Legal to throw shoes in Britain.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7094311.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164

Like someone said,'Can I throw shoes with concrete in them also?' It's so sad to see this silliness in the country of my Grandfather.

Guess they are becoming muslim every day.

Talk about uninformed muslim protesters. Obama is kissing there butts on a daily basis.

How is it across the globe we seem to get a majority of weak kneed politicians. And sadly we get a few great ones like Reagan, Washington, Lincoln, Chruchill once every fifty to a hundred years? Because its so rare it gives me pause for our and the worlds future.

You forgot Thatcher.

"You forgot Thatcher"
Which is what "Call me Dave" Cameron is desperately hoping we do on May 6th; he knows that she would be the final nail in his electoral coffin if too many people associate the Tory party with her. She only appeals to his core vote - and not all of it at that - too many people in marginals have a dim view of her. In Scotland she was responsible for the annihilation of the Tory vote.

As for the Topic of this thread the traditional method is rotten eggs, but you know us Brits we assimilate anything, from mulligatawny soup, baseball - although to tell the truth that began here - McDonalds to throwing shoes. Actually I look forward to throwing some steel-capped boots at my ex-landlord, hopefully with my feet still in them.

SoCA wrote:

...us Brits we assimilate anything, from mulligatawny soup, baseball - although to tell the truth that began here...

Because it's similar to cricket? Yes it is obvious that baseball started as version of cricket, but it is a very different game. IMO, and meaning no offense to cricket fans, baseball is the far superior game in terms of both playing and watching.

So, although baseball started out based off of cricket, it is an American game. Like lots of things, Americans took cricket and made it into a game of our own.

"Because it's similar to cricket?"

Actually it is virtually identical to a very old game we have here called "rounders". If you see it played you'll see. But there are records of a bat and ball game or base ball - two words - game going back to the early parts of the 18th century. It seems likely that ours became rounders and yours baseball.

I'd never heard of Rounders, but after looking it up, it appears that there were similar games all around the world since at least the 14th century. The Germans apparently had a game almost exactly the same as Rounders from the same time period, and the Russians had a slightly different but still very similar game even earlier. So who knows, obviously baseball was influenced by some or all of them. For that matter baseball started out as townball then stickball here in the US before becoming baseball.

We Americans just took rounders cricket and made the greatest game of all time BASEBALL. GOOOOOOOOOOOO Red Sox.

C-Bucks Rule

Pissedoffvulcan wrote:

We Americans just took rounders cricket and made the greatest game of all time BASEBALL. GOOOOOOOOOOOO Red Sox.

I'll agree with that since it's Go anybody but the Yankees
I just wish the American League would give up the Designated Hitter rule,and get back to baseball the way I played it as a kid. Same with hockey, I still have a hard time figuring out some of the penalties they have now.