Thoughts - Ballroom Ettiquette
Jul. 30th, 2004 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackAs I am wont, this friday night, I went to general dancing at CDC. I was a bit late, and no-one else I knew was there and I just wasn't in the mood to start all over again making friends with strangers "Hi. I'm CD. What do you study?" :( I was about to leave. Then I thought "No, I'm only 22.551484018 years old once, unless we discover some leap hours we hadn't noticed and have to recalculate our calendar" so plunged back in asking people to dance, being exuberant and ostentatious. As it happens, there were a couple of people I knew, but that I'd met so long ago we'd forgotten each other. But it was fun. And there was even some (platonic) flirting. But when the revolution comes, and the marketing division of the sirius cyberbernetics corporation has been the first up against the wall, I'm going to revise, revive, create or remove some standards of ettiquette:
1. 1/3 of all dances shall be ladies choice, so ladies (and other women) can dance with who they want without feeling unloved, and men get a chance to relax.
2. All dance types shall be announced before they start.
3. Dance cards (with a list of dances promised to different people) shall be re-invoked.
4. There shall be subtle emboidered handkercheif signals to say "I'd like to dance with you," or "I don't exactly know this but I'm willing to try," or "I'm not gay but I'll dance with a man because it's fun to dance, and also fun to break societal expectatins. You can lead," or "I'm too tired to dance, unless you know me really well," or "No, my leg entwined between yours isn't coincidence; kiss me you mad fool!"
5. Laundries shall have little flippable signs one side of which says "I'll be back at [clock face], and am paranoid; please leave my laundry alone," and the other "I have the attention span and organisation of a hyperactive goldfish on crack. Please dump my laundry in this bag and claim the washer. [plastic slot] If a £0.40 is in here, put my laundry in a dryer if you feel kind."
OK, that last once wasn't dancing. So litigate me. However, I promise not to post many "great thoughts" entries, as they get boring. But I will reference THHGTTH as often as possible in my other posts.
1. 1/3 of all dances shall be ladies choice, so ladies (and other women) can dance with who they want without feeling unloved, and men get a chance to relax.
2. All dance types shall be announced before they start.
3. Dance cards (with a list of dances promised to different people) shall be re-invoked.
4. There shall be subtle emboidered handkercheif signals to say "I'd like to dance with you," or "I don't exactly know this but I'm willing to try," or "I'm not gay but I'll dance with a man because it's fun to dance, and also fun to break societal expectatins. You can lead," or "I'm too tired to dance, unless you know me really well," or "No, my leg entwined between yours isn't coincidence; kiss me you mad fool!"
5. Laundries shall have little flippable signs one side of which says "I'll be back at [clock face], and am paranoid; please leave my laundry alone," and the other "I have the attention span and organisation of a hyperactive goldfish on crack. Please dump my laundry in this bag and claim the washer. [plastic slot] If a £0.40 is in here, put my laundry in a dryer if you feel kind."
OK, that last once wasn't dancing. So litigate me. However, I promise not to post many "great thoughts" entries, as they get boring. But I will reference THHGTTH as often as possible in my other posts.
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Date: 2004-07-30 03:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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