Funny Stuff Thread.... to loosen your day

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incredulous commentary.
The animal welfare department describes cattle as “the backbone of Indian culture” and says that hugging a cow on February 14 will bring “emotional richness and “increase our individual and collective happiness.”
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In recent decades, young Indians have increasingly taken up Valentine’s Day, which
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as a Christian celebration. Like Americans, they “typically spend the holiday crowding parks and restaurants, exchanging gifts and holding parties to celebrate like any other Indian festival,” writes Ashok Sharma of the
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(AP).

As the holiday’s popularity has grown, devout Hindus have opposed it. Per the
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’s Hannah Ellis-Petersen, critics tend to focus on women, arguing that Valentine’s Day “encourages female promiscuity and vulgar behavior.” Far-right vigilante groups have vandalized gift shops, burned cards and flowers, and targeted couples holding hands.
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Ah, handholding. All that skin to skin contact...its...just...scandalous!
Recent years have also seen an increase in so-called “
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” across India, who attack members of minority groups involved in the cattle trade. Between 2015 and 2018, cow vigilante mobs killed at least 44 people, including 36 Muslims, according to a 2019 report by
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Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, a political analyst, tells the AP that the introduction of Cow Hug Day “defies logic.”
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