People who walk around crowded city streets carrying oversized golf umbrellas: should they be taken out and shot?

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I'm inclined to say yes, given that we live in an age of small yet perfectly practical brollies and affordable waterproof breathable fabrics.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

Golf umbrellas are often freebies and are much more macho than small ones. I'm inclined to disagree.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

The bigger your umbrella is, the higher you should lift it when other people approach.

What is it about umbrellas, of any size, that turns people into personal space violating horrors?

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

The advantage of golfing umbrellas is that all of you, including your trousers and shoes, stays dry. Maybe this is more of an issue if you're tall.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Or fat, I suppose.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

umbrellas are for old dears with purple rinses.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

No, that's transparent plastic headscarves.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

I had one of those when I was about 5. I loved it! I should get another. (And some purple rinse for my hair.)

What about those clear plastic umbrellas that circle down and completely encase their user?

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm with Macbeth in this one, "Let it come down!".... no hold on, it wasn't Macbeth that said that

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/44197_2vQrLUMKMRr6YaTFEL49xMl6E.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

x-post,

Ha ha. i forgot about them, they’re brilliant.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

In answer to the original question: Yes!
Also worthy of this sentence is the crime of carrying the closed (or furled, as opposed to unfurled) umbrella brief-case style when it stops raining, and jauntily swinging your arm back and forth as you walk, creating a sharply jabbing two-way spear-like space violator.

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

Paul Bowles, wasn't it? Or Jason Spaceman? Take yer pick.

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

x-post

Brollies are great for beating persons with. And poking cute men in the arse at Ascot, if you are a Royal!

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

No, that's transparent plastic headscarves.

When I had more hair, I had a tartan one of those! Actually, an ex-girlfriend bought me it to stop me wearing plastic bags to keep my hair dry. But I only wore the plastic bags because I thought it was funny.

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

People who walk around crowded city streets carrying oversized golf umbrellas: should they be taken out and shot?

No, as they are out already.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

does anyone else know to call "transparent plastic headscarf" a snood? Or was I horribly lied to about this term?

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

Paul Bowles, wasn't it? Or Jason Spaceman? Take yer pick.

Well it's in "Macbeth" but it's not yer man Macbeth that says it - he was sheltering under a golf umbrella at the time

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Hm, google images reveal that I was deceived and a snood is more like this: http://home.inreach.com/marthac/snod3514.jpg

Anyway, yes, golf umbrellas. I carry one sometimes because it was free and its size means I'm less likely to forget it somewhere. But I feel like a total jerk when I do use it, even though it keeps my feet dry.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

http://i20.ebayimg.com/01/i/04/30/f8/97_2.JPG

The head umbrella is RIDICULOUS.

― nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

When I was at primary school a snood was a sort of tube of material, which went round your neck, and could be pulled up to cover your head. I didn’t have one. They were more for the My Little Pony types.

― suckling pig at a rave (alix), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, a snood is a different beast to a scarf.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

The lesser-spotted beard snood

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

i like golf umbrellas, they have a gnarly metal point at the end, good for 'self-defence'.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

OMG Alba!

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

that beard snood guy is hott

― suckling pig at a rave (alix), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

umbrellas are the shit.

― umbrellas are the shit, Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

I like his friend:

http://www.protec-manchester.co.uk/Images/Products/classic.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I have one of those plastic bubble umbrellas and it's the solution to the world's problems, I tell you. It doesn't keep your feet dry, I suppose, but it wraps down over your shoulders and if you have a handbag over your arm it protects that, too. PLUS you can see through it so you don't have to do that awk shuffle while hunkering down under your brolly edge.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

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