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.

    • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      the idea of the nobles

      it clearly isn’t, the elected mayor and citizens are distributing the coins

      The idea of money

      no-one’s eliminated that one yet, you’ll need to be a bit more patient on expecting people to not put cultural purchase on the medium for modern life, even in AES

      We shouldn’t do things that started as a nobel activity

      turn over your keyboard comrade. writing was invented for the noble class’ record-keeping and taxes. <—specious but i want to illustrate why we need to exercise restraint on stuff like this, especially before it gets to points like ‘urbanism and intellectualism are bourgeois’

        • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          writing absolutely encourages past ideas, when people have access to those old ideas written down, or advocate them through writing.

          and is the transformation of this ritual not a sign of encouraging ideas of the present? a female mayor, the ceasing of the heating of the coins, the lack of noble participation, couldn’t i argue that this festival has been ‘reclaimed’ and embraces democratic values now?