[HN Gopher] I'm a world champion pea thrower
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I'm a world champion pea thrower
Author : sandebert
Score : 62 points
Date : 2023-12-29 12:03 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| aronhegedus wrote:
| Absolutely love these random competitions haha
| graphe wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%27s_Hill_Cheese-Rolling...
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| Videos are hilarious.
| thih9 wrote:
| Many of them are on Wikipedia:
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| - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok_racing
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| - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing
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| - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugger
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| And of course there is a long history:
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| - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games#Events
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| - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_games
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| - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sports
| dehrmann wrote:
| Someone's been watching The Ocho.
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| 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.
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| 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.
| burrish wrote:
| Loving this story and the UK's passion for creating the most
| random competition.
|
| 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!
| toss1 wrote:
| 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.")
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| [0] https://manitousprings.org/events/fruitcake-toss/
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| [1] https://www.punkinchunkin.com/the-competition/rules/
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| [2] https://www.worldnomads.com/stories/discovery/water-
| buffalo-...
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| [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_racing
| nxobject wrote:
| Speaking of Thailand, I'm a real fan of the Rocket Festival
| competitions. [1] Competitions satisfy our chimpanzee brains,
| and so do pyrotechnics!
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| [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Festival
| ycombinete wrote:
| 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."
| codebrrr wrote:
| 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.
| oh_sigh wrote:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%27s_Hill_Cheese-Rolli...
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| Example: Chasing a cheese wheel down a hill
| elpocko wrote:
| Is this finally the time and place to discuss the credibility of
| Sara Pascoe's 18+ meters, 3 times in a row, perfectly in the
| middle of the carpet landing pea throws in season 3 of
| Taskmaster?
| laluneodyssee wrote:
| What she did was brilliant insanity.
| unsupp0rted wrote:
| And yet she came in 3rd place, since the other contestants
| came up with hacks to "technically" propel the pea further.
| pimlottc wrote:
| Full task video:
| https://youtu.be/u6XVoKI3AnE?si=f3TwSL2L_eFIifTb&t=912
| AussieWog93 wrote:
| "The uploader has not made this video available in your
| country"
| aqme28 wrote:
| Hers was frozen, which must help a lot.
| praptak wrote:
| My first guess would be that flipping it with a finger would be
| faster than throwing using the whole arm.
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| Edit: I found a post which kind of gives anecdotal evidence to
| support it: https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1343582124
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| "The Masaii could easily kill lizards with this technique
| (flipping pebbles with fingers)"
| foreigner wrote:
| I competed in the World Tin Bath Championships[0] last year, put
| on by the Castletown Ale Drinkers Society (the CADS).
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| [0] https://www.facebook.com/WorldTinBathsChampionships
| tim333 wrote:
| Some footage of the 2022 competition https://youtu.be/D9AivYbgVuU
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