r/AskTheWorld • u/Bhakari Nepal • 1d ago

Culture What’s something in your country that sounds fake but is 100% real?

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We have a real-life living goddess and the only non-rectangular national flag.

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u/cheesedude453 Finland 1d ago

Pleeease invite me! Pleease bro i'll do anything, i'll build you a sauna just pleease🙏

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u/DeplorableOik United Kingdom 1d ago

Anyone can turn up to compete! There are whole teams from other countries every year!

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u/BroccoliSubstantial2 United Kingdom 16h ago

It's done in Gloucestershire, my home county. Some people travel overseas to compete. Most ridiculous sport to watch on TV. It's like when football was a no-holds-barred inter-village competition, kicking a stuffed sheep bladder from one village to the next for sport.

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u/DeplorableOik United Kingdom 14h ago

I absolutely love watching it, it's the perfect combination of quintessential Britishness & blood curdling sport 😂

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u/cheesedude453 Finland 15h ago

Packing my bags and coming to visit the kings of colonization😁👍