Given the choice, would you rather be Kikuyu or Maasai?

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03-16-2016, 10:25 AM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas

Given the choice, would you rather be Kikuyu or Maasai?

The Maasai have the music and dancing and warrioring going on, but the Kikuyu get to eat proper grub, not blood and milk.

I must say, I'm finding it quite the dilemma.
03-16-2016, 10:33 AM
Berni

You couldn't be Masai. Your knees would never stand up to all that jumping up and down.
03-16-2016, 10:34 AM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas

They're the coolest of cool dudes, though.

The blood and the milk :-(

Do you know what? I might just stop as I am.
03-16-2016, 10:35 AM
Classic Jorge

What would you know? You've never vaulted Bison at a certain level
03-16-2016, 10:36 AM
Berni

Yeah. I'm also pretty sure you'd be dead at your age if you were a Masai.
03-16-2016, 10:38 AM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas

I had my first real experience of Africa at the hands of a Maasai, j.

Man, I was a wide-eyed youth, fresh to the Dark Continent, and he showed me things which would make your eyes pop out of your head; but he did it with such love and such gentleness that I was almost able to get over the stench of stale milk which surrounded him.

Happy days, j.
03-16-2016, 10:40 AM
Berni

You know you managed to make that sound quite homo-erotic right?
03-16-2016, 10:41 AM
Billy Goat Sverige

I would be Mandari, looking after my cows and then washing myself in their shit and piss
03-16-2016, 10:41 AM
Classic Jorge

That's pretty much how the Japanese feel about us

My first experience of Africa was being abducted in a souk in Tunis. Thankfully my old man managed to intervene, using his full cockney geezah repertoire like and save me from life as a white slave.

Simpler times...
03-16-2016, 10:43 AM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas

I suppose it was, in essence. I certainly fell in love with him a little bit.

There was no genital touching, of course. But still.
03-16-2016, 10:44 AM
Berni

Blimey. Just think how much could have turned on that moment, j.

You could have ended up living in a place surrounded by crazy Allans bent on the destruction of the West.

Instead, you live in Bradfor...oh. :-

Mind you, at least this way you don't have an arse like a windsock. :-)
03-16-2016, 10:45 AM
Berni

Did he show it to you? Did it make your eyes pop?
03-16-2016, 10:46 AM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas

Actually he wore a tartan blanket.

Many don't. I've seen some Maasai weapons, I can tell you. 'Knobkerrie' doesn't cover the half of it.
03-16-2016, 10:54 AM
Berni

It's probably all that bouncing up and down that does it.

Here's a picture of one taking a quick single.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/388...x4-700x933.jpg
03-16-2016, 10:55 AM
Classic Jorge

It's all Rubber Dinghy Rapids in the end
03-16-2016, 10:56 AM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas

Yes, I read about those chaps.

One wonders whether, given that a young warrior is supposed to hunt a lion with nothing but a short spear, they find the padding a little effete.
03-16-2016, 10:58 AM
Berni

He's not wearing a helmet or a thigh guard, so he's making some concessions.
03-16-2016, 10:59 AM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas

His head dress may be armoured.
03-16-2016, 11:03 AM
Luis Anaconda

that's going to hurt when he dives to make his ground
03-16-2016, 11:09 AM
Berni

Also, with all those beads are just asking to get a nick off them that sounds woody.

I'm not sure he's taking it all seriously enough.
03-16-2016, 11:13 AM
Luis Anaconda

Judging from this action, I think the bowler might be a bit of chucker as well

Can I say that? https://static-secure.guim.co.uk/sys...tharan-006.jpg
03-16-2016, 11:15 AM
Berni

Pretty sure you can't actually, la.

Still, I don't think anyone's noticed. ;-)
03-16-2016, 11:17 AM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas

Dear God, he's gone the full Jim Davidson

A few years in Germany...
03-16-2016, 11:19 AM
Luis Anaconda

Edited - maybe no one will notice

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