Do you dance?

[Gandalf]

I've nothing against people who dance, but just find it very strange. When I have a drink, I just want to talk and in bars they play the most terrible, cheesy music. So why anyone would get the urge to throw off a few moves is just beyond me. Not that I would even dance to good music, you should listen to the lyrics and just enjoy it. Waving my body around randomly is just not a very constructive thing to do. Dancing seems to be something almost primal, a relic from the cave, but now incited through alcohol and loudspeakers. I'm surprised they aren't surrounded by slabs of raw meat and genetically reconstructed woolly mammoths to complete the experience.

I know I could be branded a complete bore for not wanting to partake in a pre-orgy ritual or watch ballet which oftentimes seems to be a type of soft core pornography with the tight clothes and suggestive poses. To think they put all their time into essentially a high brow version of shaking one's booty. Then there are the likes of Miley Cyrus and I just think 'Whore'. That is just obscene and then little kids want to copy. Is it any wonder that society is going wrong and it all boils down to dance.

I guess if people are going to dance, then I think it should be tasteful and at the very least people should wear suits and nice dresses like in civilised times and in Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire's Funny Face.

[Andre]

Ahcccchh! Spit. Give my camels back
You didn't even watch the gift of the Persian belly dancer!

[Andre]

I think I would start moving to the beat if this style came on.

Then again its only for all the movers and shakers in the sack.

[Andre]

[Andre]

Miles,so with this going down at a club in sth Korea you'd still be on the bar talking politics?

[Gandalf]

I know I sound a bit gay, but I genuinely feel sorry for these pop tramps. They are encouraged to butcher their faces, get boob jobs, and then shake their skinny arses for adoring equally manipulated kids and leering old men in raincoats. The entire thing just seems sleazy, plus the music is horrible. I don't watch any music television or dramas, or anything where I think abuse is common, as one shouldn't endorse it.

In terms of being in a club and seeing prototypes acting like that. Actually, I would find it a turn off seeing them dancing like that. I would be thinking what on earth are you doing, silly child? No, I really am quite settled in my ways and wouldn't be terribly impressed. I feel like I am older and have a responsibility not to encourage them. I could never lie and say 'I say, I really think you have Gangnam Style down to a tee'. I would have to change the topic and say something like 'You should probably take a rest and have a relaxing cup of tea. Your face might melt'.

[Gandalf]

Ahcccchh! Spit. Give my camels back
You didn't even watch the gift of the Persian belly dancer!

I didn't sit through, Andre. I can understand the intent and how it is supposed to be sensual and sensitive, but I just find myself giggling at the seriousness of it all. Then when I see people dancing in a really fun way, I just get the rutting seals image you mentioned earlier, then when it is pop singers I just think 'Slut!'. Dancing provokes all of these responses in me, but I seldom sit there and think 'I need to do a bit of that'.

I'm honestly fine with people dancing, but they should never expect me to take them seriously, and they should never try to make me do it. It would be like a Sun newspaper journalist telling me that they write for a living. I would spit out me/my tea all over them in hysterics. 'You're a what? Bahahahaha!'. I know I am wicked.

[Master]

Ahcccchh! Spit. Give my camels back
You didn't even watch the gift of the Persian belly dancer!

I was waiting for that skirt to come down a couple of inches more.

[Beanz]

Miles people dance as an expression of joy. Remember that ? Joy? Where you let your hair down and drop silly foppish pretensions? The fact that you don't like any black music or music with any kind of soul or bassline would make it quite difficult for you to dance. I suppose you could march to your far right white boy preening bullshit stuff, but even then you might feel a bit unlike a robot, which in your world is probably as disgusting to you as "the things gay people do". Have a nice Christmas you miserable fucker

[Beanz]

In fact come to think of it you sound more and more like the Taliban every day

[Gandalf]

You take it all so seriously! Lighten up, it is just a throwaway Christmas dance thread. You can dance all you like, I really don't mind. I never dance and could never in a million years find the joy in dancing to Kangnam style (only the horror of listening to it), but if others find it fun, then each to their own. It's a playful thread and I thought it came across with corny lines about being verbose and pretty. Obviously a little bit wacky, though not get on your feet and boogey wacky. Off over your head it goes once more.....'You sound more like the Taliban everyday'.....bahahaha!

It's boxing day, put on your red shoes and dance the blues.