IMHO, only the Scots would be stubborn enough to play a game closely akin to outdoor billiards on a surface usually closer to vertical than horizontal, and further, to handicap themselves by using a tool singularly badly designed for the purpose.

It must be a manifestation of the masochism engendered by the climate of the country.

As to whether they were daft enough to actually invent it.....Who knows?.

I do wonder tho', how they managed to involve the usually sane English.

Don T.