Yes please!!!

Sometimes being Czech is just so awesome.

That settles it I'm moving to Hungary and becoming a Christian so I can throw water on them and whip them with my homemade whip. Hopefully they will also all be wearing Catholic school girl skirts, if not I may have to encourage that tradition myself.

Dyngus Day!

Euell Gibbons: Dyngus Day!

Whacking Day!

Now there's a tradition I can get behind.

You don't have to move to Eastern Europe, just come to Buffalo for Dyngus Day!

mike965: That settles it I'm moving to Hungary and becoming a Christian so I can throw water on them and whip them with my homemade whip. Hopefully they will also all be wearing Catholic school girl skirts, if not I may have to encourage that tradition myself.

Now is the best time to tell you that I am your new Siamese twin!

From a newspaper article (new window) in 1886:

In Lancashire, and in Cheshire, Staffordshire, and in Warwickshire, and perhaps in other counties, the ridiculous custom of "lifting" or "heaving" is practised. On Easter Monday the men lift the women, and on Easter Tuesday the women lift or heave the men. The process is performed by two lusty men or women joining- their hands across each others's wrists; then, making the person to be heaved sit down on their arms, they lift him up aloft two or three times, and often carry him several yards along a street.

let's keep the spirit of easter alive all year!

The whipping custom in Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia apparently does do what legend says.

thisispete: The process is performed by two lusty men or women joining- their hands across each others's...

Grammar aside, it was good up to there.

The youngest coming in to work on Easter is one tradition I could do without right now. Dear lord there's coffee sludge 3 inches thick in the bottom of the coffee pot. *sigh*

over in Australia they prefer to use their native marsupial, the Bilby.

What? That's an odd name. I'd have called them chazzwazzers.

And after the spanking, the oral sex!

Does this practice result in hot cross buns?

Phffft! Amateurs! When I was a kid I used to watch the whippin' and the crucifying that goes on every Easter in the Philippines. Prolly why I'm weird....

Leonard of Quim: And after the spanking, the oral sex!

Couldn't I have just a little peril?

In Germany the tradition is to create an Easter fire out of used Christmas trees from the winter.

Never heard of that one.
Easter fire yes, but the Christmas tree bit?

People with an oven will probably use the tree as firewood at some point in time, so some municipalities might do the same with the collected trees and prefer to use them instead of felling and drying new ones.

mark12A Quote 2009-04-12 08:25:19 AM
Phffft! Amateurs! When I was a kid I used to watch the whippin' and the crucifying that goes on every Easter in the Philippines. Prolly why I'm weird....

I was gonna mention those nutcases in the Philippines are missing from the article.

The Czechs don't throw water so much but the Polish do. Polish girls I've known wouldn't go out on Easter because total strangers would douse them.
The Czech whipping tradition is pretty much limited to the girls the guy knows (Note to feminists: Czech females consider the word "woman" to be an insult that implies being too old to be attractive -- my attempts to be PC made one friend of mine incredibly upset, both angry and embarrassed. Oops!).
Czech girls, after being whipped, are supposed to present the guy with an egg.
It all happens before noon so I usually missed it the years I spent there.

mark12A: Phffft! Amateurs! When I was a kid I used to watch the whippin' and the crucifying that goes on every Easter in the Philippines. Prolly why I'm weird....

How else are you supposed to appease the bloodlust of our angry gods?

over in Australia they prefer to use their native marsupial, the Bilby.

I'd never heard of a bilby. Ugly little guys.

/But what does a Pastafarian do on Easter?

soseussme: The Czechs don't throw water so much but the Polish do. Polish girls I've known wouldn't go out on Easter because total strangers would douse them.
The Czech whipping tradition is pretty much limited to the girls the guy knows (Note to feminists: Czech females consider the word "woman" to be an insult that implies being too old to be attractive -- my attempts to be PC made one friend of mine incredibly upset, both angry and embarrassed. Oops!).
Czech girls, after being whipped, are supposed to present the guy with an egg.
It all happens before noon so I usually missed it the years I spent there.

I wonder if it grew out of imitating a priest's use of an aspergillum in Mass at Easter to splash the congregation with holy water and bless them.

Omnivorous: /But what does a Pastafarian do on Easter?

hide meatballs instead of easter eggs

Xlr8urfark: Omnivorous: /But what does a Pastafarian do on Easter?

hide meatballs instead of easter eggs

Play find the salami?

Sorry about having to work man. I remember those days too when I worked at a radio station. Overnights. On an easy listening station. The only thing that kept me awake was the 3 inches of radio station sludge in the coffee pot. The kind where you have to cut yourself off a slice. It's kind of an acquired taste.

If you want strange just read about what Easter really is. This has nothing to do with Jesus. Just another holiday stolen by Christianity.

hockeychick: Xlr8urfark: Omnivorous: /But what does a Pastafarian do on Easter?

hide meatballs instead of easter eggs

Play find the salami?

Sorry about having to work man. I remember those days too when I worked at a radio station. Overnights. On an easy listening station. The only thing that kept me awake was the 3 inches of radio station sludge in the coffee pot. The kind where you have to cut yourself off a slice. It's kind of an acquired taste.

Thanks for the encouragement. I gave up on the coffee, all we have are plastic silverware and after 2 broken spoons I gave up.

No "running of the jew" from Borat?

Space_Poet,

You just couldn't resist going there could you? What's the matter, not enough anti-Christian articles on Fark on any given day for you to spit bile all over? Thanks for ruining a thread that was about spanking women (hot cross buns) and splashing them with water (gets the HIGH BEAMS going), now go fark yourself in the arse with a dried up corn cob. Don't forget to douche out with turpentine afterwards.

Since this would be useless without pics, here's what's actually being used for the spanking:



Roaming spank-gangs:


And last but not least, here's some interracial easter chicks (pops, nsfw)

/slovakia

FTFA: "The spanking is supposed to be symbolic and according to legend, females should be spanked in order to keep their health and beauty during the next year. It doesn't sound too fun for the women!"

They obviously don't know the right women.

LOL! What are the buckets for?

/cue can has bucket thread

Thakh: Since this would be useless without pics, here's what's actually being used for the spanking:



Roaming spank-gangs:


And last but not least, here's some interracial easter chicks (pops, nsfw)

/slovakia

Them are some interracial easter chicks!!!

LOL

In poland the tradition is called "wet monday" It is OK and acceptable to soak ANYBODY any time. Tomorrow my gal is going to get a bucket of water to wake up to, and if my neighbor is wearing white while walking the dog she will to. drooooooooooooooool!

Hester Prynne: You don't have to move to Eastern Europe, just come to Buffalo for Dyngus Day!

...or the east side of Detroit, where Dingus Day (which is practiced in Poland), is also celebrated as "switch day." When I was young, this meant boys hit girls with water balloons.

//and no, we didn't wear t-shirts for that. Shame on you for thinking it.

Nick Nostril: Now there's a tradition I can get behind.

I also approve of getting behind. This tradition, that is.

Who could really confine the joy of spanking women in just one day? I believe spanking is a year-round tradition.

Space_Poet: If you want strange just read about what Easter really is. This has nothing to do with Jesus. Just another holiday stolen by Christianity.

Becha a dollar all these can be traced back to pagan ritual. Now I gotta see if its possible to get some spanking included in the Passover Hagadah, you know, to remind the girls of what it was like to be a slave in Egypt...

It has been said, but not linked...

http://www.dyngusdaybuffalo.com/

The Voice of Doom I would recommmend AGAINST burning Christmas trees indoors. The resins from the pine will clog up your flue - and that's if you're lucky enough they don't catch fire. Indoors - burn hardwoods.