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[–] xwolpertinger@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

That's why you go with Krampus, Krampus cares about consensual non-consent

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm much into Warhammer Fantasy lately and thought this is some fucked up Chaos-Ritual-Bullshit.

But yeah thats fits also very good 😂

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 79 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"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".)

[–] MusketeerX@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 54 minutes ago

I need you to weaponize a mouse.
Computer mouse or the animal?
I'll get back to you.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 1 day 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.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I swear we can't have anything nice.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There was a counter-protest of women from the island to keep that tradition.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago

Womens rights don't matter! This is for equality!

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 21 hours ago

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

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@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

A Rolf quote in the wild.

[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

Must be something in the water.

[–] Unknown1234_5@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

THIS is what the liberal media wants for america

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's just a missing period.

...with a cow horn. Using cow horn during...

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 4 hours ago

And so will the women, after being spanked with a cow horn.

[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, good first step. When do the prosecutions for physical abuse start?

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 points 4 hours ago

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.