The resistance in the UK to the Health and Safety Nanny culture scored a major win when rebels held an ‘unofficial’ cheese rolling competition in Brockworth. The rebels risked all chasing rolling cheese wheels and scored a major victory for eccentricity vs the wrap everyone in bubblewrap crowd. Huzzah and good for them!
While I lived in the UK I fell in love with the many eccentric old English traditions and some modern ones as well. Bog snorkeling, cheese rolling, village to village ball games, conkers and many more fun things that make England England. The arch enemy of all these events are the sad old blue hairs [...]
Many are worried in England and abroad that the English are forgetting who they are and fading away as a culture. I say that the Lion of England can never fall while the cheese still rolls. God save the Queen and protect us from the Nanny State.