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The world would be a much better place if global conflicts could be solved over a cold beer while playing cribbage, dominoes, and if pushed to the brink, darts. If fighting must break out between the warring nations, resolve it with skittles.
It's the English way and you know it makes sense.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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PHS241 wrote: resolve it with skittles.
Croquet is better. The most brutal game known to man.
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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Cricket also. I remember one game I was positioned at silly-point I think it's called. The spin bowler delivered a sloppy ball that the batsman walloped with one almighty swing of the bat. To this day, I can still remember hearing the whirring of the ball as it passed literally no more than a centimeter or two past my ear. That was scary. I moved further back in preparation for the next delivery but the skipper told me to move closer in. I told him to f*** off and I was reprimanded by one of the umpires and replaced by the 12th man for the remainder of the game. After the game the skipper showed me the score sheet and it noted my replacement as "Retired - hurt". If the ball was an inch closer it would have said "Retired - dead". 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Quote: resolve it with skittles.
I must know, what would that look like? How would it work? He who has the most red ones wins? Oh, or maybe the most orange?
Do tell more.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The international rules are, when the scores are tied:
1. Whoever displays the most crusty snot on the upper lip, wins, or,
2. Whoever wears the silliest hat, wins, or,
3. Whoever has the greasiest hair, wins, or,
4. Whoever has the foulest-smelling halitosis, wins, or,
5. Whoever has gone the longest without bathing, wins, or,
6. If neither of the above decides the winner, the prize of one pint of beer shall be shared.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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That's quite a list. Shouldn't you be getting back to work?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I'm reasonably quick at typing. People like that can be found in a pub in Crawley called The White Hart. It's a spit-on-the-floor type of pub; smells of the Great Unwashed and on the one occasion I went there the folk playing cribbage could almost have been what alluded to.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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PHS241 wrote: The world would be a much better place if global conflicts could be solved over
a cold beer while playing...
Only way that can happen is if there are no humans and as such it wouldn't be a better place.
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That's true. We'll have to ask Miss. Ann Thrope for her thoughts.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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