I tell you what. I was mightily vexed by the number of dressy-upy people at SALUTE today. My question is this... If you have a full Star Wars stormtrooper outfit, do you wear it at home? Do you close the curtains? The dressy-upy weirdness was getting really out of control. Bob witnessed the disturbing sight of these SW types making someone get down and do press ups as a punishment
What's next, ethnic cleansing of DBA gamers???
I saw people dressed up as Jack the Ripper and other Victorian horrors. There was someone who was either Fred Flinstone, Barney Rubble, Johnny Weissmuller's mother or George of the Jungle. Bob thought he was one of the Slag brothers from Wacky Races
There were people dressed up as farties too. I mean, if you are going to dress up, dress up as Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan, not as some middle age maintenance worker in the mid war RAF
There were Vikings?? sitting about on wooden thrones, a bank manager dressed up as Marshal Massena's older brother and a variety of extremely weird looking extras from a Rutland TV mini series adaptation of Pirates of the Caribbean.. pirates of Hyde Park boating lake? There was a bloke wearing a green orc mask... maybe it's me but what the f*** is going on with this lark?
Is it a s- e -x game?
The 9 year old French Grenadier and the 50 something Napoleonic renenactors from the Argos warehouse looked fairly normal this year compared to the arte nouveau pretenders to the camp throne. I fully experted to see the return of the Barking Chapter of the SS Germania Division.
The hobby is a broad church but really, it was like Extras meets Wife Swap meets the Rocky Horror Picture Show..........
now, where are my tablets? I need a lie down