Embarrassing or sexy?

We didn’t have any metro on Friday, so I felt it appropriate to make it the first post today. What have you got for me, world’s weirdest news site?

They've already tried making frogs get married - now drought-hit Indian farmers are turning to naked women for help. Farmers in the eastern Indian state of Bihar have asked their unmarried daughters to plough parched fields naked, in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain. Witnesses said the naked girls in Bihar state ploughed the fields and chanted ancient hymns after sunset to invoke the gods. The witnesses also said that elderly village women helped the girls drag the ploughs [Ed. Note: The elderly chicks were clothed though, right? *shudder* Cause it seems like naked old chicks would anger most gods]. 'They believe their acts would get the weather gods badly embarrassed, who in turn would ensure bumper crops by sending rains,' Upendra Kumar, a village council official, said from Bihar's remote Banke Bazaar town. 'This is the most trusted social custom in the area and the villagers have vowed to continue this practice until it rains very heavily.' India this year suffered its worst start to the vital monsoon rains in eight decades, causing drought in some states. Earlier this week, farmers in West Bengal state held a marriage ceremony for frogs, in another attempt to make the rains come. [Source: metro.co.uk]

I wanted to say “well I get the frog-marriage, but why naked chicks?”, but honestly, I’m not sure I entirely get the frog-marriage. For the record, if any of you read the above and thought ‘dude, I wish I lived in India right now’, I feel I must remind you that – despite a lack of naked farmhands – you’re pretty lucky to live in a place where ‘lack of rain’ does not equate to ‘slow death by starvation’. Also, I hate you. In related news, other religions are so weird. Now if you’ll excuse me, I shamelessly admired my neighbor’s umbrella this morning. I’m gonna grab my beaded necklace and chant for the next forty minutes to repent.