'I competed in Gravy Wrestling Championships to escape 9-to-5 job and now have gravy addiction'
An NHS worker who competed in the World Gravy Wrestling Championships as an “escape” from his nine-to-five job has said he now has a “gravy addiction” and has the sauce with almost every meal.
Darren Machen, 45, said he had always dreamed of becoming a wrestler, and while at college in 1997 he staged a jelly wrestling match with his friends. After university, Darren fell into an NHS procurement job and later started comfort eating chocolate biscuits and crisps while doing little exercise until he reached 16st (102kg) in 2024.
However, he decided this year to compete in the World Gravy Wrestling Championships held in Rossendale, hoping the excitement would serve as an escape from his nine-to-five office job. Competing as The Yorkshire Pudding, Darren wore a T-shirt with a picture of the favourite Sunday roast accompaniment on it, along with a rugby scrum cap, Y-front pants and a cape.
6 comments:
What an excellent suggestion. They could also compete in a going up creeks without a paddle contest, a riding hobby-horses race, and a cowardice in the face of the enemy game.
I have floated before the suggestion that Sir Cur is a mummy's boy. Now a graphologist backs me up: 'The long lower zones in his letters (like the tail of a ‘y’), slanting to the right, suggest to me a “mother complex”'. And what could be more scientific than graphology?
https://archive.ph/2GOjR
Splendid stuff from Frost in the Telegraph:
As Dickens put it in Bleak House, “give the Home Department to Joodle, the Exchequer to Koodle, the Colonies to Loodle, and the Foreign Office to Moodle, what are you to do with Noodle?” Well, Starmer solved that problem anyway: he made him Deputy Prime Minister."
dearieme - and while they engaged in the creeks without a paddle contest, they could be required to bail out the boat with a chocolate teapot.
97% of graphology agree... I can't imagine making the effort to study graphology, how do they confirm their conclusions?
I recently read Bleak House again - that quote probably never went stale.
Gravy? Last time I ate it, can’t remember. Gravy train? Govt teat? All too depressing.
James - I like a spot of gravy on some foods, but it's one of those things which isn't as good as it was in the past, made with juices from the meat.
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