"Gravedigging contest" feels like best metaphor for Election 2016 yet."



"Slovak brothers win gravedigging contest" https://t.co/BiXObSP3P0 pic.twitter.com/pWqf4oQ0e2 — pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) November 11, 2016

We have long held that any human activity will eventually be made into a competition. The International Exhibition of Funeral, Burial and Cremation Services was held recently in Trenčín, Slovakia. One event during the convention was a grave digging competition. Eleven teams of two men each from Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia dug in to see who could produce the fastest and neatest grave, using only hand shovels and pickaxes. Slovakian brothers Ladislav Skladan and Csaba Skladan won by digging a grave five feet deep in only 54 minutes.

"We want to show and appreciate the hard work of grave diggers," said Ladislav Striz, who established the contest last year.



"Most Slovak graveyards are so crowded and spaces between graves so narrow that we need human diggers instead of machines," he said. "They work hard, come rain, come snow."



Read about the competition and see more pictures at Reuters. -via mental_floss