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Contenders For The Darwin Awards?
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no there is a big cultural thing about this
various things
twenty years ago - ALL the dutch stood and watched whilst a non swimmer drowned in a gracht (*) Everyone thought the boat people wd come and they didnt and the fella went under. National whoopsie on the level of Grenfell - or Hungerford or Lawrence. So THIS is different
canals freeze over but is it more often than in the mini-Ice Age ( ding ding ends 1 Jan 1500) - anyway they freeze and you can skte on them as one does
and even race on them - the glichten-glochten-gloo is a canal race on the ice (+) which has been run on canals when they freeze since 1425. wooden skates - and is one oof the few races which have lasted that long, so you can vaguely compare perfomances of modern athletes with those of the middle ages ( cool huh ?) - so skating on canals is not Darwin stuff but has been done for ages. Oh and they held it this year. west frisians win it a lot
elf steden tocht - 11-staat(city) race
(*) dutch word - dont worry - it has water in it which is the impt thing
(+) The Elfstedentocht West Frisian: Alvestêdetocht [ɔlvəˈstɛːdətɔχt], ) is a long-distance tour skating event on natural ice, almost 200 kilometres (120 mi) long, which is held both as a speed skating competition (with 300 contestants) and
various things
twenty years ago - ALL the dutch stood and watched whilst a non swimmer drowned in a gracht (*) Everyone thought the boat people wd come and they didnt and the fella went under. National whoopsie on the level of Grenfell - or Hungerford or Lawrence. So THIS is different
canals freeze over but is it more often than in the mini-Ice Age ( ding ding ends 1 Jan 1500) - anyway they freeze and you can skte on them as one does
and even race on them - the glichten-glochten-gloo is a canal race on the ice (+) which has been run on canals when they freeze since 1425. wooden skates - and is one oof the few races which have lasted that long, so you can vaguely compare perfomances of modern athletes with those of the middle ages ( cool huh ?) - so skating on canals is not Darwin stuff but has been done for ages. Oh and they held it this year. west frisians win it a lot
elf steden tocht - 11-staat(city) race
(*) dutch word - dont worry - it has water in it which is the impt thing
(+) The Elfstedentocht West Frisian: Alvestêdetocht [ɔlvəˈstɛːdətɔχt], ) is a long-distance tour skating event on natural ice, almost 200 kilometres (120 mi) long, which is held both as a speed skating competition (with 300 contestants) and
It seems that 90% of the Darwin award contestants are male.
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