I was in the pub yesterday when a troupe of them bogled in and performed an impromptu guerilla gig. Does anyone else find them slightly creepy- you can always tell when they're near due to the bells..
What is the purpose behind these morris men, and do they burn people like in the wicker man?
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I've never morris danced.
I'm into this though:
http://www.strawbear.org.uk/2000.htm
It's like the wicker man, except instead of pagan scots, it's loads of drunk fenlanders smashing a town up and burning a man dressed in hay.
How do they choose the poor man who gets burned alive?
yeah, good one guys
that looks totally like a bear
Us fenlanders dont' get to
go to bear-country much these days.
I'm going to go down there with a picture
it'll shit them up bigtime
Oh for gods sake
this is really close to where I live. I'm surrounded by country mentalists
i don't know but i have been looking for a purpose in life
It is a bit mental
we used to have to do it in my primary school where you'd get trussed up with bells and then skip about. And then there was country dancing. Rural primary schools liked ridiculing kids.
truly one of the lamest, most pitiful displays of 'humanity' i can imagine
josef the basmement bummer was a morris dancer. jonathon davis is a morris dancer. george w. is a morris dancer. the list goes on
Wasn't Jonathan Davis
in Korn?
yes,
i dunno if hes a morris dancer tho, i think i just made that up. wait. yes, i did
The proper ones
with the antlers, the make up and the tankards are pretty scary
It only seems creepy because
most are so far removed from its origins. Indeed the people that now do it are a 'speciality' grouping of peoplr, the sort of grouping that would not normally have done it originally (although individuals within the modern grouping might have done it originlly)
Hope that clears it all up
no, it seems creepy cos IT IS
just like the quakers and jehovas witnesses who come to your door
quakers and jehovas witnesses seem to behave
very differently (to me anyway)
Jehovas witnesses do come to your door and I spent many an hour discussing earnestly with them (when i was a teenager) until i got to the point where I felt that I didnt want to shatter their belief, because I didnt have a whole support system to look after them if their world view came crashing down.
My mum would come home to find, not drunken teenage mates vomiting on her carpet, but tearful old ladies.....har har
Anyway Quakers, in myexperiance have never been preachy or anything, they always seem to get on with doing what they think is right, they have never tried to make me feel guilty or wrong or anything, they seem to be the antithesis of preachyness (to me) So I cant possibly compare the two.
Perhaps you were associating quakerish beards and older fashioned values with the antiquity of morris dancing and the beards associated with it.
no, it doesn't
in this, does the special in 'speciality people'
just mean special as in special people.
cos if so, you have gone a great way to explain morris dancing
the people attracted to modern reenactment of morris dancing
perhaps come from a smaller section of society than did those who originally did, in that respect if you find this grouping of men creepy then you might attach some of this to the morris dancing too
are you a morris dancer?
its ok
are you accusing me of having a beard?
Morris men couldn't burn anyone...
Come on how could you take anyone seriously wearing those spindly outfits!
I think the Armish on the other hand have a dark side and I definitely wouldn't want to be caught in a dark ally with one of those lot!
morris dancers & paedophilia are the two wrong things on Earth.
agreed
id rathr be fucked in the arse with a bat by the clown from slipknot than watch another second of the shite
Well next time you are confronted with
morris dancing, just close your eyes.
(and maybe your wish will come true)
I like the idea of guerrilla morris dancing
despite the mental images of Dominic Masters trussed up in a white boiler suit prancing round a maypole. Did they have the sticks and ribbons and the full works?
Yeah
They had like harnesses with horses drawn on and beating sticks and white jeans and hats.
morris dancers wear their bells to keep away the evil spells!
IS THAT A FACT????/
which pub
was this?
Somewhere on Mansfield Road
it was full of real ale types.
where you in The Orange Tree?
i happened to see them too
I was up the road in the Lincolnshire Poacher
I think they were like doing a tour of that area