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Back when most were poor, the average Britain's education was good enough only to teach them to walk, talk, drink and fight. So common pastimes included drinking and fighting, sometimes while walking and/or talking. The Upper classes however were having a high old time of it. Indeed, Lord Badminton invented the sport of Badminton, by hitting a cork around his dining room, while Earl Grey, Lord Herpes and Viscount Batenburg had similar great inventions. In this era, Tea was discovered in one of Earl Grey's cellars, although it was later found that the Orient made better tea, so the Orient was promptly invaded. This along with the realization that the poor and the countryside were both wholly expandable led to the pastimes fox hunting, hunting the poor, poor baiting and beating around the bu

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  • Back when most were poor, the average Britain's education was good enough only to teach them to walk, talk, drink and fight. So common pastimes included drinking and fighting, sometimes while walking and/or talking. The Upper classes however were having a high old time of it. Indeed, Lord Badminton invented the sport of Badminton, by hitting a cork around his dining room, while Earl Grey, Lord Herpes and Viscount Batenburg had similar great inventions. In this era, Tea was discovered in one of Earl Grey's cellars, although it was later found that the Orient made better tea, so the Orient was promptly invaded. This along with the realization that the poor and the countryside were both wholly expandable led to the pastimes fox hunting, hunting the poor, poor baiting and beating around the bu
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  • Back when most were poor, the average Britain's education was good enough only to teach them to walk, talk, drink and fight. So common pastimes included drinking and fighting, sometimes while walking and/or talking. The Upper classes however were having a high old time of it. Indeed, Lord Badminton invented the sport of Badminton, by hitting a cork around his dining room, while Earl Grey, Lord Herpes and Viscount Batenburg had similar great inventions. In this era, Tea was discovered in one of Earl Grey's cellars, although it was later found that the Orient made better tea, so the Orient was promptly invaded. This along with the realization that the poor and the countryside were both wholly expandable led to the pastimes fox hunting, hunting the poor, poor baiting and beating around the bush.
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