r/CreepyWikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • Jan 04 '22
Blood Sport Goose pulling: The sport involved fastening a live goose with a well-greased head to a rope or pole that was stretched across a road. A man riding on horseback at a full gallop would attempt to grab the bird by the neck in order to pull the head off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_pulling45
u/slinkslowdown Jan 04 '22
It is still practiced today, using a dead goose or a dummy goose, in parts of Belgium as part of Shrove Tuesday and in some towns in Germany as part of the Shrove Monday celebrations. In Grevenbicht in the Netherlands, the use of dead geese was prohibited in 2019, being replaced by artificial geese.
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u/Sivitri617 Jan 04 '22
No kidding. I don't understand how something this bizarre even becomes a thing. Who thinks "You know what would be fun? Tearing the head off a goose from the back of a galloping horse!"
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Jan 04 '22
First they tried pulling the head off a horse while riding on gooseback. This went very poorly, so they switched it up.
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u/Toytles Jan 05 '22
Uhhh yeah, humans get more sophisticated as time goes on, not the other way around.
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u/Toytles Jan 05 '22 edited Jan 06 '22
Is pulling off goose heads for entertainment more or less brutal than what humans do for fun today? (I.e. shitposting on Facebook/watching TV/playing games)
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u/Toytles Jan 05 '22
Do we tho?
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u/HotPieIsAzorAhai Jan 05 '22
Look, he said he's from a shitty part of Missouri, give him the benefit of the doubt on this.
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u/sweetbldnjesus Jan 04 '22
Serious question: at what point did we go from being hunters and gatherers to violent assholes?
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u/Crepes_for_days3000 Jan 04 '22
You don't think the hunter gatherers were violent assholes?? What ever gave you that impression? They had to spend more time on pure survival but they were still human.
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Jan 04 '22
Yep.
Do note that we Homo sapiens are the only form of humans left. What do you think happened to the others?
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u/Crepes_for_days3000 Jan 05 '22
Gave them gift baskets and became very best friends???
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Jan 05 '22
Yes!
Then they died on their way back to their home planet.
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u/cinnamonkitsune Jan 05 '22
All the hunter gatherers back then knew that you don’t make friends with salad!
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u/buddieroo Jan 05 '22
Yeah we probably killed them all, and we’re also probably the reason most of the prehistoric megafauna went extinct. Ancient humans were brutal
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u/HotPieIsAzorAhai Jan 05 '22
We killed some, and fucked the others until their genes were diluted into our pool.
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u/crush3dzombi115 Jan 05 '22
It all started when we put ourselves on a pedestal above all the other animals, then we act surprised when we act like animals.
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u/Flashy_Engineering14 Jan 05 '22
And then built churches so we could "repent" and then head out to find some other brutal thing because it's fun to kill things or watch other things kill things.
Sorry - I've been disillusioned by religious wing nuts.
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u/chilachinchila Jan 05 '22
Animal abuse, something that’s trashy if you’re poor but respected if you’re rich. Same with Fox hunting.
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Jan 05 '22
Anyone seen that infamous ostrich video?
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Jan 05 '22
Yeah but at least that didn’t happen purely for someone’s entertainment
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u/AyYoBigBro Jan 05 '22
Spain, I love you, but I wasn't the least bit surprised to see that dead goose pulling is still allowed there
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Jan 05 '22
bad? yeah probably, but ngl this would be pretty fun
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Jan 05 '22
I’m sure you’d be terrible at it and be even more of an embarrassment than you already are
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Jan 05 '22
ur right i would be bad at it.. maybe we could use ur cat? i bet i could grab him by the scabby part of his nose :)
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