I've been trying and failing to come up with a more ridiculous sport than competitive tickling.
I know. Bog snorkling looks like a candidate for the next Olympics by comparison.
Do British papers have a "California is odd" beat to which they assign reporters?
Not as far as I know, though I thik many of them are onto Florida Man. The Guardian has a US edition (and an Australian one) on line, and crosses over stories it think will amuse in all three directions.
That was a truly weird article and well worth the read.
1 - I honestly feel like Capoeira is more ridiculous. At least competitive T owns its dumbness.
Some people might think that the Guardian has hired so many people in California that they have to justify their existence any way they can.
I think that just having competitive tickling as an endurance contest is missing the best part of it. It's like having a gymnastic contest to see how many somersaults you can do in a row before you barf (which, I admit I would watch at least once). I'd like to see judges rating the mirth.
10: I think there would have to an eating component to this -- maybe you have 5 minutes to eat a 1/2 dozen donuts, and then within a minute you have to start doing somersaults?
11: I think I'm going to throw up just from thinking about this.
We had a donut eating contest here once. The attorney that won, had to run to the bathroom to barf soon after.
Correlation doesn't prove causation.
There seems to be a fair number of attorneys that are competitive to the point of idiocy.
Some of us have reached the point of idiocy without needing to be competitive.
And some of us don't even need to be attorneys to be idiots.
My girlfriend and I went to see this documentary a few weeks ago. I highly recommend it.
19: It sounds to me like it would be excruciating. It wasn't?
From the article: tickling all human interpersonal and social interaction is revealed as a means of control and sadism, despite the participants' consent.
Cheers
Thank you masked social determinist.