Scream-free Vegetable Perversions
If you read none of this watch the video it’s nuts
13 April, 2023 | Sydney Australia
On the 12th I was looking for things to do and was running into stuff like this:
So it was fortuitous that my cousins dropped me a line and invited me to the Easter Show, a basically non-religious state fair that has been going on for almost 200 years. They had volunteered there and so got free tickets and had a spare.
If you have been to a larger state fair, that’s basically this. Only it’s quite a bit bigger and has two distinctions.
- In addition to your standard dog/pony shows, they have a rodent show.
- Show Bags
These started as crappy gift bags you got as part of your ticket and morphed into an entire showroom full of branded insanity.
But the best part was probably watching the lumberjack competition, and - strangely enough given previous posts - this is not about their physique but the sheer skill.
I was not aware of how this competition works. For those that cannot or have not watched the above, the object that needs to be chopped is a log set roughly 12-15ft on top of another pole of similar diameter. The contestants must first chop into the first pole to create divots, in which they place boards that will support them as they chop another divot for another board. They essentially climb a tree with their…axemanship?After chopping through one half of the target log at the top, they repeat the process starting from the bottom to get at the other side. Watch the video, it’s really quite something.
Anyway, everything after this is just the weirdest stuff I saw but is mostly stuff you might see at a given state fair, such as:
And what state fair would be complete without:
I’m glad I went. And not just to get another change to hang out with some distant cousins, but also because you can’t really know a place without visiting their folksiest goofy events.
