Re:"I'm a world champion pea thrower"
by ycombinete on Friday December 29, 2023 @10:55AM
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I met a consultant in Oman once who, talking about the sports he watches, said “I’m British! I’ll watch anything someone can lose.”
Anything that can be wagered on is of interest to the British.
Let's invent a new one: throw a CPU towards a motherboard. It must land in the socket in the proper orientation. Furthest distance wins.
That's 25% of Taskmaster haha
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%27s_Hill_Cheese-Rolli...
Example: Chasing a cheese wheel down a hill
Excellent! There are a few good ones in the US and around the world. Ones that come to mind first are, from the US, the Great Fruitcake Toss [0] (currently in season), and of course Punkin Chunkin [1] which involves fun technology and seems to have a current record of 2900'/883.9m. From Thailand, water buffalo racing [2], and camel racing from the middle east, which is starting to ban child jockeys and replace them with robotic jockeys developed in the UAE and Switzerland.
Seems Humans WILL find a way to have fun at every opportunity. (Goes with the saying I heard from a friend: "If there's two sailboats on the water going in roughly the same direction within a kilometer of each other, at least one of them thinks they're racing.")
[0] https://manitousprings.org/events/fruitcake-toss/
[1] https://www.punkinchunkin.com/the-competition/rules/
[2] https://www.worldnomads.com/stories/discovery/water-buffalo-...
Speaking of Thailand, I’m a real fan of the Rocket Festival competitions. [1]
Competitions satisfy our chimpanzee brains, and so do pyrotechnics!
You might ask yourself "What if there was a competition about X ?" and then find out that the UK has been doing it for +20 years!