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You know I heard about something. It’s called the World’s Greatest Liar competition. What’s
that? Well of course I didn’t enter just in case you’re wondering.
How do we know that… How do we know that’s the truth?
Yeah you might be lying now. But it’s interesting that they actually
would have a competition to see who could tell the largest fib. So do you know of any
candidates that might be worthy of entering into this competition?
I think you might win. I wouldn’t. Interesting. So have you heard of any other
weird competitions? I’ve heard of the shin kicking competition
that takes place in England, ow!, It’s basically a sport where two people… they grab hold
of each other by the shoulders and the objective is to kick the other person’s shins. And
if your opponent falls down, then you’ve one.
It’s like Gladiators. And that’s the competition.
Did that start with football? Probably, yeah. I think, I heard that in the
past they used… they had like bare shins but these days you can put like hay down your
trousers to protect your shins a bit. Otherwise it can be bit painful, but it’s probably
painful anyway. Do they have, for example, insurance or anything
to cover injuries? I think it’s just like a little village
festival so no insurance involved. I don’t think I would want to participate
in that one. How many villagers don’t have legs?
Or end up not walking? Apparently in the past they used to prepare
their shins by banging them with hammers to make them harder.
Interesting. So the wheelchair sales are probably pretty high in this village.
Well you know what people are like who live in the country, they go a bit strange after
a while, I imagine. Even in the city.
Last year I went to Fallas in Valencia, in Spain. They build these dolls or statues,
sometimes out of, to imitate politicians, out of papier-mâché I think. And it’s
a competition for who has the best. And then at the end of the festival, whoever wins their
doll or statue doesn’t get burned but everything else does. The whole city goes up in flames.
It’s amazing. That’s interesting. It was very interesting.
After all that work, would you want to burn your statue, sculpture?
It ends up to be something absolutely beautiful, really. It’s amazing, yeah, interesting.
And everybody gets dressed up in old costumes and…
Nice. I always wondered that about, I wondered about that like with things when they make
statues on the beach out of sand or ice. They always look really nice, but they don’t
last, do they? I guess you have to take lots of photos.
Have you ever gone to any festivals like with food or anything like that?
Hmm. I mean, like, most festivals you go to have some food, but not specific, food festival.
Cause there’s something, which is quite interesting, which is a chilli-eating and
-making competitions. Where’s that?
In Texas. Oh, of course.
Of course you have to make it really, really hot and of course they have different contests...
And, so if you like food, it’s really great place to go but again it’s probably similar
to the shin festivals, like, probably… A bit masochistic.
Absolutely. Yeah, your stomach at the end…
I think I’ll just stick to my music festivals. Yeah, exactly. More enjoyable.
Yeah.