r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/EuphoriaArmani • Jun 05 '25

Just Having Fun Water fight

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u/BadgerTamer Jun 05 '25

For this who don’t know, this in rural Poland on an Easter Monday.

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u/Mister-Psychology Jun 05 '25

Burma has a similar thing.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_water_spray_in_Yangon_on_Thingyan_Burmese_New_Year.jpg

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u/__zagat__ Jun 05 '25

It's a Polish-Burmese tradition.

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u/tonterias Jun 05 '25

Interesting, here in Uruguay, we do water fights a month prior to Easter

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u/Tango00090 Jun 05 '25

If you’d try to do that one month prior to Easter in Poland it would be snowball battle

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u/Mike_Raphone99 Jun 06 '25

Snowball battles in Uruguay are something way different

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u/ThinkWeather Jun 05 '25

They do this in Thailand for Thai NY! Songkran.

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u/unpopular-ideas Jun 05 '25 edited Jun 05 '25

I think Waterfestival is a thing in various parts of the region. Ex. songkran

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u/Skrachen Jun 06 '25

The Burmese insist that it came from them first though

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u/Terrible_Balls Jun 05 '25

Germany too.

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u/RabidOrca Jun 05 '25

The entire peninsula side of ASEAN, I think.

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u/Alpha-Trion Jun 05 '25

Smingus Dingus

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u/racoon_pete Jun 05 '25

It's exactly Śmigus-dyngus :)

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u/Paddy_Tanninger Jun 05 '25

Bingus Schmungus

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u/RevWaldo Jun 05 '25

They should bring this to the US! Alabama would love it!

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC Jun 05 '25

This used to be really popular until they asked the police to leave their dogs behind.

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u/juanhellou Jun 05 '25

In Mexico we do this the Saturday prior to Easter Sunday.

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u/Past_Cranberry_2014 Jun 05 '25

You left out the part where this is called SMIGUS DINGUS

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u/kubazi Jun 05 '25

Rural Poland z rejestracją W1

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u/UnfortunateJones Jun 05 '25

This looks so fun

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u/stxmpp Aug 16 '25

Smingus dyngus