[Etiquette] Faux-pas from today's METRO

[dancefloorlandmine]

Apparently Esquire have compiled an updated modern-day etiquette guide for men, including such modern scenarios as cashpoint queues, clubbing, and urinals. However, on reading through some of the guidelines, it would appear that I'm failing substantially. I suspect that B-Movie could become the scene of much rule guideline-breaking ...

• Mouthing the lyrics of a song is as naff as playing air guitar - hmm ... we're not mouthing, we're singing! "I believe in justice..."
• When Wild Boys by Duran Duran is put on at a club, do not rush on to the dance floor but count to 20 and saunter. - Yeah, as if! [grin]

However, outside the clubbing arena, there is some fairly sensible advice, although there is also some pandering to the Lad tendency.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Even though I know it looks much more sexy and sophisticated to just dance to a song without singing along, sometimes I just can't help it!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I've never really been able to manage sexy and sophisticated on the dancefloor¹, so I've given up on that front and just aim for having a good time!

¹ Just realised that gives the bigheaded impression that I might erroneously believe that I'm sexy and sophisticated off the dancefloor. I don't. Silly and daft, perhaps, but I've always felt that sophisticated should involve culinary abilities, and less of a liking for poor puns.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Sexy, certainly!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

[blush] Is it just me, or is it hot in here?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

No, you're just hot.

[medains.livejournal.com]

If you don't dash onto the dance floor within 0.3 nanoseconds of recognising the opening of Wild Boys, you might miss the best part! :P

*scans mp3's for Duran Duran, and is alarmed not to find any*

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

If you don't dash onto the dance floor within 0.3 nanoseconds of recognising the opening of Wild Boys ...

... you might find that there's no space left on the dancefloor, if you're at B-Movie!

old pop bands don't die, they reform and go on tour...

[lost-house.livejournal.com]

did i mention where i was on tuesday evening?

many thousands of twenty- and thirty-somethings pretending to be 13 again, singing along at the top of our voices. wild boys was wonderful, but i think the best reaction was for notorious :)

Re: old pop bands don't die, they reform and go on tour...

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

No-no-notorious-notorious ... [grin]

Strangely enough, coming back through East Croydon on what was probably Wednesday night, the train did seem suspiciously full of couples and groups of women in their early to mid thirties, and there were a couple of DD t-shirts ... [grin]

You should come along to B-Movie sometime, m'dear - and especially when they have one of the intermittent 80s specials ...

Re: old pop bands don't die, they reform and go on tour...

[lost-house.livejournal.com]

[grins]

i should do, i intermittently miss clubbing, i only get two or three chances a year these days.
goldfrapp* were supporting on tuesday and i really longed for a dancefloor with a decent sound system...

*very good but the PA was obviously set up for DD and a full arena, neither of which GF managed to achieve. they echoed a bit :(
there is a reason i don't like arena gigs...

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Right. ;)