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2019-10-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Whipped into a frenzy: Women are smothered in butter and flogged to give encouragement to boys 'on brink of adulthood' who leap over bulls in traditional Ethiopian coming of age ceremony

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Ethiopian = a new college frat?

Posted by Lex 2019-10-08 00:17|| 2019-10-08 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't even...wow

Posted by Frank G 2019-10-08 00:26|| 2019-10-08 00:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Shouldn't the butter be more, ah, judiciously applied?

Posted by Brando 2019-10-08 07:21|| 2019-10-08 07:21|| Front Page Top

#4 I've always believed (albeit subconsciously until a few seconds ago) that it's one of history's great tragedies that the smothering spread of global monoculture has generally precluded indigenous peoples' developing their own proper cartoons.

His queen asked an artist of Niger
(and eager he was to oblige her!),
"Please pen one some pictures
Sans civilised strictures,"
Inspiring the African Fleischer.

Posted by Lampedusa Clunk1219 2019-10-08 07:58|| 2019-10-08 07:58|| Front Page Top

#5 And speaking of Dr. Johnson...

When two Ethiopians kiss
They must bridge the profoundest abyss!
'Tis a wonderful tale
How their female meets male
That I think I might just as soon miss.

Posted by Lampedusa Clunk1219 2019-10-08 08:04|| 2019-10-08 08:04|| Front Page Top

#6 The ritual sees a boy walk up to and jump ~~over~~ seven bulls to become a man

Yep, that's a test right there.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-08 10:20|| 2019-10-08 10:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Don’t forget they circumcise the boys before they jump the bulls
Personally I’ll stick with Pamplona

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-10-08 13:41|| 2019-10-08 13:41|| Front Page Top

#8 South Kenya, isn't that Obama's old neighborhood?

Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-08 14:34|| 2019-10-08 14:34|| Front Page Top

#9 had me at "smothered in butter".....

Posted by Mercutio 2019-10-08 15:40|| 2019-10-08 15:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Coming soon to a woke district near you.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-08 15:50|| 2019-10-08 15:50|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm not sure which would be more frightening, jumping over the bulls or getting circumcised.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-10-08 16:25|| 2019-10-08 16:25|| Front Page Top

#12 I sympathize with the bulls.

'I'd rather be in Spain, man ! Oh, grow up assholes... The world is goin' to mars out there.'

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-08 17:07|| 2019-10-08 17:07|| Front Page Top

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