It's Great Being a Dwarf!

[Archangel]

I visited a bar in Belgium a few years ago that had a single lane bowling alley in it, complete with electric skittle righter and automatic ball return. Must have cost a small fortune.

[Doggy Styles]

There are still pubs with shove ha'penny? Of an evening we used to enjoy a few pints and a few rounds of this until slowly pubs changed and you didn't see it again, along with dominos, table top skittles (I think that was called something like Devil and Tailors), Nine Mens Morris, etc.

There's still a thriving pub dominos league in my part of Buckinghamshire. I've never played in it, but several years ago I played for Edlesborough cricket club in a special challenge match against The Northall Inn (now sadly closed down, so the team moved to the Swan).

As a very infrequent player, I hadn't realised until that night that dominos was not mostly about luck. I was taken to the cleaners by a wizened old chap who just sat and smiled all night.

Another strange thing I noticed was that the pub players called their dominos "cards", and so to this day I count that as the mark of a proper dominos player.

[mudskipper]

Indeed, the ladies were allowing him to commit no end of transgressions that would have resulted in a clip round the ear for any non-dwarf

I suspect it's to do with a subconscious perception. For most women a dwarf does not appear as a sexually active being, even though there's no reason why they shouldn't enjoy an active sex life. (Actually isn't there a market for midget porn?). A dwarf also has the advantage, due to a childlike stature, of triggering a maternal, protective response. So if a lady slaps you for squeezing her bazookas, take heart that she probably views you as a virile male. If she doesn't slap you, you're past it.

[darmstadt]

I was at the Kegelbahn last night which is a German version of bowling, nine skittles, narrow lanes and the balls either have no finger holes or just 2. Its actually a lot more difficult than bowling but quite fun (unless you do it properly then the German's love of rules comes in!)

[Doggy Styles]

I was at the Kegelbahn last night which is a German version of bowling, nine skittles, narrow lanes and the balls either have no finger holes or just 2. Its actually a lot more difficult than bowling but quite fun (unless you do it properly then the German's love of rules comes in!)

I wonder why they did this rather than the standard ten-pin bowling alley?

[darmstadt]

I wonder why they did this rather than the standard ten-pin bowling alley?

That should actually be the other way around as 9 pin bowling has been around since medieval times and then the americans decided to change it