I think what makes the Magic Roundabout (Swindon) so scary is that locals know what’s going on, so they do it at speed. We got though it with team work. I was too terrified by the traffic to look at the signs; Mrs T looked at the signs to avoid looking at the traffic.
If I am ever in Scotland, I will be sure to look around to see if there are any local Ba’ (possibly under another name) games to see. Even if I go, I bet I would not have the foggiest idea what I was watching.
Thanks. What I had read was that it was based on whether they were born closer to the sea or to the town wall. It makes sense that fishermen would live closer to the sea and miners closer to the mines. And, of course, at one time births were more likely at home than at the hospital, especially when there was no hospital. (I was the first in my family to be born in a hospital.)
One thing I’m not clear about is whether the goal for each side is in their own territory or the opposing territory. For example, is it those on the side near the sea who dunk the ball in the sea or is it those nearest the town wall who dunk the ball in the sea?
Or “American Genesis”, which actually is a cool name.
A similar example was when there were two groups named “Gypsy” (back before it was realized the word was pejorative). The UK version became “English Gypsy”
Botanical descriptors are quite different – far more exact – than regular English, and one notices this particularly when it comes to food plants. Strawberries in particular are quite odd. It’s a psuedocarp! A false fish, as it were.
There was a musher named John Suter in the 1980s who raced a team of poodles in several Iditarod races. He never won, but he did finish, but he took a lot of heat for using a non-northern breed, and a lot of ridicule as well. He eventually went essentially bankrupt for all his troubles, and was ultimately prevented by the Iditarod Committee from using the breed for that race. You have to give him props for his persistence.
I have definitely moved from “A tomato is a fruit? Interesting! Lay on some knowledge!” to “A tomato is a fruit? What a useless definition of ‘fruit’ (unless you’re a botanist)”
I was never aware of territories. It just seemed to be based on historical allegiances. It’s only a fairly small fraction of the populace that’s involved - most people have more sense.
From a (safe) distance it’s a couple of hundred people in street clothes in a huge scrum, with no way of telling what is actually happening. And a few hundred more participants hanging around waiting to get involved. And if it’s dry, clouds of dust, at least while they’re still on the Cloffocks. (Mind you, I haven’t lived there for 40 years - but I doubt things have changed much.)
It isn’t just Scotland (BTW in my directions to Workington, I should have made it clear that you don’t cross the border into Scotland. Far NW England.)
Yes for a botanist but not legally. It may have been already mentioned here but there is a famous Supreme Court case in the US about it which may have been mentioned already in this thread and is famous for being frivolous. But it really isn’t. Fruits and veggies were taxed differently for whatever reason. Should a food be taxed based on the literal taxonomy or its use?
The estate “Pickfair” where Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks lived was demolished by Pia Zadora and her husband because it was infested with termites and ghosts.