fuck, bruises and not being able to sit for a few days. That’s way worse than what I envisioned from the beginning of the article.

  • @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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    391 month ago

    That article was even weirder and creepier than I expected. By a lot.

    Also some interesting bits from a different Austrian tradition:

    The Krampuses are now encouraged to only symbolically brush festival-goers, and not actually whip them.

  • TheTechnician27
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    321 month ago

    You dare to mock the sanctity of the spanking of the fraulein with the cow horn, Ed boys?!

  • Roflmasterbigpimp
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    251 month ago

    Many Germans doesn’t even knew about this until recently.

    This is some weird ass backward-Island-tradition. Fucking Creeps.

  • @kryptonidas
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    Very similar to the tradition on the nearby Dutch island of Ameland. Sunneklaas

    Must be something in the water.

    • @Lumidaub@feddit.org
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      221 month ago

      As soon as individual victims dare to report individual perpetrators to the police. In this tiny, tight-knit island community. Where everyone knows everyone.

    • @kreskin@lemmy.world
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      11 month ago

      Thats the neat thing, they dont. You just talk about them and never do them. We call it “bipartisanship” in the US.

  • Sundray
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    121 month ago

    Disturbingly, it was because the practice was considered unfair to the cows.

  • @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    A centuries-old tradition in Germany’s Borkum where young men hit women on the buttocks with a cow horn using cow horn during the Klaasohm festival will be discontinued.

    With a cow horn using a cow horn? Sounds like a difficult thing to do, holding a cow horn with another cow horn. I’d have assumed the coefficient of friction would be too low.

  • /home/pineapplelover
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    71 month ago

    One man laughs it off as harmless fun, explaining that “when they [the young men] see a woman, they beat her up a bit with a cow’s horn,” adding that “it’s not really violent.”

    The anonymous former islander points out that men would actually feel proud if a woman could not sit for five or six days after being hit.

    Mm hmmm not violent for sure