Harry and Martin are the stars of a sitcom called "Men Behaving Badly" (Harry left after season 1 stating he felt the show wasn't working with him in it and it continued on with Martin and another actor: Neil Morrissey). I'd recommend it but it's very 90s so not sure how well it holds up now. Might be worth a look though...
Men Behaving Badly is archetypal of every nineties flatmate sitcom (although its basis was a book written in the eighties) where it's very much a period piece now, not just the lad culture element but how unattainable that lifestyle is in 2024. But I'd still second the recommendation because it's very funny. And inevitably people who didn't get it will say "dOn'T wAtCh ThE fIrSt SeRiEs" but it should be watched from the beginning, partly to provide context for the second onwards and partly because it's better than a lot of people think.
Martin Clunes is a national treasure, most famous these days as Doc Martin which is more a family friendly primetime dramedy, so probably not good for reacting to even though it's a cute and fun little show, years back he was best known for 'Men Behaving Badly', which I loved at the time but haven't watched it since so not sure if it's the kind of comedy which has aged well, I'd guess probably not! He used to live in a village not far from me in Southern England and all the villagers said what a delight he was, he'd walk around like a local and get involved with the community, not just lock himself away in his large house. As someone who grew up playing rugby in Wales this is exactly how we always pictured English public school rugby players! 🤣 I played a lot of games against public schools and they always thrashed us because they were so good, but we'd still make sure we kicked the crap of them for good measure so they were black and blue the next day! 🤣
Yep, nowadays, Martin Clunes and his family live in a house, possibly a farm, in the beautiful rolling countryside of west Dorset, in south-west England. Doc Martin was a long running gentle comedy drama that ran for many series over many years. It was set in the fictional, picturesque, north Cornwall coastal village of Port Wen, (Port Isaac in real life). Martin Clunes played Doc Martin, the village doctor/GP., who was originally a gifted surgeon in London but had to leave that role as he had a phobia of blood ! He also appears to be on the "spectrum", (perhaps autism, but never mentioned on the show), manifesting itself in rather abrupt, direct, honest speech and a dislike of socialising, which regularly caused offence or misunderstanding to the locals. Deep down though, he seemed to be a kind, caring man though - just with an often unintentional off-putting manner on the surface. It's better than it sounds of you like gentle comedy drama and the frequent shots of the beautiful coastal location.
I dont know myself about the aging well of Men Behaving Badly as watching it myself online and still finding it very funny, but that is only me so.... lol.
The English do like to sing a lot, certainly around sport. Although, our Welsh friends have the best voices, imo. For such a small country, they've produced some fantastic singers.
I haven't seen it since the 90s, but I used to love Men Behaving Badly, with Martin Clunes. Not sure if the humour is as good today, or if I have changed, I was about ten years old when it was on TV. Or if it translates for people on the other side of the pond. I can barely remember it. But I do remember owning it on VHS, so I must have liked it enough, at the time.
"You're not sure if the humour is as good as today" lol... Today's TV comedy shows are absolute trash, comedy shows in the UK have been trash since Inbetweeners or about 2015 barring one or two exceptions... That's why there's very few, if any modern British shows on reaction channel's or why near enough every poll has older pre-2015 shows in top UK comedy lists... Men Behaving Badly is still in my top 5 all time British TV comedy shows!
Martin clunes is an absolute star and has a brilliant career. my favourite show of his is "Doc Martin" in which he plays an odd GP with a blood phobia. he also had a lovely documentary featuring a man who lived with wolves xxx
Chuffed that you checked out one of my recommendations KB 😂. Martin Clunes plays a not to dissimilar character in Men Behaving Badly. Harry Enfield was also a lead role in its first Season. Although most would say season 1 was it's worst season. With regards to the Rugby/ Football thing, i dont think there's any negativity between the fans, its aimed more towards the players. In football player's Dive, fall over and barrel role for ten mins when they get the slightest touches on thier shoe laces. In Rugby men just headbutt each other for 80mins solid 😂
Cant say this enough: watch Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Richard ayoade and matt berry in a totally unhinged comedy. With appearances from graham linehan and noel fielding. It doesnt get much funnier than this.
"Shit on the ceiling , shit on the floor, shit on the window, shit on the door, shit all over Portsmouth Poly la-la la-la la." - And on to the Akash for spicy comestibles.
You ain’t wrong KB. We do like to sing 😅. Me and my mates were absolutely shitfaced at a white castle of all places whilst on a stag do and we broke out into song 😂
Martin Clunes (the one who isn't Harry Enfield or the one who might be a very young Peter Serafinowicz but probably isn't) worked with Harry on a 90s sitcom called "Men Behaving Badly", which was everything it sounds like. He's since become a really popular - and very good - actor, while still being a funny bloke.
Same for me. We even learned these songs which amongst others we'd sing before downing our pints. Great times, I'm nearly 50 and I can still do a sub 5 second pint
@@wyterabitt2149 everything is mocked by someone. Don't worry what others think just have fun. Some of my best experiences were on rugby tours around Europe. Going on massive drinking sessions with the teams after.
In the red light district of Amsterdam I asked the bar owner of a dive who were the most trouble he'd ever had had in 30 years in his bar. He said without a doubt it was a Brit police rugby team , they were crazy bastards He said he had to break his rule of never calling the local cops as it could affect his license , but had too after they threw his bouncer out on the street , When the local cops turned up they said, " look it's our fiends from England we played against in rugby, did nothing and left the rugby team behind to cause more mayhem.
Yeah also seen in Amsterdam Brit police rugby team beat up everybody in red like district. Even seen bar owner being beat up and killed by Btit police rugby team while mayor of Amsterdam being hit by Brit police rugby team. Bar owner and about 234 bouncers thrown into street while local cops just laugh outside while Brit police rugby team smashed the whole red light district and no one did nothing. Looks like Amsterdam likes Brit police rugby team who smash the place up, but local cop like watching and laughing because they said look it's friend from UK. Amsterdam now like war zone now because Brit police rugby team.
Even during the height of football hooliganism in the 80's your average football hooligan was actually renowned as being quite soft and poor at fighting, I myself had several run ins (by which I mean I was randomly attacked) and they were normally too drunk to even throw a decent punch, I always think the football hooligan films make them out to be much tougher than they actually were in reality!
Actually, they are taking the piss out of rugby players, not fans (who are by far the more sedate of the two).. particularly in regard to the behavior of certain amateur and Uni players after a match. It's actually frighteningly true to life, at least in my day - but that was forty years ago!
The is a pub on the corner near Moorgate tube station inside London's business district , and a small patch of grass , that has been the scene of endless drunken city yobbo's fighting/mooning and generally getting rat-arsed drunk for decades and was once a great place to have a drink on the way home. Rarely seen anymore , but I kind of miss the old school city boys.
Yeah king boomer Men Behaving Badly it was so good in the 90's you should defo check that out, it ran for six series a few Christmas specials and few charity scenes too. It was so funny lad culture at its best Martin clunes playing drunk is. 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺👌👌👌👌👌👌👌I Loved the way in this Martin clunes didn't even react about walking through glass. No any proper fan of sport easily recognise that rugby players are so much harder and tougher than football players. Rugby players get hit so hard and get back up, in the old days footballers were tougher but not as tough as rugby players but nowadays footballers they get a tap or nug and there rolling around on the floor like a rolling pin.
If you love this, I think you would enjoy Men Behaving Badly, which had both Harry Enfield and Martin Clunes in it, but weirdly, Harry wasn't very good in it, and he got replaced by Neil Morrisey who was perfect for the role and basically saved the show and made it into a classic (in my view). There's lots of drunken antics in it similar to this one (although with a touch less head butting. lol).
If you haven't checked out Clarence & Henry from the Harry & Paul shows at all, you ought to. Basically two elderly British/Jewish DJs heavily into Rap/HipHop....
🇬🇧 Anyone who's been to an after Rugby match party will know this fairly commonplace! Extremely rude behaviour, songs of very rude content & everyone is mortal ( Or drunk & off their trolleys - heads) And a great time is had by all! It's just De Riguer after ones team has won or not won! Everyone is totally Rat Arsed.. Terrific fun! Peace & Depravity 🇬🇧🙋🏻♀️🤪
You have to watch Men behaving badly. Season 1 was ok at best and had Harry Enfield in it, but it really started with season 2 when Neil Morrissey took over from Harry. The Episode's called Drunk, The good pub guide, and Cardigan are very funny.
The Haka = Mainly known because of the All Blacks aka New Zealand Rugby Union team. However The Kiwis aka New Zealand Rugby League team also do a Haka, it's not as intimidating with the lighter but faster league players.
You really need to see the jam wood shredder video, it’s a minute long and will definitely change your life not necessarily for the better, but it will change it
My next door neighbour Mike Teague played rugby for England and the British and Irish Lions. In Australia he got his face bust open and when they tried to get him to go off to get it seen to by the docs he replied...''I ain't got time to bleed'' 😀
Weird sport, rugby union. It was completely amateur (at least nominally) until 1995 and so had - and to an extent still has - in much of the world a reputation for being quite elitist and played by boys who attended expensive private schools and elite universities, which is probably where the laddishness and drinking culture comes from. It's a bit like college fraternities in the States, I suppose. It also had a rather ugly association with apartheid in South Africa, although things have changed a lot there. Ironically, despite its association with the social elites, it also has serious money problems. See also cricket.
Rugby clubs do have some weird ritual, my sisters boyfriend joined one, they asked him to get on his knees hold his hands out in front of him, and ask him to open his mouth, then they put a little silver spoon on his tongue, he was watching the man that put the spoon there thinking something was going to happen to him, that was when someone behind him head butted him, which made him swallow the spoon. Afterwards, they all cheered, and they drank heavily for the night, i can't say it's all true, but it's hard to think why he'd say something like that
Harry and Martin are the stars of a sitcom called "Men Behaving Badly" (Harry left after season 1 stating he felt the show wasn't working with him in it and it continued on with Martin and another actor: Neil Morrissey). I'd recommend it but it's very 90s so not sure how well it holds up now. Might be worth a look though...
I think it improved immensely when Niel Morrissey took over from Harry Enfield. There was a genuine magic between them.
I rewatched it recently and think it holds up surprisingly well!
Harry himself pointed out that the show wouldn't have been commissioned without him in it but also that it wouldn't have been a success had he stayed.
It's absolutely class, the lock in and the whole pub doing we are sailing is my favourite scene
Men Behaving Badly is archetypal of every nineties flatmate sitcom (although its basis was a book written in the eighties) where it's very much a period piece now, not just the lad culture element but how unattainable that lifestyle is in 2024. But I'd still second the recommendation because it's very funny. And inevitably people who didn't get it will say "dOn'T wAtCh ThE fIrSt SeRiEs" but it should be watched from the beginning, partly to provide context for the second onwards and partly because it's better than a lot of people think.
If you've ever been out with the rugby lads, you will understand that this isn't much of an exaggeration.
Martin Clunes is a national treasure, most famous these days as Doc Martin which is more a family friendly primetime dramedy, so probably not good for reacting to even though it's a cute and fun little show, years back he was best known for 'Men Behaving Badly', which I loved at the time but haven't watched it since so not sure if it's the kind of comedy which has aged well, I'd guess probably not! He used to live in a village not far from me in Southern England and all the villagers said what a delight he was, he'd walk around like a local and get involved with the community, not just lock himself away in his large house. As someone who grew up playing rugby in Wales this is exactly how we always pictured English public school rugby players! 🤣 I played a lot of games against public schools and they always thrashed us because they were so good, but we'd still make sure we kicked the crap of them for good measure so they were black and blue the next day! 🤣
He's also distantly related to Sherlock Holmes actor Jeremy Brett
He was in a n episode of Chiller called Toby, really nice horror short that one
Yep, nowadays, Martin Clunes and his family live in a house, possibly a farm, in the beautiful rolling countryside of west Dorset, in south-west England.
Doc Martin was a long running gentle comedy drama that ran for many series over many years. It was set in the fictional, picturesque, north Cornwall coastal village of Port Wen, (Port Isaac in real life). Martin Clunes played Doc Martin, the village doctor/GP., who was originally a gifted surgeon in London but had to leave that role as he had a phobia of blood ! He also appears to be on the "spectrum", (perhaps autism, but never mentioned on the show), manifesting itself in rather abrupt, direct, honest speech and a dislike of socialising, which regularly caused offence or misunderstanding to the locals. Deep down though, he seemed to be a kind, caring man though - just with an often unintentional off-putting manner on the surface. It's better than it sounds of you like gentle comedy drama and the frequent shots of the beautiful coastal location.
I dont know myself about the aging well of Men Behaving Badly as watching it myself online and still finding it very funny, but that is only me so.... lol.
He's also a tit who got gnarly when he was filmed parking his SUV in a motorcycle bay at a supermarket.
God, it;s been years since I've seen this sketch. Also love the fact it wouldn't be made today.
This is a good exaggeration of most UK pubs back in the 90s small crews of lads full of ale & loud mouths 😂
Somehow I'd never seen it but brilliant 😊.
The English do like to sing a lot, certainly around sport.
Although, our Welsh friends have the best voices, imo. For such a small country, they've produced some fantastic singers.
I thunk when it comes to pub singing the Irish have them beat
I still sing "Olly Olly Olly Olly Oxen Two by Four, Two by Four"
For absolutely no reason whatsoever 😅
I haven't seen it since the 90s, but I used to love Men Behaving Badly, with Martin Clunes.
Not sure if the humour is as good today, or if I have changed, I was about ten years old when it was on TV. Or if it translates for people on the other side of the pond. I can barely remember it. But I do remember owning it on VHS, so I must have liked it enough, at the time.
Men Behaving Badly was brilliant. I miss shows like that these days are so tame and scared of upsetting someone.
I have them all on DVD and I still think they're great
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@@Dizzyruptorand the Xmas one is a must at Xmas. 👌
"You're not sure if the humour is as good as today" lol... Today's TV comedy shows are absolute trash, comedy shows in the UK have been trash since Inbetweeners or about 2015 barring one or two exceptions... That's why there's very few, if any modern British shows on reaction channel's or why near enough every poll has older pre-2015 shows in top UK comedy lists... Men Behaving Badly is still in my top 5 all time British TV comedy shows!
Martin clunes is an absolute star and has a brilliant career. my favourite show of his is "Doc Martin" in which he plays an odd GP with a blood phobia. he also had a lovely documentary featuring a man who lived with wolves xxx
Apparently it was Sigourney Weaver's favourite show so she came over and turned-up in one!
Brilliant choice, excellent to the core.
Martin Clunes was in a series called Men Behaving Badly! With Neil Morrissey ( the voice behind Bob The Builder) ‘ Can We Do It, Yes We Can!’
As an egg chaser of several decades I can neither confirm nor deny the accuracy of this sketch.
😂😂😂 Erica Roe. I couldn’t forget that song if I tried. And believe me, I’ve fkn tried 😂
Chuffed that you checked out one of my recommendations KB 😂. Martin Clunes plays a not to dissimilar character in Men Behaving Badly. Harry Enfield was also a lead role in its first Season. Although most would say season 1 was it's worst season.
With regards to the Rugby/ Football thing, i dont think there's any negativity between the fans, its aimed more towards the players. In football player's Dive, fall over and barrel role for ten mins when they get the slightest touches on thier shoe laces. In Rugby men just headbutt each other for 80mins solid 😂
Cant say this enough: watch Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Richard ayoade and matt berry in a totally unhinged comedy. With appearances from graham linehan and noel fielding. It doesnt get much funnier than this.
Reminds me of Portsmouth Poly Students Union on any Wednesday evening 1989-1991.
"Shit on the ceiling , shit on the floor, shit on the window, shit on the door, shit all over Portsmouth Poly la-la la-la la." - And on to the Akash for spicy comestibles.
This one is disturbingly funny
The Fast Show - Ted & Ralph -19- Drinking game
King boomer you have to watch men behaving badly the TV series with Martin Clunes and Harry Enfield.
I agree. I think he will love men behaving bably for sure. One of my favourite shows
I think he would .
This brings back some terrible memories 😂
“Here’s to the health of Cardinal Puff, for the third…..”
Everyone: “WROOOONGG!!!!”
You ain’t wrong KB. We do like to sing 😅. Me and my mates were absolutely shitfaced at a white castle of all places whilst on a stag do and we broke out into song 😂
Depth Charge! Try this for size Fritz! Brilliant! Not seen this for decades and can never find it anywhere else on RUclips.
Men Behaving Badly. One of my fave shows. Martin Clunes & Harry Enfield in Series 1
Rugby Songs, we were taught these in School music class..
You need to react to Men Behaving Badly. Funny as F
Martin Clunes (the one who isn't Harry Enfield or the one who might be a very young Peter Serafinowicz but probably isn't) worked with Harry on a 90s sitcom called "Men Behaving Badly", which was everything it sounds like. He's since become a really popular - and very good - actor, while still being a funny bloke.
I played rugby for 15 years,and this is a pretty accurate Saturday night after a game....Happy days
i played rugby for 4 years but not in England so a little less arrogant but yes i know the vibe
Same for me. We even learned these songs which amongst others we'd sing before downing our pints. Great times, I'm nearly 50 and I can still do a sub 5 second pint
@@tomgingerfrog I'm 52 so probably played the same era.
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You know they are mocking it as not something good right?
@@wyterabitt2149 everything is mocked by someone. Don't worry what others think just have fun. Some of my best experiences were on rugby tours around Europe. Going on massive drinking sessions with the teams after.
Remember, they aren't yobs or hooligan thugs because they are posh and play rugby.
never seen that before brilliant
In the red light district of Amsterdam I asked the bar owner of a dive who were the most trouble he'd ever had had in 30 years in his bar. He said without a doubt it was a Brit police rugby team , they were crazy bastards He said he had to break his rule of never calling the local cops as it could affect his license , but had too after they threw his bouncer out on the street , When the local cops turned up they said, " look it's our fiends from England we played against in rugby, did nothing and left the rugby team behind to cause more mayhem.
Paddy stood outside a brothel in Amsterdam all night............waiting for the red light to turn green so could go in
Yeah also seen in Amsterdam Brit police rugby team beat up everybody in red like district. Even seen bar owner being beat up and killed by Btit police rugby team while mayor of Amsterdam being hit by Brit police rugby team. Bar owner and about 234 bouncers thrown into street while local cops just laugh outside while Brit police rugby team smashed the whole red light district and no one did nothing. Looks like Amsterdam likes Brit police rugby team who smash the place up, but local cop like watching and laughing because they said look it's friend from UK. Amsterdam now like war zone now because Brit police rugby team.
AWW LOOK EVERYONE KING BOOMER HAS GOT A DEVILS FORK ROUND HIS NECK, BEEN BANISHED TO THE SPARE ROOM, AND NO WEDDING RING....
POOR LAD.... 🤜😁😁😁🤪🇬🇧🤟
I have heard of football supporters making the grave mistake of taking on a group of rugby fans which happen to be amateur rugby players. 😱😨
Even during the height of football hooliganism in the 80's your average football hooligan was actually renowned as being quite soft and poor at fighting, I myself had several run ins (by which I mean I was randomly attacked) and they were normally too drunk to even throw a decent punch, I always think the football hooligan films make them out to be much tougher than they actually were in reality!
In my experience rugby fans are ok at being yobs in pubs but wouldn't last 30 seconds against a football Firm.
Actually, they are taking the piss out of rugby players, not fans (who are by far the more sedate of the two).. particularly in regard to the behavior of certain amateur and Uni players after a match. It's actually frighteningly true to life, at least in my day - but that was forty years ago!
The Glasgow Kiss. ( headbutt).
This is normal behaviour for rugby players after a match. That, and throwing dwarves along the bar !
The is a pub on the corner near Moorgate tube station inside London's business district , and a small patch of grass , that has been the scene of endless drunken city yobbo's fighting/mooning and generally getting rat-arsed drunk for decades and was once a great place to have a drink on the way home. Rarely seen anymore , but I kind of miss the old school city boys.
You know gentrification is bad when even the Tarquins' hangouts have gone boring. Yuppies and yuppism really have ruined London. Bland, bland, bland.
Yeah king boomer Men Behaving Badly it was so good in the 90's you should defo check that out, it ran for six series a few Christmas specials and few charity scenes too. It was so funny lad culture at its best Martin clunes playing drunk is. 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺👌👌👌👌👌👌👌I Loved the way in this Martin clunes didn't even react about walking through glass. No any proper fan of sport easily recognise that rugby players are so much harder and tougher than football players. Rugby players get hit so hard and get back up, in the old days footballers were tougher but not as tough as rugby players but nowadays footballers they get a tap or nug and there rolling around on the floor like a rolling pin.
Post Enfield "MBB" was and STILL is genius sitcom tv!🖖
My brother and I recite "right whose round is it?" and one of us would reply "i'll get them in" followed by "good man" having a drinking session.
Love that. Wasn't that Peter Seraf as the 3rd man as well?
Well, now you know about Martin Clunes, it's time for the Martin Clunes song on Come Fly With Me 😂😂
good call 😂
You need to check out Alas Smith and Jones playing darts without darts .
If you love this, I think you would enjoy Men Behaving Badly, which had both Harry Enfield and Martin Clunes in it, but weirdly, Harry wasn't very good in it, and he got replaced by Neil Morrisey who was perfect for the role and basically saved the show and made it into a classic (in my view). There's lots of drunken antics in it similar to this one (although with a touch less head butting. lol).
If you haven't checked out Clarence & Henry from the Harry & Paul shows at all, you ought to.
Basically two elderly British/Jewish DJs heavily into Rap/HipHop....
6:42 "And that's the bottom line..."
Reminds me of my University rugby days.
🇬🇧 Anyone who's been to an after Rugby match party will know this fairly commonplace!
Extremely rude behaviour, songs of very rude content & everyone is mortal
( Or drunk & off their trolleys - heads)
And a great time is had by all!
It's just De Riguer after ones team has won or not won!
Everyone is totally Rat Arsed..
Terrific fun!
Peace & Depravity
🇬🇧🙋🏻♀️🤪
This is so damn accurate!
This is based on reality back then, i can tell you
That’s a good night out after rugby 🏉
I hadn't seen that before, that was funny
as someone who went to a private school, this is totally how the posh ' Rugger lads' behaved in the 90's.
Stone Cold. Had the same thoughts.
Pretty spot on for Rugby players
The songs you learn at rugby even as a U12 😂
You have to watch Men behaving badly. Season 1 was ok at best and had Harry Enfield in it, but it really started with season 2 when Neil Morrissey took over from Harry. The Episode's called Drunk, The good pub guide, and Cardigan are very funny.
You have got to watch Men Behaving Badly.Its hilarious.
... it was a really good one 😂🤣😂
The Harry Enfield "Women, know your place" clip is way better IMHO.
Can you pleeezzze watch The Young Ones....
The Haka = Mainly known because of the All Blacks aka New Zealand Rugby Union team.
However The Kiwis aka New Zealand Rugby League team also do a Haka, it's not as intimidating with the lighter but faster league players.
Do Hooray Henrys still exist in England?
Yes, but they are so soft and queer that they no longer have even the chaotic whimsy.
they 'run' the country
Very much so. The whole of London is full of rah-rahs with City jobs and no chins.
This is actually accurate in its portrayal from what I remember unfortunately 😊
Lost many a weekend after a rugby drink , men behaving badly sarah has here appendix out episode.
You really need to see the jam wood shredder video, it’s a minute long and will definitely change your life not necessarily for the better, but it will change it
That's the way we enter parties. I bet you Americans just knock on the door. 😉
My next door neighbour Mike Teague played rugby for England and the British and Irish Lions. In Australia he got his face bust open and when they tried to get him to go off to get it seen to by the docs he replied...''I ain't got time to bleed'' 😀
Would you react too either People Just Do Nothing or This Country , they are both British comedy series
Please please please check out Porridge or basically anything with ronnie barker
Disapointed you won't do a "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace" reaction.
Welcome to the world of Martin clunes. Men behaving badly
Basically every posh rugby group I’ve ever met
Legend! Have you ever checked out Vicar of Dibley show? Almost as funny as Ted close 2nd!
Dont forget your new favourite song
All the uk like a song but I think number 1 is Ireland
Seriously my Boomer, you have to watch Men Behaving Badly
They got the wrong beer 🍺 to be stone cold 🥶
Love watching your reactions have you been recommended watching rab c nesbitt
😘😘
I think if weirdo was called now in the uk martin Clunes would have a very sore head
Need a new intro now for the new setup ! 🙏
Boomer, please do look up "Ken and Kenneth, The Tailors From Hell"!
Unfortunately you are not allowed to headbutt weirdo’s any more
Which is a shame because there are a lot more of them these days 😂😂😂❤
New home or different room?
Where’s Queen Boomer?
Weird sport, rugby union. It was completely amateur (at least nominally) until 1995 and so had - and to an extent still has - in much of the world a reputation for being quite elitist and played by boys who attended expensive private schools and elite universities, which is probably where the laddishness and drinking culture comes from. It's a bit like college fraternities in the States, I suppose. It also had a rather ugly association with apartheid in South Africa, although things have changed a lot there.
Ironically, despite its association with the social elites, it also has serious money problems. See also cricket.
Rugby clubs do have some weird ritual, my sisters boyfriend joined one, they asked him to get on his knees hold his hands out in front of him, and ask him to open his mouth, then they put a little silver spoon on his tongue, he was watching the man that put the spoon there thinking something was going to happen to him, that was when someone behind him head butted him, which made him swallow the spoon. Afterwards, they all cheered, and they drank heavily for the night, i can't say it's all true, but it's hard to think why he'd say something like that
I need not say any more the rest of the comments say it all