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I'm a world champion pea thrower

94 points by sandebert 3y ago

aronhegedus 3y ago
Absolutely love these random competitions haha
- graphe 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%27s_Hill_Cheese-Rolling_and_Wake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%27s_Hill_Cheese-Rolling... Videos are hilarious.
- thih9 3y ago
  Many of them are on Wikipedia: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok_racing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok_racing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugger And of course there is a long history: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games#Events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games#Events - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_games - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sports
  - dehrmann 3y ago
    Someone's been watching The Ocho.
    - thih9 3y ago
      Never heard of it, I was just browsing Wikipedia.
- AnimalMuppet 3y ago
  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.
burrish 3y ago
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 3y ago
  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/ https://manitousprings.org/events/fruitcake-toss/ [1] https://www.punkinchunkin.com/the-competition/rules/ https://www.punkinchunkin.com/the-competition/rules/ [2] https://www.worldnomads.com/stories/discovery/water-buffalo-racing-in-chonburi-thailand https://www.worldnomads.com/stories/discovery/water-buffalo-... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_racing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_racing
  - nxobject 3y ago
    Speaking of Thailand, I’m a real fan of the Rocket Festival competitions. [1] Competitions satisfy our chimpanzee brains, and so do pyrotechnics! [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Festival https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Festival
  - ligerzer0 3y ago
    Bullock cart drag racing was an absolute thrill to watch as a kid in rural Punjab. The speed those guys generate is mind-blowing
- ycombinete 3y ago
  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.”
elpocko 3y ago
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 3y ago
  What she did was brilliant insanity.
  - unsupp0rted 3y ago
    And yet she came in 3rd place, since the other contestants came up with hacks to "technically" propel the pea further.
- pimlottc 3y ago
  Full task video: https://youtu.be/u6XVoKI3AnE?si=f3TwSL2L_eFIifTb&t=912 https://youtu.be/u6XVoKI3AnE?si=f3TwSL2L_eFIifTb&t=912
  - AussieWog93 3y ago
    "The uploader has not made this video available in your country"
    - pityJuke 3y ago
      It’s a miracle it is on YouTube at all, considering it’s a full episode of a broadcast TV show by one of the UK’s biggest networks. Sadly, they haven’t clipped this task or put it in any compilation I can find, which would be internationally accessible.
  - plantain 3y ago
    >The uploader has not made this video available in your country Why do we still suffer through this nonsense.
- aqme28 3y ago
praptak 3y ago
My first guess would be that flipping it with a finger would be faster than throwing using the whole arm. Edit: I found a post which kind of gives anecdotal evidence to support it: https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1343582124 https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1343582124 "The Masaii could easily kill lizards with this technique (flipping pebbles with fingers)"
foreigner 3y ago
I competed in the World Tin Bath Championships[0] last year, put on by the Castletown Ale Drinkers Society (the CADS). [0] https://www.facebook.com/WorldTinBathsChampionships https://www.facebook.com/WorldTinBathsChampionships
tim333 3y ago
Some footage of the 2022 competition https://youtu.be/D9AivYbgVuU https://youtu.be/D9AivYbgVuU
paulpauper 3y ago
how would you find it? what if the pea falls in a crevasse
jbl0ndie 3y ago
The World Pea Throwing Championships are held at The Lewes Arms, in Lewes, East Sussex. Their annual Spaniel Racing is also great fun. https://lewesarms.co.uk/events.html https://lewesarms.co.uk/events.html It's a pity their pantomime animal racing doesn't seem to happen these days. https://m.facebook.com/thelewesarms/photos/a.561480057238414/1601690939883982/?type=3 https://m.facebook.com/thelewesarms/photos/a.561480057238414...
- tomcam 3y ago
  They’ve been banned from every salad bar in Sussex. I kid. Of course there are no salad bars in Sussex.
BrandoElFollito 3y ago
Beside the really exotic competitions, I was thrilled to discover that there are championships of dodgeball and tag.

94 points by sandebert 3y ago

aronhegedus 3y ago

Absolutely love these random competitions haha

graphe 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%27s_Hill_Cheese-Rolling_and_Wake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%27s_Hill_Cheese-Rolling... Videos are hilarious.
thih9 3y ago
Many of them are on Wikipedia: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok_racing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok_racing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugger And of course there is a long history: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games#Events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games#Events - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_games - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sports
- dehrmann 3y ago
  Someone's been watching The Ocho.
  - thih9 3y ago
    Never heard of it, I was just browsing Wikipedia.
AnimalMuppet 3y ago
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.

burrish 3y ago

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 3y ago
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/ https://manitousprings.org/events/fruitcake-toss/ [1] https://www.punkinchunkin.com/the-competition/rules/ https://www.punkinchunkin.com/the-competition/rules/ [2] https://www.worldnomads.com/stories/discovery/water-buffalo-racing-in-chonburi-thailand https://www.worldnomads.com/stories/discovery/water-buffalo-... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_racing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_racing
- nxobject 3y ago
  Speaking of Thailand, I’m a real fan of the Rocket Festival competitions. [1] Competitions satisfy our chimpanzee brains, and so do pyrotechnics! [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Festival https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Festival
- ligerzer0 3y ago
  Bullock cart drag racing was an absolute thrill to watch as a kid in rural Punjab. The speed those guys generate is mind-blowing
ycombinete 3y ago
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.”

elpocko 3y ago

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 3y ago
What she did was brilliant insanity.
- unsupp0rted 3y ago
  And yet she came in 3rd place, since the other contestants came up with hacks to "technically" propel the pea further.
pimlottc 3y ago
Full task video: https://youtu.be/u6XVoKI3AnE?si=f3TwSL2L_eFIifTb&t=912 https://youtu.be/u6XVoKI3AnE?si=f3TwSL2L_eFIifTb&t=912
- AussieWog93 3y ago
  "The uploader has not made this video available in your country"
  - pityJuke 3y ago
    It’s a miracle it is on YouTube at all, considering it’s a full episode of a broadcast TV show by one of the UK’s biggest networks. Sadly, they haven’t clipped this task or put it in any compilation I can find, which would be internationally accessible.
- plantain 3y ago
  >The uploader has not made this video available in your country Why do we still suffer through this nonsense.
aqme28 3y ago

praptak 3y ago

My first guess would be that flipping it with a finger would be faster than throwing using the whole arm. Edit: I found a post which kind of gives anecdotal evidence to support it: https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1343582124 https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1343582124 "The Masaii could easily kill lizards with this technique (flipping pebbles with fingers)"

foreigner 3y ago

I competed in the World Tin Bath Championships[0] last year, put on by the Castletown Ale Drinkers Society (the CADS). [0] https://www.facebook.com/WorldTinBathsChampionships https://www.facebook.com/WorldTinBathsChampionships

tim333 3y ago

Some footage of the 2022 competition https://youtu.be/D9AivYbgVuU https://youtu.be/D9AivYbgVuU

paulpauper 3y ago

how would you find it? what if the pea falls in a crevasse

jbl0ndie 3y ago

The World Pea Throwing Championships are held at The Lewes Arms, in Lewes, East Sussex. Their annual Spaniel Racing is also great fun. https://lewesarms.co.uk/events.html https://lewesarms.co.uk/events.html It's a pity their pantomime animal racing doesn't seem to happen these days. https://m.facebook.com/thelewesarms/photos/a.561480057238414/1601690939883982/?type=3 https://m.facebook.com/thelewesarms/photos/a.561480057238414...

tomcam 3y ago
They’ve been banned from every salad bar in Sussex. I kid. Of course there are no salad bars in Sussex.

BrandoElFollito 3y ago

Beside the really exotic competitions, I was thrilled to discover that there are championships of dodgeball and tag.