RE: Boxing Day - 2

Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #15

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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #14

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Apparently Boxing Day is a day for showing off your interesting vintage motorcycles at a local biker spot. I don't get the connection between boxing and vintage motorcycles, but I like them anyway - the motorcycles, not the boxes.

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Boxing Day meets have been traditional in the UK for centuries. Originally for horse riding types such as the bastards that hunt foxes and those that race them on various courses. Pubs were often the meeting place for local events (as opposed to events such as King George VI Chase at Kempton Races) before the blood thirsty participants rode off into the fields to see a pack of hounds dispatch a fox.

It was not much of a leap for more civilised types riding motorcycles a century ago to don their tweed long coat and toddle off down to meet fellow innovators for a hot toddy and chin wag. It's great the tradition continues.

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Everyone knows Boxing Day is to celebrate the "Rumble in the Jungle". Fox hunting? Really...?

Boxing day was most likely invented in the Victorian era (they made up a lot of things then), yes about gifting to those in service and the less fortunate.

As for me I went for a dip in the headwaters of the Thames near Kemble. We saw a few bikes out on the way over there.