Chesus Christ

So much for the 2nd most anticipated festival of the English calendar (behind only the Queen's opening of parliament). The annual queso-rolling event on Cooper's Hill in Gloucester has been canceled. I wonder why.

For those of you who may not be familiar with this event, basically 75,000 sauced up blokes and lads will heave themselves down a borderline suicidal hill in pursuit of a ball of monterey jack. I like cheese just as much as the next guy, but I'd rather not suffer a possible career ender for it. I studied abroad during college in London and this was an event I had always wanted to get to. Not that I was going to participate (of course as the trip went, I probably could have easily been peer pressured into it, as that was par for the trip given my constant state of sauciness), but I wanted to do what most others did: Watch these morons try. I'm not sure if it's directly due to being raised in the Jackass generation, but people injuring themselves just gives a laugh unlike any other. For those who have never been over to the U.K. this would seem outrageous. If you have ever spent any time over there, you would realize that this is was probably the product of several pints of Carlsberg after the local Gloucester F.C. got their hinds kicked in the Coca-Cola league.

I will have to say I think this is a bad move for the english culture. If they want their deaths to come in the name of dairy, I'm all for it. Give it back to them!



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8563692.stm