• Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world
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    Many Germans doesn’t even knew about this until recently.

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

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

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      “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”.)

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    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.

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    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.

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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.

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

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        The police looked away from this for years, it’s insane.

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          Because they too are members of that community, they too grew up there. Not trying to excuse their inaction, but it all fits the bigger picture.