I'm always up for a good laugh, so I thought I'd put this thread up here for you guys in Finland, and those from other countries, to post up links or just general information on the silliest, funniest, downright hilarious festivals and events you might have in your countries.....
I'll start.......
Here in Australia, in the top end of the country where they only have 2 seasons, wet and dry, it's always above 30C all year round, there are 2 festivals which stand out in my memory. I haven't been to them myself yet, but I will one day for sure....
The first is The Beer Can Regatta.
Here's some info about it and some pics if you want to check it out.
Mindil Beach in Darwin is the scene of the yearly Beer Can Regatta, where participants make good use of the thousands of aluminium beer cans by making boats in all shapes and sizes from them and then proceed to hold mock battles in the shallow sea there. Children, too, participate, although they may only use softdrink cans!
The main event is a race between boats built entirely out of beer cans. Very much a family day out for locals and a rapidly becoming spectacular for the tourists to Darwin who line Mindil Beach cheering as the home made boats of beercans wallow, flounder and sink. The fleet includes all kinds of canoes, speedboats, and giant Viking warships with fire hoses and top secret weaponry.
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Henley-on-Todd Regatta
This one would probably describe the Aussie sense of humour pretty acurately. A boat race in a river with no water. If it happens that there has been a good rain one year and the river is filled with water, the boat race has to be cancelled.
Here's some more info and pics....Alice Springs, in the arid Centre, is the scene for the yearly Henley-on-Todd Regatta, where "boatraces" are held with bottomless boats, held up by the contestants who have to run through the dry riverbed. There are crazy bathtub races too and whole naval battles by, among others, "Vikings" and "Pirates" crewing battle boats which are mounted on truck's chassis, bristling with mortars and high pressure coloured water cannons hurling flour bombs at their opponents. But if it rains and there is water in the river, the boat race has to be cancelled!
In 1962, the idea was taken up to hold a rowing and sailing regatta in Alice Springs - and the fact that the town was 1500 kms from the nearest large body of water was never seen as a problem. So, to parody the annual boating regatta between Oxford and Cambridge Universities on the Thames, they named the event the Henley-on-Todd.
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When I remember some more funny festivals I'll put em up.
Now come on.....I know you Finns have a great sense of humour. Let us know all the craziness you get up to
(sorry, very known finnish bad humour)
