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Friday, July 1, 2011

Soccer Bloopers

A funny compilation of soccer bloopers..

Hot Chicks with Stubbed Toes Making Faces

Sometimes you find a website that lets you really feel good about humanity or about the great things we are doing for each other. Other times you find something like �Hot Chicks with Stubbed Toes Making Sex Faces.�

It is basically as the title insinuates�a series of images depicting women who have seemingly just injured themselves and are making sexually suggestive faces.

China�s Secret Training Methods

These photos give a complete new meaning for keeping the head up & walking tall. Its known that life in army isn't easy, but none can anticipate this, least we didn't. You can see pins in the collar so the head isn't bent; & you can see the wooden ones on their backs to give a perfect posture.

25 Insane Scarification Tattoos

When artists and cutters collide, the result is bloody and occasionally adorable.

Onbashira Festival in Japan

Held every six years, in the Nagano area of Japan, Onbashira Festival is believed to have continued uninterruptedly, for the last 1200 years.

Onbashira, literally translated as �the sacred pillars�, is a Japanese tradition that symbolizes the renewal of Suwa Grand Shrine. It consists of two phases: Yamadashi and Satobiki, the first held in April, and the second in May. Before Onbashira begins, 16 tree trunks, 200-year-old Japanese fir trees are cut down. Each tree can be up to 1 meter across, 16 meters tall and weigh up to 12 tons.

Yamadashi is translated as �coming out of the mountains� and is the most popular part of the festival. Teams of men have to drag the logs down the mountain, to Suwa Shrine. At some points they encounter steep slopes where they must slide the tree trunks. In a ceremony called Ki-otoshi, brave young men risk their lives by climbing on the trunks and riding the all the way down the muddy slopes. It takes 3 days to move the sacred tree trunks, over 10 kilometers, to the shrine.

Satobiki involves placing the logs at the four corners of the four buildings that make up Suwa Grand Shrine. Using ropes, teams have to pull up the giant tree trunks in a vertical position, with young men sitting on them. Those still on the logs after they are positioned, perform all sort of feats.

On Sunday, during the 2010 edition of Onbashira Festival, a man was crushed to death by a tree trunk, during Satobiki. One of the ropes came loose and hit the 38-year-old man in the head. Several others were injured in the accident.