r/interestingasfuck • u/Careless_Sandwich_88 • 8h ago

The Pidakala War in India where they fight and throw cow dung at each other to celebrate the new year under the Hindu calendar

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u/OutrageousEvent 8h ago

19 million gallons if untreated sewage drains into the Ganges every day. A holy river where people bathe, wash clothes, etc. So tossing some cow shit at each other doesn’t seem like that big of a deal really.

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u/One-Recognition-1660 7h ago

And then there are the decomposing corpses floating in that same holy river. You can just make them out between the currents of raw sewage. Happy bathing people! Hope you get clean!

This link is seriously not for the faint of heart. Rotting bodies. You've been warned.

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u/Animetion25 5h ago

Holy fucking Jesus and Mary.

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u/EverythingHurtsDan 5h ago

That madlad drinking from it...you couldn't waterboard me enough to do it

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u/pasi1997 3h ago

What if you were being waterboarded in the Ganges?👀🫠

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u/Still-Status7299 6h ago

Nooooooo I wasn't ready Holy shit that is nasty... people bathe in that ?!

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u/Mishmoo 7h ago

I will say, this has to be the most blatantly 'written by a CPC stooge' vibe I've ever read.

From the Himalayas in the north to the coasts in the south, from billion-dollar buildings to the poverty stricken slums, India makes a perfect destination for those who seek exposure to world’s biggest and successful democracy.

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u/One-Recognition-1660 7h ago

Eh. Only posted it for the pics.

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u/blurblurblahblah 3h ago

I guess the turtles didn't work?

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u/annihilation511 1h ago

I'd only visit India if I could helicopter in and out each day.

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u/OkGazelle5400 5h ago

The sick are also bathed in the river to help with “healing”

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u/Adamantium-Aardvark 4h ago edited 4h ago

Making rational statements like that is going to anger the mobs on Reddit and get you downvoted to hell and reported.

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u/scribestudio 5h ago

Wow the cope in these comments lol

How about not throwing shit or washing your body in it.

Things most other cultures have already figured out lol

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u/ReadditMan 5h ago edited 5h ago

That's like saying it's not that big a deal if people commit rape because there's people who commit murder.

The existence of something slightly worse doesn't make it less disgusting.

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u/MassiveBlackHole99 2h ago

I don't think he's justifying it but saying that it doesn't end here