The Circus

[Redstar]

Took the loon to the circus this afternoon...must admit I wasn't really looking forward to it but it was decent...the German version was far superior to the Chinese rubbish I remember taking my daughter to about 10 years back...there was a group of grown up nae righters a couple of rows back which further added to the entertainment...one of them was shouting out , what could be best described as a "strangulated Savile yodel"...oh how we laughed.

[The Boofon]

Took the loon to the circus this afternoon...must admit I wasn't really looking forward to it but it was decent...the German version was far superior to the Chinese rubbish I remember taking my daughter to about 10 years back...there was a group of grown up nae righters a couple of rows back which further added to the entertainment...one of them was shouting out , what could be best described as a "strangulated Savile yodel"...oh how we laughed.

 

Had the same last year. Shouting out shite at inappropriate moments. Was highly amusing a lough you shouldn't laugh.

[caledonia]

Is this an SOS letter did they keep you?

[Ke1t]

I have noticed that there seems to be a far higher number of 'special' kids on the go than there used to be.

 

We were at a Celtic Festival at the weekend, that's where a bunch of Americans decide to put on kilts and shout in terrible Scottish and Irish accents, and I swear to christ every third kid must have had something wrong with them.

 

The loon had won some sort of Knight's outfit in a contest they were running, and he was happily swinging the sword around minding his own business.

 

A few minutes later another kid comes over and offers the loon a bit of a swordfight, so my loon's like, "Aye, okay."

 

My laddie is just kind of play swinging his sword, giving it the old, "Haaa! Haaayaaaa!" bit, not doing anything that would inflict injury... and this other kid just starts fucking battering his wooden sword at my loon in a kind of mad retard frenzy.

 

I jumps up and grabs the wooden sword before he can fracture my loon's skull, just as the kid's mother comes over and grabs him up..

 

"He gets a bit over-excited." says the mother...

 

A bit over excited? A bit over excited is shouting too loud, jumping up and down, or running around too much. What this kid was doing was trying to hack another kid to death with a wooden fucking sword. That's not over-excited, that's a psycho being off their fucking meds.

 

"Yer kid's a bam." I muttered genially, pulling my own kid to safety.

 

This year's bonus ball, and there's always a bonus ball at these festivals, was a picture of Dunnottar Castle, with the caption, Aberdeen Castle.

 

"This Castle's in Stoney." I told the vendor... "It's called Dun..."

 

"No, this is Aberdeen Castle, in Aberdeen, Scaatland." He corrects me.

 

"Fair enough." I says.

[tightbreeks]

archaos was quite good at the festival, juggling chainsaws and rockets out the bum, just an average night for me. my cousin burnt her jumper after a rocket went off under her seat.

 

jim rose was funny as well. poor lass I was with fainted.

[Ke1t]

archaos was quite good at the festival, juggling chainsaws and rockets out the bum, just an average night for me. my cousin burnt her jumper after a rocket went off under her seat.

 

jim rose was funny as well. poor lass I was with fainted.

 

Been a few years since i saw him. Still doing dick puppetry?

[tightbreeks]

it was on the tap of calton hill in about '94! the boy used to tie heavy irons to his bell end and then dangles. his winky goes about 3' long and like a pencil. and the lad with loads of needles right through both cheeks and through his arms.

 

I wonder how you find this out about yourself.

[Redstar]

I have noticed that there seems to be a far higher number of 'special' kids on the go

This guy was not a kid...I'd have put him in his mid forties...letting rip with his take on the "Savile yodel" at the most random moments...the loon was in hysterics...if it had been a kid it would have been off limits...but because the guy was older it's allowed.

[Bobby Connor]

 

Been a few years since i saw him. Still doing dick puppetry?

Many, many moons ago, when there was a huge drought of weed in Edinburgh, I tried to score some off the jigsaw tattooed guy from the Jim Rose circus. I think it was in Pure down Calton Studios. It was dark and I didn't clock the fact that he was tattooed like a giant human jigsaw until afterwards. He didn't have any gear -nobody did. Must have been around the same time I succumbed to normal cigarettes.

[Bobby Connor]

it was on the tap of calton hill in about '94! the boy used to tie heavy irons to his bell end and then dangles. his winky goes about 3' long and like a pencil. and the lad with loads of needles right through both cheeks and through his arms.

 

I wonder how you find this out about yourself.

Sounds like the right year. I would have been 19.

[tightbreeks]

I was about 15, yikes!

[Bobby Connor]

I was about 15, yikes!

Did you go and see the actual Jim Rose circus aged 15? I was just out clubbing and I guess some of them must've been out to enjoy the techno after their gig.

[tightbreeks]

I think my mum gave us a lift up!

[Bobby Connor]

Haha! I presume it was in a marquee the actual circus? Top of Calton hill would need to have been. I saw the fall play a gig in a marquee up there one year. Mark E. Smith booted some pished up guy off the stage in spectacular fashion. Nearly took out a lighting rig in the process. Great fun.

[tightbreeks]

yup, a dodgy old marquee right at the top. where the Beltane festival does their thing.

[ChutneyLove]

Circus's are better in countries where making animals perform isn't deemed cruel.

 

There was a lassie I went to Uni with that could've easily joined the circus as a bearded lady. She was Angolan, so lucky she was black really as it camouflaged her substantial beard. She had siders bushier than Elvis's comeback tour efforts.