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#essex #clowne

Started by seepage, July 27, 2019, 05:02:21 PM

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BlodwynPig

Post No Deal, these are the prison ships dissenters like me will be sent on

No trips to Bergen though. Just up and down the Essex coastline

imitationleather

I guess we'll all see how half-arsed we wave our little flags around at the compulsory post-Brexit street parties.

BlodwynPig

Knees up mother brown will take on a new, darker meaning

object-lesson

Quote from: a duncandisorderly on July 28, 2019, 08:23:26 AM
dislike & fear are not the same thing. a phobia is not taking against something on the basis of personal preferences.

you, my son, are cruisin' for a bruisin'.

Studies show that 97.3% of clown-antipathy is engendered by fear, nearly always rooted in childhood experience. No excuse for violence obviously, but in similar circumstances I would call for security to gently but firmly escort the interloper out of the building.

a duncandisorderly

Quote from: object-lesson on July 28, 2019, 12:56:53 PM
Studies show that 97.3% of clown-antipathy is engendered by fear, nearly always rooted in childhood experience. No excuse for violence obviously, but in similar circumstances I would call for security to gently but firmly escort the interloper out of the building.
whatevs. doesn't make "phobia" the same as antipathy or dislike.

Captain Z

If you're looking to distill British culture into a short story, this has it all.


  • Ship named "Britannia"
  • "patriotic" partying
  • flag waving
  • half-hearted DJ encouraging disinterested people to sing
  • large amounts of alcohol consumed
  • black-tie evening
  • fancy dress
  • mass brawl
  • plates and furniture used as weapons
  • men and women assaulted
  • "from Chigwell, Essex"

object-lesson

Quote from: Captain Z on July 28, 2019, 04:25:47 PM
If you're looking to distill British culture into a short story, this has it all.


  • Ship named "Britannia"
  • "patriotic" partying
  • flag waving
  • half-hearted DJ encouraging disinterested people to sing
  • large amounts of alcohol consumed
  • black-tie evening
  • fancy dress
  • mass brawl
  • plates and furniture used as weapons
  • men and women assaulted
  • "from Chigwell, Essex"

I think the half-heartedness and uninterestedness are fairly important qualifiers to some of the above, and the extent of the violence is still not clear. P&O are denying the existence of the clown, so the fancy dress aspect may not be relevant and God knows what other distortions there are in  Gaisford's tale.

Credulousness over stories originating from tacky journalists isn't an especially British trait and nor is confirmation bias (which is universal, but something to be guarded against) though snobbery is a little more so. Then again for example listening to some North Italians talk about Southerners  puts that into question as well.

(Not meant as a dig at your post btw, given there's obviously some truth in it - just  general observations.)

BlodwynPig

Will that GMB reporter make his career from this? A exclusive interview on GMB, a serialised story the Daily Mail, a book, a film (straight to DVD)?