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  • @jackchallis9456
    @jackchallis9456 2 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    That's the best pronunciation of Gloucestershire by an American I've ever heard. Spot on ✌💙

    • @Dafmeister1978
      @Dafmeister1978 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I'm actually shocked, I didn't think Americans were capable of pronouncing it correctly. Now if someone could just explain to them the correct pronounciation of Tottenham.

    • @DlcEnergy
      @DlcEnergy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Werster.. Werster Shire Sauce.. Worsester Shire... Worster Shire... Worst Ehh.... Worst Shite Sauce. Worsheshy.. War S-shy Shire Horse. Worst Shire Shores? Worse Easter Shire Smores? W-wer...

    • @qasimbashir5117
      @qasimbashir5117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Get them to try say Worcestershire or Vauxhall

    • @bodsnvimto
      @bodsnvimto ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@qasimbashir5117 ...or even Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

    • @blackbob3358
      @blackbob3358 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd say ya man has heard it afore, it's too good. If i was a Yank, no way would it get it right.

  • @IanDarley
    @IanDarley 2 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    Check out the Atherstone ball game. It is medieval football and it's the most violent ball game you'll ever see. It takes place in Atherstone Warwickshire once a year. Basically the rule is 'don't kill anybody' the last person holding the ball at the end wins. The literally have to board up all the town's windows prior to the game.

    • @joescarecrow
      @joescarecrow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      yes :)

    • @davidnightingale9299
      @davidnightingale9299 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/LxM2SejTCg0/w-d-xo.html

    • @chipsthedog1
      @chipsthedog1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I second this request

    • @anitaherbert1037
      @anitaherbert1037 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's right the Atherstone ball game

    • @Studio6446
      @Studio6446 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      100% recommend it. Absolute mayhem.
      th-cam.com/video/LxM2SejTCg0/w-d-xo.html

  • @andrewhallam237
    @andrewhallam237 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    That's the best pronounciation of the word Gloucestershire I have ever heard from anyone outside the UK, it was perfect.

  • @Ingens_Scherz
    @Ingens_Scherz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Outstanding pronunciation of Gloucestershire. First time I've ever heard an American seeing the name for the first time get it absolutely right! Well done sir!

  • @terryoconnor5262
    @terryoconnor5262 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    This is what happens when you have “free” healthcare 🤣👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @peterwimsey5904
    @peterwimsey5904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    "there's no way of catching that cheese" - you have very quickly pinpointed the fundamental flaw of this event. No-one ever catches the cheese.

  • @andrewwiddicombe3912
    @andrewwiddicombe3912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    This is the kind of event that can only really happen when health care is free

    • @davids4313
      @davids4313 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Like it Mr W.

    • @juneoconnor4503
      @juneoconnor4503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolutely

    • @theborderer1302
      @theborderer1302 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      But clearly not mental health care.

    • @VXGaming
      @VXGaming 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Except healthcare isnt free, that's a misconception due to everyone being forced to pay for it.

    • @andrewwiddicombe3912
      @andrewwiddicombe3912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@VXGaming well yes but instead of 1 bill for the ambulance to the hospital the doctors time and any treatment you would have to pay in america the cost is spread out over 12 months worth of taxes

  • @helenagreenwood2305
    @helenagreenwood2305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    You pronounced Gloucestershire spot on 👍
    Just a normal afternoon in Gloucestershire 😆
    I used to go on holiday with my foster parents they had a caravan which toured all over the UK 🇬🇧 I once entered a welly (Wellington boot) throwing competition somewhere in Yorkshire the winner is the one who throws the boot 👢the furthest 👍 I didn't win 🙄

    • @zeee149
      @zeee149 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Welly Wanging!!!

    • @paulwalton1222
      @paulwalton1222 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was probably the inspiration for dwarf throwing

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me and My Girlfriend/Partner*** are returning to our roots in Gloucestershire soon.
      *** I say Girlfriend/Partner but she is also my Sister,co-incidently....

    • @mildredhubble6848
      @mildredhubble6848 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Isleofskye probably also your mum.

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mildredhubble6848 More than likely Mildred but I don't know who my Mum is. It could be you..

  • @kalinaphillips9779
    @kalinaphillips9779 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    The cheese is a Double Gloucester cheese, it weighs about 8 pounds. The hill is so steep the cheese gets to the speed of up to 70mph. The participants often have to run up the hill at the end of the race.
    There are 3 videos you should watch: 1. The Atherstone Ball Game (explanation and history are the best), 2. Flaming Tar Barrel Run in Ottery St. Mary's in Devon, 3. Scottish Highlands Games.

    • @billmische
      @billmische 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'd add in the Maldon Mud Race - running across a river at low tide (mostly in fancy dress). A couple did it in their wedding outfits this year.

  • @Matthew-j5e
    @Matthew-j5e 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Not often you hear Americans pronounce Gloucestershire right first time, well done!

  • @markbanner6473
    @markbanner6473 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Another reason why you keep Brits on side. When it comes down to it we are frigging crazy!

  • @richt71
    @richt71 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Well done you said Gloucestershire perfectly right
    This is over a hundred years old. The local council tried stopping it as people do break bones! You now enter at your own risk not surprisingly!!

    • @nicksykes4575
      @nicksykes4575 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was recorded as an ancient event in records from 200 years ago.

  • @marcmurray8141
    @marcmurray8141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    That was a perfect pronunciation of Gloucester.

    • @hod2116
      @hod2116 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No it wasn't there is no shire on the end

  • @chriscjad
    @chriscjad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This is classic UK craziness! You should check out the Atherstone Ball Game. It’s the root of all football games and dates back to medieval times. Absolutely brutal!

    • @chriscjad
      @chriscjad 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Garry Arden yes it’s the Royal Shrovetide match, Ashbourne. May well be older actually. I was more meaning the style of game being the root of modern football games rather than the event itself.

  • @martinscott-reed5379
    @martinscott-reed5379 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    The cheese rolling has become so popular now that the crowds are massive compared to crowds just 10 or 15 years ago. Well done on your pronunciation of Gloucestershire. Oh by the way, seeing the hill on screen doesn't do it justice. Seeing it in real life it is scary steep.

  • @Wagoo
    @Wagoo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    6:00 this guy is a Japanese TV personality. There is a show in Japan called ItteQ and they covered the cheese rolling competition, and he entered :)

  • @MyRetroWatches
    @MyRetroWatches 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In a local town to me in the Uk called Atherstone ( I lived there many years) there is a crazy ball game that takes up the entire main street that has been played once a year since 1199!!! its just as bonkers as the cheese rolling.

  • @theborderer1302
    @theborderer1302 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Shire is ALWAYS pronouced SHER. Lancashire (Lancasher), Yorkshire (Yorksher) etc etc. In ancient times the Kings Officer controlling the shire was the Sheriff (as in Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood). Actually, the shires still have Sheriffs, although it's very much a ceremonial role.

  • @andrewmoss3681
    @andrewmoss3681 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Sorry King Boomer, but Queen Boomer now has the claim for the best quote on the channel.
    "If ya want ma daughta, ya gotta catch the cheese."
    I was laughing so hard that I hurt my back so had to get pain killers.
    A great reaction & much love from here in the UK

    • @KingBoomer
      @KingBoomer  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      LOL thank you

    • @andrewmoss3681
      @andrewmoss3681 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KingBoomer as a side note. Your pronunciation of, Gloucestershire is pretty much spot on. The town name that I dare you to attempt to pronounce is, Loughborough. Good luck 🤣

  • @mikecaine3643
    @mikecaine3643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Everyone in the pub afterwards where they slake their thirsts ( perhaps not everyone - some are getting their bones reset )

  • @tommy5675
    @tommy5675 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The lumberjack thing is a test of skill......Chasing a rolling cheese down a crazy hill is something anyone can turn up and have a go at......and they do :)

  • @VincitOmniaVeritas.
    @VincitOmniaVeritas. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Most of the time the winner goes to the pub gets drunk with everyone and eats the cheese. It started in 1826 and is on every UK’s spring bank holiday weekend.

  • @8arcasticallyYours
    @8arcasticallyYours 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I lived in the City of Gloucester for many years and the cheese-rolling is one of the biggest events every year. The City is Gloucester and it is in the County of Gloucestershire, which you pronounced correctly. Congrats! Yes, you get the cheese if you win.

  • @jonathangoll2918
    @jonathangoll2918 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love to see you covering this. From age 11 I grew up in Gloucestershire - a county not a town - the city is the ancient City of Gloucester - and I once watched the Rolling with binoculars from a friend's garden in Brockworth.
    The authorities are worried about the safety aspect, although they haven't a chance in hell of stopping it, since we've done it for hundreds of years... I think the biggest problem is the safety of the spectators; a large number of people standing on a steep slope isn't ideal.
    Wikipedia says the first record is 1826, but it is probably very much older. It was likely to do with grazing rights - the winner getting them - but there is a serious suggestion that pagan ritual was originally involved, the round cheese symbolising the sun. There is a symbolic offering of food at the top. In Gloucestershire nothing like this would surprise me...
    The traditional date is Whit Monday, but nowadays the Monday which is the Spring Bank Holiday - not always the same date - is when it's held.
    You're right about the drinking. The locals tend to drink (very hard) cider. The catchers at the bottom are the local rugby club.

  • @blindarchershaunhenderson3769
    @blindarchershaunhenderson3769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The first person down the hill wins the race, and wins a wheel of double Gloucester cheese, and by the way king, you pronounced gloucester correctly, Gloucester cheese-rolling event is thought to be over 600 years old, if you enjoyed this you have to watch the "Atherstone ball game", the crazy british past and include "bog snorkeling" and "wife carryino"

    • @kelvinjohnwaltho2221
      @kelvinjohnwaltho2221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and theyve had many many injuries broken bones torn ligaments knocked out etc etc etc !!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @helenagreenwood2305
      @helenagreenwood2305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And welly throwing

    • @blindarchershaunhenderson3769
      @blindarchershaunhenderson3769 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kelvinjohnwaltho2221 but part of the fun😜

    • @chriscjad
      @chriscjad 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The wife carrying race is hilarious!

    • @mimikurtz2162
      @mimikurtz2162 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@helenagreenwood2305 Welly wanging.

  • @johnnybeer3770
    @johnnybeer3770 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    King your an honorary Brit , you pronounced Gloucestershire spot on . The guys at the bottom catching them are the local rugby team , there is also an ambulance just I case . There's a race for the kids but it's running up the hill . Thank God we have the N.H.S. 🇬🇧

  • @janolaful
    @janolaful 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Theres a shin-kicking contest at Chipping Camden, a small town in Gloucestershire, England, that dates back to 1612.

  • @Chris_GY1
    @Chris_GY1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You said Gloucestershire correctly. The winner gets the wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. People do get injured doing this.

  • @philthedogg
    @philthedogg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I bet the concussion tent is the pub down the road. Gloucester was correct which is in Gloucestershire

  • @malarkey2217
    @malarkey2217 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    There's loads of weird things like this in the UK. Check out 'Bog Snorkeling'! Yeah, exactly what it sounds like. 😁

  • @pauldear6660
    @pauldear6660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've just read that the first written evidence of cheese rolling was in 1826, but it is believed that the tradition goes back 600 years.

  • @MichaelJohnsonAzgard
    @MichaelJohnsonAzgard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's part of our Olympics along with such events as flaming tar barrels and shin kicking.

  • @theborderer1302
    @theborderer1302 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    There's an ancient tradition that explains cheese rolling. The people from Gloucestershire are f***g crazy. Hope that explains it.

  • @nickachief
    @nickachief 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "you have to sign a waiver" nope, we got the NHS 🤣

  • @jeanetteshepherd1142
    @jeanetteshepherd1142 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh you have a world of mad traditions to watch, bog snorkeling, wife carrying, Atherstone football match, Morris men, hobby horse, Lewes bonfire, brass band marching competitions, welcome to the UK

    • @TheCornishCockney
      @TheCornishCockney 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wouldn’t have it any other way,would you?

    • @jeanetteshepherd1142
      @jeanetteshepherd1142 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheCornishCockney absolutely not. Its these fine old bonkers traditions that make the rest of the world look at us in wonder and bewilderment!

  • @peterwhitehead9934
    @peterwhitehead9934 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Done it twice mate ....pub at bottom of hill ..get pissed up helps .!!!!

  • @juneoconnor4503
    @juneoconnor4503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I definitely agree with the Atherstone ball game suggestion. I’ve seen it on TV which is as close as I’d want to be 😁

  • @gusshirnam3848
    @gusshirnam3848 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One of the many wonderfully eccentric, old British traditions ❤️ 🤣

  • @craigmccullough7333
    @craigmccullough7333 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The cheese is travelling at about 70 miles per hour at the end of the slope.
    The only prize, apart from bragging rights, is the round of double Gloucester cheese.
    The slope is about 45°.
    There is a paper notice at the entrance saying that the event is not officially sanctioned and you enter at your own risk. Universal Healthcare is wonderful.
    Your pronunciation of "Glostershire" is correct but.... Gloucestershire is a county, roughly similar to your states, not a city or town. The city is Gloucester/Gloster.
    The line of "catchers" are from the local Rugby club so are used to stopping big people.
    The earliest record of the cheese rolling dates from the early 1800's but there is evidence the event is much older.

    • @madyottoyotto3055
      @madyottoyotto3055 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is not 45degrees it's more like 60
      No video shows this the champ Chris Anderson has won an amazing 28 times I think at last check
      First to the bottom gets the cheese it's been caught once only
      And the cheese runs 50mph to 70mph on rare occasions
      The cheese makers where warned off from selling the organisers the cheese because it encourages it
      So now they buy the cheese in fancey dress and the police can't say anything because they would have no way of knowing if it's them or not
      It's in records since the 1800s
      But the hill was used for rolling barrels made by the cooper/barrel makers to check their strength for a long time before that
      Hence the name Cooper's hill

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The whole round cheese is called a Truckle

    • @madyottoyotto3055
      @madyottoyotto3055 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@annother3350 no it's a wheel
      As Google definitions state
      truckle
      Or
      trŭk′əl
      noun
      A small wheel or roller; a caster.
      A wheel of a pulley; also, a pulley.
      Jabol, a truckle or pullie. … Moufle, a truckle for a pullie.
      A small wheel or caster.
      A small flat cheese.
      A truckle-bed.
      intransitive very
      To be servile or submissive. synonym: fawn.

    • @Jerrymouse79
      @Jerrymouse79 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Could you try proof reading before posting? 😂😂 it’s Gloucester and Gloucestershire by the way

  • @stevebrown1974
    @stevebrown1974 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I live about 3 miles away from this hill. And trust me, it's a lot steeper in person! At the time of writing this, the next Cheese Rolling event is 18 days away on Sunday 5th June

  • @JD-eo7dr
    @JD-eo7dr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The cheese is the prize who ever can catch it keeps it

  • @kalachakra1508
    @kalachakra1508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your pronunciation was perfect!! Usually words ending in 'shire' that are specific to the UK (obviously we both speak the same language but you get what I mean) are usually pronounced by Americans sounding phonetically like 'shyer' sounding the same as the 'ire' in 'wire' but it's pronounced like how you lovely lot across the pond would say 'sheer, deer' etc. So top marks! 👍 ...apparently (and I'm not kidding) this competition has been taking place for over two thousand years!! The earliest video footage I've seen of this competition on TH-cam was in either the 1930's or 1940's.... it's so funny (and in some ways bizarre as I along with alot of people associate past eras as being serious, where you wouldn't dream of goofy, silly competitions like this taking place.. especially in England!) And to see them all running down the exact same hill in the exact same way tumbling and rolling over each other but wearing 1930/40's clothing is just brilliant!! The clip I saw was only a few seconds long and it was part of a short TH-cam video (I think if I remember correctly) about the origins of the cheese rolling competition and other general interesting facts about it. I have no idea where the figure of two thousand years comes from. But we know an incredible amount of extremely detailed information about the lives and times of ages much older, with proof showing the most intimate and intricate aspects of daily life thousands of years ago, so it's definitely possible I'd say!
    Sending best wishes and love from the UK 🇬🇧 ❤️

  • @crispeybear
    @crispeybear 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The 👸🦵🏻 in the house! Love the boomer but you’re always a bonus, us brits love our queens 😏🥰

    • @crispeybear
      @crispeybear 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh, you have lumberjacks, we have steeplejacks, check Fred dibnah th-cam.com/video/F04dGK1_wYA/w-d-xo.html

  • @watchreadplayretro
    @watchreadplayretro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    YES! Awesome! Brilliant! Thank You!
    And you nailed 'Gloucestershire' 1st time!! Not bad at all!
    Epic fun and as always great reaction thanks guys!
    A+++
    "The KEYS... not the Cheese!!!!" - Jim Carey - The Mask

    • @KingBoomer
      @KingBoomer  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol great movie!

  • @chrisofnottingham
    @chrisofnottingham 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Some years ago I had seen this on TV in the fun news slot and then by chance a friend of mine moved to nearby where the hill is. By chance we happened walk along the bottom of it and she said - oh BTW this is where they do that cheese rolling. All I can say is that screen does not capture the insanity of the slope and the shortness of run out at the bottom.

  • @Grimlock1975
    @Grimlock1975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My boy pronounced it correctly! He's becoming one of us lol

  • @annemariefleming
    @annemariefleming 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That hill is steeeeeeep, lol! They have people from the local Rugby club at the bottom to stop the runners.

  • @shaunbyrne9037
    @shaunbyrne9037 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We have the NHS so a few broken bones is no big deal . 😉 . You need to check out the Atherstone Ball Game . It's absolute mayhem where for a few hours it's legal to assault someone 🤣

  • @sampeeps3371
    @sampeeps3371 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The fun you can have with free heathcare

  • @markflower8885
    @markflower8885 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You 2 could enter the wife carrying championships. You should check that out. It's another crazy British contest. 😂

  • @christineirving4491pluviophile
    @christineirving4491pluviophile 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pronunciation of Gloucestershire is spot on. As well as the Atherstone Ball match, you might want to take a look at Ottery St. Mary's Flaming Tar Barrels - yes, as the name suggests, it's people carrying flaming barrels of tar!

  • @mkjah22
    @mkjah22 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've seen at least 3 of my friends from years ago in these clips, never thought I'd see that when I started watching your videos.
    Great channel and agree with the others who I'm guessing are local to where I live, first time I've ever heard gloucestershire pronounced so perfectly by anyone outside of the uk, even better than some from the UK too.

  • @SuperDancingdevil
    @SuperDancingdevil 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There’s no concussion tent but they do have The St. John’s Ambulance crew there and an Ambulance is on stand by, Many a broken bone 🦴 has been known at this event . 😁

  • @chriscjad
    @chriscjad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Btw it was first documented in the 1800s but believed to be over 600 years old!

  • @chrisaskin6144
    @chrisaskin6144 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As you've probably realised by now KB, we Brits are total fucking nutters!

  • @Steve-RAF-311
    @Steve-RAF-311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Gloucestershire, perfect pronunciation. I live in Gloucestershire but have never had the nerve to try this. Typically British, absolutely mad. 😊

  • @DavePigott2000
    @DavePigott2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow - you got the pronunciation first time! Impressed!

  • @seeyouanon2931
    @seeyouanon2931 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The cheese rolling is an old tradition in Gloucester and there is written evidence of it to the local town cryer in early 1800s, but the tradition goes back a good 600 years or more and was a pagan tradition to hurl burning brushwood down the hill and the land owner would scatter sweets and biscuits , fruits etc. at the top of the hill, it was to celebrate the end of winter and the start of spring and new harvests. Always held spring bank holiday now. It has also caught the interest of many people from other countries, some of the winners have been from New Zealand, Australia, Nepal, Canada and one winner from USA in 2013 called Kenny Rackers. The winner gets to keep the double Gloucestershire cheese, the cheese weighs about 9lb and is protected with a light weight wooden surround and ribbons, and can reach speeds of 70 mph ( miles per hour) but because some spectators were injured from the cheese hitting them at that speed, in 2013 they replaced the actual cheese with a heavy foam so it wouldn't hurt so much on impact. Also young farmers etc. Voluntarily stand at the finish line to catch people.

  • @keithstevenson6892
    @keithstevenson6892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Theres a reason this happens in the UK only. Free healthcare and not suing everyone

  • @jillosler9353
    @jillosler9353 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Men, women and children have races for a wheel of cheese - although the children race uphill instead of down! Just a voluntary St John Ambulance team on standby 🤣🤣 The guy in red only won once - the film showed 'after' before 'before'! The massively overweight would never manage the walk up the hill in the first place. The hill is near vertical and has a steep 50% gradient and is uneven. No one has ever died doing this - and more bystanders have been hurt by bouncing cheeses!!!

  • @alangroves5616
    @alangroves5616 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I grew up just down the road in Cheltenham and watched it a number of years. Get to the pub beforehand and go and enjoy the mayhem

  • @mariearthurs406
    @mariearthurs406 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They are chasing a double Gloucester cheese down Cooper's hill. This has been going on for a very long time and yes you get to keep the cheese.

  • @danielw5850
    @danielw5850 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the fact that Japanese visitors proudly rock-up to take part :)

  • @IDTV66
    @IDTV66 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:44 absolutely correct

  • @andrewfitzgerald2327
    @andrewfitzgerald2327 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You see why Rugby is such a gentle game. Bog snorkeling is another example of our strange sports. Saying that Ladies rugby is worth a look.

  • @selfaware3940
    @selfaware3940 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you should try looking at the Atherstone ball game .. only hame that has a "no killing rule"

  • @seandickinson2213
    @seandickinson2213 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You might also check out the Tar Barrels of Ottery St Mary, or head to the top end of Scotland and the Up Helly Aa Viking Fire Festival in the Shetland Islands.

  • @johnfrancis757
    @johnfrancis757 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In a nearby village we have a game called Real Football. 200 players (100 on each team) - the goals are 2.5 miles apart (basically the distance between 2 pubs), the only rule is you can't transport the ball on anything mechanical. It's a lot of fun!

  • @mariuscheek
    @mariuscheek 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We also have Tar-Barrelling, dwarf-throwing, and shin-kicking. Plus black pudding throwing, which is pretty tame really...

  • @tibsie
    @tibsie 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been there, but not when the cheese rolling was on. The place itself is called Cooper's Hill, near the village of Cranham.

  • @Kestrel1971
    @Kestrel1971 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another events like this are:
    1. The Cotswold Olimpicks, specifically, the shin-kicking competition.
    2. The Atherston ball game.
    3. The flaming tar barrels of Ottery St. Mary.
    4. Ferret-legging.

  • @PaulMcCaffreyfmac
    @PaulMcCaffreyfmac 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "A log standing up straight" is almost certainly a tree.

  • @StephMcAlea
    @StephMcAlea 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The custom started in pre-Roman times around 1,100bc but without the cheese and was a way for British warriors to show off their virility to local maidens. The cheese is a really recent addition but is the same idea (cheese being milk and full of life, I guess). The cheese is a wheel of 'Double Gloucester', a rich creamy orange coloured cheese perfect on toast!

  • @majpanik
    @majpanik 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bang on 👍 I've heard many Americans call it "glow (like now) cess ter sheer"

    • @TheCornishCockney
      @TheCornishCockney 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was asked by an American once in Chinatown,London if I knew where lie-sester-shirrre was,I said,nope,I’ve never heard of it and continued my stroll.

    • @serenaa3597
      @serenaa3597 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheCornishCockney 😂

  • @chrispierce4003
    @chrispierce4003 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    LOL. Concussion protocol tent ?? It's called "the pub" 😂

  • @sophiew1967
    @sophiew1967 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best pronunciation I' ve ever heard of Gloucestershire..absolutely spot on 👍👍

  • @claregale9011
    @claregale9011 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bloody bonkers but great to watch plus it's a pretty old tradition .🙂👍

  • @formatique_arschloch
    @formatique_arschloch 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some silly Finnish competitions: Wife carrying competition (winner gets wife's weight in beer), mobile phone throwing competition, rubber boot throwing competition, swamp football world championships.

  • @anitaherbert1037
    @anitaherbert1037 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We have free healthcare and ambulances. But this is not the maddest. Its time. In the Atherstone ball game, 2 villages compete in a bloody battle. You are not allowed to strangle, gouge or kill. People launch themselves off buildings have alliances its pretty brutal. Oh and still played in 2022.

  • @ianpodmore9666
    @ianpodmore9666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's the local Rugby team that tackle them at the bottom of the hill.
    There's loads of mad events in England.

    • @DianaSheward
      @DianaSheward 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      One's called Prime Minister's Question Time !

  • @andywainwright1516
    @andywainwright1516 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Concussion Protocol Tent in the UK is called the village pub.

  • @BigSmartQuiz
    @BigSmartQuiz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This, from Wikipedia about this competition...
    From the top of the hill, a 7-9 pounds (3-4 kilograms) round of Double Gloucester cheese is sent rolling down the hill, which is 200 yards long. Competitors then start racing down the hill after the cheese. The first person over the finish line at the bottom of the hill wins the cheese. The competitors aim to catch the cheese; however, it has around a one-second head start and can reach speeds up to 70 miles per hour (110 kilometres per hour), enough to knock over and injure a spectator. Multiple races are held during the day, with separate events for men and women.

  • @jeremybest9453
    @jeremybest9453 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I did this over 40 years ago, in those days it was really just a local Gloucester area thing now people come from all over.
    This year the event is Sunday 5 June.

  • @eleanorforbes1842
    @eleanorforbes1842 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know everyone has already said it but your pronunciation of Gloucestershire was 100% perfect! I live in the next county along from here and it’s a bit of a rite of passage to go to this 👍👍

  • @simonyoungglostog
    @simonyoungglostog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can see that hill from my office window...

  • @bingers_tv
    @bingers_tv 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to go and sit on that hill and eat my lunch. I was surprised how steep it is and what you don't see there, is at the bottom is a load of stinging nettle bushes before you hit someone's garden fence

  • @scottharper6593
    @scottharper6593 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bang on Boomer!
    Now try and pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!
    It's a small fishing village in Wales I shit you not😂
    Great reaction as always

  • @Codex7777
    @Codex7777 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It used to be the first person to get the cheese that won but they changed it to just getting over the line and yes, they get to keep the cheese! :) There must be some method to it, as the same people tend to win it multiple years. Btw, that's the local rugby team at the bottom, catching everybody. :)
    You do know that the lumberjack competitions are international, not just American? :) In fact if any country is associated with such things, it's almost definitely Canada. :)

  • @shootingzen28fav
    @shootingzen28fav 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nailed it with the pronunciation of Gloucestershire! Perfect.

  • @CymruEmergencyResponder
    @CymruEmergencyResponder 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have been to the Cheese Rolling as a medic. It was a busy day…
    ‘People must get really hurt’ is an understatement. People have died.

  • @edreed9189
    @edreed9189 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Went to this hill with some mates to run down Cooper's Hill (not on cheese day), and we all chickened out! It's like trying to run down a skate ramp

  • @mikeykm1993
    @mikeykm1993 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ‘So, why are you in critical care?’ ‘Well, I was chasing this wheel of cheese down a hill…..’

  • @carllawrenczuk9173
    @carllawrenczuk9173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ever heard of the greasy pole contest in Gloucester Mass U.S.A ? check it out if not my boomz. And pronunciation was sound pal 👌🏻

    • @helenagreenwood2305
      @helenagreenwood2305 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We also have a greasy pole contest in Whitby during the Regatta in August

  • @lloydevans2900
    @lloydevans2900 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    They do always have at least one ambulance stationed at the bottom of the hill for this event, because it is quite common for people to break arms or legs doing it. So some people do end up in hospital after the event. But yes, the winner does get to keep the cheese.

  • @chrisellis3797
    @chrisellis3797 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1823 is the first written record of it but it may well have been going for longer.

  • @paulwalton1222
    @paulwalton1222 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to live near Gloucester and they've had to cancel that cheese rolling thing because the crowds got to big and there was trouble getting insurance. I'm 99% sure who ever gets to the cheese first keeps it. The cheese must of come to a stop by the time its caught. There are a lot if injuries but its funny watching people fall over especially when it is just for cheese.

  • @davidlawrence5091
    @davidlawrence5091 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you have Netflix there is a documentary called 'we are the champions', the first episode is about this event. Might be UK only, not sure.

  • @ninagray4441
    @ninagray4441 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Have you heard of the Tough Mudda endurance events that people do. The part that would stop me is the passage of having to go under la collection of live exposed electricity wires.

  • @adrianmcgachie
    @adrianmcgachie 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's always just an excuse to do some drinking! Ha, ha, trust me, there will only ever be a beer tent at the end of the course, never a concussion protocol tent! This is UK, lol!

  • @andrewhawkins6454
    @andrewhawkins6454 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great reaction video. Perhaps you should check out the Redbull soap box racing. Done in many countries. It's a good laugh. Good to see the Boomer Queen. Best wishes from Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍