How Dare They?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4908078/Tribes-burst-hysterics-Morris-dancers.html

So a little respect for out traditions, just as we are expected to show for yours.

[hereIam]

Never mind aog, I know where you are coming from x

[jackthehat]

Arrant nonsense, AOG.

We are free to laugh at any cultural peculiarities.....anywhere.....

You've just picked the wrong news-item with which to try and blugeon your point home.

[pixie374]

Traditions don't automatically earn respect. It depends what they are. They all look as silly as each other to me. But I can't imagine anybody would catch sight of a morris dancer and not find it funny.

[albaqwerty]

I'll say it again Morris Dancing is not my tradition and I find it blooming silly.

There is an ab'er who once Morris Danced and I had a senior lady moment when I read that!

[ummmm]

Quite, Albs, compare Morris Dancing with a good ole Riverdance :-)

[anotheoldgit]

AH

Just steering you in the right direction you understand, especially with the word racist being indiscriminately being banned around by the likes of you.

/// Anthropologists condemn the use of terms of "stone age" and "primitive" ///

/// Good news: British anthropologists take part in public debates. The ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists) issued a statement where they "condemn the use of terms like 'stone age' and 'primitive' to describe tribal and indigenous peoples alive today". ///

https://www.antropologi.info/blog/anthropology/2007/anthropologists_condemn_the_use_of_terms

[albaqwerty]

ummm, aah, now you're talking! Riverdance, darned clever stuff.

[baza]

I think the New Zealand rugby team look silly but would not say that out loud in Twickenham. At school I tried highland dancing, bit draughty, tried morris dancing but fell of the bonnet.

[albaqwerty]

Baza, you weren't the one who tap-danced and fell into the sink were you?

[-Talbot-]

Lol ... AOG is seriously offended.

Brilliant!

[pixie374]

Serially offended...

[baza]

alba, yes that was me. I tried the foxtrot but it ran away, and as for barn dancing well.....

[Kromovaracun]

And there was me foolishly thinking that Morris dancing was supposed to provoke merriment and laughter and... fun.

Bloody hell, I've been doing it wrong all this time. Clearly morris dancing is a deeply sombre occasion for which the only appropriate response is a quietly passionate yet stoic and private love for the everlasting English nation.

Next time I am at such an event, I shall be sure to glance every performer in the eye (even the dragon which squirts water in my face), and give every last one my own private thanks for their solemn preservation of this island's culture. Perhaps, when the merriments are over, I shall permit a single tear to trail its way down my cheek and fall to the beloved soil of my motherland.

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT, how about you suggest to the RFU they kit out the English team with hankies and jingly bells the next time they face New Zealand haka?

They could score a couple of tries while the All Blacks are still laughing their heads off.

[ummmm]

Great answer, Krom :-)

[Gromit]

I wonder what Kazakhi is for 'Silly Prats' ?

[hereIam]

Lol at albs at 16:12 .....

[naomi24]

I don’t expect tribes from remote areas of the world have got the hang of political correctness yet – thank goodness. This question is simply unadult-erated (see what I did there?) nonsense. Long may Morris dancing continue. I love watching it. Great fun.

[Peter Pedant]

// highland dancing, bit draughty, tried morris dancing but fell of the bonnet.//
and what about tap dancing ?

anyway Morris Dancing is a hundred year old social construct innit ?
"Boxing Day 1899 is widely regarded as the starting point for the Morris revival." resurrection after some decades of death more like

[douglas9401]

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now

Morrisey dancing.