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Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables
(www.independent.co.uk)
Beauty pageants are a scourge
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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Absolutely incredible headline, but kind of a fucked up article. They're hurting camels to win a pagent, what the hell.
Now remember that child pageants exist.
Wikipedia recently picked me this article to rabbithole. These bots are supposed to replace child slaves because the usual adult camel riders just doesn't tickle the same, huh
The slave is under the robot
From the same species that brought you rooster fighting, one way tickets to space for dogs, and shark fin soup: Extreme Makeover - Camel Injectables Edition
Don't forget "driving lemmings over a cliff to make our documentary seem cooler while also spreading wild misinformation about the behavior of lemmings."
What the heck! Which documentary was this?
The "Family Friendly" Disney documentary from the 1950's.
Did you know the biomass of farmed mammals is 30 times greater than wild mammals? Our industrialized suffering is enormous.
Jesus, those poor animals
My humps my humps, my lovely camel lumps.
I only clicked here just to make sure this comment got posted.
Best hump plumbs! Hump hump!
Fuck we're weird.
The one thing you can rely on humans to be.
those camels could ski jump 10m further.
Cue the Black Eyed Peas …
Finally, some news I can use.
What are you doing? They're goosed, okay?!
You show up to the camel show and your camel's got a body kit, a lift kit, a wing, and 3 fake Nitrous bottles and assure the judges "yeah its stock"
Hump Plumper is a low key insult or props. The tone and context are key.
Hump plumping sounds like part of a job description for a fluffer!
It's been a while since I have seen a post has fit this community so well.
Guys will hump anything.
What is it about our species that we can’t just keep to ourselves? Was the “pageant” really necessary in the first place?
First the skiers and now this... And they don't even go that fast smh my head 😮💨