Ashbourne

I'd always wanted to go and see it.

I went to witness the game in Ashbourne last year.

It's fairly primitive.

I mean, I was interested in reading the rules, if you can call them rules.

The other one was unjustified violence is frowned upon.

Okay, I'd like to hear a definition of justified violence.

What struck me when I went to Ashbourne Basically, the town shuts down for two days.

I was walking, I was through a little residential area.

Yet some towns kept them alive by moving the field outside town limits or disguising them as religious processions.

The survival of Ashbourne’s Royal Shrovetide match shows how tradition can bend around law without erasing its violent roots.

Speaking of beasts, the late eighteenth century also saw a shift away from bearbaiting and bullfighting, both popular forms of entertainment that fed on the public’s appetite for spectacle.

The Cruelty to Animals Act eighteen thirty-five, a direct response to growing public sensibilities and the advocacy of figures like William Wilberforce, made many such sports illegal in England and Wales.

It'll

be a little while before they come to my bit of Ashbourne.

I don't think even Uber's come here yet.

I just read a book by someone called John Mars called The Passengers, which is about the perils of driverless taxis.