Swedish core inflation slowed less than expected in May as Beyoncé fans flooding Stockholm may have driven an increase in hotel prices
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Don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen
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Silly sports
This is probably bad form but here goes. I have just posted about the Man vs Horse race that happens in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales on an annual basis and it got me to thinking, is it a UK idiosyncrasy...
This is probably bad form but here goes.
I have just posted about the Man vs Horse race that happens in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales on an annual basis and it got me to thinking, is it a UK idiosyncrasy to have silly sports or is it World wide?
Apart from Cheese rolling at Cooper's Hill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdKRx30s6sk) and Shin Kicking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rajJJaiEdPE) what other silly sports are there?
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Heat mascot sent to ER after bit with Conor McGregor
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Man v horse: Runner becomes only fourth to beat horse
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There is a universe…
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The new Barbie movie used so much pink paint on set that it caused an international shortage, according to its production designer
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No, Sweden did not declare sex a sport – claim was related to the promotion of a so-called European Sex Championship
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Fontemon: A video game inside a font
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Want a lighthouse? US is auctioning or giving away ten of them.
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Generate a secure password using lyrics from Kenny Loggins. It's funny and useful!
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Oscar Mayer renames iconic hot dog on wheels to 'Frankmobile'
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A Pixies song is accidentally turning off Google alarms
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Swedish retirees demand fairer pensions for women – The Old Lady Patrol's protest against the country's pension system enters its tenth year
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Bear meat vending machine is a first for Japan
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Lord of the Rings–quoting performance wins this year’s ‘Dance Your PhD’ contest
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Mona Lisa tells tourists to skip museum queues and visit Denmark instead in AI ad
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Party patellas: The knee makeup fad of the '20s and '60s
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The people who live inside airplanes
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There are plenty of football supporters' groups in Norway, but not many are dedicated to clubs like Kidderminster Harriers from the sixth tier in the UK
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Someone stole a Wienermobile's catalytic converter
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Why Copenhagen put a ski slope on a power plant
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Cash-strapped Finnish zoo is preparing to return two giant pandas on loan from China as it can no longer afford their upkeep
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Australian park rangers say 'Toadzilla' could be world's biggest toad
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Chess's cheating scandal has taken another bizarre twist – Hans Niemann accuses Magnus Carlsen of paying fellow chess player €300 to shout abuse
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Sabaton awarded Enlightener of the Year Award 2022 by The Swedish Skeptics Association – presented to those that go above and beyond in order to educate people
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What did we get stuck in our rectums last year?
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Two C64s plus a pile of floppy disks equals one accordion
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Muppet a movie
Name a movie or story that should get the Muppet treatment, like the Muppet Christmas Carol. Name the token human headlining character and justify your Muppet picks. Bonus points for some dialog...
Name a movie or story that should get the Muppet treatment, like the Muppet Christmas Carol.
Name the token human headlining character and justify your Muppet picks. Bonus points for some dialog or song lyrics.
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You can now book a reindeer sleigh ride on Uber – the ride-hailing app's new venture is absolutely free, but you'll have to be quick…
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A Florida woman sues Velveeta, claiming its macaroni takes longer than 3 1/2 minutes
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AI horror - Who is Loab, the AI-generated apparition haunting our timelines?
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Design collective Andra Formen has created furniture from electric scooters fished out of the canals of Malmö
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US Navy forced to pay software company for piracy
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The nine best Thanksgiving songs I definitely didn’t just make up
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In the 1980s an unlikely collaboration between environmental activists and the pop group A-ha inspired Norway's electric car revolution
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Jimmy Sandberg: ‘Erling Haalands popularity, and a spelling error, is drowning out our beloved Swedish region of Halland on the internet right now’
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Katrín Jakobsdóttir, crime fiction fan and Iceland's Prime Minister, has published her first thriller novel with her close friend and bestselling author Ragnar Jónasson
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Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for seventy-five years
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What do microwaves hum?
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Kotka, in southeastern Finland, removed the country's last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin
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Why it's perfectly normal to see baby puffins thrown off cliffs in Iceland each year
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The Emoji Kitchen
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The creepy smiling people from “Smile" invaded a bunch of Major League Baseball games last night
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The grass is always browner – Swedish neighbours vie for 'ugliest lawn' title on the island of Gotland
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QAnon protesters attempted to arrest Peterborough police officers over Canada's COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Peterborough's Mayor tweets a message to them: 'F--- off, you f---wads'
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New political party in Denmark, whose policies are derived entirely from artificial intelligence, hopes to stand in the country's next general election in June 2023
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Meta's chatbot says the company 'exploits people'
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How ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies
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Top scientist admits 'space telescope image' was actually a slice of chorizo
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