My friends’ new game is just telling me absolute fucking nonsense about English traditions, and every time I am just like “that makes sense, they are a terrible people”.
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Potential theory; they’re all true, it’s an amazing coincidence, everyone independently came up with the exact same name for it.
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This is revenge for when an ex believed me for nine years that there are no cows in Wales isn’t it
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It all started in 1772, when Sir Nicholas Boxing (the inventor of Boxing) would go into the local village of Boxing-Upon-Marle and box the head off the local impoverished. Those so-boxed by the lord would get a shilling for partaking, which would feed their families for a month.
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‘Boxing Day’ - traditionally, the day when, as you’re driving home after Christmas at the in-laws’, sport is yet to be had on the motorway by ‘boxing other drivers in’ behind slow trucks.
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Curiously googling it doesn't give a definitive answer. (PhD anyone? Perhaps the Ramsay centre for western chauvenism can do something useful on servitude...)
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Traditionally the children were placed in the box their present came in. The children were sealed in with some leftovers and a satsuma whilst the parents drank brandy and sang bawdy songs.
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It’s all to do with the boxer rebellion
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