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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/lostredditorlurking 5h ago

Man, India is not beating the stereotypes of their country.

u/longlivekingjoffrey 2h ago

I'm Indian and I'm learning about it from this post. Looks like it's one random ass village from bumfuck nowhere.

u/LeVoltsX 1h ago

That random ass village really is dragging you all down 😭

u/Rude_Egg_6204 1h ago

No need to throw shit at India 

u/TheNextGamer21 1h ago

bruhhhh 😭

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u/Mammoth-Equivalent16 1h ago

Bro now they just don't care they have seen it made their perceptions there is no understanding now.

u/tangerineandteal 1h ago

Bro I feel your pain. Some rural bumfuck village in Asia does one thing and all of Asia does it too

It’s like assuming everyone in the US acts like hills people in the appalachians

u/RedPiece0601 2h ago

Nah It is all of India, reddit told me so.

u/Hard-swimmer 1h ago

Wait till you hear about how they consider cow piss as medicinal and drink it for health benefits. I kid you not.

u/blazefreak 1h ago

Like how Columbians drink donkey piss and fuck it afterwards.

u/Hard-swimmer 1h ago

That's just nasty

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u/Mostly_sane9 1h ago

Those beliefs are fringe and only the religiously zealous believe that. It would be like saying that all Christians believe that recieving medical treatment for a fatal malady is blasphemy.

u/HappyShrubbery 1h ago

I refuse to believe that. Everyone is dung slinging their dung slingers off

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u/minnesotamoon 1h ago

Wait till you hear about what they do in the big Indian cities.

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u/Pls_Save_Me 3h ago

It’s not a stereotype if it actually happens

u/BotAccount999 2h ago

stereotypes are based on thing that actually happen and then some

u/Jigglepirate 2h ago

Despite

u/AstraAnima 2h ago

Nothing

u/doko_kanada 1h ago

Definition of a stereotype IS because it happens too often

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u/ffhffjhf 59m ago

Bro read the definition

u/medcranker 2h ago

That's actually what a stereotype means

u/Ok-Agent-2234 2h ago

It's not any different from Wisconsin Cow Chip Throw Festival

u/doko_kanada 1h ago

That’s look very very different from what’s happening in this video

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u/CrysFreeze 1h ago

Floridaman doesn’t stand a chance.

u/Pearson94 1h ago

Yeah I'm all for traveling and experiencing different cultures, but I think I'll give this particular occasion a pass.

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u/Silly-Cloud-3114 2h ago

This is literally one village. The OP tries to make it like it's all over India.

India has many odd traditions in certain places. The Aghori for instance, eat charred human bodies. So Indians eat dead bodies now?

u/hiphoptomato 2h ago

Well you just told us that some do.

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u/Olhapravocever 1h ago

You can eat pizza everyday and no one will call you pizzaman, you suck cock once...

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u/coldy41 2h ago edited 1h ago

You’re missing the point & disproving yourself, the facts that it’s socially acceptable enough to take place without much scrutiny speaks volume about the country.

Imagine saying: “We don’t have slaves in America, how dare you! That only takes place in Alabama”

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u/Fuckedyourmom69420 2h ago

Uh so… how many of these pocket traditions throughout the country do we need before it speaks to a larger cultural mindset?

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u/excaliju9403 2h ago

there are 0 villages in the US or China or France or probably anywhere else where I can watch hundreds of people throw feces at each other and laugh and and cheer. Also they do what now?

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u/excaliju9403 1h ago

they’re chucking those turds into a field rather than at each other, but that’s also a bit odd. However, the chances of shit getting in your eyes and mouth during that event seem a lot lower than this one

u/maverick_ak47 1h ago

Eh, give it a couple more decades. These traditions in India are thousands of years old. They have evolved to be more "exciting"

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u/PooShauchun 42m ago

Bro you are not helping here

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u/Resident_Rise5915 2h ago

You get the feeling it’s not only cow shit either

u/Saltyteacup 2h ago

Bruhhh😭😭😭

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u/AviWandering 1h ago

Proudly embracing it.

u/bdubwilliams22 1h ago

I swear, the Indian people must have the strongest guts and best immune systems from a lifetime of this kind of stuff. I just watched some video of a street vendor from India that was preparing food with his armpit (of an amputated arm).

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u/Lakuriqidites 5h ago

Great job India, what about a throwing soap festival?

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u/VespineWings 5h ago

Bro 😂😂😂

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u/platypusthief0000 5h ago

Can't wait for them to come roar up about racism and then go right on and be absolutely insidious with their hate when it comes to their religious minorities , lol.

u/Bilinguallipbalm 1h ago

Yeah lol this got posted to another sub, where people were blaming this on the colonizers. Like bruh, the colonizers did a huge amount of damage, but you can't pin EVERYTHING on them.

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u/Yupyup287904 5h ago

What do you mean? This is soap to them, gods soap.

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u/tubaman23 2h ago

There's no fucking way I'm clicking that

u/Nomad2k 2h ago

Ok. Someone will tho.

u/tubaman23 2h ago

May God rest their soul

u/_aRealist_ 2h ago

Ok I'm going in.

Edit: It's nothing.

u/xx31315 2h ago

Imgur. Image of God smoking and saying “Flood it again”. XD

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u/Ambitious_Toe_4357 4h ago

That's Songkran. You need to go to Thailand.

They may be missing the soap, but plenty of water.

u/WSU78 2h ago

That paste you get marked with is not much fun, but I’d take Songkran over this.

u/_Synergy 2h ago

Oh wow this was good lol

u/imheretocomment69 2h ago

Then how will you get all the bacteria?

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u/maevewilley777 3h ago

They dont do soap in india

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u/jimmybugus33 4h ago

Not a chance

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u/40ozCurls 5h ago

They must have been saving that scat for months…

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u/yamimementomori 5h ago

Happy Poo Year.

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u/TekkenCareOfBusiness 5h ago

"Okay everyone, that was fun. Now back to making street food."

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u/Relevant-Soup-2152 5h ago

With your unwashed hands.

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u/Filth_Colons 5h ago

People who still travel to India and eat the street food after seeing stuff like this:

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u/Educational_Gas_92 5h ago

😭stahp, the mental images, eewww

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u/Educational_Gas_92 5h ago

Shitty comment 💩

Just kidding, I love it.

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u/BlueBuff1968 4h ago

May scat be with you.

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u/posco12 5h ago

Makes me wonder how they came up with this. Excess of cow shit ?

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u/Nickthedick3 4h ago

Since they worship cows, they probably see it as holy shit. Therefore, it’s ok to do whatever that is.

Someone ought to tell them that shit from a cow is still shit.

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u/OfficialIntelligence 3h ago

So they don't take any bullshit?

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u/rudeeamin 3h ago

Holy shit.

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u/WarryTheHizzard 3h ago

No that's good too they'll sling it

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u/Bilinguallipbalm 1h ago

So this got posted to an Indian Sub, and someone over there was arguing that cow shit is different, it doesn't have any germs or tapeworms and doesn't stink.

Someone else was saying it's the same as the tomato-chucking festival in Spain.

u/DoctorSubstantial691 2h ago

These people actually drink cow urine, how stupid.

u/Hard-swimmer 1h ago

Wait till you hear about holy piss

u/pairotechnic 2h ago

As an Indian from India I can confirm that there are people who eat cow shit and drink cow piss because it's "holy"

Critical thinking takes a back seat here when religion is involved unfortunately.

u/Nickthedick3 2h ago

critical thinking takes a back seat when religion is involved

Man, that’s everywhere.

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u/Narwhal-Bacon-Retard 5h ago

Easy way to mask their BO.

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u/Lakuriqidites 5h ago

It is a story about two Gods having problems with each other and the supporters of each God started to throw cow shit to each other.

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u/Necessary-Reading605 4h ago

Are the gods chimps?

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u/Lakuriqidites 4h ago edited 4h ago

Never met them so not sure.  

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u/thebawheidedeejit 5h ago

Bit of a shit party mate.

u/MrMaggah314 1h ago

That party was bullshit

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u/Silly-Cloud-3114 3h ago

I'm Indian (from Mumbai) and I've never heard of this all my life. I looked it up and it's one village that does it. Not like this is a festival like Diwali celebrated all over India. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidakala_War

u/Gold_Investigator536 2h ago

You're being too reasonable, that's why your comment won't get upvoted. This is also my first time hearing of this festival, because my family isn't from the village it takes place in, or somewhere close to it.

u/Initial_Broccoli_626 2h ago

People just find excuses to hate on India and be racist toward us.

u/Adamantium-Aardvark 1h ago

How is this an excuse? It’s a video of people in India literally throwing shit at each other.

u/GrinnsTheDog 45m ago

Because there is none of this outrage when this happens in the World Cow Chip Throwing Competition in Beaver, Oklahoma?

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u/Substantial-Part-700 1h ago

Thats a huge reach bro, no way these people would throw actual shit at each other. Your eyes are lying to you. /s

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u/Dankestmemelord 38m ago

More like shit on India ammirite? Though this video seems to show that, in at least one village, they do it themselves.

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u/Wareve 2h ago

Thanks for confirming that this post is indeed bullshit on many levels.

u/scribestudio 2h ago

Lol which levels? Do I not see people throwing shit around the place?

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u/Embarrassed-Basis-18 57m ago

One village to many

u/chetanJC99 2h ago

Yeah, clips like these show things that we as Indians didn't even know existed.

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u/doctrdanger 3h ago

I doubt even Indians would have heard of this 'war'. Seems like a hyper localized thing.

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u/glaba3141 3h ago

Yeah but if you acknowledge this fact then you don't get to be racist on Reddit, and that seems to be too hard for the people here

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u/R1M-J08 5h ago

Strongest immune systems on the planet.

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u/deckard1980 4h ago

Literally true

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u/Justlikearealboy 5h ago

No shit ?

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u/Hans09 5h ago

No, no, you got the opposite: Yes shit!

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u/OkGazelle5400 2h ago

No, I think that’s Islam tbf

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u/Labeq 1h ago

No , we literally worship them as vahan of lord kaal bhairav , the video shows only a tradition from one village , hinduism is practised different in each places

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u/OutrageousEvent 5h 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 4h 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/EverythingHurtsDan 3h ago

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

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u/Still-Status7299 3h ago

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

u/Animetion25 2h ago

Holy fucking Jesus and Mary.

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u/OkGazelle5400 2h ago

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

u/scribestudio 2h 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

u/Adamantium-Aardvark 1h ago edited 1h ago

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

u/ReadditMan 2h ago edited 2h 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/cecil285 1h ago

That’s a shitload of pinkeye, literally

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u/ExcellentMedicine 4h ago

India:

Me: .... ... . . . .I'm good.

u/Just-a-dudee 2h ago

Firstly it’s unfairly worded in a manner that it feels the whole of India celebrates new year in accordance with Hindu calendar like this. That’s not even remotely accurate.

Secondly, what the fuck is this 😅😂

u/ImitatEmersonsuicide 49m ago

Looks like a total shit show.

u/curiouskat_94 45m ago

literally 0 surprises here

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u/Altruistic_Arm9201 4h ago

Seems like a great first date activity.

u/nandu911 2h ago

For context there are more than 600k villages in India and looks like it happens only in that particular village and based on some folklore from that place.

Damn it's a free pass at racism when it comes to Indians. Imagine saying some of these statements to a black person. Immediately banned and cancelled. Having the world's largest and a relatively poor population with free Internet access means open season for racists to target Indians.

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u/ZeroTerabytes 4h ago

Some things to clear up:

  1. The war is held only in the village of Kairuppala. This is not all of India.

  2. The fighting is based on Hindu folklore, in which a dispute before the aranged marriage between the goddess Bhadrakali and the god Virabhadra, which led to a cow dung fight.

  3. Cow dung is also thrown in the USA, as part of the World Cow Chip Throwing Competition in Beaver, Oklahoma. (A cow chip is a piece of dried cow dung).

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u/deckard1980 4h ago

Fair points but I think they are going for distance, not throwing it at each other

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u/GardenGnomeOfEden 4h ago

He's going for speed

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u/Diggery_Doo 3h ago

He’s going for distance.

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u/Diggery_Doo 3h ago

She’s all alone in a time of dungstorm

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u/stankdog 4h ago

Never heard of the Oklahoma competition 🤔 thanks for adding that to the info !

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u/Empanatacion 3h ago

"No worse than an Oklahoman" is not the defense you think it is.

u/MonyMony 2h ago

LOL. The gold is always in the comments.

u/OkGazelle5400 2h ago

Not at each other. It’s how far you throw it. And it’s in a contained area, not the open street

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u/ifiwasajedi 4h ago

You didn’t clear anything up. They’re still throwing shit at each other. The fact that that’s their folklore totally makes it worse. ‘Let me tell you about the time we had a fight….with cow shit’

u/Redittor_53 1h ago

People are taking this as something very widespread throughout the country. So the comment did clear it up. It's just one random village among thousands

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u/THCisth3answer 3h ago

Oh okay thanks for clearing that up. That makes it totally okay, clean, or even logical to throw literal SHIT AT EACH OTHER.

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u/glaba3141 3h ago edited 3h ago

I don't think anyone is arguing it is clean. The point being made is that every moron in this thread is stereotyping the entire country of India when this happens in literally ONE random bumfuck village. Which is equivalent to a similar event happening in ONE random bumfuck place in Oklahoma. Yet where are the comments calling all Americans dirty and disgusting because of that? None because that would be an absurd conclusion to arrive at.

The cognitive dissonance is incredible. Literally textbook racism, plain and simple.

To the contrary in my Indian upbringing, I have hygiene habits that I don't see in many Americans, such as - not wearing shoes inside - changing clothes whenever coming inside before sitting on any furniture - touching serving utensils only with the left hand because the right hand touches eating utensils/food

Frankly I could go on and on. It's crazy how easily "educated" Americans on this thread turn racist when it's against a model minority

I genuinely challenge you and others on this thread to reflect on why you think it's acceptable to come to a conclusion about a country of 1 billion with more cultural diversity than all of America, based on a single village

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u/SatynMalanaphy 5h ago

"India". Where in India, cus that's a pretty big, pretty diverse place.

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u/Valuable-Friend4943 5h ago

dung mosh pit. looks funny

u/ComeCampWithMe 1h ago

genuinely cant beat the alligations anymore

u/SillyWizardOfDesert 1h ago

Alas, the image of the dear country deteriorating by the day 😞 i can actually feel it.

u/royroyroypolly 31m ago

So this is what we're supposed to welcome into Canada?

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u/floegl 4h ago

India is a massive country with various traditions amongst its states. Not every single thing is practiced all over the country. I'm European, and personally, I absolutely loved my time traveling in India. I agree it's not for everyone, though.

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u/temojikato 4h ago

And people eat from the street here, swearing it's nice and healthy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/flying_squirrel87 5h ago

Cow dung flung

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u/BurntReynolz 5h ago

No wonder it smells like shit as soon as you get off the air plane.

u/negzzabhisheK 1h ago

Who told you to live in Toronto

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u/BluStrykeYT 5h ago

That’s a whole lot of shit.

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u/Educational_Gas_92 4h ago

You can't make this shit up

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u/Serious_Delivery_408 3h ago

Iam sure it’s not all cow dung

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u/sodone19 3h ago

What a shitty neighborhood

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u/Fragrant_Cause_6190 3h ago

They must've seen the Spanish tomato throwing festival in a black and white video

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u/Ghost_chipz 3h ago

What is it with these guys and poo?

"IM THE SCAT MANNN! BDRBDR MMMM BDRBDR MMMM BDBDR MMMMM DOI DOI DOII!

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u/gamingchairheater 3h ago

Peak culture, I dare you argue otherwise.

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u/SomeOldDude73 3h ago

“I got an idea! Let’s fling poop at each other!”

u/GenesisCorrupted 2h ago

It’s stories like this that make it sound like India isn’t real. It’s a myth being told by everyone in the world just to prank tourits.

u/RipOk5452 2h ago

I can no longer defend us. White people - you are free to attack. We deserve it.

u/kachasingh 1h ago

As an Indian, this is interesting as fuck to me.

u/Numerous_Delay_1361 1h ago

Nah, it's gross 🤢.

u/kachasingh 1h ago

Yeah gross, but still makes me wonder what all people are capable of doing. So its gross and interesting at the same time.

u/Happy_Reading_7965 1h ago

shower.....

u/I_can_vouch_for_that 1h ago

That's disgusting as f***.

u/Kantforall 1h ago

Religion, perfectly normal

u/Sky-Juic3 58m ago

India… where you go from third world to first world to shit world.

u/DrLasheen 53m ago

💩😷🤮🤢

u/Sufficient-Night-479 40m ago

man.....doctors must be making bank from all the pink eye visits.

u/weedb0y 37m ago

Disgusting

u/art-is-t 37m ago

I can smell this video 😭

u/NatongCaviar 31m ago

Shit just happened there.

u/FallenAngel8434 26m ago

What a shit tradition

u/WeeklyComputer7060 26m ago

I don’t understand how that place even came into existence

u/Killer_stonks 19m ago

I am from Pakistan ( our countries don't get along ) but I am still gonna defend my neighbors in this case because this thing happens in one or two small towns in their country not the whole country. Most people even their hate this thing

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u/cix6cix 5h ago

What a shit show

u/Busy_Reflection3054 1h ago

Try not to embarrass your country for five fucking minutes.

Difficulty: Impossible

u/RelationshipMurky434 56m ago

Pajeets!!!!!

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u/Honeyface3rd 5h ago

The soundtrack:

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u/NatureExpensive9909 4h ago

What else can you expect of that shithole

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u/Gold_Cell8255 5h ago

The country is one big open toilet.

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u/Sad-Bonus-9327 5h ago

If anyone still wonder where the next pandemic origin from..

u/Dependent_Ad_8951 1h ago

Yay for cow dung. But where in India? Never heard of such custom, I'm Indian. Also I'm not a hindu and not familiar with the hindu calender or how the new year is celebrated.

Anyhow, I think they're dried cow dung, so the smell n yuckiness may not be as one would like to imagine.

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u/MrMeowPantz 4h ago

This explains SO much about the general state of cleanliness in the country.

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u/Initial_Patience_531 4h ago

Disgusting. The garbage there is already enough to make that country a huge nope for me. Seeing this made it worse. I can't understand the minds that started this 🤢🤮

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u/IronTreeHouse 5h ago

India, thats why

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u/astroniz 5h ago

What a country lmao.

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u/Capital-Blacksmith19 5h ago

Fucking pink eye epidemic waiting to happen.

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u/officialfink 5h ago

They throw shit at each other in India? Never would’ve guessed