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Post by Faceless on Jan 25, 2022 13:39:03 GMT
Of all the things to mock England for, I'm a bit surprised by Morris dancing tbh
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Post by Tuffers on Jan 25, 2022 13:40:39 GMT
Of all the things to mock England for, I'm a bit surprised by Morris dancing tbh Shut up and dance Tory boy. |
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Post by sandybahookie on Jan 25, 2022 13:47:28 GMT
Its a very serious tradition!
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Post by Faceless on Jan 25, 2022 13:58:08 GMT
Of all the things to mock England for, I'm a bit surprised by Morris dancing tbh Shut up and dance Tory boy. I thought you were dealing with this guy |
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Post by lazybones on Jan 25, 2022 14:06:20 GMT
My dad was a morris dancer.
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Post by lazybones on Jan 25, 2022 14:08:27 GMT
It’s partly why I have an aversion to Real Ale and folk music. Though to be honest that’s been loosening somewhat in recent years.
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Post by amipal on Jan 25, 2022 14:54:00 GMT
I went to the pub during one of the extra bank holidays we had a few years back, for some sort of royal thing (a wedding? A birth?), and midway through my second pint, a troupe of morris dancers arrived.
Ordinarily I’d have been perturbed, a bit annoyed. But you know what? It had been years since I’d seen some morris dancers practice their art, and it was refreshingly novel.
Reader, I enjoyed it. Not so much that I vowed to run away with them and join the troupe though.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 25, 2022 14:57:08 GMT
I'm not sure I've ever actually witnessed a real-life act of Morris Dancing. As such, I have no basis to pass judgement on this weird behaviour.
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Post by lazybones on Jan 25, 2022 14:57:39 GMT
I think the scorn levelled on Morris Dancing comes from a misplaced macho aversion to dancing. Why not get together with the lads? Have a dance, have a sing. Wave hankies etc.
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Post by lazybones on Jan 25, 2022 15:11:16 GMT
The infernal rites of the morris men ... will be forever etched into my memory ...
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Post by crankcaller on Jan 25, 2022 15:16:43 GMT
Dancing with a group of men should be done in a basement with pounding house music, liberal use of a strobe and a smoke machine. Red Stripe, not real ale should be quaffed. Those who indulge in mdma and the like will be tolerated. The only hankies involved will be when you can't sleep two days later and are, err, trying to get to sleep. The only bells will be circus bells by Robert Armani. This is science.
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Post by Tuffers on Jan 25, 2022 15:21:46 GMT
Which Mr Morris were the Morris dancers named after? That's the real question here.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 25, 2022 15:22:03 GMT
My dad was a morris dancer. Was this a pastime? Or was there a pro-scene back in the days before MTV and BSkyB cast their homogenising pall across the cultural landscape? |
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 25, 2022 15:26:20 GMT
You say you're a Morris Dancer these days and they throw you in jail.
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Post by Faceless on Jan 25, 2022 15:49:29 GMT
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Post by lazybones on Jan 25, 2022 15:49:47 GMT
My dad was a morris dancer. Was this a pastime? Or was there a pro-scene back in the days before MTV and BSkyB cast their homogenising pall across the cultural landscape? It was a pastime. Bells, hankies, a man with a pig's bladder on a stick. It came to an end when we moved to 'The North'. |
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Post by lazybones on Jan 25, 2022 16:00:37 GMT
Dancing with a group of men should be done in a basement with pounding house music, liberal use of a strobe and a smoke machine. Red Stripe, not real ale should be quaffed. Those who indulge in mdma and the like will be tolerated. The only hankies involved will be when you can't sleep two days later and are, err, trying to get to sleep. The only bells will be circus bells by Robert Armani. This is science. I'm listening to Circus Bells right now. I like it, but the title evokes the gyrations of a chaotic ecstacy jester. |
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Post by lazybones on Jan 25, 2022 16:00:48 GMT
The Bells, by Jeff Mills, should also be permitted.
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Post by sandybahookie on Jan 25, 2022 16:08:53 GMT
If Morris Dancers want to be feared and respected they should extend the s for a second or two.
'I'm a Morrissssss Dancer.' And then shake your ankle with the bells on, but also...very...slowly...
Instantly worrying and very intimidating. My worst nightmare would to be murdered with a hanky to the sound of Reindeer.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 25, 2022 16:13:42 GMT
If Morris Dancers want to be feared and respected they should extend the s for a second or two. 'I'm a Morrissssss Dancer.' And then shake your ankle with the bells on, but also...very...slowly... Instantly worrying and very intimidating. My worst nightmare would to be murdered with a hanky to the sound of Reindeer. This is certainly how Judge Death would do it. I think he might be more of a Lambada man though. |
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Post by sandybahookie on Jan 25, 2022 16:26:14 GMT
A morris Dancer/Dredd/Death storyline would be great
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Post by sandybahookie on Jan 25, 2022 16:36:32 GMT
OTTM:
I puchased a Hetty Hoover online yesterday at myhenry.com, the exact same spec as a Henry but £50 cheaper and only available in pink and yellow.
Obviously this is a minefield of problems that I dont think the execs at Henry Hoover Inc have thought about.
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Post by sandybahookie on Jan 25, 2022 16:40:15 GMT
I found the yellow model to be more arousing, so went for that with a few extra attachments.
But the 'pink girls hoover' is something I really hoped we wouldnt still be seeing in 2022.
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Post by gongfarmer on Jan 25, 2022 16:51:25 GMT
Morris dancing is for lefty wimps.
If yo want to go full rogue then come to east anglia and get into some Molly Dancing
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Post by crankcaller on Jan 25, 2022 16:51:32 GMT
mon bien-aimé, je t'ai acheté un aspirateur. s'il vous plaît, ne me battez pas à mort avec les pièces jointes.
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