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#211693 7-Apr-2017 10:11
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Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

 


 


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This contender died eating pancakes!

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11832906

Wouldn't be hard to die eating the round carboard cakes McDonalds serve you though...

 

 




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  #1758040 7-Apr-2017 11:29
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I am not sure what compels people to consume such large quantities of food like this. I've entered 1 competition like this my whole life, which was actually my wife who entered me in an Icecream eating competition when she entered. We ended up on stage together!


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  #1758071 7-Apr-2017 12:17
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It's not about eating.  It's about winning.  A competitive personality can lead its host into all manner of stupidity.





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  #1758081 7-Apr-2017 12:24
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It's definitely not appropriate to say this BUT Tim's nominee won't be accepting any awards

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joker97: It's definitely not appropriate to say this BUT Tim's nominee won't be accepting any awards

 

None gets to accept their Darwin award.  Death is one of the eligibility criteria .





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Competitive Eating was well predicted by the 2000AD graphic stories:

 

"Fatties are bored citizens who have turned to gluttony as a means to pass the time. They are so gigantically fat that they need a belliwheel to prop up their prodigious gut.

 

In the future, fatties can count as athletes: competitive eating is an international sport, ranging from the Olympics to criminal back-street eating games. Some contests even have fatties eat items like bedspreads and car parts. Mega-City One has fat camps where parents send juves to gain weight [1] and poor citizens may try to bulk up in the hope that eating games might be their ticket for prosperity.

 

 

 

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  #1758115 7-Apr-2017 13:07
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networkn:

 

I am not sure what compels people to consume such large quantities of food like this. I've entered 1 competition like this my whole life, which was actually my wife who entered me in an Icecream eating competition when she entered. We ended up on stage together!

 

 

I think you partly answered your own question there ;)


 
 
 

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  #1758165 7-Apr-2017 14:48
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Next people will be trying to call gaming sport ...





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SepticSceptic:

 

Competitive Eating was well predicted by the 2000AD graphic stories:

 

"Fatties are bored citizens who have turned to gluttony as a means to pass the time. They are so gigantically fat that they need a belliwheel to prop up their prodigious gut.

 

In the future, fatties can count as athletes: competitive eating is an international sport, ranging from the Olympics to criminal back-street eating games. Some contests even have fatties eat items like bedspreads and car parts. Mega-City One has fat camps where parents send juves to gain weight [1] and poor citizens may try to bulk up in the hope that eating games might be their ticket for prosperity.

 

 

 

Life Imitating Art

 

 

 

Few speed (competitive) eaters are actually fat though.


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  #1758168 7-Apr-2017 15:13
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Most are young. Give them time. 

 

 





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Only in America.

 

(ok, maybe Japan as well)


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  #1759243 7-Apr-2017 19:43
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MikeAqua:

 

None gets to accept their Darwin award.  Death is one of the eligibility criteria .

 

 

Not quite true... Darwin awards are for removing your genes from the pool in a creative (preferably humorous, but wincingly painful is also good) fashion. Fatality isn't a requirement.

 

 


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  #1759259 7-Apr-2017 20:52
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frankv:

MikeAqua:


None gets to accept their Darwin award.  Death is one of the eligibility criteria .



Not quite true... Darwin awards are for removing your genes from the pool in a creative (preferably humorous, but wincingly painful is also good) fashion. Fatality isn't a requirement.


 



So a historectomy or vasectomy qualify? 🙄

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Forget hysterectomy and vasectomy.

 

Birth control and family planning qualifies for the Darwin award 110%.


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