101 Challenges:

Challenge number: 98

The "Shaken Not Stirred" Challenge was one we knew we'd enjoy. Namely because the location for this Challenge was a pub - that meant we got to indulge in some alchy-holic-drinks in the name of entertainment - it's always a great thing to be able to camouflage your alcoholic-dependencies in the name of art. A second reason we we're looking forward to this Challenge is because said pub was in fact the cool (ignore the pun) Tokyo Ice Bar.

As far as Challenges go, this one was probably the most simple on our 101-to-do list. All we had to do was turn up, change into one of our numerous costumes and have a drink and wee dance.

Our mate Fogo (John Fogarty) set us this challenge and so, it was never going to be quite as straight forward as we have made out thus far. You see, Fogo is a bit of a perv and we're positive that he fancies at least one of us. 

He wanted us to enjoy our wee-swallies whilst wearing Mankini’s. There's no other justification for this Challenge idea other than the obvious. JF clearly wants to see as much of our flesh as he can without breaking the friendship/relationship boundaries and creating an awkwardness between mates that could so easily be avoided - rather than asking us to strip for him which may or may not/never happen in our private lives) never say never... so there's still hope John) he decided to "camouflage" his addictiveness (unlike our alcoholic tendencies, his is the naked muse of two hairy assed Scotsmen) and so, always game for a laugh, off we went.

We were instructed to wear a customary robe due to health and safety reasons (and maybe to preserve the innocence and uncorrupted minds of any local customers) because everything in the bar is made out of ice, and therefore, there was every chance that we would stick to things. This didn’t stop us from flashing as much flesh as we could and what amazed us was the fact that we had the other punters in stitches with our clobber. Innocent minds? No way! The Japanese were grabbing and squeezing every dangly bit they could find (which, as the cold set in, became a much harder and precision-like task).

We stayed in there far longer than the challenge required us to. Simply, we loved the Mankini’s and it's so liberating to dance around in them, in public - if it wasn't for the fact that we began to choke on our own shrivelled up testicles, we'd have stayed in the bar all night. The temperature in there is a chilling -5. We were going to say that it didn’t feel very cold at all, but if we did, we couldn't justify the smallness of our truncheons.

Trust us, it was really, really, really, really cold.

A Challenge success and on top of that and much more importantly, some of the best holiday snaps of all time - if perhaps a little scary.