Strange British Things.

[Murphy]

 

[Murphy]

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[sus]

I'm grateful our public broadcasting network has sane kids shows like ZABOOMAFOO and DRAGON TALES so I didn't end up demented like the Brits

 

[Leo]

 

[Murphy]

On hillside crusty make you!

 

[sufi]

It's a very self-consciously odd one, the cheese rolling - people are mainly doing it cos they like to be seen to be a bit quirky and revive some daft and meaningless olde englishe rural customs (for the sake of twitstaface & the tourists)

 

[Leo]

We've got the annual 4th of July Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island. Started in 1972 as a fun local thing but taken over and corporatized in the late 90s by Major League Eating (and now sanctioned by the International Federation of Competitive Eating), with a national media partnership with ESPN.

 

[sufi]

We've got the annual 4th of July Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island. Started in 1972 as a fun local thing but taken over and corporatized in the late 90s by Major League Eating (and now sanctioned by the International Federation of Competitive Eating), with a national media partnership with ESPN.

at least that's a genuine content of skill and stamina

 

[Leo]

"skill" in the loosest sense, but yeah.

 

[Mr. Tea]

We've got the annual 4th of July Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island. Started in 1972 as a fun local thing but taken over and corporatized in the late 90s by Major League Eating (and now sanctioned by the International Federation of Competitive Eating), with a national media partnership with ESPN.

"Major League Eating" might be the most American three words imaginable.

 

[Leo]

"Major League Eating" might be the most American three words imaginable.

but tea, it's sanctioned by the International Federation of Competitive Eating.

 

[sufi]

"skill" in the loosest sense, but yeah.

that website https://majorleagueeating.com/records/ conjures some amazing scenes - e.g. imagine consuming 5kg of baked beans in under 2 minutes

 

[sufi]

that website https://majorleagueeating.com/records/ conjures some amazing scenes - e.g. imagine consuming 5kg of baked beans in under 2 minutes

@luka is a famously quick eater - that's about a dozen cans, 10 seconds per tin

 

[Leo]

that website https://majorleagueeating.com/records/ conjures some amazing scenes - e.g. imagine consuming 5kg of baked beans in under 2 minutes

I believe it's common practice to have a vomit bucket alongside each competitor, for when the inevitable occurs.

 

[Leo]

@luka is a famously quick eater - that's about a dozen cans, 10 seconds per tin

https://www.britishbutlerinstitute.com/finishing-school-home/finishing-school-programmes/finishing-school-for-men/

 

[Leo]

https://www.britishbutlerinstitute.com/finishing-school-home/finishing-school-programmes/finishing-school-for-men/

Curriculum includes:​

• How to attract the person of your dreams
• Building relationships
• Career success strategies
• Winning image. Personal presentation
• Dress for success
• Communication essentials. Meet and greet
• Voice clinic
• Confident conversation
• Polished language skills
• Body language
• First impressions mastery
• Polished movements and deportment
• Dining etiquette
• Understanding the nature of self-confidence
• Finesse and savoir faire
• Entertainment essentials
• Domestic skills. Creating order and giving you essential valet skills that will impress and give you the skills to take charge of your life
• Men’s issues in the modern world. Finding solutions

Reads like a list of Dissensus threads.

 

[Leo]

• Men’s issues in the modern world. Finding solutions

 

[Mr. Tea]

I'm surprised all this baked-bean chat hasn't summoned our resident chaos demon.

 

[sus]

Do Brits have homemade chocolate chip cookies?

 

[luka]

no. we dont have any kind of cookies.