Loving this story and the UK's passion for creating the most random competition.<p>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!
The World Pea Throwing Championships are held at The Lewes Arms, in Lewes, East Sussex. Their annual Spaniel Racing is also great fun.<p><a href="https://lewesarms.co.uk/events.html" rel="nofollow">https://lewesarms.co.uk/events.html</a><p>It's a pity their pantomime animal racing doesn't seem to happen these days.
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Some footage of the 2022 competition <a href="https://youtu.be/D9AivYbgVuU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/D9AivYbgVuU</a>
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?
My first guess would be that flipping it with a finger would be faster than throwing using the whole arm.<p>Edit: I found a post which kind of gives anecdotal evidence to support it: <a href="https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1343582124" rel="nofollow">https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1343582124</a><p>"The Masaii could easily kill lizards with this technique (flipping pebbles with fingers)"
I competed in the World Tin Bath Championships[0] last year, put on by the Castletown Ale Drinkers Society (the CADS).<p>[0] <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WorldTinBathsChampionships" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/WorldTinBathsChampionships</a>