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It turned out that the male throat was just naturally more-biologically-suited to rapidly slide sausages down.
Just makes me think of this:
Reminds me of the old banana argument for intelligent design. It fits well in your hand, and is nicely curved for ease of consumption.
I love that argument, it tickles me every time I hear it because bananas were intelligently designed… by humans, on purpose, over thousands of years, to make them more palatable and easier to eat than their original nearly inedible form.
and they usually open the banana the hard way too
With the pop tab side?
the flower end is the easy end. just pinch and split. the stem end is a mess.
The meme I was referencing identified a banana having a "pop tab", which is in fact the difficult way to open it.
Mine has the embedded string that you pull to tear a straight line from end to end. What kind of banana has tab side? I'd like to try that!
This is actually a brilliant retort to intelligent design.
BTB did an episode that covered competitive hotdog eating for those interested. IIRC the competitions were coed until a woman started doing well enough to get noticed. Sexism goes so deep, some folks just never want to see a woman beat a man in anything.
So this happened in Olympic skeet shooting, it used to be coed, then in the early 90s where a women won so they split the competition moving forward into men and women.
Olympic Pistol and Rifle were split in the 80s because a women tied a man (he even won the tie breaker). In pistol and rifle the women course of fire is less than the men's so you can't directly compare them either.
Those women and their dainty fingers couldn't possibly shoot as well as us strong and powerful m-- oh
This list includes Nathan’s Famous 2021 July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest, which occurs annually at New York’s Coney Island.
Coney Island is home to the longest running circus sideshow. The park celebrates body diversity, weirdness, and trans people. Half the performers and workers are proudly trans or NB. There really isn't a worse place for them to try to be transphobic.
(For context, I perform there. Am trans)
Coney Island is great. We went there as part of our honeymoon back in 2000 and loved it. I'm guessing the closed-down amusement park isn't there anymore. I know the overgrown wooden roller coaster burned down. Those were our favorite parts, but we also enjoyed the overall weirdness. Totally worth the very long subway ride from Brooklyn.
Edit: This was what the roller coaster looked like. Is that awesome or what?
Is that the Cyclone? If so it’s still there. I can confirm it’s super fun with just the right amount of “is this safe?”.
No, it's not, but it didn't burn down like I thought, which is so weird because I swear I remember seeing a news report with a video of the fire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(1925_roller_coaster)
I missed my chance to ride the Cyclone.
I'm way too tall now.
Is Coney Island still worth going to? I thought it got obliterated by that hurricane? My fiancee is coming from overseas soon and I want to show her America, so we'll definitely be visiting NYC.. Would you recommend visiting there while we're in the area?
Oh it's an amazing place, you should dedicate an entire day to it because there's so much to do! Be sure to stop by the sideshow at Freak Bar and say hi to all my friends! Also check out It's Sugar, the boardwalk (get lunch at Rudy's or Nathan's), the amusement parks, and the aquarium.
Thanks, that’s good to hear. I didn’t know there was anything there but an abandoned amusement park. I should go there some time
That was the old Astroland. There's two parks in operation right now, Luna Park and the Wonder Wheel park
Well that makes me regret not stopping by there when I was in the area for work. Never been to an official sideshow; only a couple unofficial ones.
Will do! I'm saving this comment so I remember the Freak Bar and Rudy's
I've had to argue with people who claimed trans women had an unfair advantage in professional wrestling.
Professional wrestling.
Let that sink in for a second.
Like WWE style? Where everything's made up and the points don't matter?
Exactly. Trans women apparently have an advantage in competitions that aren't even competitions now.
Those trans people have an unfair advantage in movies that they get cast in!
To a Conservative it does matter, because it threatens their worldview. Even if it's a "sport."
To be fair, you can have an argument with anyone on just about anything on the internet.
Bullshit. There's tons of topics you can't argue about and I'll be damned if I list them but you're WRONG!!!
There are not!
I mean, that's fair. Human stupidity is boundless.
Is… is this a wiener joke?
Maybe the writer has had better experience on oral sex with trans women
Aren’t eating competitions coed?
I don't know, but it does look like the Guiness Book of World Records record-holder is male, so there's that. On the other hand, the record notes his wife is the world burrito champion, so...:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/24214-most-hot-dogs-eaten-in-3-minutes
Most hot dogs eaten in three minutes
Who: Nicholas Wehry
What: 12 total number
Where: United States (Tampa)
When: 22 October 2022
The most hot dogs eaten in three minutes is 12, and was achieved by Nicholas Wehry (USA) in Tampa, Florida, USA, on 22 October 2022.
Nicholas Whery is married to fellow competitive eater Miki Sudo, who achieved the fastest time to eat a burrito on the same day.
EDIT: No, from her Wikipedia article, it sounds like they have separate men's and women's competitions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miki_Sudo
Miki Victoria Sudo (born July 23, 1985[2][3]) is an American competitive eater. She won the women's competition at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest every year from 2014 to 2020, unseating Sonya Thomas, who had won the women's competition since its inception in 2011.
The Guiness Book of World Records apparently doesn't for that single "three minute" category, but does apparently track the per-gender winners of this Nathan's competition:
They used to be. The Major League Eating split them up a few years ago. The current women's champion, Miki Sudi, would place 6th in the men's with last year's results or 3rd in her best year. There is no reason women could not be just as competitive. Size sure as hell is not much of a factor considering former winners have been like 135 lbs.
If hot dog eating contests are this important a part of your life, you probably should reevaluate your priorities.
Truly one of the great injustices of our time.
This will keep happening to cisgender women- they will be accused of being trans just to attack them. It's bad enough that trans women are getting attacked, but this is just widening the net.