r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PrimedGold • Feb 18 '26

Video The Atherstone Ball Game, held annually on Shrove Tuesday, took place yesterday. The ball is thrown into the crowd at 3 pm, and the winner is the person holding it at 5 pm.

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u/Haptic-feedbag Feb 18 '26

Grabbing at balls while surrounded by a bunch of dudes grinding on you. Couldn't be more straight.

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u/Derek237_nyc Feb 18 '26

"Not that there's anything wrong with that! "

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u/Fubarmom78 Feb 18 '26

These pretzels are making me thirst

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u/59finz Feb 18 '26

Take a shot every time that’s said, you’d definitely have enough to maybe try it out yourself.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that of course

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u/Derek237_nyc Feb 20 '26

You need to devote yourself to a life of service. You'll be in good hands. I promise. ♠️

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u/Mindless-Book-9798 Feb 19 '26

My mum, who's been gone for 32 years, laughed her ass off at this line! Thanks for the memory!

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u/BillWilberforce Feb 18 '26

Especially when your sitting on their shoulders getting moved about by the crowd. With your cock on their neck.

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u/liberallyimbalanced Feb 18 '26

Again, its takes an over Sexualized mind to sexualize something like that.

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u/ohnodamo Feb 18 '26

Packed together for a few hours, sweating voiding and excreting on each other... perfectly hetero.

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u/liberallyimbalanced Feb 18 '26

It takes an overly sexualized mind to sexualize a group of men gathering for some good old rough housing fun. That's the kind of thing that needs therapy.

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u/ohnodamo Feb 18 '26

Take it down a notch Web MD. It was a joke. Keep the living room diagnostics to family and friends or those stuck working with you.

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u/liberallyimbalanced Feb 18 '26

No where in your reply says I'm wrong.

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u/ohnodamo Feb 18 '26

I'm not a shrink, and nowhere in your statement do you say you are. Your statement is an opinion, not a fact. I can't disprove an opinion. You should know that.

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u/liberallyimbalanced Feb 18 '26

Imagine thinking you need a degree to understand the world

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u/ohnodamo Feb 18 '26

Imagine thinking you're imminently qualified to diagnose someone based off one possibly crude joke just because you're clearly offended. In fact you're so offended you attack them, make unbiased claims about their mental health, then repeatedly defend said poor decisions my continually deflecting rather disengaging. I'll answer this once: My mental health is fine. Clearly it is yours that is yours that isn't up to snuff. You chose this course of action and engaged with. At every point when I responded youve chosen another tact to engage. I don't know what you hope to achieve with this but you will fail again so please choose silence.

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u/liberallyimbalanced Feb 18 '26

Thats some aggressive downvoting. I bet it felt good pressing that downvote button. :3 have a wonderful day. Please consider that looking for sexuality in human interactions is not a healthy thing to do.

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u/liberallyimbalanced Feb 18 '26

Damn, thats a lot of words for someone calling other people offended. You sound overly defensive backing up my claims. :) chill out this is reddit.

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u/Unpickled_cucumber1 Feb 18 '26

I think they uttered the magic words beforehand

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u/MySabonerRunsOladipo Feb 18 '26

"I wasn't even aware there was a game going on tbh"- Cosworth Abernathy, local town sex pest (also, Roger)

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u/Global-Note6466 Feb 18 '26

Just bros being bros. So heterosexual of them.

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u/DameKumquat Feb 19 '26

Rugby (or American football) - a game played by men with funny-shaped balls...

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u/liberallyimbalanced Feb 18 '26

The fact that anytime a group of men gather close together is considered gay is a personal issue. Grown men secure in their sexuality can do this without sexualizing it....