A couple of weeks back, I was in a city centre bar - not a frequent event these days! - and saw a slightly off-kilter group of men. They were in suits and ties, though a little dishevelled-looking. Had they been to a wedding? Stag events tend to be more fancy-dress these days.
Anyway, they were noisily playing a very stupid drinking-game which involved a small model shoe. As one of the group was selected, he had to drink from the shoe as the rest chanted "Shoe! shoe! shoe!" So far as I could see, the model could not contain much drink and they were just filling it with beer, so it was not much of a challenge. Perhaps there was a glass inside it but the object looked to be made of fabric, perhaps felt.
The amusement potential of this, even for a group of sloshed men, seemed limited but it went on for a very long time.
I wondered if they were Eastern European with some mysterious tradition of their own but every time I came within earshot, all I could hear were English accents. I can find no reference to this drinking-game online,
despite finding a truly squirm-making page of wedding-games here! ![Eek! :eek: :eek:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
![Eek! :eek: :eek:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Has anyone seen anything like this elsewhere or were these some kind of slackerish Men-in-Black who had not quite fathomed our human rituals?