Bloody Fun
Where: England
When: 17th Century
Way back in Jolly Olde England, drinking and drunkenness was heavily linked to swearing your political allegiance. Much in the way, you’d hug your friends totally wasted and say, “I f*cking love you, man,” “Roaring Royalists” used to one-up their friends in declaring allegiance to the king by putting their asses on the line. Literally. After singing drunken ballads to His Highness and the church, festivities would often escalate to playing a “game” where everyone who was loyal enough would slice off a piece of their rump, and then toast their own blood (instead of wine) to the monarchy. As you can imagine, the game went horribly wrong on a fairly regular basis, seeing how drunks wielding knives and performing elective surgery on themselves isn’t the smartest idea.  The ultimate bar scar.