Originally Posted by Toxoplasmosis:
You should have been there around 2010/11 when the Reds were supposedly hiring some super powerful Khmer black magic wizards to attack the Yellows. To counter this, the Yellows decided that they needed to protect their main supernatural protector (a statue of a particular dead king in downtown Bangkok). How to protect it? Obviously by ringing it with menstrual blood from their female supporters. This they duly did. Imagine a prophylactic ring of bagged up used sanitary napkins around dead king's statue which they spent a good deal of time prostrating themselves before.
Quite interesting stuff from the anthropological side... but you don't want to get between an enraged Royalist Thai and his used tampons!
Lots more stuff like this. Really interesting people.