This town throws pennies at people. They hurt.
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The Honiton Hot Pennies ceremony is the result of 800 years of tradition: from when rich people would entertain themselves by throwing scalding-hot pennies o...

You don't need to watch the video. Tom Scott/None of the interview subjects ever point out how fucked this is, but basically the story is rich sadists would put coins in boiling water and then throw them at poor children to watch them endure injury for small amounts of money as a form of entertainment.

  • Neptium@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    This is exactly my thought process. I really don’t see a big deal here.

    I didn’t put forward an argument in my original comment because I genuinely thought there was nothing much to argue about.

    It’s so trivial.

    Let the people have fun and participate in community events.

    It is, from what I gather, a small town anyways. It will affect like, what, 0.0001% of the entire population?