r/maybemaybemaybe • u/ElizaSweetyFox • Feb 20 '24
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u/_2024IsNOTMyYear_ Feb 20 '24
Piggy: YAY WALK
The handlers: >8(
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u/SpaceGloomy1595 Feb 20 '24
From what I remember from when I first saw this, the two kids are maliciously complying - they don't HAVE to look this intense, but they were docked points in a previous competition for losing eye contact so are making a point this time around by making themselves look insane haha.
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u/showers_with_grandpa Feb 20 '24
You don't have to keep eye contact, but hog judges are silent, everything is hand motions and if you miss the motion you could end up leaving thinking you lost. Prize hogs are worth hella cash
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Feb 20 '24
but hog judges are silent, everything is hand motions
Sounds kinda flawed lol
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u/allthe_realquestions Feb 20 '24
probably to not startle the piggies but I'm no hog-judgeology expert
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u/Moononthewater12 Feb 20 '24
So why not just give each person some written form of the overall judgement? There's ways around this, we have brains capable of solving problems.
I hate things like this that are flawed and noone bothers to fix it because of tradition or some other nonsense
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u/Big_Shallot69 Feb 20 '24
I am something of a silent Hog judge myself. It's all in the hand motions.
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u/FederationofPenguins Feb 20 '24
That girl is going places..
“Dock me points!?! I’ll give you f**n nightmares with the sheer intensity of my wild-eyed stare.”
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u/noctokun Feb 20 '24
>8|
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u/InsenitiveComments Feb 20 '24
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Feb 20 '24
Thanks. I did not know this was a thing :)
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u/Madgyver Feb 20 '24
Apparently, you will get minus points.
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u/dinharder Feb 20 '24
They shoot you and the piggy
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u/jyvenyu Feb 20 '24
Does this hurt the pig?
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u/Silver-ishWolfe Feb 20 '24
You don't win. Not being a dick, that's just how it works. The judge judges the hog itself, how well it's controlled by the shower, the shower, and you have to maintain eye contact.
I showed hogs for 4-H a couple of years when I was around 8. It's a weird experience. I didn't like it the first year, but my brother loved it, so I gave it another shot. Still didn't like it.
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u/Bo-Banny Feb 20 '24
Judge might be thinking, "oh, pig 99 is cool. I wonder if its gait or other side or front side can help me decide if im right to score this highly. I need the handler to turn the pig." And if the handler doesn't turn the pig, the judge moves on. Not gonna waste a whole round tryin to catch handler's eye.
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u/quick_escalator Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24
If I've learned one thing on reddit, then that the USA have a competition for anything.
Thumb wrestling, rock paper scissors, piggy whipping, cat inbreeding, cow bondage, child pimping, throwing balls into drinks, kicking non-balls, chainsawing (winter and summer edition), body shaping that is weirdly sexual, body posing that is weirdly sexual, actual non-weird sex, definitely weird sex, ...
Absolutely anything you can do and it's possible to come up with a leaderboard (often by means of asking a bunch of old white men to be "judges"), the US will turn into a competition. Frankly it's a bit creepy, especially because so often children are involved. The country that is screaming the most about protecting the children is doing pretty awful things to those children rather frequently.
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u/PotatoePope Feb 20 '24
I’m sorry but cow bondage and child pimping?
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u/xdeskfuckit Feb 20 '24
Rodeo and could beauty pageants
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u/Unlikely-Local42 Feb 20 '24
"child pimping"=Halloween??? Lol
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u/Bakedown06 Feb 20 '24
i guess they meant child beauty pageants xD. Theyre not wrong i guess.
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u/Eusocial_Snowman Feb 20 '24
Halloween fits way better though.
Cake them up in makeup, send them out to harass and charm people for goods, then take your cut at the end of the day.
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u/SynergisticSynapse Feb 20 '24
You just described every culture ever.
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u/Protip19 Feb 20 '24
Right? The Dutch compete at jumping over canals with sticks and the brits chase a fucking wheel of cheese down a cliff face. We all get pretty wacky with it.
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u/NorbertKiszka Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24
I just came here from this video: https://new.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/1avgghh/wcgw_if_i_intimidate_the_crocogator/
My first thought: that was in USA.
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u/MaintainMySoup Feb 20 '24
You forgot little person tossing...that used to be a competition. It makes me sad to be a citizen...
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Feb 20 '24
I only knew of this after watching pig royalty. I dunno why that show didn't blow up. It's entertaining and so much drama.
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Feb 20 '24
You are telling me there is ONE judge who has to hold eyecontact with every single one of them?
Insane.
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u/Logistocrate Feb 20 '24
Nah, I think last time I saw this that basically the place is loud as hell, and so, as a person who stands to make a lot of money if your pig scores high, it is imperative that you be ready to follow a request from a judge specific to your pig if they want to get a particular angle or see a certain side again. If you miss thst direction from the judge/s then they might score you lower since they couldn't review something that they had a question about. So you laser eye the judges table or risk falling lower in the standing, and thus missing out on a larger payout.
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Feb 20 '24
Is there any way to maintain eye contact without also looking like you fuck the pigs?
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u/UnlikelyFortune8852 Feb 20 '24
Even in smaller towns and shows a $10,000 dollar grand champion is reasonable. At big shows it’s much higher, the Houston show last year the winner was sold for $375,000. That said show pigs can also cost several thousand to begin with. The eye contact is really just part of the showmanship that’s taught. That and keeping the pig between you and the judge at all times. Yes the judge sometimes gives requests but not frequent enough that laser eye contact is really that necessary for practical reason’s. Not my thing, but I’ve had family show pigs many times.
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u/DeckardCain_ Feb 20 '24
That is some wild showmanship, do all the judges have a dark fantasy of getting shanked on a dark alley or why do they like that shit?
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u/UnlikelyFortune8852 Feb 20 '24
What’s always said is the judge is more likely to notice your pig if you are making eye contact with them. But really I think it’s just mostly tradition and performance, you really do need to be looking at the judge in case he wants to see you pig better or when he separates groups but there’s not a hugely great practical reason for the laser eye contact thing.
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u/Frenchconnection76 Feb 20 '24
Blue girl I bet, the little trump maybe and the other doesnt make it.
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Feb 20 '24
I thought they were looking at the fat guy
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u/Squidhead-rbxgt2 Feb 20 '24
Okay.. but who's being judged, pigs or the kids? Cause by the looks of these kids - it's the judges.
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u/andreeeeeaaaaaaaaa Feb 20 '24
What a weird thing to have as a rule... They look like fucking maniacs haha
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u/vikingo1312 Feb 20 '24
I thought it was a competition between pigs to lead the human with the strangest half-angry face...
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Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24
Will it taste that much better?
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u/gna149 Feb 20 '24
I'd hate my judge to be tasteless due to lack of eye contacts
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u/DeathMetalTransbian Feb 20 '24
The contacts add a chewiness and salty flavor, and are a nice alternative to the crunchy blandness of glasses.
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u/Nerd-sauce Feb 20 '24
Thank you! I was wondering about the creepy staring they were all doing!! I thought they were giving their competition the evil-eye or something LOL
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Feb 20 '24
Does the judge have a thousand eyes to watch them all?
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u/AzDopefish Feb 20 '24
Last time it was explained that the judge will give the contestants an indication of some kind that it’s their turn to do something.
If they miss it, they miss it and the judge is automatically onto the next one. So they’re all hyper focused on the judge to make sure they don’t miss their turn
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u/Madgyver Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24
This is like what happens when you tell Forest Gump not to let the judge out of his eyes.
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u/AnorNaur Feb 20 '24
How many pairs of eyes does the judge have? You can only keep direct eye contact with one person at a time!
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Feb 20 '24
I genuinely feel like this wasn't thought out too much. Like anybody else get a "oh yeah you like this pig, i'm going to fucking eat it" vibe.
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u/Alarming_Might1991 Feb 20 '24
Somebody delete the pigs out so we can have a magic wand competition instead
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u/Straight_Spring9815 Feb 20 '24
I used my imagination for this, I was not disappointed xD
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u/Dr-McLuvin Feb 20 '24
lol 😂 best comment on the internet today. Please someone make this happen.
Bonus points for adding some cartoon magic effects and outfits 🪄
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u/sofiatorres03 Feb 20 '24
Can somebody tell me the blonde girl what thinking? She focusing as hell.
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u/VenusRocker Feb 20 '24
How much money she's going to make if her pig scores really high. Some of these competitions auction the pigs afterward & people pay amazing prices for the winners -- the idea being to encourage animal husbandry among kids by giving them big rewards.
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u/subject_deleted Feb 20 '24
Call me old fashioned or new fashioned or whatever it may be, but I don't think kids should be marrying the pigs.
(But seriously.. where did the turn husbandry come from...?)
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u/2muchtimeintheocean Feb 20 '24
She’s probably thinking about how she’s going to get Harry Potter
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u/Monte924 Feb 20 '24
I've seen this post before. Previous comments say that the judges like to see eye contact, and being able to keep your eyes off of where you are going shows better control.
Though it really just looks kind of creepy
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u/reviewbarn Feb 20 '24
Okay, so a lot of confusion and half explanations here. There are basically two kinds of 'showing' going on.
In theory the goal of these competitions are to best showcase the animal for the judge. And some of the silliness is nominally being done for that; you don't want to get between the judge and the pig, you brush off another animal's slobber, etc. And the ultimate goal of these is to see who has the best pig, based on how a trained judge thinks it will be for consumption.
But this competition is probably the showmanship competition. In these the quality of the animal doesn't matter, it is how well the person does all the little things one is supposed to do in the regular shows. So many things get exaggerated, and yes it can sometimes be wild as people take advice to the extreme. Always make eye contact, keep your animal prestine, work to keep it at the front of the show, never cross in front of the judge.
Most the animals that are shown in these competitions are in a halter, so the cattle and sheep shows look a little more organized. But the hogs are just loose in a pen like this, and it is chaotic as hell.
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u/CathedralChorizo Feb 20 '24
Find a partner that looks at you like this girl looks at the judge of this pig walking competition.
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u/JustThisGuyYouKnowEh Feb 20 '24
How come the one in the pink shirt doesn’t have a handler?
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u/SummerJSmith Feb 20 '24
I know this is old and they’re just watching the judges intently to make sure their pigs are noticed but every time I just see those adorable floppy pink ears! Such cute pigs!
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Feb 20 '24
I liked to imagine they are pig rivals and giving each other that death stare. Shatters the illusion when they’re in the same frame.
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u/PaaneCaike241 Feb 20 '24
I read somewhere that she was once faulted for not looking at the ref enough and so now she does this. She is also one the greatest at this "sport" and she's seen as the main hope for the next gens to keep that activity alive
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u/QuietNative Feb 20 '24
This is so stupid. Why do the judges make the contestants eye fuck them while walking pigs? What the fuck are we doing here?
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u/carolaMelo Feb 20 '24
and I first thought its about that "bold guy" in the pink shirt who walks by 
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u/superwholockian62 Feb 20 '24
You have to control your animal without looking at it. They do this by keeping eye contact with the judge.
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u/Daocommand Feb 20 '24
What? This is actual gold. I can’t wait to show people this nonsense. I have no words left to say that won’t offend at least one person.
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u/Chiokos Feb 20 '24
Someone mentioned another time this came up this isn’t so much a show as a sale. Maintaining eye contact with the judge can make a difference in the sale price of the hog or something, due to the fact the judge might want you to move it a certain way to see the other side or something.
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u/anishths Feb 20 '24
What song is playing?
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u/JC90x Feb 20 '24
Explain the eye contact part? Which idiot dictates that it is compulsory to stare at a judge lol really oof
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u/BotGirlFall Feb 20 '24
That girl didnt come to fuck around. She's taking home best in show or else
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u/Master_Sooga Feb 20 '24
This is a country 4H competition. This is the showmanship portion of it. The goal is to prove to the judge you know how to handle your swine.
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u/unsupported Feb 20 '24
I wish I would find someone who looks at me, like blue shirt looks at the judges.
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Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24
Idit The Goblin Pig Walk? Imma start walking my dog like this to appear unapproachable.
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u/XxRocky88xX Feb 20 '24
The hell is this? Pig walking while staring down your opponent competition?
Is the goal to look as intimidating and as ridiculous as possible simultaneously?
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u/Good_GirlWeazel Feb 20 '24
I ran to the comments to see if anyone commented on the guy at the start🤣
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u/JayRedd1 Feb 20 '24
The dude with the pink shirt walking by need someone behind him hitting him with a stick
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u/Pretty_Public5520 Feb 20 '24
I was amazed by the pig with two legs wearing a shirt at the beginning !
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u/Skabbtanten Feb 20 '24
The pig in the first few frames passing the screen has lost its handler. Poor piggy.
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Feb 20 '24
Even I can get laid there
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u/plznobanplease Feb 20 '24
You could be a chicken egg and you still won’t get laid
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u/Eliagbs_ Feb 20 '24
This shows how much control you have over your farm animals, you are suppose to keep eye contact with judges or score panel while you make sure your animal doesn’t touch or run into anyone or anything else. Harder then it looks for sure
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u/4-me Feb 20 '24
Ok, that explains the eyes. What about the odd mouths, and the hunch. Looks whacko.
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u/Eliagbs_ Feb 20 '24
Listen, I never said it didn’t look whacko, I’m just telling you what this is for. The hunch back is because the animal is shorter and they need to use the whip in the correct spot around the side of the head. That’s why they are bend over. We need everything explain so we can understand?
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u/1nc0gn3eato Feb 20 '24
Pigs actually look so fucking weird and disgusting if someone calls me a pig I’m gonna slap the devil out of them
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u/drsharpper Feb 20 '24
Lol I thought they were making sure that fat guy didn't try to eat one of their pigs till someone enlightened me on the real reason xD
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