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Edit: It's an Azerbaijani traditional dance. Still great though.
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Well... that is certainly a decent celebration dance.
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You know, "traditional" things stem from a time when people died in their 30's after a life consisting of marrying a family member at 12, mud farming and never bathing because water is bad for you. Just because your ancestors did something 500 years ago doesn't mean that you should do it now.
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Jim wrote:You know, "traditional" things stem from a time when people died in their 30's after a life consisting of marrying a family member at 12, mud farming and never bathing because water is bad for you. Just because your ancestors did something 500 years ago doesn't mean that you should do it now.
They may stem from that time, but it doesn't mean that they were part of the reason why that time was more primitive than modernity. You and I "stem" from a time when we couldn't access the internet from our hip pocket, but it doesn't mean we should commit seppuku because that is now available. Just because the origins of my cultural traditions are incidentally contemporary with a more primitve period doesn't mean I'm going to stop enjoying them.
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Jim wrote:You know, "traditional" things stem from a time when people died in their 30's after a life consisting of marrying a family member at 12, mud farming and never bathing because water is bad for you. Just because your ancestors did something 500 years ago doesn't mean that you should do it now.
Dude, he's doing a little celebratory dance. That's all. Let him enjoy himself.
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Pretty sure that on the list of cultural traditions which suck balls and have no place in modern life, funny dancing comes down near the bottom somewhere.

Right with you on the not bathing thing, though. Let's leave that one in the past.
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Graham Kennedy wrote:Pretty sure that on the list of cultural traditions which suck balls and have no place in modern life, funny dancing comes down near the bottom somewhere.

Right with you on the not bathing thing, though. Let's leave that one in the past.
The problem with Jim's analysis is that he equated cultural traditions - as in the "funny dancing" as you put it - with horribly primitive living conditions just because they happened to arise contemporaneously with each other.
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Mikey wrote:
Jim wrote:You know, "traditional" things stem from a time when people died in their 30's after a life consisting of marrying a family member at 12, mud farming and never bathing because water is bad for you. Just because your ancestors did something 500 years ago doesn't mean that you should do it now.
They may stem from that time, but it doesn't mean that they were part of the reason why that time was more primitive than modernity. You and I "stem" from a time when we couldn't access the internet from our hip pocket, but it doesn't mean we should commit seppuku because that is now available. Just because the origins of my cultural traditions are incidentally contemporary with a more primitve period doesn't mean I'm going to stop enjoying them.
The actual analogy using your idea would be that we can now access the internet from our hip pocket to answer a question, but instead of doing that the traditional dance, well, tradition means that you instead walk to and research your question by looking through volumes of books until you find an answer. However, I like your decision to use the term "primitive" when discussing tradition.

In 500 years someone will do something good and break out into the Chicken Dance because it is an ancient traditional wedding dance of his/her people.
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Mikey wrote:
Graham Kennedy wrote:Pretty sure that on the list of cultural traditions which suck balls and have no place in modern life, funny dancing comes down near the bottom somewhere.

Right with you on the not bathing thing, though. Let's leave that one in the past.
The problem with Jim's analysis is that he equated cultural traditions - as in the "funny dancing" as you put it - with horribly primitive living conditions just because they happened to arise contemporaneously with each other.
I used those things as an example of other traditional things from approximately the same time frame. I actually have no idea what age people died at in 500BC or 500AD. I also highly doubt "mud farming" was a thing. But it certainly got the point across of the ridiculousness of doing THAT after winning a match.
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Mikey wrote:
Graham Kennedy wrote:Pretty sure that on the list of cultural traditions which suck balls and have no place in modern life, funny dancing comes down near the bottom somewhere.

Right with you on the not bathing thing, though. Let's leave that one in the past.
The problem with Jim's analysis is that he equated cultural traditions - as in the "funny dancing" as you put it - with horribly primitive living conditions just because they happened to arise contemporaneously with each other.
I used those things as an example of other traditional things from approximately the same time frame. I actually have no idea what age people died at in 500BC or 500AD. I also highly doubt "mud farming" was a thing. But it certainly got the point of the ridiculousness of doing THAT after winning a match.

2000 years from now someone stabilizes wormholes for inter galactic travel: "To celebrate this great feat I would like to do a traditional wedding dance of my people to so my joy:


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I shared that on FB a while back, and apparently the jury's still out on whether Hammer pants were worse or not.
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I don't understand how this thing works. How is the game, leading people to locations in real life? I may not know much about the world, but I know that Pokemon aren't real!
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Not with that attitude.
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