WTF is going on here. According to FreshNews Asia there has been a third outbreak of mass fainting at a footwear factory (in Kandal province, I think) in two weeks, and the cause of it is allegedly a ghost.
There is a good video of one of the women, supposedly possessed by a ghost, although she looks more like she's cranked up on yaba to me. If anyone knows how to embed it, I'd appreciate it.
So what's the real deal here? Anyone got any good theories about these mass fainting?
http://m.freshnewsasia.com/index.php/en ... 20-11.html
Ghost causes third mass fainting / possession at Grand East Footwear factory in two weeks
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Laziness + mass hysteria.scobienz wrote: So what's the real deal here? Anyone got any good theories about these mass fainting?
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My personal favorite.Lucky Lucan wrote:... + mass hysteria.scobienz wrote: So what's the real deal here? Anyone got any good theories about these mass fainting?
A convent of nuns began to meow like cats and others followed until all would meow together at a certain time for several hours. This continued until the surrounding village called soldiers to threaten the nuns to stop their singing.[7
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I wrote back in 2012:
Workers of the world, Faint!
Julia Wallace wrote an excellent article on this in 2014:There was a spate of mass faintings at several different garment factories and even a couple of schools in Cambodia. Many observers were understandably quick to cast a suspicious eye on factory conditions, but the cause is still a matter of investigation. The mass faintings began suddenly and have occurred over a relatively short span, the only obvious commonalities being most happened in the factories and were exclusively among the laborers. It would be an extraordinary coincidence for such a cluster to occur, yet not have some common cause or link between the incidents – e.g. some new chemical, pesticide or product in use, a new ventilation system, a illness of some sort being passed around, longer working hours or increased production requirements, some new practice common to all of the affected factories.
Different causes have been suggested by investigators and labor advocates. In fact, there have been almost as many possible causes cited as there have been fainting incidents – chemicals, smells, ventilation, long hours, hunger, food poisoning, dehydration, etc., but nothing definitive and nothing new and common to all of the affected facilities. Working conditions in the factories appear to be pretty much the same as they have been for years.
In lieu of evidence of a common cause I am inclined to agree with Time Magazine. The mass fainting are, for lack of a better term, ‘mass-hysteria,’ but by that I don't mean to diminish their significance. These factory workers are largely poor young women, often rural girls accustomed to rice farming and country living, now working in gray, stuffy, unpleasant conditions, feeling homesick, pressured by family (for money) and harsh supervisors, and doing mind-numbingly repetitive work for small compensation, often for long hours. Though the factories are not 'sweat shops,' this is still the kind of work that is undesirable enough to drive some young women to choose prostitution in preference. In my opinion, for whatever reason that first mass fainting happened, it sparked a chain reaction of all the faintings that followed - it was the spark for a sort of involuntary protest by these young women against the unhappy and oppressive circumstances in which they find themselves.
Workers of the world, Faint!
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If ghosts really caused mass-faintings, there would be more of them a government ministry offices.
That video and the prospect of mass faintings and hysteria caused by her twerking it has made my day. Thank you.
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Ridiculous dancing (for long enough to be filmed), then gives up (the ghost!) and throws herself in a heap.
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Skiving off work is simpler than this in some countries.
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Skiving off work is simpler than this in some countries.
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[FBvideo][/FBvideo]scobienz wrote: There is a good video of one of the women, supposedly possessed by a ghost, although she looks more like she's cranked up on yaba to me. If anyone knows how to embed it, I'd appreciate it.
you cant embed facebook videos on here (CEO can though)
i support the Ghost story
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Mass swooning over some male pop idol shown on the factory tv monitors.
Or
They have been at the shoe glue again.
Or
They have been at the shoe glue again.
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i might try some of this fainting malarky if its going to get me some face-to-boob actionscobienz wrote:
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