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Germany's first hobby horsing championship gallops through Frankfurt(abcnews.go.com)

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Blackout@fedia.io
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Everything is happening in Frankfurt this weekend. The tram driver Olympics is going on as well. You get to watch them run trains into balls!

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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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Wait. What?

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Deceptichum@quokk.au
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Why are the tram drivers driving trains not driving trams?

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yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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Although Frankfurt doesn’t have them, this exists:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram-train

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Deceptichum@quokk.au
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That’s ridiculously silly.

Why can you just be happy with putting a much more train like vehicle, such as a bus, on tracks instead?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway

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Mighty@lemmy.world
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I am overjoyed!!! As I watched the Olympics I thought that all the equestrian sports needs to be replaced with hobby horsing. Let the poor horses be… The jockeys need more guts and do it all on a hobby horse

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treadful@lemmy.zip
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I will never understand this.

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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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We don’t need to.

It’s people having fun.

I will never understand nfl football. Dudes in tights chasing other dudes in tights. Idiots dressing up in cosplay being stupid.

How many fans are going to downvote that? (And how many would make fun of me for the DnD cosplay at a con?)

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HejMedDig@feddit.dk
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All you need to know is that people are having harmless fun

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treadful@lemmy.zip
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HejMedDig@feddit.dk
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Unless one of the stick horses break, and they drag it out back and saw it into kindling

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TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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Ideally, you need to be a girl under the age of 12 to understand this. However, if you are a parent of at least one such child you might gain this superpower through reverse inheritance.

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reboot6675@sopuli.xyz
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Been a thing for ages in Finland, never thought it would actually expand haha

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fubarx@lemmy.ml
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https://youtu.be/tANavEbnKsU

Finland edition, where it apparently started. Action starts at 4:20m in.

Good, wholesome fun.

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