Re:"I'm a world champion pea thrower"
by aronhegedus on Friday December 29, 2023 @07:57AM
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Absolutely love these random competitions haha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%27s_Hill_Cheese-Rolling...
Videos are hilarious.
Many of them are on Wikipedia:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok_racing
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugger
And of course there is a long history:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games#Events
Someone's been watching The Ocho.
Never heard of it, I was just browsing Wikipedia.
Re:"I'm a world champion pea thrower"
by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 29, 2023 @09:38AM
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So once upon a time, in the area I lived, the local country music station sponsored a cow chip throwing contest. You got to take your pick from a literal pile of dung, and threw from a designated spot, and there were people there with tape measures to measure how far you got.
Well, I was an early teenager. I was in line to throw, and I was bragging about how good my cow chip was - how it had this perfect indent for me to grip it, and so on. And the guy standing next to me in line saw what I meant, and offered to buy it from me.
I literally sold a cow chip for 50 cents.
Looking back on it, I suspect he may have had some alcohol...
So, yeah. It's not just peas that people throw in competitions.