[RD]

Shin kicking, that's a man's game  [] ...

In shin kicking, contestants square off, lock arms and hack at each other's shins until one of them is thrown to the ground.

In the bad old days, shin kickers wore hobnailed boots with metal toecaps.
 Some losers-and winners-ended up crippled for life, while a few died from their injuries.

A report from 1843 tells of a 45-minute clog fight near Manchester,
 involving two men "both in a state of nudity with the exception of each having on a pair of strong boots".

http://www.daeschner.com/shin_trivia.html

[rosalind dna]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_cricket

Cricket is not solely a man's game but women play it and sometimes win.

[JimBob]

I have never seen a cricket game

You've not missed much, it's about as exciting as watching paint dry.

Even with understanding, it seems the English just can't create something interesting. It is about as exciting as the Scottish game, golf. Rabbit holes and what is it - wickets? Sticky ones that don't work, too. Oh well, daft Englishmen will be daft.

It is similar to baseball eh??

No. Cricket takes skill. Baseball is just whacking a ball with a bit of wood & hoping for the best. And if you'd ever been hit by a cricket ball you'd realise what a bunch of nancy-boys baseball players are.

Spoken just like someone that doesn't know how to play! []

Why on Earth would I want to know how to play a Nancy-boy game?  []

If the shoe fits ....

[RD]

Even with understanding, it seems the English just can't create something interesting. It is about as exciting as the Scottish game, golf.

You are in agreement with your fellow countryman Mark Twain who said that "Golf is a good walk spoiled".

[turnipsock]

Mark Twain was 24 handicapper, he would say something like that.

[DoctorBeaver (OP)]

Even with understanding, it seems the English just can't create something interesting.

You may find it was an Englishman who created this forum. If you don't find it interesting then bog off back to your greasy holes in the ground, you gneiss-gnlover!

[JimBob]

Even with understanding, it seems the English just can't create something interesting.

You may find it was an Englishman who created this forum. If you don't find it interesting then bog off back to your greasy holes in the ground, you gneiss-gnlover!

Creation with reference to "sports," sport. So pull in the claws and drag that fat, flat tail back to the pond, dirt dauber.

[Bored chemist]

"Even with understanding, it seems the English just can't create something interesting. "
Good point really- the English invented Baseball.
It seems the French claim to have invented cricket.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=4&art_id=qw1037553660550S163&set_id=6

[DoctorBeaver (OP)]

It seems the French claim to have invented cricket.

Yeah, they would. Have the French ever invented anything?

[Make it Lady]

I think quite a lot of interesting cuisine was invented by the French. Everyone has to be good at something, but sadly the Americans seem to be an exception to the rule. Oh no, I forget, the Americans are good at trying to be good at things. You have to give them credit for trying hard.

[DoctorBeaver (OP)]

I think quite a lot of interesting cuisine was invented by the French.

Such as?

[Bored chemist]

Well, if this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_inventions
is the whole lot then I'm glad I'm not French.

[blakestyger]

In mediaeval times there were two games that anyone could join in with - 'knocking the hat off' and the 'arse-kicking contest'.
I know this is true because I saw it a re-enactment day last summer at a local Norman castle.
The hat knocking is simple - you try no knock someone's hat off but the arse-kicking is more complicated in that you have to hold your belt with both hands and try to kick someones arse - it actually looked quite difficult.
Those were the days, when people knew how enjoy themselves. []

[DoctorBeaver (OP)]

Well, if this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_inventions
is the whole lot then I'm glad I'm not French.

They didn't even invent French knickers!

[Make it Lady]

What about French kissing and letters?

[DoctorBeaver (OP)]

In France, French kissing is called English kissing. French letters were invented by the Romans.

[Make it Lady]

In France, French kissing is called English kissing. French letters were invented by the Romans.

The Romans wrote in French?

[DoctorBeaver (OP)]

In France, French kissing is called English kissing. French letters were invented by the Romans.

The Romans wrote in French?

Yes. They invented France. And they ate weasels.

[Make it Lady]

Ah, the ginger family from Harry Potter, best outcome.

[RD]

In France, French kissing is called English kissing. French letters were invented by the Romans.

The Romans wrote in French?

Yes. They invented France. And they ate weasels.

Romans did eat dormice, (stuffed with oysters)...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/3080263.stm

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