Have you heard of the game beer pong? It is apparently how Americans amuse themselves whilst waiting for Association Football to become popular. The idea is that you take a ping-pong table, put an array of cups at either edge, beer in the cups- then throw a ping-pong ball and try and get it in your opponents cup.

Beer pong

If you do, they drink the beer and throw the cup away- you keep going until one side loses all of their cups, or Football finally comes on the telly.

I was with Dr Meakin pHD (AKA popular internet commentator ‘dingle’) in a bar in the early hours when we first played this on Saturday. Our first couple of tries were all over the place with the ball thrown so badly that sometimes it didn’t even hit anything and just floated in mid-air. Eventually though we were on fire and ended up losing to some Canadian / Fillipino chaps by just one cup. By the time Beijing 2008 comes around, I think we’ll be ready for the big time.

Beer pong

All of this was after going to Rojam to see the DJ NuMark from the Jurassic 5. Apparently ColdCut were on first, but we were too busy taste-testing Mojiitos to get there in time for that (test results: Mojiitos make you drunk). NuMark was great though, when he tried to leave the booth at the end of his set, I kept shouting “One more!”, other people joined in, and he came back to do another 10 minutes. So, you know, that was nice.

Me an him

Judging by the photos, we had a similar tactic with the bar staff.