Abingdon Bun Throwing.

[rotrax]

I am determined to get in on this one before HH tells us in his usual Rancid Rambling Way what a load of tosh it is/was/might be.

The Bun throwing, from the roof of-IIRC-the Abingdon Corn Exchange-goes back to 1761 when the Coronation of King George 111 happened.

Buns were thrown to the poor to celebrate the Coronation.

Over the centuries since many Bun Throwings have taken place, the last to celebrate the 90th Birthday of the Queen.

The next one, Saturday 10th November will be for 100 years since the end of WW1.

I hope HH keeps shtum on this one. Such a poingnant and serious anniversary does not need his juvenile and sometime offensive comment.

IMHO, of course.................

 

[Actionmat]

That sounds fun, a bit like the tradition of hot pennies.

 

[Harry Hogwash]

Actually if you want my 2 hot pennies worth here it is.

I got hit by a bun on the back and it hurt.
The buns were being chucked by big beefy army guys from 200'
up-pelted rather like grenades.
It left a bruise.
Im thinking of suing.
Previously it was the slender genteel hands of Lady Alderman and the like that
tossed them off onto the crowds of waiting children below.
Not some beefy hulk of a camo garbed army guy pelting them down like
grendes in a bunker!
Should one have landed on a un upturned face the waiting ambulances would have been put to good use.
What if one had smashed into someones camera?
huh?
The military were there all right apparently some connection to a load of volunteers 100 years ago who would have died anyways but picked a fight with some Prussians.
Also spotted Lela Moran MP and a gaggle of officials and long cloak wearers
not a single one who I recognised or meant anything to me.
The whole ceremony was highly patronising.
The hurling of things at Town Halls is uaually the other way around.
Its the peasants who stone the officials.
The buns were bread .
Now recall the Satantic exhortation up at a high place If you are The Son of God turn these stones to bread
and we see deeper symbolic implications.

Not many boys from Abingdon volunteered for the war.
About 20 or so.
Many spent the war quoffing champagne far from the action at places like Montreuiel HQ.Port Lympne Kent Sasson stately home or the luxury of Le Touquet.Haigs HQ was a chateaux WELL behind the lines at Le Touquet.
Sasson has special delicacies flown in to Kent weekly all during the war.
In fact there was almost no action west Of Amiens.
Many women joined as nurses because they were sadists who wanted to see suffering.
The more you unravel it the more you realise the reality.
They all would have died anyway of old age etc.
So whats the deal?

 

[Actionmat]

Many women joined as nurses because they were sadists who wanted to see suffering.
The more you unravel it the more you realise the reality.
They all would have died anyway of old age etc.
So whats the deal?

Never in the field of online fora, has such bellendry been so publicly displayed, by one person, to so few.

And I'm joining the ranks *ignore*

 

[Parabordi]

Yep