Welcome To The World's Largest Gathering Of Humans

National Public Radio ^ | 1/20/19 | Lauren Frayer and Furkan Latif Khan

[oldtech]

I about gagged just reading about this huge outdoor toilet without seeing the pictures. You have to be insane even getting close to that river.

[CrazyIvan]

“Ganges”- quite possibly from the samr root word as “gangrene”.

[Cronos]

Let's have some respect for other peoples' rights to worship as they wish as long as it doesn't step on ours.

They can post bad stuff about Christianity as well. This mutual mud-slinging serves no one.

[Cronos]

gangrene comes via French from Latin gangraena, from Greek gangraina meaning an "eating sore".

Ganges comes from Ancient Greek Γάγγης ‎(Gángēs) from Sanskrit (गङ्गा ) ‎(gáṅgā, literally “swift-goer”), from verbal root √gam ‎(√gam, “to go”).

Remember that both are Indo-European languages.

[Kickass Conservative]

I assume Herbalife is number two.

[Russ]

No one here is denying other people’s right to worship as they wish. Hell, let them drink it if it makes them feel more holy. Telling the truth about the filth in the river is not “mud-slinging”. Garbage slinging, maybe...

[ebb tide]

There’s a difference between “respect” and “tolerance”.

[Mom MD]

Yup I believe you can also see any number of bodies floating by Animal and human