We Brits are mad

[STEED]

And don't care..

Thousands watch Gloucestershire cheese rolling races

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-32873779


Rock on. :yeah:

[Betonov]

You're mad, MAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wanna move to England, Slovenes are boring :dead:

[Catfish]

Yes, you Brits are mad!

I like it :yeah:

[Eichhörnchen]

If you think that's mad, what about the British Lawnmower Racing Association?:rotfl2:

[Rockstar]

Cheese rolling contest eh? No food lines, makeshift homeless shelters or riots? I take it the Tories didnt make good on their promise to kill everyone's first born and send the survivors to debtors prison? :D

[Garion]

Cheesy or wot..... :arrgh!:

Cheers

Gary

[STEED]

:rotfl2:

[Jimbuna]

Some Crazy British 'Sports' eh?

Worm-charming.

Bog-snorkling.

Conkers.

Underwater hockey.

Welly-wanging.

A sack of wool.

Dyke-jumping.

Extreme ironing.

http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/Some-Crazy-British-Sports-272399.html

[Harvs]

I agree but insert You instead of We

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/GHs2siS.jpg?1 No-one's mentioned the Dwarf-Tossing yet...

[danasan]

I like the Worm-charming - part :haha:. I'm going to try that in my backyard tomorrow... Do they have to be repatriated by me afterwards, or am I allowed to use them as bait? :D

[STEED]

How about Extreme ironing when you dive out of a plane as you chase a ball of cheese. :shifty: :D

[Jimbuna]

How about Extreme ironing when you dive out of a plane as you chase a ball of cheese. :shifty: :D

Strapped to a dwarf carrying a sack of wool.

[Eichhörnchen]

There is an awful one which I daren't mention, just in case there's someone out there barmy enough to try it; you'll have to PM me if you want to know more, but it involves juggling...

[STEED]

Strapped to a dwarf carrying a sack of wool.

That would be the next level jim. :har:

[Wolferz]

Beg pardon ol' chap. I was looking for an argument.

[vienna]

Hmm...

A good number of these "sports" seem to go back in time a good bit; it would appear you Brits were given to great periods of boredom in your past... :)


<O>

[Eichhörnchen]

It was all that sitting around, waiting to get invaded.

[MGR1]

Haggis Hurling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis_hurling

Need I say more.....!

Mike.:03:

[vienna]

Odd, I thought that meant...oh, well, never mind...


<O>

[u crank]

It was all that sitting around, waiting to get invaded.

Isn't that why you guys invented the pub?:O:

[STEED]

Hmm...

A good number of these "sports" seem to go back in time a good bit; it would appear you Brits were given to great periods of boredom in your past... :)


<O>

Yea ruling the world got so boring in the end. :03:

It was all that sitting around, waiting to get invaded.

What the Vikings coming back for a another romp! :huh:

Haggis Hurling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis_hurling

Need I say more.....!

Mike.:03:

Best thing you did was take the haggis off the menu. :D

Isn't that why you guys invented the pub?:O:

Did we...:hmmm: :yeah:

[Garion]

I like haggis, it's yummy :yeah:

Cheers

Gary

[MGR1]

I like haggis, it's yummy :yeah:

Cheers

Gary

Not really.:O:

Nor do I like Whisky and I wouldn't be seen dead in Kilt!

It's all very twee Sir Walter Scott inspired Tartanry, TBH.:03:

Mike.

[Eichhörnchen]

FIGHT!

[Aktungbby]

Nor do I like Whisky and I wouldn't be seen dead in Kilt!

It's all very twee Sir Walter Scott inspired Tartanry, TBH.:03:

Mike.My Dad was a Dewer's man since before I was conceived...I've no doubt I was 50% under the influence at conception...how ever immaculate that may have been! :O:http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMTUz/z/qRAAAOSwNSxU-NmL/$_57.JPG
Had a promotional wall hanging of this one as a lad.http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTA3WDM3Ng==/z/NRYAAOSwgkRVTtGF/$_12.JPG

[vienna]

My Dad was a Dewer's man since before I was conceived...I've no doubt I was 50% under the influence at conception...how ever immaculate that may have been!

Well, that explains a lot; now we have a deeper understand of the person you are today... :haha:


<O>

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/c1j68Pa.jpg Aye, there's no finer sight than a swirling kilt

[MGR1]

That reinforces my point about Tartanry! It's as bad as beer swilling, thigh slapping, Lederhosen wearing Bavarians!:O:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartanry

Mike.:03:

[Eichhörnchen]

We've got those, too

http://i.imgur.com/sRUYc3E.png

[MGR1]

:haha:

Mike.

[ExFishermanBob]

Nice hat. As regards the tartanry stuff, I view it differently these days following a comment by a crofter friend: "there's only one thing better than a tourist....two tourists".

[MGR1]

I'll concede that Tartanry is as good a way as any to part gullible tourists from their money. My objection is when the "Brigadoon" image becomes the national identity itself. For some Nats, at least, the maudlin, "Wha's like us?", Flower of Scotland, Robert Burns/Sir Walter Scott image of this country is Scotland, probably because they either don't like, or can't handle, the reality. It's all very well to dream, but dream of a dynamic, modern, 21st Century, democratic European nation. Not some Tartan infested mockery!:down:

Mike.:hmmm: