Watch this insane video of people tunbling down a dangerously steep hill to try to catch a cheese wheel

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Originally published at: Watch this insane video of people tunbling down a dangerously steep hill to try to catch a cheese wheel | Boing Boing

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The Netflix series We are the Champions devoted an episode to Cheese Rolling Day. Very entertaining when viewed from the safety of a couch.

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This event is still going strong; though it was put off for the last two years due to Covid :frowning:

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Double Gloucester

Not participating. Let me know when it’s a ball of Mozzarella or a slab of Provolone.

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I really enjoyed that series. I had several friends in the yo-yo episode, but all the episodes were thoroughly interesting. Especially this cheese wheel one.

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I think that one of the requirements for cheese-rolling is structural integrity; as the cheese can get up to 70mph. I think that Mozzarella might disintegrate under the centrifugal force.

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What is ‘tunbling’? Is it a specialist verb that only parses with the weird formulation ‘in hopes to catch’?

I did go and watch this once about 40 years ago - well before the days of ‘health and safety’ and I am surprised it still goes on. It was utterly insane then and a miracle there were not multiple broken bones as several competitors succumbed to lack of control and the forces of gravity on a very steep and VERY bumpy, lumpy and uneven slope.

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I’ve been intrigued by the cheese rolling people for several years now. This is a half-hour away from another competition:

When I shared these on g+ back in the day, I asked "what the fuck is wrong with these people???" but didn’t get much of an explanation.

BTW there are a bunch of intriguing details at

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  • One veteran winner broke his left arm that year ['97] , having already broken his right arm on the hill a few years earlier, earning him a double fracture for his Double Gloucester. The other two trophy cheeses were stolen.
  • After the event was officially banned in 1998, the organisers introduced some token safety measures. As a result, the body count fell to about a dozen casualties per year.
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It means that they are rolling down the hill like a very large wooden wine cask - aka a tun

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A highly and gaudily decorated tun, for sure (which was one of my first thoughts - glad I’m not the only one familiar with arcane barrel terminology) :wink:
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Tun-bling

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There is nothing wrong with them. They’re English, that’s all.

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A legs-forward drop could result in serious cheese-wedgies.

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I’m wondering if more festivals and events will return next year. Seeing footage like this makes me miss the Radnor Hunt, Devon Horse Show, and Malvern Fair. :cry:

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That used to be the case. These days, I’m not so sure, looking at many of my fellow countrypersons.

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Oh, I know a butt load about that

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Let’s not start all that again, so soon - I’ve had my firkin fill of it, lately.

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I especially loved the point one of the winners made that he was – over the same (albeit highly sloped) distance – faster than Usain Bolt.

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But you contradict yourself…

HAMLET: How long is that since?
FIRST CLOWN: Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that; it was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that is mad, and sent into England.
HAMLET: Ay, marry; why was he sent into England?
FIRST CLOWN: Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits there; or, if he do not, ’tis no great matter there.
HAMLET: Why?
FIRST CLOWN: ’Twill not be seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he.

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♪ ♫ ♬ You can roll your pal, to a Rolo ♪ ♫ ♬

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