Every year this English footrace cracks me up.

[Archae]

The Gloucestershire cheese wheel downhill race!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOyQBSMeIhM

Black and blue cheese!

:rofl:

[darkstar]

1. Nice!

[texanwitch]

2. Why would anyone do that.

How many people get hurt.

[Archae]

3. Why would anyone drive a hunk of plastic at 200 mph?

Or ski down a near-vertical mountain slope?

Never underestimate the desire to get noticed for doing something really stupid. :-)

[arbusto_baboso]

4. You don't know how much the English love their cheese, do you?

My wife would do that, and she hasn't been back to England in almost 20 years.

[Moondog]

8. Two reasons -

Tradition.

Several pints of bitter. (A form of ale drunk at room temperature).

[texanwitch]

10. What is the story behind this.

Why are they running after cheese, down a steep hill.

I have never heard of this before.

Good thing they have national health care.

[MorningGlow]

5. Okay. That is SO freakin' surreal

I LOVE IT!
:rofl:

[DS1]

6. Go Borat!

[applegrove]

7. I've seen that cheese race before. You couldn't get me near there. I'm afriad of heights

and the slope is 1:1.

[fNord]

9. They do that in Wisconsin too.....

But I think the cheese wheel is bigger.
and it's what the winner is awarded with.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

11. Yoicks!

After the cheese, Nigel!