Why i love England,
Just randomly stumble across some local tradition that’s been going on for 700 years and everyone acts like it’s normal.
“This weekend we are weighing the mayor!”
Did they allow you to leave?
Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest.
Sir Thomas Beecham
If they don’t do this once a year in perfection, something bad will happen to the village.
Why doesn’t Ross, the largest of the friends, simply eat the other 5?
Britain’s long lost marshal art
You’re lucky.
This is rare to see these days.
It’s a shame many Morris groups are old slow and… unfortunately shit. So it gets a bad rep as being lame. But when some of the younger groups with faster pace and cooler costumes do it it is pretty cool.
Morris dancing is a form of traditional English folk dance. There are many different groups of both morris and traditional dance originating from areas around the UK, who each perform in a variety of styles. The styles include Border Morris, Clog Step, Cotswold Morris, Longsword, Maypole, Molly, Mumming, North West Morris, Rapper Sword and Stave dancing.
Just don’t ask them about the stick and bucket dance.
Edit: NORTHAMPTONSHIRE MENTIONED, WTF IS A BAD RUGBY TEAM?!?
Very UK
Imagine being in a boat just slowly going through the lock, trapped as some sort of backdrop to this madness while everyone judges your boat worthiness and at least one old guy decides to be “helpful” and yell instructions at you. It’s bad enough doing locks with a single dog walker watching.
I had a lovely customer years ago who played accordion for a Morris troupe 😁 wonderful stuff ❤️❤️❤️
Think we should do this in response to the Haka at Twickenham
Can somebody explain to me if this is some sort of traditional dance ? I’m from Lithuania and we have similar old traditional clothes with a dance style 🙂🙂
Weyhey! The lads!
I’m in Wiltshire, next door neighbours run a MD troop (?) called Sarum Morris.
Before I lived here we were visiting g amd there was a dance off between about 10 different sets in the market square. The black face / piratey ones from.Cornwall were my favourite as they were quite angry 🤣. Think the blackface element was a reference to their time down the mines rather than anything Justin Trudeau
Big up Stoke Bruerne!
If you like your Morris dancing and some proper beer, it’s worth getting down to the Wimborne Folk Festival, held every year in the first week (give or take) of June. The town is basically made up of pubs and feels like a stunt double to Sandford (Wells) in Hot Fuzz.
We didn’t burn him!
Stoke Bruerne top lock? I spent a lot of my life narrowboating around England.
Morris dancing! So British. Lovely to see it done.
That is pretty cool
they’re tryin t’ win village o’ ‘t year
Stoke Bruerne for anyone wondering! lovely little village 🙂
It’s a little known fact that morris dancers are the special forces for the parish council.
If you’ve trampled over Doris Weatherby’s memorial weed patch and hear bells, you’re as good as dead.
Had a friend who did morris dancing. He always said if you were doing it sober you were doing it wrong. I mean, they only do it at pubs so made perfect sense to me.
I worked with a bloke who used to be part of a motorbike group. They started ripping the piss out of a group of Morris Dancers and soon learned the error of their ways. The bit that stuck out for him, though, was above the sound of tables being turned over, glasses being smashed and heads being kicked in, the jingling of the bells on the Morris Dancers’ arms and legs.
My grandfather always used to say “ Why do Morris dancers wear bells? So they can piss off the blind aswell”
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Why i love England,
Just randomly stumble across some local tradition that’s been going on for 700 years and everyone acts like it’s normal.
“This weekend we are weighing the mayor!”
Did they allow you to leave?
Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest.
Sir Thomas Beecham
If they don’t do this once a year in perfection, something bad will happen to the village.
Why doesn’t Ross, the largest of the friends, simply eat the other 5?
Britain’s long lost marshal art
You’re lucky.
This is rare to see these days.
It’s a shame many Morris groups are old slow and… unfortunately shit. So it gets a bad rep as being lame. But when some of the younger groups with faster pace and cooler costumes do it it is pretty cool.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tASzHDupB5U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tASzHDupB5U)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55fQQyB567Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55fQQyB567Y)
Morris dancing is a form of traditional English folk dance. There are many different groups of both morris and traditional dance originating from areas around the UK, who each perform in a variety of styles. The styles include Border Morris, Clog Step, Cotswold Morris, Longsword, Maypole, Molly, Mumming, North West Morris, Rapper Sword and Stave dancing.
Just don’t ask them about the stick and bucket dance.
Is that a giant?
they do this for the greater good
I need that enormous woman
https://preview.redd.it/fbsg4fp02v9f1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7583e208adf3f0cdf0ac77d8c1d55305bc86c4d3
Is this in Stoke Bruerne?
Edit: NORTHAMPTONSHIRE MENTIONED, WTF IS A BAD RUGBY TEAM?!?
Very UK
Imagine being in a boat just slowly going through the lock, trapped as some sort of backdrop to this madness while everyone judges your boat worthiness and at least one old guy decides to be “helpful” and yell instructions at you. It’s bad enough doing locks with a single dog walker watching.
I might have lock related ptsd….
The morris dancers attend the Bromyard festival, they start on the field where the beer tent is, then they move round all the pubs in the village where they have a pint in each pub , it’s a great day and fair to say they go home quite merrily rat arsed, of course the dancing and music get worse by the hour, it’s a great day of entertainment https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=brimyard%20festival%20pictures&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5#vhid=uyop-DacWID9zM&vssid=_LzRhaNK-PK-MhbIP3tHNmAc_14
I had a lovely customer years ago who played accordion for a Morris troupe 😁 wonderful stuff ❤️❤️❤️
Think we should do this in response to the Haka at Twickenham
Can somebody explain to me if this is some sort of traditional dance ? I’m from Lithuania and we have similar old traditional clothes with a dance style 🙂🙂
Weyhey! The lads!
I’m in Wiltshire, next door neighbours run a MD troop (?) called Sarum Morris.
Before I lived here we were visiting g amd there was a dance off between about 10 different sets in the market square. The black face / piratey ones from.Cornwall were my favourite as they were quite angry 🤣. Think the blackface element was a reference to their time down the mines rather than anything Justin Trudeau
Big up Stoke Bruerne!
If you like your Morris dancing and some proper beer, it’s worth getting down to the Wimborne Folk Festival, held every year in the first week (give or take) of June. The town is basically made up of pubs and feels like a stunt double to Sandford (Wells) in Hot Fuzz.
We didn’t burn him!
Stoke Bruerne top lock? I spent a lot of my life narrowboating around England.
Morris dancing! So British. Lovely to see it done.
That is pretty cool
they’re tryin t’ win village o’ ‘t year
Stoke Bruerne for anyone wondering! lovely little village 🙂
It’s a little known fact that morris dancers are the special forces for the parish council.
If you’ve trampled over Doris Weatherby’s memorial weed patch and hear bells, you’re as good as dead.
Less cringe than the haka at least
https://preview.redd.it/ohlc95v2av9f1.png?width=824&format=png&auto=webp&s=aabcbe451c63d95a6f46557a255dc262a88107a1
Now go and find yourself a border Morris group!
Had a friend who did morris dancing. He always said if you were doing it sober you were doing it wrong. I mean, they only do it at pubs so made perfect sense to me.
I worked with a bloke who used to be part of a motorbike group. They started ripping the piss out of a group of Morris Dancers and soon learned the error of their ways. The bit that stuck out for him, though, was above the sound of tables being turned over, glasses being smashed and heads being kicked in, the jingling of the bells on the Morris Dancers’ arms and legs.
My grandfather always used to say “ Why do Morris dancers wear bells? So they can piss off the blind aswell”
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