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

We previously saw the winning routine of the 3A division at the World Yo-Yo Contest, but here comes Mir Kim’s absolutely insane winning A1 division performance. I think A1 is better than A3? I don’t know, I’ve never been part of an A division anything. I didn’t even get any

NOTE: I’m in Alabama visiting my family (and eating my weight in food) right now so things might be on the lighter side today and tomorrow, but I’ll do what I can and be back to my regularly scheduled nonsense on Thursday. This is a clip from Seinfeld night at

This is a video of 21-year old Dutchman Jarmo Slutter performing his winning seagull imitation at the European Gull Screeching Championship held in Adinkerke, Belgium. Admittedly, he does sound exactly like a bird. The costume certainly doesn’t hurt either. Next year I plan to win the competition with a cleverly

This is some footage from the 2017 Iowa State Fair’s husband calling contest, in which wives compete by calling their husbands. Not on the phone, mind you — by yelling. The winner takes home a ribbon, five bucks, but, most importantly, bragging rights, which are invaluable. I may not have

This is a clip from the 2018 (those were different times, weren’t they?) Miss World pageant of all the contestants introducing themselves in alphabetically order when they get to Miss France Eva Colas and she produces a hoarsely guttural FRAWNCE! I feel like I was just verbally assaulted by a

Presumably because what else is there to do in rural France besides live your dream life and eat delicious, locally sourced food, this is a video from the Laguiole AOP Festival held near the Aubrac Plateau in Aveyron of a stretchy cheese competition. In this video, a cheesemaker’s Aligot de