What fresh hell is this?
<I>’s Thursday night and London office workers are letting off steam down the pub knowing the weekend is in sight. But instead of chatting over a drink they are smashing ping pong balls over a net.
“I love the atmosphere. You can smash the ball around and nobody cares,” says Dan Wright, an accountant on a work night out. “If you get hit in the face it doesn’t matter. It’s all part of the fun.”</I> https://www.theguardian.com/business...iling-industry |
Ping pong, great. Axe throwing, even better. Finally I have something to do in pubs.
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“If you get hit in the face it doesn’t matter. It’s all part of the fun.”
Explains that stiff upper lip. |
After a few pints they might want to switch to martial arts:
http://www.topendsports.com/fitness/...ordination.htm |
How about some target shooting for Brits who have the urge? Around here we just let it loose, but we're not civilised. I walk out my back door and somebody across the lake feels the need to blast away and put some noise where there was only the sound of birds and frogs.
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Makes those topless bars that I've heard about seem tame.
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>>After a few pints they might want to switch to martial arts:<<<
Something of the sort has been a long-established tradition on Friday and Saturdays in or just outside quite a few pubs up and down the land. |
Yes Patrick we had the honour recently of looking down on High Street very late on a Saturday night in Dundee - that's northern London plus a bit. It appeared that the hand eye coordination scores had descended towards 0.00.
It took awhile to declare a winner. |
Guess I'm not the demographic they are looking for :)
Good thing there are still boring old pubs . . . |
I think ping pong was supposed to be in vogue in NYC a few years go, so I guess London is late to the trend. I think I remember Susan Sarandon opening a ping pong place with a partner (Spin). I don't know if it's still trendy or not.
funny http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/o...302-story.html |
Oh I've been to Dundee too. And Newcastle on a Friday night...
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