Cheese rolling

[SavageParrot]

Went to see this at the weekend. For those of you not familiar with the habits of English yokels this basically involves heading to the steepest hill around and lauching a circular cheese down the hill followed by a horde of yokels who have to try and catch the cheese. Round here they have been doing it for more than 400 years

It is needless to say painfully funny or just painful if you are taking part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5ykhXDDbo

[Alofwar]

LOL, i dont think there was a roll a wheel of cheese there, just a bunch of idiots falling downa hill, if there was i didnt see it until that guy held it up at the end.

Also, didnt the government ban cheese rolling recently?

[YOOPER]

HA!

It's things like this that help me sleep well at night, knowing full well they are providing me job security for years and years and years to come...

And I think I saw Parrot!! He was the guy falling down the hill!

[SavageParrot]

Nah there was some background chatter about it being too expensive to insure but they fixed by making evryone sign a waver. Retarded but hey...

[gowhitesox99]

kinda like running of the bulls I guess, on that 1st one that dude went flying

[YOOPER]

The Japanese have been doing something similar to this, too...for 1200 years.

It is called "Onbashira" and it involves straddling a huge log and riding it down the hill.

Many videos are available on You Tube, etc... Here is one, for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgO9ByVK2aw

Crazy.

[SavageParrot]

lol the year befor last you'd have loved it yoop they had 17 people hospitalised and actually ran out of ambulances. As it's a good 15 miles from the nearest hospital they actually had to set up a kind of triage area

[gowhitesox99]

ok run with bulls - no
cheese roll down the hill - no
but ride the huge log down the hill - sure, that actually looks kinda fun.

[Chacal]

Hey Weasel, looks like your son has a future in Japan!

[gowhitesox99]

hahaha maybe, with those 2 you never know........

[TChicken]

Now that's entertainment.