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― Pinumber Matthew, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

anything except for anal sex, hipsters, and momus.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

(within certain unwritten limits, of course)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

(bah, i was going to start a thread about hipsters having anal sex with Momus this afternoon!)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

So what, exactly could one *not* start a thread about, then?

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

taking a shit in a bag, setting it on fire and leaving it on my doorstep.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Kate, just look at which threads get deleted by the mods and you'll find out!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

So, erm, Spam?

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

And Calum-type stuff, of course.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

Some threads are banned quicker than others,
Some threads' mothers are banned quicker than other threads' mothers...

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

anything except skiffle

― seuss, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

and unsigned/indie artists. Major label talent only please

― MM, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

I think you have mistaken us for ILM. ha-HEM.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

Requests for hair dye advice are always welcomed

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

In Finland we have saying, "One must try everything except incest and folk dances.".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

So what, exactly could one *not* start a thread about, then?

it's more *who*. if i start one, almost noone replies. i'm ~~unloved and~~ unnnoticed. boo!

― nathalie sans denouement (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Did you hear something? Sounded kinda like a woman's voice... Nah, must be the telly.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

You just have to learn to shout louder, Nath. The only reason my threads go on so long is cause I talk to myself. Sigh.

(OTOH... Jared Harris naked, etc. blah blah.)

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

Jesus Tuomas. Is there anything left to do in Finland so?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

In Finland we have saying, "One must try everything except incest and folk dances.".

I don't reckon you do at all.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

In Finland we have saying, "One must try everything except incest and folk dances.".

Thank god, I'm not a Finish sheep then.

― nathalie sans denouement (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

I think Tuomas spelled "nothing" incorrectly in his post. It's an easy enough mistake.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Er, incest is not the same as bestiality.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

(x-post) HAHAHA!!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

That saying translates badly, because the Finnish word for incest is much funnier than the clinical English word. It's kinda like "family humping".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Tuomas, hence my relief of not being a sheep being raped in Finland. Because you said "one must try everything except incest and folk dancing." :-)

― nathalie sans denouement (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

thats the best saying ever

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

What's so wrong with folk dancing, anyway?

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

maybe finnish folk dancing is FUCKED UP.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

It's folk-ing boring

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Translates as "happyslapping." (xpost)

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

That saying is attributed to various people, isn't it, but maybe it is Finnish in origin after all! Which would explain why nobody British can decide between Johnson, Wilde, Pope, Thomas Beecham and god knows who else.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

ILE - contributing to pun-on-pun crime.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

http://wwww.jns.fi/museokoulu/kokokuva/kansanperinne/kuvat/kansantanssi.jpg http://wwww.jns.fi/museokoulu/kokokuva/kansanperinne/kuvat/kansantanssi.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

Looks fun to me...

http://butler.cc.tut.fi/~malmivuo/news/1996/2-03x.gif

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

The chap with his arms folded is saying "Aah, I'm glad I gave up the incest you know"

(xpost)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

We Brits apparently have a similar meme:

http://www.pickabook.co.uk/covers/2003/01D06A62.JPG

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

look, Morris Dancing is great fun, and I'm not having it being put up on the same level as incest.

How many of you have ever actually *done* any Morris Dancing? Huh?

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

Whaa? It's like the most famous English meme ever surely? Though it is usually *country* dancing.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

We had to do "English Country Dancing" in primary school. There were no sticks and bells involved, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

Though I must admit that Scottish Country Dancing was a lot *more* fun because it involved throwing swords on the floor and dancing around them.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

You can Morris Dance with swords too.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

(Sorry, I just tried to google up "Scottish Country Dancing" and got way, way, waaaaayyyy too distracted and had to stop as I was becoming rather not safe for work.)

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

I have only see Scottish Country Dancing done at Hebridean village ceilidhs. If swords had been involved, there would have been mass maimings, injuries, and lots of blood.

In what way is Scottish Country Dancing not work-safe?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine does irish dancing and also bagpipe playing (or whatever you call it). he's quite good actually. his natural parents are irish. (he was adopted, hence *natural*.)

― nathalie sans denouement (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

I did 'rod work' as part of eurythmy [system of movement based on Greek temple dances and developed by Rudolf Steiner] classes at school. It was almost as exciting as it sounds.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

x-post

(No wonder I liked it. It was violent, and I got to chase my brother around with swords.)

Scottish Country Dancing is worksafe, but the effect of loads of hott Scottish boys in kilts twirling around showing their knobbly knees is distinctly NOT safe for work.

(Someone will notice that it is the first time I've smiled all week.)

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

This is one of those Seinfeld threads.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

It seems to me that no *actual* Scots are forced to do Scottish Country Dancing. It's something that the Scots Diaspora inflict upon their children to keep their "cultural identity" or something.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

we did Country Dancing at my school but it was all american stuff, yellow rose of texas and all that. we entered a competition and everything. i remember so clearly that k1r57y Wi11i4m5 fucked it up and made ME look like a goof-off (yes, i am well aware that i am a goof-off, but i wasn't back then).

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

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This thread makes me so happy! It started about anal sex, hipsters, and momus, and now it is about folk dancing! Hurrah!

The Sean Truibhas dance - a delicate dance which symbolises shaking off the trousers to wear the kilt!!

The Highland Fling - that most famous of Scottish dances which involves some precise jumping and turning

The dance of the Gay Gordons - where you retain your partner but are constantly moving around the floor with other couples, and one false move from just one person can upset the whole sequence of the dance for everyone!

The Dashing White Sergeant - a dance where groups have to precisely interchange with others on the dance floor, mixing teams as they go. If one team fails the whole dance collapses!

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

I will look him up in the Index.

(actually, Isadora's brother was even more of an ancient-Greek fan - I think he only ever wore classical robes after the age of 25, or something like that)

(xpost to Archel)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

"Shaking off trousers to wear the kilt" sounds like it was invented for George IV's visit, to be honest, but still. I like the sound of it!

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

dosido, motherfuckers.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

On the last day of a course here our two Scottish tutors always teach the students the Gay Gordons. It's a sight for sore eyes...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.scotpoles.co.uk/images/activities/manip/manip_pic1.jpg

Hang on, is that *Magnus* second from the left?

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

ha, i fucked a room fill of joyful ceilidh-ers in this way a few months ago. damn that red wine.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

!!!

That line *begs* to be taken out of context.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Hell yeah.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

ha, i fucked a room fill of joyful ceilidh-ers in this way a few months ago.

Chuck, have you been raiding my secret pr0n fantasy drawer?

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

You realise you'll now have to relabel it your not-so-secret pr0n fantasy drawer? ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Like I have any secret fantasies left around here...

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I dunno. You probably have *some*. If you list them all, we'll tell you whether we know about them or not.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

We were compelled in our younger days at school to learn the Dashing White Sergeant and Gay Gordons. Heel, toe, one two three, heel, toe, one two three, and step together step together step together step together aaarrrrgggghhhhh and all the boys in the class had to pick a girl to dance with and no girl would dance with me so no change there then.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Isn't there a MySQL back-table that contains all of Kate's "secret" fantasies?

SELECT * FROM tblKateFant WHERE tool='kilt'

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Marcello, I think we went to the same school. None of the girls would dance with me either.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "Pervy Boys In Kilts" - did not match any documents... oh hang on a minute...

http://www.kiltmen.com/scouts.jpg

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

I was nearly in that picture.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

i was really good at the various dances we did in those classes. hence i was gay.

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Why do ILX boys TEASE me with images of them in kilts, but never actually deliver?

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

because the anticipation is the best part.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Scottish gay dances sound like fun! I have no idea what the Finnish ones are like.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

folk dances

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

Hrmmm, maybe if I ~~threaten~~ offer a kiss and a guinea to any ILX boy who dresses up in a kilt for me, like my great great great grand-whatsihoosy Lady Gordon did, I might have some takers...

::puckers up::

(::ILX boys run away en masse::)

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

x-post to Kate

I wasn't quite 15 at the time, so not really much teasing. (I'm certain the photo is from the Blair Atholl jamborette in 1984)

And you wouldn't want to see me in a kilt now, trust me - not that I have one.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Scottish gay dances sound like fun!

Mmmm, kilt slash. Mmmmmmmmmmmm...

(Hang on, Gay Gordons, what does that mean anyway?!?!?!)

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

In primary school, Scottish folk dances, gay or otherwise, were hell on earth. Thank heavens for grammar school where you could go to school discos and dance however you liked to the hip groovy sounds of Guys and Dolls and 5000 Volts.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

I guess there's no such thing as derailment on this thread, which is lucky because here's a picture of ME doing some shamanic-themed eurythmy! (I'm on the right.)
http://www.aliki.co.uk/aliki_imagelibrary/sw_pics/gallery_bton/images/AS0829SW.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

For those of you who did folk dancing at school, was that in lieu of "actual" PE or in addition to? Anything is better than being made to play, say, rugby when you are very small.

― clive (Clive), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Blimey, googling "scottish gay dance" brings up this gem:

http://amarillo.com/images/headlines/082999/celtic.jpg

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)

At my school it was always done in our PE period. Thankfully, rugby was voluntary.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Kate, next time you come round mine, I'll put on my kilt for you. Happy now?

{blimey, ain't she demanding?)

And do I get my guinea?

http://www.gotpetsonline.com/pictures-gallery/small-animal-pictures-breeders-babies/guinea-pig-pictures-breeders-babies/pictures/guinea-pig-0039.jpg

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

You promised that last time, JB, and then you wimped out at the last minute, saying all "Oh, no, I can't, it's in my ambulence" and all.

:-(

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

I WISH eurythmy was instead of games. Since my school was occupying a decrepit former golf clubhouse, we had no sports facilities. 'Games' involved running uphill through the woods until we reached the nearest park, where we would play hockey or rounders or run further. We had no uniforms, and hence no PE kit, so since both me and my mum always forgot when it was games day I was always inappropriately dressed and miserable.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I will be wearing a kilt at a wedding on Saturday, and I will no doubt be compelled to do the Gay Gordons and The Dashing White Sergeant.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

This is my favourite thread for years.

I really want those two people doing the slightly extreme leaping kilt dance to have just got married to each other.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

No, actually, Scottish Country Dancing was something that my mum made us do *outside of* school. You know, to preserve our cultural heritage and all. Ditto the Morris Dancing (though actually, technically, that was through the church - for our May Queen celebrations. My mum was a bit thick when it came to confusing pagan and Christian rituals).

When I got to 8th Grade/High School, we took dance electives instead of sport. Unfortunately, I was even *more* useless at formal dance than I was at sport. :-(

x-post, me too, Archel. I'm actually strangely delighted.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Jesus that photo back there - that woman's foot has fallen off! Shouldn't there be blood?

I went to school in Bavaria - luckily folk dancing wasn't on the curriculum or else I'd have be all leathered up and and having my bum slapped.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh don't, Nick - Kate is overexcited enough already!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

I never understood why PE was called 'Games' (happened at my school too). Games sounds fun. Physical Education sounds like, and was, torture. Being small and wimpy as a child, it rapidly became obvious I was never going to be useful at any sport the school regularly won trophies in, so I just had to run around the entire park. Dancing would have been so much more fun.

xposts

I initially read that as 'lathered' up. Disturbing.

― clive (Clive), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to stop reading this thread now before Momus turns up.

(All the Nicks in the world are against me today.)

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

Nick, I saw a bloke in lederhosen in Chinatown the other day and seriously, his trews looked fantastic!!

"Oh, no, I can't, it's in my ambulence"

Is no-one else intrigued by this comment?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

(It is an absolutely literal statement, Markelby.)

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Strip the Willow is where it's at, people. Especially the Orcadian version. I did it in 3.5" heels last Wednesday.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

My housemate owns an ambulance that's been painted green and converted into a camper van. Great for festivals, rubbish for getting around town. Anyway, all my festivally stuff (kilt, sarong, amusing hats) is in the ambulance.

But anyway, I've got it out and washed it now, it's in my draws upstairs, so no more teasing.

I'd hate to try to dance in it though, it's awfully bulky.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Wear it on Sunday, then!

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Sigh. For the few hours that this thread bubbled over, my life felt a bit less horrible.

But now I feel like a sugar rush hangover.

Ach, back to work and no more Scottish Country Dancing boys in kilts...

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Sooo....can anyone explain to me why the Scots use dramatic arm motions, and the Irish keep their arms firmly clasped against their bodies?

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Catholic repression.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

They are afreard they'll put someones eye out.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

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