Because a job worth doing is worth doing well (I have yet to find a job worth doing), this is some footage from the 35th Annual ISSA Housekeeping Olympics, held (appropriately) in Las Vegas. Events include mop slalom, vacuum races, bed making, buffer pad toss, and ride-on vacuum extractor obstacle

This is a clip of the 2025 World Championship of Shoe Shining, in which three finalists had 20 minutes to shine a pair of Bridlen Straight Tip Oxfords to as close to a mirror-finish as possible. Each was allowed a selection of Saphir Médaille d’Or waxes, brushes, and cloths, and

This is a video (complete with trick list) of Japanese yo-yo master Hajime Miura securing his 8th 3A World Yo-Yo World Championship with an incredible dual yo-yo performance that’s hard to wrap my head around. Wrapping a yo-yo string around my legs and tripping myself? Easy. Wrapping my head around

This is some footage from the 2025 World Dog Surfing Championships held in Pacifica, California. The annual event supports local animal shelters, so even the dogs that didn’t get to surf can still be winners. I particularly liked that Dalmatian that was riding backwards. I hope it was awarded extra

Because dreams do occasionally come true (usually just the nightmares though), Icy Hot is holding a raffle to win limited edition roller bottles of Icy Hot with a Shaq head topper that talks while you’re rolling the pain away. Quotes include: “It’s a bad day to be pain.” “Ice works

In other avian news, this is a video of the winners of the European Gull Screeching Championship, a contest in which humans do their best seagull impressions. The competition appears to have been even fiercer than a gull fight over a french fry this year, with 60 bird impersonators from

This is a video of the last 7-minutes of the 2024 World Chess Championship, in which 18-year old Gukesh Dommaraju of India defeats 32-year old Ding Liren of China after Liren make a fatal mistake with his rook, leaving his bishop trapped. Going into the game, the best of 14

Because everybody’s idea of a fun weekend with the boys is different, this is a video from Destin of Youtube channel Smarter Every Day (I’m the opposite) getting a group of his buddies together to pit eight different brands of string trimmer line against each other, tournament style. That slow