Today is Japan’s Naked Festival!

You’re fed up with the never-ending festivals of cinema, theater, music… in place of events you’ll really remember! Unusual, dangerous, or gross, there’s something for everyone. This is a judgment-free zone!
10 - Hadaka Matsuri – Okayama, Japon - The Naked Festival
This Japanese festival has been around for 300 years. Free yourself of your necktie, heels, bra, and pants to celebrate your body! Don’t imagine yourself completely nude though, because you’ll have to wear a Japanese loincloth. It’s basically a big diaper with string. So when's the bearing of the butts? The 18th of February, 2017.
The naked FML:
9 - Ginger Pride Rally – Melbourne, Australia – The Redhead Festival
Allowing those who are different to band together, Melbourne annually brings together 2% of the world’s redheads! In reality, redheads are superheroes! I mean, like Spiderman, they have a gene that mutated and *poof* they’re not like the rest of us muggles! Calling all redheads: find your fellow carrots in Melbourne on April 29, 2017.
PS : To the non-redheads, don’t bother trying to sneak in. Honestly, this soulless red tide is kind of creepy.
A redheaded FML:
8 - Mule Day – Columbia, United States
There’s no reason why horses, pure-breeds, or stallions should have a monopoly on equestrian idolatry. The lower class of Equidae will have its moment! Ride in on your best mule for races, sales, local products, parades and the election of the Queen of Mules (a real woman, but what bad taste!) await you from March 27 to April 2, 2017.
An equine FML:
7 - The Mud Festival – Boryeong, South Korea
The last one to get dirty loses! On Daecheon Beach in South Korea, once a year the inhabitants rush into enormous inflatable rooms filled with mud. There’s magic in this mud because it’s full of nutrients and minerals. It makes the skin as soft as a baby’s bottom! Mud races, wrestling competitions, concerts, mud slides, mud baths, and massages await the biggest dirtbags from July 21 to 30, 2017.
Putting the "Mud" in "FML":
6 - Emma Crawford Coffin Races & Parade – Manitou Springs, United States
Dying of laughter or wanting to know what it’s like to be in a coffin… either way, why not? Like they say, this festival puts the fun in funeral, uniting the craziest goths on the planet. On the other hand, there’s no point in sending you off in a simple wooden crate. No, here we go to the grim reaper (the finish line, of course) with style and class. No need to write your will before the starting signal on October 3, 2017.
An FML from almost beyond the grave:
5 - La Tomatina – Bunol, Spain – The Great Tomato Battle
You've always dreamed of slinging tomatoes at that guy you can’t stand because of his stupid voice/face/ t-shirt color... or do you just want to bathe in a pool of tomato blood? Either way, come satisfy your Machiavellian desires in Bunol by participating in the great battle of tomatoes! La Tomatina is August 30, 2017. Keep calm, at the end of the day you’re offered a giant shower thanks to some supersized jets of water.
FML takes a trip:
4 - Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw and Festival – Wisconsin, United States
Now for something weird. Really, really weird. We’ve never seen this before, perhaps for good reason. So… why? We can't say for sure. This event brings together throwing cow dung, parades of cow floats, cow-based food (like burgers), and real cows, of course. Prepare your nose clips for September 1 and 2, 2017, because it certainly won’t smell like roses.
A bovine FML:
3 - Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake – Gloucester, England
What would you do for good cheese? Each year in Gloucester, a cheese (Double Gloucester), weighing 3.2 kg, is let loose at the top of Cooper's Hill. The goal: catch the cheese or be the first to make it down the hill alive. You thought the most dangerous thing with cheese was mold. Wrong! The hill is muddy, the grass is slippery, and the slope has a 50% incline so somersaults, injuries, falls, and tumbles are to be expected. You’ll have 5 chances to catch your cheese on May 29, 2017.
A cheesy FML:
2 - Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships - Savonlinna, Finland
Tired of your boss who calls you every two minutes to reprimand you? Want to break free from social networks? Well, it’s now or never to chuck your cellphone as far as possible! Cut loose and try to break the 97.73m record of the Finnish Riku Haverinen. Time of death for telephonic harassment: March 11, 2017.
A phoned-in FML:
1 - El Salta del Colacho – Murcia, Spain – The Baby-Jumping Festival
Every year Murcia celebrates an interesting tradition: jumping over babies. The basic idea is that a man is dressed up in a Colacho (red and yellow) costume and jumps over babies lying on a mattress in the street. The goal is to purify the newborns and protect them from the devil. Better than Lourdes or Fatima, Murcia is the new sanctuary for believers. It’s on June 18, 2017 and not to be missed. (Note that we find this one off-sides. Like, seriously?)