To beging with I’m going to introduce you the Hobby-horsing.
It consits in ridding a wood stick with a horse head and jumping obstacles as they had a real horse. Yeah it really exists and it was born in Finlande ! Nowaday there is a real competition in France, sponsoring by Guillaume Canet , who his an actual horserider. It seems crazy but there are some advantages in hobby-horsing : First of all, it’s definitely cheaper than regular horse riding. In addition, we don’t need to care about our horse.
In fact, there no veterinary, no oat and no pension to pay ! I think it’s substantial advantages and must encourage you to take part of this craziest gathering !!!
First of all, humans eat strange food. We “all” eat vegetables or meat, but there are places in this world where people cook things that makes you want to throw up. For instance, in China, you can find the well-known “century egg”. It’s rotten and smells sulfur, and some people still eat it… If you don’t really like eggs, then in France you can eat snails. SNAILS! Why do they cook this thing?! It drools, it’s slimy, and french people eat it in restaurants. At least they bake it, because it would be really disgusting if they didn’t. Speaking of weird animals we can eat, you can visit Cambodia and taste fried spiders. Don’t panic, these are absolutely dead. Apparently it has more meat than a grasshopper, but it also has brown sludge in the abdomen, which consists of mainly innards, eggs and excrement. So, personally, I will not eat some of them because I’m afraid of having baby spiders living in my stomach. There is too many weird food, so I only took few examples. But if you have some time to waste, you can search some strange food like “blood pancakes” or “frog legs” (again from french people!).
Hi guys, just let me introduce to you my series: idiomatic expressions. Yes, you know, everyday you use some basic and stupid words. My mission? I’ll try to explain and analyze origins or them real sens (with a lot of scientific and philosophic aspects!). Today, a difficult task. Animals. Yeah. Excited. But not all creatures: only insects. Stressssss. So, the first one: “as busy as a bee”. Yellow and black, this little thing is adorable. With his small legs, Maya and her friends are harvesting all the day some honey. Mhhh, delicious. But seriously, busy? Without this activity, they die. Then, can we talk about my aunt Susan who pretend she’s as busy as a bee when she run all the day between the sofa and the kitchen? NO. AND SUSAN CAN’T ENTER IN A HIVE. Absurd. Let’s talk about the second: “wouldn’t hurt a fly”. Typically a fly is an insect flying from poo to poo. And you’re agree to leave this on your house ? Noooo, everybody can hurt violently a fly, believe it. Besides, we are “as mad as a hornet” and I’m okay with this because this is literally the devil himself uh.
What a best destination to change your habits than Nicaragua ? It is a tropical country with heavenly beaches, but the paradise can rapidly become hell if you have the misfortune of pointing someone with your finger. It is badly seen to point with your finger, so if you don’t want to finish your holidays with a broken finger, you’ll have to adopt the local custom: to point things with your lips ! Yes, of course you’ll need to adopt the pout face of Kylie Jenner ! Without joking, this is the common way to point things in Nicaragua and some others countries like Philippines or southern indies… strange, but good to know.
The Wife-carring is a very famous sport in Finlande ! The rules of the game seem such strange : the men have to carry women during a 250 metres obstacle course. The main rule is that the women must be heavier than 40 kg. It promises lot of laughs, tears and tension ! Do not subscribe if your couple is weak because it can bring to break up ! In fact, the winners bring home the weight of his wife as beer (watching this huge amount of beer swim past provied a current cause of break up).
Now, I will talk about how humans eat their food. Most humans use cutlery or their hands to eat but some of them use utensils or strange methods. For example, in China, instead of eating pasta with cutlery, Chinese people use chopsticks. It’s really hard to use them, because you have to take it with only one hand! And they also use it to eat sushi or fish. Japanese people use chopsticks too. Speaking of Japanese people, they have many rules when they eat. For example, you can’t point someone with your chopsticks during a conversation, or you can’t sort the food in your dish with your chopsticks.
Hey there, after insects, we have to talk about some tetrapods (for the none-scientists: a four legs animal). The most ridiculous one: “putting lipstick on a pig”. WHO HAD THIS STUPID IDEA? It’s not very cruelty free hum. Even if this lipstick is vegan, THE PIG DON’T CAAAARE! A piggy is cute at his natural form. We love you as you are, Jambono ♥ But I have on stock other things: “an elephant in the room”. R.E.A.L.L.Y. It means there is a problem and no one discuss. But the question is: WHO HAD THI… oh, I already say that, aha. We know, this mammal is truly big. You need to put Dumbo here, and then build the room. This is absolutely boring for everybody, including the elephant. We can relate this with “as a cow in roller skate”. I needn’t to explain this, right? ‘Cause it’s clearly popular: every Sunday there are “cows in roller contest”. At any rate we can talk about two things witch have anything in common : “as a sausage in the garden”, “as a cheese on the moon” or “as an elephant in the room” …
Cape on another side of the globe. If you’re visiting japan during the first Sunday of April, don’t be astonished by some male organs. This festival celebrate the fertility, so guess what is the main theme… ? The penis ! Historically it honors the legend of a woman who had a demonic toothed vagina that ate men’s penises, that remained undefeated until a metal-worker built a metal penis that broke the demon’s teeth. During this fest, some people are dressed as penises, and you can also eat penis-shaped sweets and some other weird-shaped food. What a time to be alive uh.
This celtic sport was born in finister in Brittany. It was created in recognition of Asterix and Obelix. In Guerlesquin have been organised the first championship of throw of menhir. Such as a regular throw, participants have to throw the menhir as far as they can. There were diferent sizes of menhir so that children can participate too. This is very good-natured competition. This sport is first of all a pretext to spend time together in order to have fun ! But the most exciting thing is that the association promises a meal of boar after the champingship ! So if you want to have fun and taste Obelix meal, come subscribe next saturday in Guerlesquin !
Then, I will talk about strange places where you can eat. Some restaurants are really weird, because of the decoration, the ambiance, what we eat there, or whatever we can see there and nowhere else. For instance, the “Ithaa Rangali Island” in Maldives, is a restaurant… under water! You can eat and watch fishes at the same time. What is the point? Ok it’s beautiful, but it’s really expensive! Maybe it’s an unforgettable moment, maybe it’s a money loss… The second one is “Dinner in the sky” in Belgium, and the name spoiled you. It’s literally a table suspended in the air by a crane on which you eat. A good idea if you are a fan of heights, but not a good idea for your money or your dizzying son…
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