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[/img]So apparently I may be on the BBC TV show Countryfile this Sunday.
Was I protesting about access rights, have I exposed some chicken feed scandal, am I John Craven's long lost son??? No I am eating stinging nettles.
Last weekend I survived the world stinging nettle eating champs.
Did OK getting 12 foot away in an hour, no real injury. Not a single sting in my month due to an awesome but slow technique – but my hands were ruined.
I beat that James Wong from BBCs "grow your own drugs" TV show... but he is a nice chap.
There was also some Canadian dude from UKTVfood (and the colonies) who looked like Lance Armstrong, his show is called something like Extreme Food Challengers or something like that. He once rode Alp D'Huez, and then had to eat a meal representing the 5,000 calories he had used on the climb... anyway manly stinger gauntlets thrown down, the challenge was on, and he kicked my arse, and won a pint of Otter. Grrrr.
The nettles were fairly ropey, not as tasty as my local nettles, but a free meal is a free meal, and I just cant turn down a ”mono-all-you-can-eat-buffet”.
charlie, when i saw you at ssuk, you seemed a normal, sane kind of a bloke.......................................
how very wrong i was........... 😉
how do you eat them without getting stung then?
looks like your tongue is forked guv'ner (are you the guy with the hat?)
how do you eat them without getting stung then?
Rub them in your hands first. Gets all the stinging hairs off the plant and onto your hands 😉
psychle - Member
looks like your tongue is forked guv'ner (are you the guy with the hat?)
the 'one less car' sticker on the t-shirt is a dead giveaway...
...oh, and I'm still waiting for me stickers... 😉
I always watch Countryfile, so I'll be watching out for your bit, Mr C.
Charlie, you're nuts!
Hang on, seen this before - the nettles are washed down with loads of beer?
Think the last show this was on the female contestant had to p part way through! That's it it was on a programme with Rory McGra and Paddy McGuinness?!
Simon Le Bons stunt double I reckon
I saw you on the international news here is Germany!
Whoop!
P.S. Can I have a more nads than gears sticker...
I was gutted to hear it was on last weekend, I thought it was THIS weekend, was going to tootle down to get pished & laugh at all you loons!
You from round that way then?
CountZero - Member...oh, and I'm still waiting for me stickers...
Me too,
oh and i heard you admired my first effort at a SS build, at the SSUK's (retro fully rigid, 1998 spesh rockhopper, with a Big Earl 2.5 up front, just sorry i wsn't anble to ride it myself), would look good with one of your stickers on it.
I was on Countryfile last year! Explaining the geology of Wharfedale and the Craven Fault, on top of the Cow and Calf rocks in Ilkley to the man himself, John Craven, or John, as I now call him. I was rubbish and I dread the day when it's repeated! 😳
You're one sick puppy
.......points and runs!!! Blllllaaaaaaaauuughhhhhh!
Congratulations, thats the kind of contest that keeps life interesting.
I bought my Salsa Bell cross bars off you from Ebay, I loved the sweet, very nice touch 😀
If you wanna win, just rip them off and stuff them in. No time for technique, just go for volume.
To survive, you roll the leaves up with the underside on the inside, a few chews and big swig of ale.
Blimey German TV... cool.
Poo... sunday morning... oh my god, like vicous pesto... but I felt great, loads of iron and vit c I guess.
Stickers... yep we have a few still to send out, just putting the real orders of bike parts first, stickers second... been a tad busy... but your stickers will be with you soon.
I will be going for a win next year... so if anyone fancies a day in a beer garden racing nettles feel free to throw your nettle eating gauntlet down.
My parents in law have been on country file, I wish I could be on country file, oh darn I live in the urban wasteland of Portsmouth, never mind.
