Cross-country running is abuse

[Al Khalifah]

As is the ownership of a Kestrel.

[matteus the inbred]

The Yorkshire accent is due to a famous sketch by Monty Python's Flying Circus, called The Four Yorkshiremen, based on the premise of four now-affluent Yorkshiremen telling tall tales about how poor and deprived they were before they made a fortune through hard work...
...transcript here.
http://www.phespirit.info/montypytho...rkshiremen.htm

Some kind of physical exercise, or encouragement to take part in it, ought to exist, but a return to the 1950s 'PT and verbal abuse' regimen in schools is probably not a good thing.

Mind you, it was instrumental in inspiring Sir Edmund Hillary to achieve all that he did...