Pointless, Pretentious Procession

[Guest]

A flaming phallus is being carried around the country: town and city centres are being closed off to allow the safe passage of this inanimate object. And people are being encouraged - yes, encouraged - to line the streets and watch as it passes them by, on its 'royal progress' to London.

Given that the country is broke and will remain broke for the next couple of generations, is this the kind of thing we ought to be doing? Bread and circuses, that's all it is.....

[vinteuil]

Bread and circuses, that's all it is.....

... o, it's worse than that -

https://www.history.com/news/the-olympic-torch-relays-surprising-origins

[amateur51]

A flaming phallus is being carried around the country: town and city centres are being closed off to allow the safe passage of this inanimate object. And people are being encouraged - yes, encouraged - to line the streets and watch as it passes them by, on its 'royal progress' to London.

Given that the country is broke and will remain broke for the next couple of generations, is this the kind of thing we ought to be doing? Bread and circuses, that's all it is.....

I can only speak from my own experience, mandy but it doesn't look like any phallus I've come across, to coin a figure of speech

[PJPJ]

I can only speak from my own experience, mandy but it doesn't look like any phallus I've come across, to coin a figure of speech

Is that due to the golden colour, or the flame spewing out of the end?

[amateur51]

Is that due to the golden colour, or the flame spewing out of the end?

Not to mention the monstrous flange, PJPJ -

[Nick Armstrong]

Is that due to the golden colour, or the flame spewing out of the end?

You have to say, ammy - that's a good question!

[amateur51]

You have to say, ammy - that's a good question!

I'm having a dab with a Kleenex here

[PJPJ]

Cheered me up considerably.

[PJPJ]

It is terribly dangerous, too. Look what happened on another thread:



We all know what caused that.....

[Nick Armstrong]

It is terribly dangerous, too. Look what happened on another thread:



We all know what caused that.....

[gurnemanz]

I must have taken leave of my senses because I turned up to see the torch come through our town, not really knowing what to expect. It involved an unwelcome amount of standing around in the heat (it was that long ago) since they were running late - no pun intended. An early escape would have been advisable because when the procession finally arrived it consisted of an unedifying cavalcade of coaches, motorbikes, vans, minibuses, sponsors' lorries, media vehicles and sundry hangers-on. Amid all this, the teenage girl carrying the torch was hardly to noticed.

[handsomefortune]

is this the kind of thing we ought to be doing?

yes! we are assured by the pm that the tax revenue gathered from accompanying cockahoola and samsong lorries advertising en route, will ensure that we have both something to drink, and take photos with 'well into the future'.

but many of the public are unsure whether they have the cash for pop and snapshots, as repossession of homes takes its toll, and they can't find their camera, or something to drink water from. in which case logically, 'a flaming phallus' at least sums up the mess created by 'phallus-heads' who have been/are in charge of the economy, allowing it to slowly smoulder, and possibly expire altogether.

it doesn't look like any phallus

no it's a special one amateur51! (looks as if made from old confession box partitions, bought from those employed in the scrap trade). though as with many public parades, it's important to use your imagination, let it run riot, (eyes shut)? otherwise potentially it's apparently terribly dull....especially in the rain at 7am...my parents went back to bed, the spectacle was so underwhelming, them not being that keen on sugary cokahoola, and already in possession of a camera. quote, 'a small bedraggled dot approached, that turned out to be a drenched girl bearing a garden ornament, who dashed between a cockahoola and samsong bus..........and that was it'. my mum pointed out 'it's not like wimbledon you can't pull the roof over'.... i don't think they can expect crowds on days such as today, continuous, or bursts of torrential rain. maybe it should transfer to sub aqua ....be seen on the telly, a relay taking place in indoor swimming baths? say what you like about the nazis, but evidently at least they had better weather for it!

[Serial_Apologist]

my mum pointed out 'it's not like wimbledon you can't pull the roof over'....

Sounds like you inherited your mum's gsoh, handsome!

[Northender]

Flaming phallus leads us neatly to what Miss L Simpson of Springfield appears to be up to - please refer to the Olympics logo and/or the 'Olympinonsense' thread on this Forum.

[Osborn]

Flaming phallus leads us neatly to....

...a continuation of the Piano thread - If you cook asparagus in it, does the phallus release a horrible smell?