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Please let's not get into blaming the victim. It's disgraceful that the gentleman was derided at all.
BegintheBeguine said:Please let's not get into blaming the victim. It's disgraceful that the gentleman was derided at all.
KilroyCD said:I was once derided by some teenagers for my choice of headwear. I said to them, "I choose to wear this because it has style, but I can always take it off when I don't want to wear it. You however, will always be morons, and there's no changing that."
I do get much of my inspiration from good ol' Winston.Smithy said:Somebody's been reading Winston Churchill
Warden said:I think part of the issue is that we dress in a similar style of today.
For example when I did 17th Century re-enactment and say stopped off at the bank on the way to an event, people knew I was dressed up.
However wearing mid 20th century clothes, I have noticed people stare more. I think it is because they notice I am dressed differently but cannot figure out what is different.
Just a thought.
Harry
A good observation.Kishtu said:Alan, don't forget the pinnacle of his wit.
If memory serves me aright he turned to his friends before he did so and said "this will be one for YouTube" - and filmed the incident on a mobile phone.
TV shows like "You've Been Framed" and all those other programmes where you send in your clips of family members being humiliated and hurt for the general public to laugh at, scare me. Now you see why.
Feraud said:A good observation.
In the quest for 15 minutes of fame, people will do anything but always limit themselves to the worst of human behavior to achieve it.
Who do these videos get so much attention?
Alan Eardley said:As you may guess, several of them were videoing this edifying spectacle (no doubt it is on Youtube somewhere) while the others jumped up and down laughing and clapping in delight.
Alan
scotrace said:The revenge comes in the quiet knowledge that the deriding person, and likely, his or her descendants, will be serving chips and scrubbing toilets for you and your descendants until someone from their gene pool decides to swim out of the shallow end.