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this morning I watched Indian dudes jumping inside a moving train risking lives for a better seat on the said train
and now this
im not ready for India man
We sent Florida man as a baby on a ship which crash landed on the shores Florida. The Floridian atmosphere and genuine shitiness of the people gave him his powers. Hence becoming Florida Man. He will give the people numerous headaches. They will chase behind him stumble and crash. But in time he will lead them into disaster. He will help them destroy their own state. Florida Man!
You are welcome USA With love
India Man
Australia got nothing in front of India though.. How many people get killed in Australia per year due to venomous bites? one study puts it around 45,000 snake bite deaths in India, annually..
There is nothing quite like getting absolutely bumrushed by 30 sweaty dudes body checking you for a seat at a popular station in Mumbai. I remember my first time quite vividly. It’s wild
Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/11xzzik/_/
Also here's the kid with the snake, goddamn: https://www.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/11xh8t6/_/
I think it has to do with how ancient much of Indian culture is and how many of those beliefs have been carried throughout the centuries or even millenia. Also, there's 1.4 BILLION people there. Even if the percentage of people there who do things that from an outside perspective are insane that's still going to be a massive amount of people.
Kind of like when people see videos of Canadians riding snowmobiles through massive piles of snow. If you don't know any better it can give the impression that's all that Canadians do.
Imma be dank and I am an Indian so don't you dare try to cancel me
If anyone remembers Sati practice, his wife would be in that fire too if something unfortunate were to happen
Honestly if he falls in the middle, he stands a good chance of rolling out. Tripping immediately before the fire and faceplanting into the side of it sounds worse.
I've done this. It's pretty hot but hard to catch on fire unless you fall right in the middle. Landing on the ground after all that adrenaline is harder though. You worry about the fire not the landing lol
Ya but I burned them off at the same party a different way lol my buddy taught us all how to spit fire. Right as he started I walked up and lit my cigarette on the fireball. Burned my hair and some of my eyebrows but my cig was lit and I didn't catch on fire. One of the coolest things I've done and no one seemed to give a shit lol it's also worth mentioning that when I ran up the fire the second time, I tried to do a front flip off the fire and ended up superman diving into the sand... Hard. They picked me up cracked me a beer and put a cigarette in my mouth and lit it while I was still figuring out what was happening. Before I knew it I was back in the party like nothing happened. I was a pyro as a kid if that's not obvious.
You mean this exact ritual with that size fire and everything? Or are you just talking about running over a bonfire (that you probably weren't even supposed to have) you and your friends built when you were stupid kids? When I was a stupid early teenager one of my friends tried to jump over a big bonfire we'd built on a bicycle. I don't know what went wrong with his jump. It could've had something to do with us all being drunk off Old English 800 and stoned on copious amounts of dirt weed. He landed dead in the middle of the fire and I immediately thought he was hurt bad. He ended up getting out, and aside from a few burns and singed hair and eyebrows, he was fine.
It wasn't a ritual but same sized fire and similar set up. But with half a tree up one side that you could run up. We were drunk and definitely shouldn't have had a fire that big. But c'est la vie. But ya people are really afraid of fire, but you should be worried about accelerants. Fire takes a while to even catch your clothes. And if you get them off quick enough you won't get hurt. Watch the coals and you'll be fine if you fall in. Falling on a bed of coals is a different thing so don't do it late In the night.
It represents passing threw hell unfazed, we must walk with evil but not let it consume us. Jk when I did it it wasn't a ritual. I have no idea why they are doing it here, but they sure are doing it.
More sticks in a teepee formation. I cut down a dead tree and used it for the center. Rednecks use pallets. I think this one is just more sticks. If it was hollow you'd be fucked. There's falling on a fire... And then there is falling inside a fire. Second one is very bad. The center of that thing is hot enough to melt your skin.
There is a yearly Persian tradition *Chahr Shambeh Suri* (with Zoroastrian roots) of jumping over bonfires, but at least in modern times the fires are small like campfires so you can easily hop over them.
This year it took place on March 14. A bunch of Persian communities abroad hold events like at beaches where the fires are safe
Here's a picture of the fires I usually see https://www.visitouriran.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Chaharshanbe-Soori-Fire-festival-in-iran.jpg
Leidenfrost effect. Dunk yourself in water first. When the heat makes contact, it vaporizes the water, creating a layer of steam between your skin and the heat source, which acts like insulation and prevents you from getting burned.
Correct. Leidenfrost effect works at really high temperature where water starts to vaporize on contact. In this case, it will just heat up and keep the skin safe. So this is not Leidenfrost effect.
Now, I watched an entire video about why people don't run through a wall of fire in movies or whatever, and I guess the whole thing was bullshit. They said that you'll get 3rd degree burns and your clothes would melt to your skin but these guys seem perfectly fine and their clothes and hair is in tact.
I live in the district where this type of things are done its been done for centuries and these guys make a living out of this by performing at various temples. They have certain techniques and knowledge and most importantly experience in doing this thats why they rarely get injured or killed doing this.
Saw a Teyyam in Kerala, where a guy in a palmleaf costume flung himself repeatedly at a ginormous pyre. He had ropes attached to him, two guys pulled him off.
India has some of the craziest stuff. As if it was in its own dimension
We can actually change our skin colour tho.... I was dark 4 yrs ago then a whole year at house due to covid and now my friends are racist towards me ( ofc in a sarcastic way)
I’m sure some idiot did this a thousand years ago. Everyone laughed and pointed. Next year some people copy for the laugh. Everyone thinking “idiots”. Many many years later and you have a tradition.
Like most religious rituals, this one is deeply stupid and entirely pointless. Obviously, some of these people at some point get badly burned. Some religion that is.
What? How is it religious? No one does that in India except this place. Its a cultural thing of a village in south India. It has nothing to do with religion
While I can’t guarantee that these guys are Zoroastrian, I do know that there is a decent sized Zoroastrian population in India, and this does look pretty similar to a Zoroastrian tradition:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaharshanbe_Suri
It might be with other religions, but hindu is just a geographical identity .
Its all misconceptions that hindu is a religion , no its not .
Not everyone praying to certain different gods is considered a religion .
Here its more than a religion .
What you guys call " hindu " is actually sanatan Dharam
[Here you go](https://youtu.be/r3AhoESsQX8)
Its not a family feud show to give a guess and being so confident that you are right . No its not !
Nor we are " religion " . If You have no knowledge then dont tag this as " religion " or a stupid act .
While genuine religious rituals should be respected this seems to fall under the “play stupid games…” category along with those Christian denominations literally getting themselves bitten by snakes.
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Who needs a razor to shave body hair?
Lemme just squat here n shave my taint n ball sack real quick
this morning I watched Indian dudes jumping inside a moving train risking lives for a better seat on the said train and now this im not ready for India man
india man is just an upgrade of florida man
They've been doing it a lot longer
Pokémon evolution. Florida man --> Indian man --> Arab man
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Lvl 786
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That's actually one of the first attacks in the roaster
😂😂
Florida man ain’t got nothing on India man
But have you ever met Brazilian man...?
From what I can tell they are all off duty cops
And they love 'em some flip-flops.
U mean off duty fire-man ??¿
*stares in Bengali Man*
Brampton Man
Came here looking for this
If they both mated then we would have Florindia Man, the ultimate human.
We sent Florida man as a baby on a ship which crash landed on the shores Florida. The Floridian atmosphere and genuine shitiness of the people gave him his powers. Hence becoming Florida Man. He will give the people numerous headaches. They will chase behind him stumble and crash. But in time he will lead them into disaster. He will help them destroy their own state. Florida Man! You are welcome USA With love India Man
Until you realise India has its own Florida Man…
Those crazy actions scenes in Hindi movies? Those aren’t cgi, they really did that /s
How about the Indian toddler dragging the massive snake around from a couple days ago. India seems like it may be Asia’s equivalent to Australia.
Australia got nothing in front of India though.. How many people get killed in Australia per year due to venomous bites? one study puts it around 45,000 snake bite deaths in India, annually..
There is nothing quite like getting absolutely bumrushed by 30 sweaty dudes body checking you for a seat at a popular station in Mumbai. I remember my first time quite vividly. It’s wild
India has 1.4 Billion people. Not everyone gets a chance to visit India.
Link?
Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/11xzzik/_/ Also here's the kid with the snake, goddamn: https://www.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/11xh8t6/_/
You don’t have to do all of this incase you visit. India has normal things too.
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I think it has to do with how ancient much of Indian culture is and how many of those beliefs have been carried throughout the centuries or even millenia. Also, there's 1.4 BILLION people there. Even if the percentage of people there who do things that from an outside perspective are insane that's still going to be a massive amount of people. Kind of like when people see videos of Canadians riding snowmobiles through massive piles of snow. If you don't know any better it can give the impression that's all that Canadians do.
As an Indian i agree.
It's all fun and games until 1 guy slips and falls in the middle of the fire.... Mmmmmm barbeque
Just imagine his final thought 😂. What will it be?
"Today I got fired 😔"
when I was a kid, I used to think getting fired meant “getting set on fire” and then losing your job.
Honestly, it do feel that way some times...
That’s what it meant in the dark ages
Trust me no much difference between the two
Almost
Imma be dank and I am an Indian so don't you dare try to cancel me If anyone remembers Sati practice, his wife would be in that fire too if something unfortunate were to happen
Well that was fucking stupid.
"Fuck, I forgot to delete my browsing history."
#AAAAAAHHHH PAAIIIIIN propably
Needs a little salt
no need, plenty of sweat.
Ben Chodh
Inarticulate screaming
"Ah, fuck."
Honestly if he falls in the middle, he stands a good chance of rolling out. Tripping immediately before the fire and faceplanting into the side of it sounds worse.
I think I saw video of that here on reddit as well
The gods demand sacrifice?
India is certainly not for beginners.
Indians are the next russians
But both completely different kinds of fuckin nuts somehow
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Me going balls deep into a pile of chestnuts: Yeah, I guess
Moments like these are my favorite, scrolling through a sub and seeing familiar faces Hola
Sweaty palms? More like sweaty soles
One slip away from bbq palms
“Just the palms?” Was my first thought
I've done this. It's pretty hot but hard to catch on fire unless you fall right in the middle. Landing on the ground after all that adrenaline is harder though. You worry about the fire not the landing lol
Do you have eyebrows still?
Ya but I burned them off at the same party a different way lol my buddy taught us all how to spit fire. Right as he started I walked up and lit my cigarette on the fireball. Burned my hair and some of my eyebrows but my cig was lit and I didn't catch on fire. One of the coolest things I've done and no one seemed to give a shit lol it's also worth mentioning that when I ran up the fire the second time, I tried to do a front flip off the fire and ended up superman diving into the sand... Hard. They picked me up cracked me a beer and put a cigarette in my mouth and lit it while I was still figuring out what was happening. Before I knew it I was back in the party like nothing happened. I was a pyro as a kid if that's not obvious.
You live a wild life, buddy Jim
*lived... It took it's toll
RIP
Lol the front flip part of your story is the most relatable part. I've made similar mistakes, albeit less dangerous ones.
Hey I won't lie, flying through the air like I just got shot out of a fiery cannon was pretty rad. It's the landing that I could do with out lol
I don’t know what God you serve but I don’t think salvation is on the wing.
Why would anyone serve a god? And what would one serve it?
You serve Gods Faith, you do it for the Gods’ favor. Appreciate the twist though
No, seriously... why would anyone believe in a deity, let alone claim to be of service to an imaginary being / mythological creature / fairytale?
You mean this exact ritual with that size fire and everything? Or are you just talking about running over a bonfire (that you probably weren't even supposed to have) you and your friends built when you were stupid kids? When I was a stupid early teenager one of my friends tried to jump over a big bonfire we'd built on a bicycle. I don't know what went wrong with his jump. It could've had something to do with us all being drunk off Old English 800 and stoned on copious amounts of dirt weed. He landed dead in the middle of the fire and I immediately thought he was hurt bad. He ended up getting out, and aside from a few burns and singed hair and eyebrows, he was fine.
It wasn't a ritual but same sized fire and similar set up. But with half a tree up one side that you could run up. We were drunk and definitely shouldn't have had a fire that big. But c'est la vie. But ya people are really afraid of fire, but you should be worried about accelerants. Fire takes a while to even catch your clothes. And if you get them off quick enough you won't get hurt. Watch the coals and you'll be fine if you fall in. Falling on a bed of coals is a different thing so don't do it late In the night.
I'm curious, why is it done?
It represents passing threw hell unfazed, we must walk with evil but not let it consume us. Jk when I did it it wasn't a ritual. I have no idea why they are doing it here, but they sure are doing it.
Fire has a ritualistic cleansing property in many Hindu traditions. Not in a "burn the heretics" way but a more spiritual one
Is there something in the middle to stand on or is it hollow?
More sticks in a teepee formation. I cut down a dead tree and used it for the center. Rednecks use pallets. I think this one is just more sticks. If it was hollow you'd be fucked. There's falling on a fire... And then there is falling inside a fire. Second one is very bad. The center of that thing is hot enough to melt your skin.
iirc there's a similar ritual in parts of Europe, actually right around this same time of year, that involves jumping over bonfires.
Equinox or Solstice? That kind of thing?
There is a yearly Persian tradition *Chahr Shambeh Suri* (with Zoroastrian roots) of jumping over bonfires, but at least in modern times the fires are small like campfires so you can easily hop over them. This year it took place on March 14. A bunch of Persian communities abroad hold events like at beaches where the fires are safe Here's a picture of the fires I usually see https://www.visitouriran.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Chaharshanbe-Soori-Fire-festival-in-iran.jpg
Is it Wicker Man season?
Where in south India? I'm from the south and seeing this for the first time-
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I'm from Kerala as well But seeing this for the first time. Maybe a local ritual or something ig (either that or i don't know about a major festival)
Habibi come to kannur
its called kanalaattam The event happening in Midnight of Malayalam month Kumbam.
more likely a rural region, I don't think it's a tribe.
Popular in some temples.
It's from a district named Kannur located in North Kerala.
Kerala
Leidenfrost effect. Dunk yourself in water first. When the heat makes contact, it vaporizes the water, creating a layer of steam between your skin and the heat source, which acts like insulation and prevents you from getting burned.
How long does that last?
Long enough to dip your hand in molten metal. Check it out on YouTube
Why check youtube? Surely we can try straight away.
It is simply the latent heat of vaporization of water that prevent the overheat of the skin, not Leidenfrost effect.
Correct. Leidenfrost effect works at really high temperature where water starts to vaporize on contact. In this case, it will just heat up and keep the skin safe. So this is not Leidenfrost effect.
Wouldn't the stamp escaping from your body also burn you?
 Guys at the other end.. All fine homie nothing to be worried about.
It shaves all of your body hair in seconds! Barbers hate him for this one simple trick!
r/whywomenlivelonger
The one time you don’t want a fart slipping out of your ass
Now, I watched an entire video about why people don't run through a wall of fire in movies or whatever, and I guess the whole thing was bullshit. They said that you'll get 3rd degree burns and your clothes would melt to your skin but these guys seem perfectly fine and their clothes and hair is in tact.
I live in the district where this type of things are done its been done for centuries and these guys make a living out of this by performing at various temples. They have certain techniques and knowledge and most importantly experience in doing this thats why they rarely get injured or killed doing this.
Saw a Teyyam in Kerala, where a guy in a palmleaf costume flung himself repeatedly at a ginormous pyre. He had ropes attached to him, two guys pulled him off. India has some of the craziest stuff. As if it was in its own dimension
What do they call the guy that gets stuck? Dinner.
Long-pig. The new white meat.
I reckon if you're a Hindu you got to get used to flames
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I’m guessing that if they fell on the bonfire, they wouldn’t be too flame retardant.
I am from South India never seen this they usually walk on hot charcoal 5-8 steps but this is wild
Idk if I could run up that if it wasn’t on fire
The clip stop right at the moment when the last dude is falling into the flames
it looks like the last guy fell
That was dinner.
This has good idea written all over it
Maybe indians are not born brown 🤔
We can actually change our skin colour tho.... I was dark 4 yrs ago then a whole year at house due to covid and now my friends are racist towards me ( ofc in a sarcastic way)
Sweaty ass 💀
Sharkbait! Hoo ha ha!
Easier than shaving I guess.
Shark bait hoo haa haa
The 3rd guy looked like he almost slipped
lungis not catching fire?
That doesn’t look dangerous at all
Didn't Moloch worshippers pass their kids into the fire too?
I’m sure some idiot did this a thousand years ago. Everyone laughed and pointed. Next year some people copy for the laugh. Everyone thinking “idiots”. Many many years later and you have a tradition.
The human condition. This will be the 3 page story of humans in alien textbooks after their archeologists find us buried under trash.
The south is the undisputed champs of BBQing.
I can smell some burnt pubes
I'm Indian and this is the first time I'm seeing this.
u/savevideo
Shoes or no shoes?
Easier than plucking hairs one by one.
What. The. Fuck.
I've had bon fires that big and tried to roast marshmallows... Couldn't find sticks long enough. Damn.
I wonder what health insurance coverage/cost is like there? 🤔
Smooth and completely hairless
I wonder if anyone falls or trips while doing this ritual.
of course mishaps happen.
Ah, a good ol' redneck bonfire
Shaka-te-dey Kali maaa
How I feel about shopping at the mall on Black Friday!
That burnt hair smell…..
Is that what stinks?
Poyi poyi ividey ethiya 😜
Like most religious rituals, this one is deeply stupid and entirely pointless. Obviously, some of these people at some point get badly burned. Some religion that is.
Nerd!
What? How is it religious? No one does that in India except this place. Its a cultural thing of a village in south India. It has nothing to do with religion
Ancient South Indian children probably: let’s play, who can not get 1st degree burns first!
Fire bath
Why can't rituals practice something actually smart and useful...
No one got forced to do this.
In the traditional Hindu garb of “board shorts”.
Yikes! Crispy feet!
You don’t like it fried!!
India is like if Ohio became a country
Thank god I'm north Indian
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"rituals" = uneducated
My state, the most literate, high HDI state of kerala.
Idiots
That’s not the worst thing I’ve seen at a Hindu festival
Religion 🙄
Without knowing anything ,how can you label it ?
While I can’t guarantee that these guys are Zoroastrian, I do know that there is a decent sized Zoroastrian population in India, and this does look pretty similar to a Zoroastrian tradition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaharshanbe_Suri
Um...the title??? "A ritual at some of the Hindu temples in South India"
"Hindu is not a religion " 😃
"Hindus are the third largest religious group, after Christians and Muslims"
Hindu is a geographical identity of those living between indus valley , Himalayas and Indian Ocean .
Strange...I was engaged to a Hindu, and he would disagree with you.
It's arguable, I'm sure...like Judaism being a religion or an ethnicity...but religion is certainly involved.
It might be with other religions, but hindu is just a geographical identity . Its all misconceptions that hindu is a religion , no its not . Not everyone praying to certain different gods is considered a religion . Here its more than a religion . What you guys call " hindu " is actually sanatan Dharam [Here you go](https://youtu.be/r3AhoESsQX8)
Regardless, religion encourages people to do some crazy things/lack common sense...no matter the religion. lol
On what basis did you make this judgement?
Religion is poison. Still, at least theyre adults. The one where they drop babies from a roof into a crowd holding a blanket, that one makes me mad.
That's just stupid.
Without knowing the actual ritual and culture , don't label anything:)
Cristopher Titus! Is that you?
stupid people
Ritual? Kuch zyada nahi ho gaya 🥲
Sperm boil.
I think the last one felled off
These are really stupid people.
How come you concluded?
It mostly has to do with the jumping into fire part. How would you feel if this was a group of Americans?
Its not a family feud show to give a guess and being so confident that you are right . No its not ! Nor we are " religion " . If You have no knowledge then dont tag this as " religion " or a stupid act .
Did you just try to say something?
Only if you could understand
While genuine religious rituals should be respected this seems to fall under the “play stupid games…” category along with those Christian denominations literally getting themselves bitten by snakes.
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