In a 'beauty' pageant with camels as the contestants, officials discovered 20 entrants had injected their camels in the hump with a substance that would make the hump look plumper and better-shaped, with the intent to score higher in the competition. This is against the rules, so those people were disqualified for cheating.
This is unexpected because although many types of banned performance enhancement are common in human beauty and sports competitions, you might never anticipate it would happen in animal competitions, nor imagine the 'ideal' shape of a camel's hump could be such an intense aspect of competition that you'd even want to try.
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huppakee@piefed.social · 12 pts · 158d
wanted to cross post this to !nottheonion@lemmy.world but since they don't like screenshots i looked up the the source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/camel-pageant-scandal-oman-hump-injectables-b2932979.html let me put it here in case somebody wants it
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 4 pts · 158d
InnerScientist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 158d
Can someone translate that for me?
bleistift2@feddit.org · 33 pts · 158d
Sure.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 158d
I gotcha covered.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 157d
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 158d
ELI5:
In a 'beauty' pageant with camels as the contestants, officials discovered 20 entrants had injected their camels in the hump with a substance that would make the hump look plumper and better-shaped, with the intent to score higher in the competition. This is against the rules, so those people were disqualified for cheating.
This is unexpected because although many types of banned performance enhancement are common in human beauty and sports competitions, you might never anticipate it would happen in animal competitions, nor imagine the 'ideal' shape of a camel's hump could be such an intense aspect of competition that you'd even want to try.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 158d
Apparently camel pageants find camel humps more pleasing when they're plump.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 7 pts · 158d
Can we at least save this till Wednesday?
negativenull@piefed.world · 7 pts · 158d
missed opportunity
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 4 pts · 158d
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 158d
No honesty in this world.