Published: February 28, 2010
Op-Ed Contributor
Nepalese Youth Celebrate Cursing Festival
By Robert Paul Reyes
"Each year, Nepalese youth in two villages in the south of the Himalayan country save up their choicest insults for a 10-day 'cursing festival' that reaches its climax Sunday.
The youngsters in the neighbouring villages of Parsawa and Laxmipur hurl insults at each other, their neighbours, villagers and passers-by -- and then laugh.
They gather in parks and other areas around straw heaped in the shape of a phallus to launch into the insults." AFP
At first I thought this was a freakin' ridiculous idea, but upon further consideration it doesn't sound so crazy.
I do my best not to use obscene language, but when I'm at the checkout line in the grocery store, and I see Snooki, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton staring at me from tabloid covers, it's almost impossible not to utter profanity.
A lot of adults struggle to get their swearing under control, and a "cursing festival" might work better than having your mouth washed out with soap. Ten days of cursing everyone under the sun will cure anyone from using profane language. I'm sure that by the tenth day even the person with the dirtiest mouth cringes when he shouts out a vulgar word.
But what the (&(7!!*** is up with the *!!$^*) straw phallus?
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