6 bizarre festivals around the world

Thaipusam:(Hindu Hook Piercing Festival)




This festival is celebrated mainly by the Tamil speaking community settled in southern India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka and elsewhere around the world. Many fanatical devotees go to such extent as to torture their bodies to appease the Lord. So, a major feature of Thaipusam celebrations is body piercing with hooks, skewers and small lances called 'vel'. Many of these devotees even pull chariots and heavy objects with hooks attached to their bodies. Many others pierce their tongue and cheek to impede speech and thereby attain full concentration on the Lord. Most devotees enter into a trance during such piercing due to the incessant drumming and chanting of "vel vel shakti vel".

Hadaka Matsuri (Naked Festival In Japan)
A hadaka matsuri(meaning-naked festival) is a type of Japanese festival, or matsuri, where participants wear a minimum amount of clothing; usually just a Japanese loincloth (called fundoshi), sometimes with a short happi coat, and very rarely completely naked. Whatever the clothing, it is considered to be above vulgar, or everyday, undergarments, and on the level of holy Japanese shrine attire.


Naked festivals are held in dozens of places throughout Japan every year, usually in the summer or winter.

El Colacho: (the Baby-Jumping Festival in Spain)


In celebration of the Catholic festival of Corpus Christi, grown men leap over newborns, with full parental consent. Donning scary, vaguely Elvis-like costumes and wielding whips and truncheons, the men attempt to "cleanse" the babies of evil. Evidently, recklessly leaping over them is the best way to achieve this. The town has observed the strange practice (called El Colacho) since 1620, and any onlookers who seem to be in need of a quick exorcism are pulled into the event, as well -- so look normal, by God! And leave your babies with the sitter

La Tomatina - Valencia, Spain
La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world to fight in a brutal battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.
The week-long festival features music, parades, dancing, and fireworks. On the night before the tomato fight, participants of the festival compete in a paella cooking contest.

Approximately 20,000–40,000 tourists come to the tomato fight, multiplying by several times Buñol's normal population of slightly over 9,000. There is limited accommodation for people who come to La Tomatina, and thus many participants stay in Valencia and travel by bus or train to Buñol, about 38 km outside the city. In preparation for the dirty mess that will ensue, shopkeepers use huge plastic covers on their storefronts in order to protect them from the carnage.

The Monkey Buffet Festival (Thailand)
Every year, the town of Lopburi in Thailand hosts a special outdoor feast. The guests of honour climb all over the food, steal treats from each other, and toss their leftovers onto the ground. After the meal, some of the guests show their gratitude by pulling hair and stealing earrings from the hosts while others make love in public.


The "invitations" at this annual extravaganza go to the town's estimated 600 monkeys. They are Lopburi's blessing and its bane. According to legend, the hero of the Ramayana epic rewarded his friend and ally, Hanuman the Monkey King, with the fiefdom of what is now Lopburi. Centuries later, monkeys still rule the area around the town's two most sacred sites: The picturesque Khmer ruin of Sam Prang Yod and the nearby shrine of San Pra Kan.

Kanamara Matsuri: (Fertility festival in Japan)
The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki, Japan in spring. The exact dates vary: the main festivities fall on the first Sunday in April. The penis forms the central theme of the event that is reflected everywhere—in illustrations, candy, carved vegetables, decorations, and a mikoshi parade.

The Kanamara Matsuri is centered around a local penis-venerating shrine once popular among prostitutes who wished to pray for protection against sexually transmitted diseases. It is said that there are divine protections also in business prosperity and the clan's prosperity, easy delivery, marriage, and married couple harmony. There is also a legend of a demon that hid inside a young girl and castrated two young men on their wedding nights before a blacksmith fashioned an iron phallus to break the demon's teeth, leading to the enshrinement of the item.
Today, the festival is used to raise money for HIV research.
Many travellers from Europe or US visit and attend the festival

Top Wierdo's from the Animal Kingdom

Gastric brooding frogs - Swallows her own eggs


The female gastric-brooding frogs are a genus, Rheobatrachus, of frogs from East Australia. The curiosity with these frogs is their unique parental care: following external fertilization by the male, the female would take the eggs into its mouth and swallow them. It is not clear, however, whether the females swallowed the tadpoles or the eggs, as it was never observed prior to their extinction. The last captive specimen died in 1984.

Squids - Have sex all day long, for two weeks

Squids are a large, diverse group of marine cephalopods. They begin mating with a circling nuptial dance, revolving around across a `spawning bed' (200 meters, in diameter). At daybreak, they begin having sex and continue all day long --they only take a break so the female can drive down and deposit eggs. When she returns to the circle, the two go at it again. As twilight falls, the pair go offshore to eat and rest. At the first sign of sunlight, they return to their spot and do it all over again.

Porcupines - How do they do it?

There is a common joke: "How do porcupines do it?" "Very carefully." But in reality, the truth is more bizarre than dangerous. Females are only receptive for a few hours a year, so they go off their food, and stick close by the males and mope. Meanwhile the male becomes aggressive with other males, and begins a period of carefully sniffing every place the female of his choice urinates, smelling her all over. This is a tremendous aphrodisiac. While she is sulking by his side, he begins to `sing'. When he is ready to make love, the female runs away if she's not ready. If she is in the mood, they both rear up and face each other, belly-to-belly. Then, males spray their ladies with a tremendous stream of urine, soaking their loved one from head to foot - the stream can shoot as far as 7 feet. It is advised never to stand close to a cage that contains courting porcupines.

Red-sided Garter Snakes - They prefer Orgies

These snakes are small and poisonous, and live in Canada and the Northwestern United States. Their highly unusual mating takes place during an enormous orgy. Twenty-five thousand snakes slither together in a large den, eager to copulate. In that pile, one female may have as many as 100 males vying for her. These `nesting balls' grow as large as two feet high. Now and then a female is crushed under the heavy mound - and the males are so randy that they continue to copulate, becoming the only necrophiliac snakes.

Ichneumon wasps - Tortures other insects

Ichneumon wasps are insects that could inspire a horror movie: it picks a victim, usually a caterpillar, and injects her eggs into the host's body. Often she also injects a poison that paralyzes the victim without killing it. Then, it eats the caterpillar but it keeps the victim alive as long as possible by eating its fatty deposits and digestive organs first and saving the heart and central nervous system for last. Charles Darwin found the grisly life histories of Ichneumons incompatible with the central notion of natural theology which saw the study of nature as a way to demonstrate God's benevolence. In a letter to American botanist Asa Gray, Darwin wrote "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice."

Histiostoma murchiei - Creates her own husband

The female mite known as Histiostoma murchiei creates her own husband from scratch. She lays eggs that turn into adults without needing to be fertilised. The mother then copulates with her sons within three of four days of laying the eggs, after which the sons die rather quickly.

Male Anglerfishes - Smell his mate and never leaves her again

Anglerfishes are bony fishes. Some of them have a unique mating method: Since individuals are rare and encounters doubly so, finding a mate is a problem, especially at a time when both individuals are ready to spawn. When a male anglerfish hatches, it is equipped with extremely well developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. They have no digestive system, and thus are unable to feed independently. They must find a female anglerfish, and quickly, or else they will die. When he finds a female, he bites into her flank, and releases an enzyme which digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood vessel level. The male then atrophies into nothing more than a pair of gonads that release sperm in response to hormones in the female's bloodstream indicating egg release. This is an extreme example of sexual dimorphism. However, it ensures that when the female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available.

Adele Penguin - Conquers his mate by rolling a stone at her feets

Penguins in general prefer to be `married', but they suffer long separations due to their migratory habits. When reunited, a pair will stand breast to breast, heads thrown back, singing loudly, with outstretched flippers trembling. Two weeks after a pair is formed, their union is consummated. The male makes his intentions known by laying his head across his partner's stomach. They go on a long trek to find privacy, but the actual process of intercourse takes only three minutes. Neither penguin will mate again that year. The male Adele penguin must select his mate from a colony of more than a million, and he indicates his choice by rolling a stone at the female's feet. Stones are scarce at mating time because many are needed to build walls around nests. It becomes commonplace for penguins to steal them from one another. If she accepts this gift, they stand belly to belly and sing a mating song.

Bizarre, Useless but Interesting Science Facts

Here is a list of the most bizarre Science facts that probably you haven’t heard about.

Gay bomb

The "Halitosis bomb" and "Gay bomb" are informal names for two theoretical non-lethal chemical weapons, which a United States Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing. The possibility was canvassed that a strong aphrodisiac could be dropped on enemy troops, ideally one which would also cause "homosexual behavior". Some documents described the aphrodisiac weapon as "distasteful but completely non-lethal". Body odor remote-engineering, such as halitosis and hyperhidrosis, was another possibility discussed. How these would be produced would again be by a non-lethal chemical weapon -- possibly one that would affect the hormonal and digestive systems. Diabetes which is also another frequently reported ailment, can of course contribute to this goal. It appears that a 'heavy sweating bomb', 'flatulence bomb' and 'halitosis bomb' were also considered by a committee at the time. The plan was to make an enemy so smelly they could be quite literally sniffed out of hiding by their opponents. It was also considered fairly damaging to the enemy's morale as well.

A Chicken can be hypnotized

Although it’s hard to understand why anyone would want to hypnotize a chicken but people have done it and here is how (video below). Put the chicken into a trance, by holding its head down against the ground, and continuously drawing a line along the ground with a stick or a finger, starting at its beak and extending straight outward in front of the chicken. If the chicken is hypnotized in this manner, it will remain immobile for somewhere between 15 seconds and 30 minutes, continuing to stare at the line. . This is just one way of doing it, people have come up with other ways as well (hundereds of videos on youtube). Seems like hypnotizing a chicken is not that difficult after all.

Erection after Death

A death erection (also named "angel lust") is a postmortem erection happening when the man dies vertically or face-down and the corpse remains so. On war time, death erection made an excellent war trophy, a method of humiliating the enemy by displaying their posthumous copulating organ. Hanged women too can present a corespondent to this, translated trough engorged labia and vaginal discharges.

Alien Hand Syndrome

Alien Hand Syndrome (AHS) is a very disturbing and very rare medical condition. An individual with this neurological disorder has full sensation in the rogue hand, but is unable to control its movements, and does not feel that it is a part of their body. The hand becomes personified, as if it has a will of its own, and its owner will usually deny ownership of the limb. There is currently no treatment for Alien Hand Syndrome, but the symptoms can often be relieved by giving the rogue hand an object to manipulate, to keep it occupied.

Men breastfeeding

Yes, in theory, men can breastfeed. Male breasts have milk ducts, and some mammary tissue. They also have oxytocin and prolactin, the hormones responsible for milk production. There have been reports of men who were able to produce milk through extensive breast and nipple stimulation, but no one knows whether the milk was of the same composition or quality as the kind women produce.
A Sri Lankan Newspaper reports: Sri Lankan widower breastfeeds his babies

COLOMBO: A 38-year-old Sri Lankan man, whose wife had died three months ago, appears to have the ability to breastfeed his two infant daughters, doctors said on Wednesday. The man, from the central town of Walapone, lost his wife during childbirth. "My eldest daughter refused to be fed with powdered milk liquid in the feeding bottle. I was so moved one evening and to stop her crying I offered my breast. I then realised that I was capable of breastfeeding her," the man admitted.
Here is a short film named “Milk Men” directed by Peter Templeman. (Slighty NSFW)

Fatal Hilarity

Fatal hilarity refers to death resulting from the physiological effects of laughter. Versions of the phrase date back to 1596 and records of laughter causing death date back to Ancient Greece. gs. On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn, England, literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers" in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye". After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure. His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant.

Picking one's nose and eating it might be healthy

Mucophagy (literally mucus-eating, also referred as picking one's nose and eating it) is the consumption of the nasal mucus, boogers, and other detritus obtained from nose-picking. Some research suggests that mucophagy may be a natural and even healthy activity, which exposes the digestive system to bacteria accumulated in the mucus, thereby helping to strengthen the immune system.

A Supernumerary Nipple

A supernumerary nipple (also known as a third nipple) is an additional nipple occurring in mammals including humans. Often mistaken for moles, supernumerary nipples are diagnosed at a rate of 2% in females, less in males. The nipples appear along the two vertical "milk lines" which start in the armpit on each side, run down through the typical nipples and end at the groin. They are classified into eight levels of completeness from a simple patch of hair to a milk-bearing breast in miniature.

Simpson’s Tomacco (halp tomato, halh tobacco)

A tomacco is originally a fictional hybrid fruit that is half tomato and half tobacco, from the 1999 episode "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" of The Simpsons; the method used to create the tomacco in the episode is fictional. The tomacco became real when it was allegedly produced in 2003. Inspired by The Simpsons, Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon successfully grafted a tomato plant onto the roots of a tobacco plant, which was possible because both plants come from the same family.

10 Bizarre PC Case Mods

PC Case modding is done by many people to suit their requirements or to simply make the PC unique and stylish. After going through hundreds of case mods, here is the final list of 10 most bizarre case mods.

10. The Chopper Case Mod

The chopper case mod was done by people at Chopper Computers design in Colorado. Cool Chopper and a hot chick, what else could a biker want ?

9. 24 Case Mod

Designed by Peter (Bit-Tech), this mod is based on the weapon of mass destrcution shown in the famous TV show '24'. Case has a dot matrix style LED display, water cooling, a hidden DVD drive and a double radiator.

8. Lego Case Mod

Designed by Daniele Procida using his sons Lego bricks, the case mod was sold on ebay for over 85 euros.

7. Pumpkin Case Mod Created on the occasion of Halloween, the Pumpkin PC lights in dark and also the CD-ROM ejection is pretty nice.

6. Telephone Case Mod

The Telephone PC has elegant looks and was designed for voice chatting. When someone calls on GTalk, Skype etc. all you have to do is pick up the phone and start talking as if you were talking on a regular phone.

5. Dashboard Case Mod

The Dashboard Mod is for people who love driving. The three gauges show the Hard Drive, CPU and RAM usage. PC also has a keychain that is used to turn on the PC and eject and load DVD-ROM.

4. PVC Case Mod

Perhaps the cheapest case mod made of useless PVC pipes. The most solid frame ever.

3. Microwave

The Microwave PC is for people addicted to Food and Computers. The screen is fit in the front and the motherboard is inside the microwave.

2. Toilet Case Mod

Toilet PC ahs to be the most sickening Case Mod of all time. Can't imagine anyone keeping this thing inside a room.

1. Child Coffin Case Mod

The top spot goes to the most creepiest Case Mod of all time, the Child Coffin PC. It is siad that it took 3 years and thousands of dollars to complete this mod.

Other case mods that came quite close to making the list were Fifa, Doom3, Guitar, R2D2 and Leela Case Mods.

Doom3 Case Mod

Guitar Case Mod

R2D2 Case Mod

Leela Case Mod

Strange Folder created on July 27, 2099 !

Today, i was busy trasferring all my hard-Disk data to DVDs. After completing my transfer work, i was getting error in deleting my Song folder"mixws".
Checking the properties i found that my folder is created on July 27, 2099 ! That's quite strange....
It looks like there is some worm or virus behind this strange Creation Date.



Anyway, i m formatting my hard-Disk and reinstalling windows. So, it will not be a trouble for me anymore.

Things that Irritates Digg users !

I have been using Digg for more than 4 months. There is something that need to Understood for becoming a Successful Digg user. I have heard that Digg Users are weird and dont give a digg even if the article deserves , but this is not true. You need to Understand what every Digger likes or hates.This will help you to become a successful and Good digg user.
Read the following very carefully. I wrote this with my little observation.


The Following are things that irritates most of the diggers.

1) "Can You Share this with your Friend ."

This is the most common thing in Mutual Digg friends that irritates the most of the Diggers . This is not applicable to all diggers as some digg users are so good that they feel good to share for a friend. Every digger wants to promote his Own article. So after Submitting the article he asks some Diggers to Share it with their friends. The Digger who is asked to share may find this irritating. You Must not ask to share untill or Unless he is your good friend . Ask him to Share only if he wants to, otherwise you both will endup in cold " IM war ".(Instant Messaging War)



2) Getting similar Shout more than twice...

Many Diggers hates getting Similar Shout more than twice including me. Digger hates it as they feel, "What the hell ( i dont like using F-word ) , i just saw this article two minutes before ."

If you think that shouting more than twice will help you to promote your article or submission then you are wrong. Getting a similar Shout more than twice is really irritating. Your article might be Undigged even if you wrote a very good article. You will also lead to be out of his Mutual friendlist.

Try not to shout more than twice. You can shout if you really need a Push for getting your article on Front Page. Another shout is Understandable only if you a need few digg for making your article on Front page. This doesnt mean that that you have shout when you got less than 60 diggs for makingup a Front page. The second Shout is acceptable only if you have above 60 diggs.If you got less than 60 digg in 20 hrs. Forget that submission and go for anther one

3) Rude and Abusive Comments ..

Rude and abusive people are never welcomed .Everybody likes Good and positive comments. Be sure that you write a good comment even if you dont like the article. Try to give such comments which will help him to improve his skills. If you write a rude comment your comment will surely get buried (atleast by the author ).

You must know that even Digg don't like rude comments and therefore there is a " Report it " link given, Where Digg is asking that "is this User being offensive." So be careful that you dont hurt someone's feeling and also save yourself from getting banned.

4) Getting banned ..

Of course, its very fustrating and irritating when you get Banned. Remember, no one can ban you unless or untill you did something wrong or bad. You pay for what you do. So take care while digging that you dont do anything that is Wrong, bad or against TOS. I know it feels so bad when you lose a hard built profile in just few seconds.

Try to follow rules, as they are not meant to be broken.


5) Behave like a Human .. We are not Robots.

Don't force your Mutual Digg friend to digg each and every article. This is very irritating when someone just keeps on asking you for digg constantly on IM. If you do this then there will be no difference between shout and IM. Shout is a request message to check out the submitted article and IM is something more important for conversations.

Your Friend is a Human, not Robot or your slave. Let him decide whether the article deserves a digg or not.

Human is a social animal and loves to live in group or company. Also Interact with him so that you can make your work interesting by meeting different kind of people.

If you think i missed anything , please let me know .