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The new students are divided into two teams and are then told to get undressed and to make a line with their clothes. This usually takes place in a public park or square and the team who manages to make the longest clothes line wins.Swedish wildness rating: 8
Rest of the planet wildness rating: 2
Middle Ages wildness rating: -10
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The student teams are divided into couples (usually boy and girl) then the guy goes down on his knees and starts humping the girl, with a balloon between them. The team whose balloon breaks first wins.
Annons
Rest of the planet wildness rating: 0
Middle Ages wildness rating: -16 (though I guess a balloon would have been quite surprising.)
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Just as the name implies, this is a tug of war taking place on a lawn covered in cow shit, making it a shitty loss for the defeated team.Swedish wildness rating: 8
Rest of the planet wildness rating: 6
Middle Ages wildness rating: 3 (lots of cow shit back then, but that doesn't mean they liked it.)
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The older students cover the freshers in pegs, and again, the team that can last the longest without screaming from pain or throwing the pegs off wins.Swedish wildness rating: 1
Rest of the planet wildness rating: -1
Middle Ages wildness rating: -7
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Again, the two new student teams are divided into couples and one person has to eat a cucumber from the other person's underwear. The team that eats their cucumbers the quickest wins. Sometimes, a Mars bar can be used instead.Swedish wildness rating: 10
Rest of the planet wildness rating: 4
Middle Ages wildness rating: 8 (if they're different sexes.)
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In Sweden, rotten fish (or “surströmming”, as it's called, which is Swedish for sour fish) is an unappetising regional delicacy shunned by most people. The mere smell of it can make people puke. During the rotten fish race the two teams have to form a line each and pass the fish from mouth to mouth and then back. The team that manages to get the fish back first wins. If they drop it, they need to start over again with a new, rank lil’ fishy.
Annons
Rest of the planet wildness rating: 9
Middle Ages wildness rating: -100 (all foods were gross back then)
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When the students are half naked (and usually quite tipsy), they have to stand one by one and sing in a public fountain.Swedish wildness rating: 4
Rest of the planet wildness rating: 2
Middle Ages wildness rating: 1
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The grand finale is the gross slide. The older students throw eggs, rotten milk, ketchup, oil, rank fish broth and whatnot on the half naked drunk students, who are then told to slide around on a tarpaulin. Sometimes this ritual starts with a beer bong and the students’ puke is used as sliding lubricate for the tarpaulin. The latter, however, is more common during the high school initiation rituals, as the universities usually take a stand against excessive booze consumption and puke.Swedish wildness rating: 10
Rest of the planet wildness rating: 7
Middle Ages wildness rating: -100000