Are You A Self Parody?

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Do you feel that you have a social role to 'live up to' - with your friends, your family, at work or wherever? If so, do you find yourself deliberately playing up to that role? Do you find yourself doing or saying certain things out of some sense of duty to your persona? Are you happy about this? Do you think it's healthy? I don't know.

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete mate, whats up?

― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I passed self parody a long time ago.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I do it quite a lot. It doesn't bother me. It's a fun thing to do. Like a performance.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

otm

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

lukey i'm talking about YOU. only joking. nothing in particular has brought this on, it's just idle curiosity.
x-posts

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, without a doubt. More so a few years ago, but ply me with enough alcohol and I turn into my John Cleese-meets-Jim Carey all over again!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

WITHOUT SCHTICK, I'M NOTHING!!! NOTHING, I TELL YA!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v146/portobellopearl/peteinbathnaked.jpg

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

That'll be Pete in the bath, naked then.

What's that just come out of his arse?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I was trying to figure out if it was a beer bottle or body shop shampoo.

I prefer the former, obviously, but, you know...

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost
petey ma boy, too close to the bone.

― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(It looks like one of those plasic containers that you get rolls of film out of. Why have it in the bath though?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

i'm not even sure what my "self" is, although i'm sure some other people think they have me sussed out.

― Cynthia Nixon Now More Than Ever (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It is flattened on one side, like a body shop shampoo bottle top. The flat bit is where it hinges.

NOT that I've spent any amount of time staring at the picture trying to figure it out, ind you. Ha-HEM.

We will stop derailing this thread now, because this really is turning into self parody now.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

actually i think that's a bottle of herbal essences conditioner.

― Cynthia Nixon Now More Than Ever (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

is that the one that makes girls go 'ah' a lot?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

(the shampoo, not pete)

Actually, answer whichever question you like.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It looks like a bootle of herbal conditioner - I'm with you on that one.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate Herbal Essences! Ugh, I got them for my last shampoos, and they were NASTY, stinky and made my hair go yucky and raw. (Back on the Garnier Fruit Things now, much nicer)

But anyway, it's not Herbal Essence (a totally Organic experience, no no, Carl would have to be in the bathtub too, for that) because they have kind of a bell-end on the top of their lids, while Body Shop are straight up and down.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

How Freudian.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

See, wrong shape:

http://www.harvardpilgrim.mimrx.com/harvard/SiteImages/PrdImages/200x200/0381514989006.JPG

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It's much more like a Body Shop shampoo:

http://www.kidzworld.com/img/upload/article/a1529i0_mg.jpg

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I find that acting in role, and heightening the cartoon-like elements of my image, gives me confidence in my dealings with people. Yesterday, for instance, I dressed up in fairly ridiculous garb and felt a lot more at ease at work (theatre production) and even going into kebab shops, restaurants, etc. I felt like my clothes were doing the talking for me, and I felt like they established a kind of challenge, like 'I'm a bit eccentric, so deal with me on my own terms or not at all'. I also felt that, because the gear looked kind of fey, I could actually be more macho than usual, which I also enjoy. I mean, you have to be kind of tough to dare to look fey in public, I always feel. You have to put out a message that says 'Laugh at me if you like, but fuck with me at your own peril'. I have huge respect for the Quentin Crisps and Grayson Perrys of this world because of that.

So, yeah, embrace your stereotype and turn it to your advantage is my advice.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Hrmmm, now who can I slash Momus with?

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

dusty springfield

― Cynthia Nixon Now More Than Ever (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate, sorry to be a bore, but can you stop posting pictures like that to random threads. I know there's no genitals on display, but that expanse of flesh looks very alarming in an over-the-shoulder office setting.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I dunno, slash Nick with Germaine Greer or Tom Paulin - imagine the chaos.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I've no idea if I'm a self-parody or not. I know that generally on a night out I end up doing exactly what people expect me to do, but that's possibly because its the same thing I always do.

It only occurred to me relatively recently that I have a hapless-child-please-mother-me schtick that I fall back on from time to time. I'm considering giving that one up.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, N. :-(

Suzy... oh dear, don't give me ideas!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I lapse into self-parody quite often when out drinking, but I enjoy it and, seemingly, so do the people I'm with, hence they keep asking me out for drinkiepoos.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Suzy, you're a smart cookie. But ssshhhhhh!

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It's amazing what different workplaces let you get away with... I made that photo my wallpaper for a bit. And everyone was all "Ha ha, Kate with the jailbait again..." So I suppose I keep up the self parody act at work as well. But this is a sales department, so it's a bunch of extroverts *all* keeping up the self parody.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it's quite staid here, I'm afraid.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

When I make jokes about poo and wee I often feel it's cos people expect it of me. Although occasionally I really do still find them funny myself. So I'm not sure.

How about you Ken? :)

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i like your unintended rhymes

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Here: Maybe
There: Not sure

Perhaps, IRL I'm typecast as cynic/idiot savant, it's okay with me.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

'The reason it's a cliché is because it's true'

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

cynthia otm

― bulbs (bulbs), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Quentin Crisp almost forgotten now?

He had amazing patience in his interviews with the most ridiculous questions.

I remember one chat show from the late 70s where they made great play of saying that the next guest was a 'self-confessed homosexual'. One of the first questions was 'if the sex-change operation had been available when he was younger, would he have gone ahead with it?'

wtf?

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a living joke, I don't know if that counts.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

We'll include you for statistical purposes, don't worry.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a living sickness...

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

probably. I don't like it. either of them.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I transcend self-parody.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.columbia.edu/~alk2102/images/wot.jpg

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I love you, man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

What he said.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)