https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxODiOUsRX4Riding a bike in the snow is difficult enough without any additional challenges. This short film from the 19th century shows that even after 125 years, some things never change.
The 50-second clip captures a group of people in Lyons, France, playing in snow and the chaos ensuing as a snowball fight between two sides turns into a surprise attack on a bypassing cyclist. The cyclist is knocked off the bike, and the group continues to bombard him with snowballs until he is able to stand back up, snatch up his bike and quickly pedal away.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/snowball-fight-captured-in-film-for-first-time-1897/881382----------
These old films are fascinating. Mainly because maybe after pedophiles there is nothing I hate worse than Marxist revisionist history. They give a glimpse of what life was really like.
Notice two things about it. 1) It's the height of the supposedly deathly oppressive Victorian era where nobody smiled and joy was beaten out of you like a bunch of Taliban at a music fest.
But guess what? People, actual adults, are having childlike fun!
2) In the Victorian era, women were chained to stoves, worked 16 hours a day in conditions similar to a foundry while wearing choking corsets to keep them under control. Yet in this film the women seem to have no corsets and are joining right in with the fun, neither chained nor belabored.
Life goes on as it always has. Screw the revisionists.
