So must be the only one since I’m about 35k at football and even I’d heard about it!
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Maybe @martin3141 's Lacuna go board widget can make this MK go board playable online?
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Thank you for mentioning me, but the credit for this great tool goes to @shinuito
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It’s not possible to realize the MK board as a grid graph with some vertices removed, since any such graph is bipartite (and the MK board is not) 
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Isn’t that blasphemy? Isn’t that madness?
I think it is, definitely.
When I was younger, throwing coins became popular. It happened at sport games (against opponents) but also at concerts (if you didn’t like the performers) and eventually in politics (when “mani pulite” trial was accusing many politic leaders of corruption).
I’ve seen them all.
You can seriously harm someone by throwing such a piece of metal at him, but everybody had some change in their pockets and the value was quite low (100 lire were about 5 euro cents but a quite bigger and heavier piece to throw) so… why not? It was so easy…
Humans can be so silly.
Happily that foolish habit passed after some time, but those videos reminded me of it.
I wish they were that old. Are they?
Another amazingly insane “joke” that became famous in Italy was to throw stones at highway cars from overpasses. So funny!
Many died.
You can still see wire mesh fences along every overpass here. They were installed because of that. We also numbered all of our overpasses in order to be able to precisely address police to those funny fellows that were throwing stones.
It was late 80’s and early 90’s… thirty years ago. We still number each overpass.
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Dropping large rocks from overpasses was quite common in the U.S., as well. As you say, many people died. Some of us from that era have a lifelong habit of scanning overpasses as we approach them.
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I’ve also heard of this happening in England.
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This from the miners’ strike:Killing of David Wilkie - Wikipedia
Ah now striking is a bit of a cultural difference. How is striking outside of Britain these days? I remember as a student my French housemate being incredulous that a bus drivers’ strike only lasted one day. He felt that AC stroke is not worth the bother unless you are going to strike until you get what you want.
But since the miners’ strike and various laws against striking it’s barely possible any more here.
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I can’t help but feeling it’s some kind of false flag operation to decrease public support for the strike.
Striking has become more difficult as workers are split. The age of big worker’s parties and trade unions has passed.
Now strikes are less frequent and weaker. Usually they are just used as declaration of intent: “we want that and we could fight for it”.
Trade unions do a weird juggling between teasing workers, asking for their support, and calming them down.
We have a law against strikes which conflict with public services, so if transport workers want to strike they have to do it between 9 and 12 or so, to let people travel to work or school and back without too much trouble. 
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My memories of French strikes are mainly of the Paris public transport strikes which went on for av while (one day max in London strikes because then everyone starts asking why a tube driver who only had to pull one lever gets paid more than nurses/teachers) and the motorway toll collectors strike where they went to work and just opened the barriers. This last send like the perfect strike. Keep the public onside by making their lives easier/cheaper while costing employer money.
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the motorway toll collectors strike where they went to work and just opened the barriers.
Who can we convince to strike next?
Parking attendants?
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Seems to be very moderate in today’s standard. 
True. I almost lost an eye in a rock-war at 4rth grade. We were throwing small rocks at each other with the strength of small kids, but still it tore my eyebrow. A coin thrown from above, by an adult is bound to be very dangerous if it hits someone in the face.
They are, but sadly things are WORSE now in our sports because only the violent morons have remained in the stands because … well, it is complicated. I do not think that even this thread can cope such a deep dive in one of the sickest parts of our society.
I will only say this. A few years ago when I was working for a local newspaper, we thought of filming a local football game because the local team managed for the first time in history to read the 3rd division or something trivial like that. Then we would go around local shops and ask if people wanted us to create a small add banner to appear underneath the video.
NOONE wanted to do it. They wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole. Sports are now so dirty that even for local football, for the local team of our own village, no serious person wanted to have anything to do with it, at all.
Same era and same result here. 
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for one fleeting year … we realised that maybe the Europeans have got this one right
I absolutely loathe mandatory table service in pubs.
I’ll drink well the day it’s gone, and I’ll pay in cash at the bar.
It’s a pub. Not a restaurant.
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If you don’t have table service, how does it work?
Do you first take your drink and then look for a seat?
Or the opposite: you look for a seat and then come back to get your drink?
And, in that case, how do you keep your seat? Do you need a hat to leave on the chair?
And when you’re with friends?
Do you take turns to go to the bar to get your drinks?
I don’t like mandatory things, but I think that table service is comfortable.
What are the pros of not having it?
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Yes, but generally there are not (enough) seats. Most drinking in pubs is done standing up.
Yes, this is rounds. Say you are five friends. Each takes a turn to buy five drinks. Therefore you cannot leave until you have drunk 5, 10 or 15 drinks. And everyone needs to try and drink as fast as the fastest drinker since it’s poor etiquette to leave someone without a drink for long.
It means that the pub can sell more drinks that are consumed faster in less space so less staff costs, property costs and more sales in a shorter time.
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