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Girls on shoulders at festivals
Posted by Melville on 18 July 2010 - 10:14pm.
I've never been to a festival, but in all of the coverage I've seen, there are always girls sitting on someone's shoulders. For some reason, this attracts the attention of TV cameras. But what are the mechanics? If you're the prop, the initial loading and standing upright must require some assistance, and how long can you stand with an eight or nine stone weight on you, especially when she is making your balance even more perilous by waving her arms about. And then there's the dismounting. (I think double entendre may have crept in here somewhere, but I can't think of any better phrasing.)
Anyone ever done this as load or bearer?
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I have a theory
That those on shoulders, and those who own the shoulders, are the people least interested in what is actually going on on stage. But are very interested in themselves.
Good theory
I've never noticed girls on shoulders at a festival stage where there aren't cameras and big screens
I think its how people intent
on showing everyone what a great time they are having, show what a great time they are having.
I think it's one of those media things..
It would seem that the only people who get good 'A' level grades are very pretty girls with nice smiles who jump up in the air for pictures. The festivals are also, seemingly, filled with the same girls who are either a) sat on the shoulders of a bloke with their hands in the air, exposing an area of tanned, taut midriff and a pierced bellybutton or b) walking around wearing miniscule shorts, low-cut vesty tops, big sunglasses and flowery Hunter wellies.
I suspect that there are only about three of these girls but that they spend their late teenaged years being pursued by pervy broadsheet cameramen. If festivals ARE filled with these girls, I'll have to start going to a few more of them.
I went to Latitude this weekend
It *was* full of those sort of girls
i think that short people...
like my wife, just like to see the stage occasionally, so I will lift her on my shoulders for a look now and again. She's happy to watch the screen for most of the show, but wants to see the band at some point. Apologies if that makes us seem less interested or media whores...
What about the people behind you?
Do they not moan (even a little?)
Bob is correct here.
I am a short arsed man who is never lifted, but who has lifted equally short arsed ladies in his time. We can see nothing on our feet and I look on it as a good deed.
Sadly I'm getting on and my own lady, sadly, I can't quite lift. I swear that's why we rarely do festivals these days...
I hadn't considered
2 shorter statue people being involved. That may not be so bad from a behind perspective.
It cannot be explained
Just like that other bizarre ritual... people waving at the video screen when they see themselves on it. Why don't they wave at the camera?
That reminds me...
why do sports fans, whose team are being spanked, initially look suicidal when the camera picks them up but suddenly, when realising they are on the big screen, grin like a twat and wave? Not proper fans in my book if 5 seconds of exposure can cause that reaction.
If my team was getting hammered the best they would get would be a two fingered salute and something that the deaf people watching would blush at.
Tall people very rarely show consideration...
... when they stand in front of me.
Therefore I rarely worried when I help a girl on my shoulders. After all, at a festival, they can move a bit.
Check out the double decker
at around 3:32