Dwarf throwing: can it ever be justified?

[Paul Rigby]

In the last clip, it's the way they all take their seats again and resume as if nothing had happened. ::laughingdog::

Fantastic, isn't it? But one can hardly blame them, as Lyashko's public beatings are such an established feature of rump Ukraine life.

It seems to me to be sophisticated re-interpretation of Terry Wogan's Floral Dance.

This eluded me, but you are unquestionably on to something here. Possibly whisky. Count me in.

Personally, I also enjoy "Dwile Flunking" - where a beer soaked rag is lobbed at a circle of well oiled dancers - a village entertainment that I once was entertained by outside the Moot House in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

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However, neither compare to Drinking Football, which in the village of my childhood, was played on a full sized football pitch where all team members had to comport themselves in fancy dress. Usual choices were variations of full length evening gowns complete with an accompanying parasol and elbow length formal gloves. Whenever a goal was scored it was compulsory for the scoring team to run off the pitch and hurriedly down a pint of bitter from the full sized oak barrel on the sidelines, before returning to the fray. Competitive sport and quaffing large quantities of alcohol rarely result in any form of sporting achievement. Likewise with politics, I guess.


Ukraine has nothing on sweet English village sporting activities of a bygone age.

Ye olde rural England, a green and pleasant land where men were men, the sheep petrified, and both died young.

We must extract the sword of truth from the stone of modernity and boldly set forth into, er, our past:

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