Japan-o-WTF?

[Traianvs]

It's been a while since I baffled myself by watching Japanese vids.

Check out this weird stuff: it's some sort of holy festival (Onbashira Matsuri). The goal is to let a treetrunk slide down a hill whilst injuring lots of participants... or something? And then gods are supposed to be pleased... Looks 100% Japanese madness in any case

Anyway here's the crazy foo!
http://www.deredactie.be/permalink/1.755470

[Ecofarm]

I, for one, would never click on any Japanese entertainment/cartoon/gameshow/etc site. I figure there is a pretty good chance it's animated little girls.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

It's still a bit sedate compared the Gloucester Cheese Race.

[Drake Tungsten]

It's still a bit sedate compared the Gloucester Cheese Race.

More people die at Onbashira. The Naked Man festivals are also pretty dangerous. Does anyone at the Cheese Race get punched the **** out by yakuza?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Does anyone at the Naked Man take a 7 pound cheese to the testicles at 80mph?

[Kitschum]

Why are you so obsessed with testicles?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Could you come back later, please? Interrupting the more interesting posters is poor form.

[Kitschum]

Don't change the subject you puf. You weren't getting any action from Drake anyway.

[Hauldren Collider]

Japan is also responsible for this.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Don't change the subject you puf. You weren't getting any action from Drake anyway.

Hey, be reasonable. I have no idea who you are or what you do. Arguments between two memorable people are always easy starters, but this is a bit like being called out by a faint background humming noise.

[Drake Tungsten]

Does anyone at the Naked Man take a 7 pound cheese to the testicles at 80mph?

No, but the ritual loincloth is tied so tight that your nuts are basically in a vice grip for hours on end. They then pour freezing water on your mostly naked body in the middle of February, make you run some laps in your testes-destroying loincloth, cram you cheek by jowl into a temple with 9000 other mostly naked men and then turn out the lights and let the fist fights begin.

You weren't getting any action from Drake anyway.

He was going to get some until you interrupted. All that ball talk was getting me hot.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

See, that's why they lost the war. Beaten by nations who spend their lives either drinking milky tea or eating saturated fats, and thus saving their energy.

[Drake Tungsten]

It's hard to be surprised that they were stupid enough to start a war they knew they couldn't win when you know that they're also stupid enough to participate in festivals like the Naked Man.

[kittenOFchaos]

It is no wonder that birth rate is currently so low in Japan if virile young men are involved in such events.

[Drake Tungsten]

The great irony of the Naked Man is that, despite the testicle-destroying loincloths, the whole point of the brawling in the temple is to claim a bundle of sticks thrown into the crowd that will grant exceptional virility for the coming year.