Breast Touching festival - up for deletion

[Ming]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Breast Touching Festival of China (T-H-L)

[The Joy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =523661096

Over a year old. Not bad, prankster, not bad.

[Zoloft]

[EricBarbour]

If this is a hoax, it's epic. Bloggers and news sites (and SEO sites and spam sites) all over the world are repeating it.
Try Googling "Monai Jie".

[Poetlister]

If this is a hoax, it's epic. Bloggers and news sites (and SEO sites and spam sites) all over the world are repeating it.

So eventually it will be confirmed by multiple reliable sources, making it deletion-proof.

[Versus]

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/breas ... -jie-hoax/

[Vigilant]

The daily dot editor has obviously never been to the Jing'an district in Shanghai...

[Zoloft]

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/breas ... -jie-hoax/

Now I'm glad I edited out my browser tabs from that screenshot.

[The Joy]

Cla, is this true?

Kanamara Matsuri (T-H-L)

[EricBarbour]

Cla, is this true?

Kanamara Matsuri (T-H-L)

I can attest to this one. The "phallus festival" has been going for centuries, I remember seeing giggling news reports about it 40 years ago.

[Derby]

Lol so was this a hoax, i.e somebody just made the festival up? I may give this a try for my hometown

[Midsize Jake]

Lol so was this a hoax, i.e somebody just made the festival up? I may give this a try for my hometown

It's not a hoax - they do much weirder stuff than this in Japan, you can be assured of that. Meanwhile, I'm sure your neighbors in Firstpostthreadresurrectionville will enjoy the new event immensely!

Also, welcome to Wikipediocracy.

[StevenRodriguez]

Lol so was this a hoax, i.e somebody just made the festival up? I may give this a try for my hometown

It's not a hoax - they do much weirder stuff than this in Japan, you can be assured of that. Meanwhile, I'm sure your neighbors in Firstpostthreadresurrectionville will enjoy the new event immensely!

Also, welcome to Wikipediocracy.

Yes, it is not a hoax. Having lived in rural China and Japan for a couple of years I can vouch that a lot of customs are present in both of the countries that would be considered taboo in the rest of the world.

By the way, the page mentioned in the original post has been deleted by Wikipedia.

[Midsize Jake]

By the way, the page mentioned in the original post has been deleted by Wikipedia.

It's the end of an era.

Also, welcome to you too!

[JonJohnson]

Lol so was this a hoax, i.e somebody just made the festival up? I may give this a try for my hometown

It's not a hoax - they do much weirder stuff than this in Japan, you can be assured of that. Meanwhile, I'm sure your neighbors in Firstpostthreadresurrectionville will enjoy the new event immensely!

Also, welcome to Wikipediocracy.

Yes, it is not a hoax. Having lived in rural China and Japan for a couple of years I can vouch that a lot of customs are present in both of the countries that would be considered taboo in the rest of the world.

By the way, the page mentioned in the original post has been deleted by Wikipedia.

Yes, I too have seen some weird customs in a few Asian countries when I was posted there. Some really strange ones with no logic behind them. But there are a few such customs in some of the Western countries as well.

[Dysklyver]

The naked bike ride movement being a good example of a nonsensical weird festival (at face value at least)

More locally, there is a festival where everyone strips off and runs into the sea en-mass, in December when it is cold af, and competes to see how long they can stay in the sea for before running back before they die of hypothermia. It's very popular, thousands take part.

https://www.piratefm.co.uk/news/latest- ... ear-swims/

[Poetlister]

JonJohnson. Another successful resurrection of this thread!

[Beeblebrox]

The new year is usually the time for "polar bear plunge" events all across the colder parts of the states, but not usually naked (in fact costumes are popular) and people get sponsors who donate to charitable causes. The Wikipedia article gives no information on how this practice got started, but I'm guessing alcohol and/or cabin fever were involved.

NYC has that gross "ride the subway with no pants on" day. I dn't mean it's gross because of half naked people but rather because the NYC subway is not something most people want -more- physical contact with, what with all the public masturbation, peeing, rats, etc...

(cue some angry New Yorker telling me why it's the best thing ever)

[The Garbage Scow]

Why do people keep making brand new accounts just to bump this thread?

[Dysklyver]

Why do people keep making brand new accounts just to bump this thread?

Who knows? Maybe there is some animal magnetism going on.

[Poetlister]

Why do people keep making brand new accounts just to bump this thread?

Maybe they like the thread title.

[Midsize Jake]

Why do people keep making brand new accounts just to bump this thread?

Maybe they like the thread title.

This thread is the #6 Google result (without quotes) for "breast touching festival wikipedia" and #9 for "breast deletion wikipedia," but more importantly, we're the #1 (!!!) result for the phrase "festival up for deletion." So, any time someone is looking for festivals that are in peril of being deleted, anywhere in the world (not just Wikipedia), this is the first thing they see.

Perhaps we can use this to our advantage in some way, but at the moment I can't think of a strategy that's likely to achieve what were after.

[Vigilant]

That article should link to Wishful thinking (T-H-L)

[Dysklyver]

Well the official view is:

不过经相关调查，网上盛传鄂家镇摸奶节一说为捏造事实，扭曲民俗，当地政府辟谣称不存在所谓的“摸奶节”，申遗是无稽之谈。鄂家镇政府工作人员苏小姐则告诉记者，所谓的“摸奶节”出现完全是被一些文人扭曲的，鄂家镇有“摸奶节”是谣传，至于“摸奶节”还要申遗的说法更是无稽之谈。

“摸奶节”说法流传可能是旅游策划。真的存在“摸奶节”吗？当地县宣传部的谷姓工作人员告诉记者，根据民间说法，曾经在娱乐缺乏的年代，鄂家镇可能存在过摸奶的举动，不过随着当地文化生活的丰富，青年男女“摸奶”的活动已经几乎看不到。

Roughly translated to: "The local travel agency made the whole thing up. The festival never existed before."

[The Garbage Scow]

I approve wholeheartedly of breasts.

That much, I can say.

[Poetlister]

Perhaps we can use this to our advantage in some way, but at the moment I can't think of a strategy that's likely to achieve what were after.

Take out full-page adverts in major newspapers pointing this out. We may get floods of new members wanting to participate in such a prominent site.

[Randy from Boise]

Why do people keep making brand new accounts just to bump this thread?

Fear of reprisal from the mighty Gender Desk, I suspect. She ruins lives, you know!

RfB

[Poetlister]

Why do people keep making brand new accounts just to bump this thread?

Fear of reprisal from the mighty Gender Desk, I suspect. She ruins lives, you know!

RfB

Surely the mighty Gender Desk can see through thinly disguised sockpuppets.

[Randy from Boise]

Why do people keep making brand new accounts just to bump this thread?

Fear of reprisal from the mighty Gender Desk, I suspect. She ruins lives, you know!

RfB

Surely the mighty Gender Desk can see through thinly disguised sockpuppets.

The real life consequences of identification by Gender Desk are so severe that most of the obvious sock-puppets are joe-jobs. We are talking about top level cyber war here...

RfB

[Dysklyver]

Why do people keep making brand new accounts just to bump this thread?

Fear of reprisal from the mighty Gender Desk, I suspect. She ruins lives, you know!

RfB

Surely the mighty Gender Desk can see through thinly disguised sockpuppets.

The real life consequences of identification by Gender Desk are so severe that most of the obvious sock-puppets are joe-jobs. We are talking about top level cyber war here...

RfB

I retweeted something relevant earlier.

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https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/stat ... 5441690625

[Midsize Jake]

https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/stat ... 5441690625

Yikes. This thread seemed so promising at first, but now we're talking about women on Twitter who spend all their time doxxing Nazis? The way this is going, you'd almost think we shouldn't have threads on Wikipedia articles about phony Asian sex-pervert festivals at all.

[GlennReynolds]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =523661096

Over a year old. Not bad, prankster, not bad.

PHP debugging features to work, you must have PHP installed on your computer and you must also have xDebug extension added to your PHP setup.

[Poetlister]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =523661096

Over a year old. Not bad, prankster, not bad.

PHP debugging features to work, you must have PHP installed on your computer and you must also have xDebug extension added to your PHP setup.

GlennReynolds, but I fail to see the relevance of this remark. The link is to a deleted article so when you click on the link, you can't see anything unless you're an admin.

[BobbyGibson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =523661096

Over a year old. Not bad, prankster, not bad.

PHP debugging features to work, you must have PHP installed on your computer and you must also have xDebug extension added to your PHP setup.

Pity definition, sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid

[Ming]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =523661096

Over a year old. Not bad, prankster, not bad.

PHP debugging features to work, you must have PHP installed on your computer and you must also have xDebug extension added to your PHP setup.

GlennReynolds, but I fail to see the relevance of this remark. The link is to a deleted article so when you click on the link, you can't see anything unless you're an admin.

Please do not welcome the link spammers.

[tarantino]

Locked.