10/10 on the weird scale
The Standard has a very odd story about a headmaster in Cornwall clamping down on hugging at his school:
"girls were taking too much time to get to lessons because they were hugging each other".
...
"The school has not banned it, however, it is being discouraged, and we are asking students to cut out anything unnecessary and only hug when they need to hug."
Really? How is 'need' defined I wonder? Celebratory ones after getting a good mark? Commiseratory ones after getting a bad mark? Greeting in the morning, fond farewells in the afternoons?
A rum business altogether.
"girls were taking too much time to get to lessons because they were hugging each other".
...
"The school has not banned it, however, it is being discouraged, and we are asking students to cut out anything unnecessary and only hug when they need to hug."
Really? How is 'need' defined I wonder? Celebratory ones after getting a good mark? Commiseratory ones after getting a bad mark? Greeting in the morning, fond farewells in the afternoons?
A rum business altogether.
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Actually, arcane as it sounds, I think I know what he is talking about.
These girls have watched so much reality television, with women hugging one another over divorces, abortions, embarrassing hair-does,love affairs gone wrong -- in other words, supporting one another, that little girls from similar backgrounds that watch a lot of reality TV are simply mimicking this behaviour, as children do.
And probably, in real life, the women in these little girls' lives have started to behave like this.
Newmania was making the point a while back about the effect of soap opera 'reality' on the way some people behave, and I think he was right on the money. Add that to reality TV, and no wonder the country is awash in the symbolism of hugs, hyper emotion etc etc. A few weeks back I was remarking that the classic virtues of the english male - control, self-effacement and the stiff upper lip - once the norm have now been pathologised, as these modes of behaviour suggest that we are not 'in touch with our emotions'. To the person who suggested we need to love ourselves before we can love others, I rebutted that I'd settle for 'just good friends'.
Yes, reality TV has spawned a sub-genre of cringe-making behaviour, and people who watch it and are influenced by it are becoming a sub-species of the British race. Only people who don't watch reality TV have retained their sange-froid.
Actually, I would take it a further step back. To the popular TV quiz shows like 'Family Fortunes' whose hysterical contestents jump up and down and applaud themselves and have giant family hugs when they get a question right. This behaviour, of course, is encouraged by the producers because it "makes good television". In fact, families whose vivacity level borders on the truly deranged are the ones who get chosen to appear.
People with a weak sense of self copy them and this behaviour gets passed on to children as the norm.
Mind you, perhaps we should be encouraged that there were insufficient charlatans, grotesques, self-publicists etc to keep the 'Springer' knock offs in business in these parts.
Like most cultural awfulness this comes from America.,it wouldnt happen in Cuba.
The Cubans love their country. That's why they all live in Miami.
From what I hear, if Cubans imitate their television, it will involve giving long, rambling and utterly tedious speeches.
Well, at least in Cuba you are never going to see some prat walking along the street in a Ché t-shirt.
Anyway, with stunning prescience, Croydonian closed this post with "A rum business."
Crikey, that was a bit apt, wasn't it?
Give that man a cigar!
I wouldn't say no - that's one of my vices.
Talking of vices
heres another republian outed
As an anti gay anti drug drug pastor admits getting a "massage" from a gay prostitute and buying chrystal meth , although give the man his due he threw it away (+:
These people are all perverts
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/031106_b_evangelist.htm
And your headline was: ... on a weird scale
Very rum indeed. You are a psychic twin with phitch.
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