An American would have a meltdown if they saw this.
Tweed, sunglasses & an impressive beard.
When i grow up i want to be him.
dont let the americans see, they will bring the whole blackface debate into it
It took too long to click that the face paint is coal dust.
Not even the weirdest tradition in the Rossendale Valley.
Nowt as weird as a small village carnival
Rural towns 99% of the time are quaint and charming and then one day of the year it’s like “yeah we all get together and race snails” or “we chuck a load of rubber ducks up the stream and see who wins at the end” and the town will be FULL of people seeing it.
This is local tradition for local people, there’s nothing for you here
‘Weird idiosyncracies’ or proud local traditions that committed people keep alive after centuries?
No more odd than any other country. Ours are just more obvious to us.
It’s also weird for some locals
Why is someone upskirting them near the start?
Local Morris dancers Round here docked the black face paint for red and black ( local colours anyway) a decade or so ago.
Never felt particularly racially motivated but obviously not a pc look anymore so they changed. Surprised not everywhere has yet!
Nothin’ offensive nothin’ blue.
This video goes along with that coffin dance music that was popular a few years ago.
Play that track over this.
I was waiting for the weird idiosyncracies part to begin, until I realised that I’m British.
To be fair some of the traditions here in Spain can be a bit on-the-nose, for example “Moors and Christians”, which is very much what you’d imagine it to be!
As an immigrant from the US: I’ve not seen anything like this, but if I did I would have been horrified until someone explained it wasn’t intended to be blackface 😅
Seeing some of the comments. It’s not bloody black face. Not everything has to be racist or phobic!
Someone call the Dutch, Sinterklaas’s Stamboot’s mission a few Piets. (Definitely a kids TV show/movie in that)
That’s Bacup! A fun Bacup annecdote is that it was one of the originally selected places where League of Gentlemen was supposed to be filmed, but it was decided it was much worse than Royston Vasey.
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For some context, [here’s the video](https://youtu.be/x4adF0BCDjI?si=cJSvjT5KNEZAPc4s) I took this clip from.
[Coconutters](https://www.coconutters.co.uk) rule!
An American would have a meltdown if they saw this.
Tweed, sunglasses & an impressive beard.
When i grow up i want to be him.
dont let the americans see, they will bring the whole blackface debate into it
It took too long to click that the face paint is coal dust.
Not even the weirdest tradition in the Rossendale Valley.
Nowt as weird as a small village carnival
Rural towns 99% of the time are quaint and charming and then one day of the year it’s like “yeah we all get together and race snails” or “we chuck a load of rubber ducks up the stream and see who wins at the end” and the town will be FULL of people seeing it.
This is local tradition for local people, there’s nothing for you here
‘Weird idiosyncracies’ or proud local traditions that committed people keep alive after centuries?
No more odd than any other country. Ours are just more obvious to us.
It’s also weird for some locals
Why is someone upskirting them near the start?
Local Morris dancers Round here docked the black face paint for red and black ( local colours anyway) a decade or so ago.
Never felt particularly racially motivated but obviously not a pc look anymore so they changed. Surprised not everywhere has yet!
Nothin’ offensive nothin’ blue.
This video goes along with that coffin dance music that was popular a few years ago.
Play that track over this.
I was waiting for the weird idiosyncracies part to begin, until I realised that I’m British.
To be fair some of the traditions here in Spain can be a bit on-the-nose, for example “Moors and Christians”, which is very much what you’d imagine it to be!
As an immigrant from the US: I’ve not seen anything like this, but if I did I would have been horrified until someone explained it wasn’t intended to be blackface 😅
https://preview.redd.it/zmvgkl91p7xe1.jpeg?width=499&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8383bc10d984eff2fe87dc1ab3987191a38db497
Omliboo tomliboo sit on the floor…
Seeing some of the comments. It’s not bloody black face. Not everything has to be racist or phobic!
Someone call the Dutch, Sinterklaas’s Stamboot’s mission a few Piets. (Definitely a kids TV show/movie in that)
That’s Bacup! A fun Bacup annecdote is that it was one of the originally selected places where League of Gentlemen was supposed to be filmed, but it was decided it was much worse than Royston Vasey.
[https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6092239.town-league-scares-off-tv-crew/](https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6092239.town-league-scares-off-tv-crew/)
Stopped at one place and ended up losing a fiver on the ferret race.
Went to a cider festival in Glastonbury (not during the festival) and watched the locals racing ferrets up lengths of plastic drainpipes.
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