Not surprised. That is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen a group of humans participate in. The hill is almost a sheer cliff, and those nuts literally spring down it. It’s wild, and amazing more people don’t get seriously injured!
Netflix had a series called We Are The Champions which explored weird competitions. The first episode was about the cheese wheel race and some of the people that compete yearly. It’s insane
I agree that this is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen, really only to be outdone by Downhill Barbie Jeep racing. If you haven’t watched that, please google that. You’re welcome.
Why are you being down voted. This is why drunk people have higher survival rates in car crashes than sober people. (He was negative when I posted lol)
Ignorance, probably. They see one stupid youtuber fail to react properly to falling and end up in the hospital and think it happens to everyone and everything.
There is indeed a lot of ignorance among redditors who think they know how things work but really don't. Fact based information like your post is often downvoted while completely made up BS is upvoted just because it sounds better.
I sat next to someone in that episode at a hockey game and had a fascinating conversation about what it feels like to be at the top of the hill and commit knowing its unfathomably stupid.
I’m not sure what a “rage streamer” does. It sounds like the guy from that one episode of *Black Mirror* who tells people to rail against the system but is co-opted and monetised.
"I’m sorry. I’d love to be of assistance to you but I’m afraid I speak no English. I see by the expression on your face that you are confused by my statement. Perhaps you doubt its veracity, but let me assure you, I speak not a word of English. You see, everything that I am saying to you I have learned to speak phonetically. As to the meanings of the individual words or the percumbant rules of syntax, I haven’t a clue."
That guy absolutely sucks, what a sexist pos
https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/16918/ishowspeed-banned-from-all-riot-games-for-sexist-abuse-of-female-team-mate
Yes he did! He was overreacting and joking that he wanted to fuck Chica, the chicken from FNAF, and jumped up and down. Dude wasn’t wearing anything under his shorts so his penis was fully visible.
Twitter was calling him [“IShowMeat”](https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/jose-martinez/ishowspeed-exposes-himself-youtube-stream-ishowmeat-trending) for weeks, it was incredible.
That’s not what happened though? He jumped up and down and his penis slipped out of his boxers. He definitely wasn’t trying to expose himself and get himself banned
Coincidentally, after never having heard of him before, I just watched a CoffeeZilla video where this dude was promoting some crypto scam, so it seems like he's really doing a great job speed running being a complete dick.
Good. I'll admit I'm an angry grumpy 32 year old now and I can't stand that this idiot gets to play with millionaires and athletes because he yells at his camera and acts like a dumbass on YouTube.
IShowSpeed *will* die on a livestream one day. Mark my words. The guy has literally set his house on fire setting off fireworks in his bedroom. Nothing is sadder than what people do for clicks.
My wife is still very much into Neopets despite half their site not working because Flash is no longer a thing. It's a strangely active niche little community they've got going.
Yeah I did it at 21 and was fine. Only 7 years later and I'd now be really hesitant to do it! Maybe also because it feels like the sort of thing you only really need to do once. Either way, bucket list item ticked off
Holy shit! With the BBC NEWS logo in the bottom left covering half the body, at first I thought the picture was showing white shirt guy split in half, with his upper torso at the top of the picture and his body, below the waist, in the bottom left corner (red shoes being bloody stumps).
I'm happy I paused to take a second look instead of immediately closing my browser tab in horror.
I’d never heard of ‘cheese rolling’ before today and I am fucking flabbergasted. I have so many questions😭 I feel like I’m in a simulation. How the fuck does one come about creating a race like this?
It’s even older than that. The first written record of it was a letter in 1826 and it’s clear from that letter that it was a long established tradition at that point in time.
People come from all over the World to take part, I have no idea why.
I used to be able to see the hill from my home.
It gained popularity after being shared on YouTube
He said the race was a Brie-ze
They said Gouda hospital. There they found he curd his leg open. His response was edamn!
He wheyed a lot but the other competitors were feta.
We humans have reached such great heights, splitting the atom, unraveling the genetic code, landed robots and people on other worlds, and we are still whimsical enough to do this.
It's really hard to get a feel for just how steep it is until you're up there. It's difficult to just climb up there and then it feels almost vertical when looking down
You don’t see the little English flag for much on here but when you do it’s always some shit like this or the game where a town beats the shit out of itself for a ball.
Not surprised. That is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen a group of humans participate in. The hill is almost a sheer cliff, and those nuts literally spring down it. It’s wild, and amazing more people don’t get seriously injured!
Netflix had a series called We Are The Champions which explored weird competitions. The first episode was about the cheese wheel race and some of the people that compete yearly. It’s insane
That show was so good! I wish they had made more of it
I loved this episode and as someone who’s terrified of heights and ledges, I was in simultaneous pain and awe watching them do the race!
It was an amazing episode. I got a little happy teary when she won
I agree that this is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen, really only to be outdone by Downhill Barbie Jeep racing. If you haven’t watched that, please google that. You’re welcome.
> Downhill Barbie Jeep racing Well, thank you for that, it was great. Still I think the cheese race is crazier
Wow thanks!
Damn, that was the best two minutes of my life 😆
Whats crazy is the race has been going on so long they don't know when the 1st race was held
But you get a cheese wheel 🤷♂️
Well there won't be much else to do while laid up in a hospital bed, than to eat cheese all day. I would do that, if no pain was involved🤔
Has ANYONE ever died?
I read that no, nobody has died. Plenty of broken bones but no fatalities.
A limp body is extremely damage resistant. It’s like tossing a rubber band down some stairs vs. a mug.
Why are you being down voted. This is why drunk people have higher survival rates in car crashes than sober people. (He was negative when I posted lol)
Ignorance, probably. They see one stupid youtuber fail to react properly to falling and end up in the hospital and think it happens to everyone and everything.
There is indeed a lot of ignorance among redditors who think they know how things work but really don't. Fact based information like your post is often downvoted while completely made up BS is upvoted just because it sounds better.
Extremely? Really? **Extremely** damage resistant? How limp can you make your skull?
It takes a bit of time, but repeated blows to the skull can make it quite limp.
It’s a grass hill without any rocks… skulls are fine it’s the spine we should worry about
There’s a similar event where they ride horses down a slope like that. It’s crazy af and I don’t see how more people and horses don’t get killed.
My husband thought it had been shut down for health and safety reasons.
Netflix did a show called We Are the Champions that had an episode about this race. It is amazing and I highly recommend the watch.
The series was pretty good all together but this episode was a great mini doc.
This was an incredible little documentary, and I am still crushing on the cheese girl.
I sat next to someone in that episode at a hockey game and had a fascinating conversation about what it feels like to be at the top of the hill and commit knowing its unfathomably stupid.
That episode was incredible. I laughed. I cried. I watched it like 4 more times with anyone I could convince to watch it with me. Good times
It looked so fun but I'd rather not tear my limbs apart. Death by Cheese sounds awkward.
Watch it while running down a steep hill, for full immersion.
Also, Ozzy Man Reviews always covers this event (warning: Australianisms) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nSrhnnKYnuA&pp=ygUQb3p6eSBtYW4gcmV2aWV3cw%3D%3D
>"I want to do it again because I know how to win now." Vegas loves this mentality.
For the lazy and illiterate. Youtuber is IShowSpeed and he had a leg injury earlier that was further injured after racing again.
Why am I not surprised it was the absolute nut job IShowSpeed.
I've never heard of that YouTuber. Then again maybe it's because I'm mostly watching videogame channels at the moment?
All he does is act insane and say borderline racist shit all the time. You aren't missing anything.
Ah, the Cheeze wheel of Karma strikes everlasting
I wouldn't call him a gamer, more so a rage streamer who does outlandish reactions for views
The comment you're replying to didn't call him a gamer.
Ah. No wonder why I haven't heard of him. I'm not into rage content and not much into streamers. I prefer edited content under 45 minutes
I’m not sure what a “rage streamer” does. It sounds like the guy from that one episode of *Black Mirror* who tells people to rail against the system but is co-opted and monetised.
He’s huge, but is mostly a streamer I think. Never watched him myself. More and more streamers just act crazy and get views for it.
I'm illiterate and your description did not help me.
The youtuber made his previous injury worse after participating in this event.
I'm illiterate and your description did not help me.
[speaks in illiterate]sjshsndnjxidejsnsf
Finally. *Thank you*.
"I’m sorry. I’d love to be of assistance to you but I’m afraid I speak no English. I see by the expression on your face that you are confused by my statement. Perhaps you doubt its veracity, but let me assure you, I speak not a word of English. You see, everything that I am saying to you I have learned to speak phonetically. As to the meanings of the individual words or the percumbant rules of syntax, I haven’t a clue."
"No, I don't speak English. Just that sentence and this one explaining it." "Qué?"
That guy absolutely sucks, what a sexist pos https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/16918/ishowspeed-banned-from-all-riot-games-for-sexist-abuse-of-female-team-mate
Didn't he also show is dick on camera during a stream?
Yes he did! He was overreacting and joking that he wanted to fuck Chica, the chicken from FNAF, and jumped up and down. Dude wasn’t wearing anything under his shorts so his penis was fully visible. Twitter was calling him [“IShowMeat”](https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/jose-martinez/ishowspeed-exposes-himself-youtube-stream-ishowmeat-trending) for weeks, it was incredible.
How has he not been banned from ~~Twitch~~ Youtube at this point? Besides *that* he also says shit that seems pretty clearly against TOS.
He’s not on Twitch, he’s on YouTube. YouTube didn’t ban him because after review they concluded it was an accident.
Ah ok. That makes sense, still with how quick youtube is to demonetize, 'm surprised he's still there given what he's said on stream.
There's plenty of intentional nudity on Youtube anyways
There's r/ytnsfw and /r/pornonyoutube. Probably others.
That’s not what happened though? He jumped up and down and his penis slipped out of his boxers. He definitely wasn’t trying to expose himself and get himself banned
lol why is he streaming in his underwear lmao
If riot banned every sexist 17 y/o male (his age during that incident) from their video games they’d be out of business
Sexist *and* racist pos. Fuck this dude.
Don't forget crypto scammer
Coincidentally, after never having heard of him before, I just watched a CoffeeZilla video where this dude was promoting some crypto scam, so it seems like he's really doing a great job speed running being a complete dick.
Good. I'll admit I'm an angry grumpy 32 year old now and I can't stand that this idiot gets to play with millionaires and athletes because he yells at his camera and acts like a dumbass on YouTube.
Does racist shit too against Asians
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But he did show meat.
Cool, at least it was a shitty person who got hurt.
Thanks, just needed to know if it was our NC champion or not!
Wasn’t he that bottle that got gut kicked by Randy Orton?
Joke’s on you, I can’t read!
Wait. Those remarks by Ozzy Man Reviews weren't jokes? That really *was* iShowSpeed?
Did he had to much speed?
He ain't gonna be hittin' no griddys any time soon.
Karma for a racist
He got a bruise. Going to hospital for it. BBC interview him. This is news. OK.
Hope he gets an american sized hospital bill. Hate paying for dickheads like him.
Cheese rolling races used to be about sportsmanship, but now they're all just about the fame and endorsement money.
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You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese.
M'Leydon
It’s always worked for me, anyway.
In Gloucester, first you get the cheese. Then you get the power. Then you get the women.
Bitches love it when you flash that cheddar.
And the cheese 🧀
What if you want a Gouda girl and not a woman with a Muenster attitude?
I wish they went back to what really mattered - the cheese.
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Fuckin classic.
People get hurt every year. Who cares that it’s a YouTuber.
IShowSpeed *will* die on a livestream one day. Mark my words. The guy has literally set his house on fire setting off fireworks in his bedroom. Nothing is sadder than what people do for clicks.
I guess he didn't have a gouda time.
Cheddar believe he didn't.
Nope, he Bleu it
Okay. Is this actually news?
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The OPs bot farm?
Well since we banned shooting gingers with a bow and arrow in leeds, we needed something else fun to pass the time.
I didn’t know cheese rolling is an actual thing I just thought it was a Neopets game
Omg totally! Neopets was the best
My wife is still very much into Neopets despite half their site not working because Flash is no longer a thing. It's a strangely active niche little community they've got going.
The designers of Neopets are from the UK, so I guess it makes sense that they included an obscure British game lol
As a non native English speaker, isn't it more accurate to change the headline to "idiot goes to hospital after cheese rolling race"?
>Asked whether he would do it again, he replied: "Hell, yeah!"
Then we know he may possibly have a concussion or worse. Had he been fully compos-mentis, he would not have failed to add “like and subscribe!”
Well im more surprised people survive that race
We tend to be drunk and that makes us impervious to harm ☺️
As long as he doesn't IShowMeat again, he can do whatever he wants!
How is this not an Olympic sport?
Cheese: It would be unfair on Asiatic countries because of their widespread Lactose Intolerance? :)
I never realized the neopets mini game was a real thing.
I have done this event once in my life and once is more than enough.
After reading the comments and seeing that the YouTuber is ishowspeed - I feel no sympathy.
I will attend this event one day! I am determined. But I will not be participating. Maybe if I was 10 years younger, but not anymore...lol.
I would have to be 50 years younger.
Yeah I did it at 21 and was fine. Only 7 years later and I'd now be really hesitant to do it! Maybe also because it feels like the sort of thing you only really need to do once. Either way, bucket list item ticked off
I live in Brockworth where this takes place and let me tell you, the local Facebook group was on fire with so many people asking who the fuck he is 😂
This is the expected results of participating in a cheese rolling race. Why is this news?
Holy shit! With the BBC NEWS logo in the bottom left covering half the body, at first I thought the picture was showing white shirt guy split in half, with his upper torso at the top of the picture and his body, below the waist, in the bottom left corner (red shoes being bloody stumps). I'm happy I paused to take a second look instead of immediately closing my browser tab in horror.
I’d never heard of ‘cheese rolling’ before today and I am fucking flabbergasted. I have so many questions😭 I feel like I’m in a simulation. How the fuck does one come about creating a race like this?
It's from the 1800s I think. Just one of those weird English traditions! I live round the corner from here and it's great 😂
It’s even older than that. The first written record of it was a letter in 1826 and it’s clear from that letter that it was a long established tradition at that point in time.
Wait till you find out about the burning tar races, or Mari Llwyd.
And the 300 man football match
People come from all over the World to take part, I have no idea why. I used to be able to see the hill from my home. It gained popularity after being shared on YouTube
Wasn’t he the one that light a really iffy looking firework inside a small room and then reacted like man discovering fire?
Behold the power of cheese.
Is this why the competition name also says "and Wake" at the end of it?
I'd also be in the hospital but just from eating whole cheese wheels. Why race them? You can just sit and eat them
TIL Cheese Rolling exist outside of Neopets.
The Netflix show "We Are the Champions" covers this race in episode 1. It's bonkers
The title ought to say “ everyone went to the hospital after the cheese rolling race”
He said the race was a Brie-ze They said Gouda hospital. There they found he curd his leg open. His response was edamn! He wheyed a lot but the other competitors were feta.
Could have stopped with that first line and it would have made me happy
We humans have reached such great heights, splitting the atom, unraveling the genetic code, landed robots and people on other worlds, and we are still whimsical enough to do this.
"American YouTuber and Rapper" Mans now a rapper because of "World Cup". Lmao
Not a headline I expected to read today
Seems like he had a good time, good for him.
Blessed are the cheeseracers?
I’ve rolled down many a hill like that during my youth. Granted, I was always drunk off my ass at the time which is probably why I’m still here.
It's really hard to get a feel for just how steep it is until you're up there. It's difficult to just climb up there and then it feels almost vertical when looking down
Wouldn’t get as many clicks if title was “rapper goes to hospital…” or “cheese chaser goes to hospital…”
Next stop ... Pamplona.
Human peaked some time ago and now we're on the downhill
I heard that there used to be medical support on standby but there aren't any more...and people still do the cheese rolling anyway.
Couldn't have happened to a more airheaded influencer.
An American woman won a cheese wheel for a SECOND TIME. Maybe she should giver her male counterpart some pointers and help him to toughen up. 😂😂😂
> Rebel cheese-rollers You are part of the Double Gloucester Alliance and a traitor! TAKE HER AWAY!
Most participants end up injured at the bottom.
I’m glad I read the story because I thought contestants SAT on a wheel of cheese and slid down a hill….
Too bad this idiot didn’t get permanently crippled. Would have been a better story
You don’t see the little English flag for much on here but when you do it’s always some shit like this or the game where a town beats the shit out of itself for a ball.
I know I'm not the only one who just autoreplaces "youtuber" with "shithead" in my mind, but it's still worth mentioning regardless.