Watch This Snowball Fight From 1897 for a Jolt of Pure Joy (from NY Times)

[IlonaM]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/magazine/snowball-video-fight.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

Scroll down for all of the clips.

Pure escapism.

[malumbu]

You have to dress up properly to do this sort of thing, I was disappointed that some of the people were not wearing hats. Even in 1897 standards were beginning to slip.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/old-hat-why-the-heady-days-are-over-495010.html

[JohnL]

Ou est mon chapeau

the man on the bike could have ridden through that - he capitulated to the pedestrians.