carrom

there is a game in sri lanka called carrom, and i'm fantastic at it. it's basically just pool with fingers rather than cues, and it is an excellent sport for people like me because you can stay sat on your arse rather than doing all that stressful walking around the table. it looks like this:



to make it all slippery you cover it with talc, then shoot by flicking the flicker with your finger:



the object of the game is to bugger about for half an hour or so missing the pockets, then you take a vote on whether to give up and watch telly instead. in the following picture, john has just won a vote to continue playing:



john bought a board in sri lanka and tried to take it back to britain cos he didn't think he could survive without it. it got took off him at the airport boo hiss. little did he know you can get them in leicester! ha ha ha ha!