Shifty
02-15-2007, 09:16 PM
I was at a braai a couple of weekends ago with a bunch of Kiwi friends and their respective partners/girlfriends/wives.
I took a rugby ball along for a general kick- about. So all the guys are out on the lawn, throwing the ball to each other and generally having a laugh.
Anyway, feeling a little restless, I started throwing the ball a little harder, just to make things a little more interesting – I guess you all know how that goes. So everybody gets into the spirit of things and before long, people start dropping the ball or getting hit.
In fact it’s going so well that I suggest a forfeit. You know, the sort of thing where the loser gets to stand by the wall and we all take turns at trying to hit them with the ball. Anyway, the suggestion went down like a lead balloon and there were murmurings along the lines of how we shouldn’t because people could get hurt, bruised, girlfriend wouldn’t like it blah, blah etc,etc.
So that was the end of that.
But it got me to thinking.
Back home, give a group of Zimbabwean guys a ball, a bat or better still, both and in a very short space of time, they’d have devised a game with some sort of forfeit, which always resulted in physical pain or humiliation. :smiley20:
Now, I'll be the first to admit that I like the pain and humiliation. But I like it even more when it's happening to someone else. :smiley32:
So I was wondering, is this practice exclusively a Zimbabwean/Saffa tradition?
Or is it that all my Kiwi mates are a bunch of Nancy-boys? :icon10:
Or worse, should I just grow up and start acting my age? :hmmmm2:
I took a rugby ball along for a general kick- about. So all the guys are out on the lawn, throwing the ball to each other and generally having a laugh.
Anyway, feeling a little restless, I started throwing the ball a little harder, just to make things a little more interesting – I guess you all know how that goes. So everybody gets into the spirit of things and before long, people start dropping the ball or getting hit.
In fact it’s going so well that I suggest a forfeit. You know, the sort of thing where the loser gets to stand by the wall and we all take turns at trying to hit them with the ball. Anyway, the suggestion went down like a lead balloon and there were murmurings along the lines of how we shouldn’t because people could get hurt, bruised, girlfriend wouldn’t like it blah, blah etc,etc.
So that was the end of that.
But it got me to thinking.
Back home, give a group of Zimbabwean guys a ball, a bat or better still, both and in a very short space of time, they’d have devised a game with some sort of forfeit, which always resulted in physical pain or humiliation. :smiley20:
Now, I'll be the first to admit that I like the pain and humiliation. But I like it even more when it's happening to someone else. :smiley32:
So I was wondering, is this practice exclusively a Zimbabwean/Saffa tradition?
Or is it that all my Kiwi mates are a bunch of Nancy-boys? :icon10:
Or worse, should I just grow up and start acting my age? :hmmmm2: