Halt to the cheese rolling event after 200years

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....celled-200-years.html

Yet another perfectly "Batty English" tradition brought to a halt after 200 years.

What next "Shrove Tuesday Football", "Pancake Races", "Maypole Dancing", "Bowling for the Pig" and may I say it "Morris Dancing"?

All good traditional English pastimes, and a perfectly good excuse to get some Real Ale or English Cider down one's neck.

Let's take a leaf out of the French's book and yell "La motte De" or "Sod Off" in English.

[bibblebub]

Rather selective reporting by the DM (surprise, surprise).

Here's the BBC report http://news.bbc.co.uk...stershire/8563692.stm which includes:

"Organisers of the event at Cooper's Hill near Brockworth said 15,000 people attended last year's event - more than three times the site's capacity.

...apart from the health and safety aspects, organisers needed to respect the concerns of local people, some of whom had property damaged by people trying to climb over fences.

Also, the roads were becoming too congested to allow emergency services to get vehicles to the site in the event of an accident.

It is hoped the event will go ahead on the late May Bank Holiday in 2011."

So it should resume next year.

[ummmm]

Naughty....lol

[jake-the-peg]

It's been cancelled before

There were 33 injuries in 97 and it was cancelled because of this in 98.

It looks like it's back on next year

http://www.soglos.com...rshire-Cheese-Rolling

So less of a halt and more of a hiccup


Again I find myself wondering If I can find this out in 5 minutes why can't the Daily Mail?

They could have saved you from moaning about how the world is going to hell in a handbasket - and we all know how much you hate having to do that

[jno]

That's odd, I'd quite expected aog to be cheering this attempt to curb public noisiness, injury and drunkenness, as part of his wide-ranging crusade against yobbery. But perhaps the perpetrators were not the right colour to attract his ire?

[jno]

Zeuhl, these health and safety regulations are just designed to feta us.

[McMouse]

But Zeuhl .............will the Curds get their Whey?

[wolf63]

Methinks that the English are crazy - I will stay away from such a strange place. ;-)

Susan
Scotland

[rojash]

I blame Stevenson.

[wolf63]

Stevenson??

What is bowling for the pig?
How does Shrove Tuesday football differ from any other football game?
Morris dancers still exist?!

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[boxtops]

When I was a child we used to go to a May Fair where Morris Dancers used to joust on piggy-back which long poles. One year there was a bad accident where the jouster's pole got stuck the ground, hit him crack on the head and he fell off his colleague and was unconscious and rushed to hospital. There was not a single suggestion that this was dangerous - it was labelled an ACCIDENT likely to be suffered by people horsing about like that - and they still held the event the next year. The cheese rolling's been there for years - and according to the radio 4 report, Mrs X from round the corner has already made the cheese, so the cheesers will have to buy bits rather than compete for it. Sad - England thrives on its eccentrics (and I should know, I'm told I'm one of 'em!).

[boxtops]

^ with long poles...

[anotheoldgit]

wolf63
/// Methinks that the English are crazy - I will stay away from such a strange place. ///

I would if I was you Susan, it's much safer tossing the caber and dancing round sharp swords. :-)

Susan
Scotland

[society]

Rojash, stop blaming Stevenson for everything. :-)

[DSJ]

I lived quite close to Cooper's Hill when I was a child & our family regularly went there for the Cheese Rolling each year. Such a harmless pleasure although there were occasional broken bones & sprains but people who competed knew beforehand what they were letting themselves in for. It will be a shame if this is banned after so many years.