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Germany's first hobby horsing championship gallops through Frankfurt (abcnews.go.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Been a thing for ages in Finland, never thought it would actually expand haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://youtu.be/tANavEbnKsU

Finland edition, where it apparently started. Action starts at 4:20m in.

Good, wholesome fun.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I will never understand this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ideally, you need to be a girl under the age of 12 to understand this. However, if you are a parent of at least one such child you might gain this superpower through reverse inheritance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

We don’t need to.

It’s people having fun.

I will never understand nfl football. Dudes in tights chasing other dudes in tights. Idiots dressing up in cosplay being stupid.

How many fans are going to downvote that? (And how many would make fun of me for the DnD cosplay at a con?)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All you need to know is that people are having harmless fun

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Unless one of the stick horses break, and they drag it out back and saw it into kindling

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Everything is happening in Frankfurt this weekend. The tram driver Olympics is going on as well. You get to watch them run trains into balls!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Wait. What?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why are the tram drivers driving trains not driving trams?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Although Frankfurt doesn't have them, this exists:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram-train

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That’s ridiculously silly.

Why can you just be happy with putting a much more train like vehicle, such as a bus, on tracks instead?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I am overjoyed!!! As I watched the Olympics I thought that all the equestrian sports needs to be replaced with hobby horsing. Let the poor horses be... The jockeys need more guts and do it all on a hobby horse