I admire how other people can be team players for the beauty of the collective. I'm too egotistical, subversive, and anti-stablishment for that. I wish I was a lot more cooperative.
That are the debutants at the start of Vienna Opera Ball, 2024. Original speed with original music (sadly with commentator speaking): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iMEn98k4Wg
Ah yes - society pressure and rituals to be accepted at your level of society. Had to do something similar ( though way lower on the social scale) when i was a teenager and hated every second of it. Felt like a horse being paraded about for the benefit of others and to avoid being bad mouthed ( which everybody still does for the tiniest of things). I have avoided such things ever since.
There's social pressures and rituals to be accepted anywhere, it doesn't always manifest as dancing but you'll still be jumping through hoops to fit in and make it seem like you belong.
When you know that the rich are also mostly conservative to the bone can you imagine how many aneurysms you'll get when they see two young men dancing together hand in hand?
Just let me check... thermos, sandwiches, corn plasters, telephone money, dandruff brush, animal footprint chart, and one tripple thick condom. You never know.
They actually aren't all the same, though they look close due to the color and movement. If you pause it, the column second from the legt gives the best example if you look at the shoulders/necklines of the dresses.
It‘s not a reenactment. This is a serious yearly event in Vienna, Austria (Wiener Opernball). The young people are „officially“ „entered“ into „high society“ here. It‘s a tradition, but one that is extremely anachronistic.
What I want to know, is if a person of this language/culture were to do the air quotes gesture with their fingers, would they have one hand high and one hand low?
Funny enough, we use both hands up as usual (Germany). The lower quotation marks are just a typographical convention (i.e. used with printed text). Still easier than the French Variant «quoted text».
willpostanything
bullet in CWIS
Bearhugger70
Slower you slut!
moecurlylarry
The June Taylor dancers. And away we go
cfry23
The haunted mansion update really went all out
zsuzsicica
Debutant ball?
Willowhisper12
The synchronized movement is for confusing predators
BlkDragon96
An yes. The human knitting pattern.
michaelfire
the Debs are tanting
Munchman347
'Oh boy, I haven't had this much regimented 'fun' since grade school!'...
Sayagain
Watching it at this speed is like a battle in FF6.
Fifofu
I admire how other people can be team players for the beauty of the collective. I'm too egotistical, subversive, and anti-stablishment for that. I wish I was a lot more cooperative.
laserfrog
Try and pretend until reality changes
nxrble
manyjeans
When there's Tiramisu for dessert but you have to perform that school dance in front of the family before Mom serves it.
Betterbecauseofthem
ErniesWidow
Put her in a white evening gown. She'll fit right in at that ball
fmrandom
That are the debutants at the start of Vienna Opera Ball, 2024. Original speed with original music (sadly with commentator speaking): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iMEn98k4Wg
inaVanDownbytheLibrary
Found the video at regular speed: https://youtu.be/-iMEn98k4Wg?si=RXVDLr0PfnhdqGmR
Zixtank
That one lass in the red dress fucking up the whole pattern.
TooSoonOldTooLateSmart
One little mistake.
FPAlpha
Ah yes - society pressure and rituals to be accepted at your level of society. Had to do something similar ( though way lower on the social scale) when i was a teenager and hated every second of it. Felt like a horse being paraded about for the benefit of others and to avoid being bad mouthed ( which everybody still does for the tiniest of things). I have avoided such things ever since.
insertwittyjoke
There's social pressures and rituals to be accepted anywhere, it doesn't always manifest as dancing but you'll still be jumping through hoops to fit in and make it seem like you belong.
PrinceOfWhales
Weenna, Austria.
ellivenob4272000
They're so fast. Much wow
ryry1237
Guys I think this video might have been sped up.
jolem53
That’s cool.
RummageSaleBubbler
Is it odd that the girls dance together, but the guys just shuffle in a line at the same time?
Sheldonian
That explains the famous line from the all male group LMFAO: "every day I'm shufflin'!"
FPAlpha
When you know that the rich are also mostly conservative to the bone can you imagine how many aneurysms you'll get when they see two young men dancing together hand in hand?
AdrianDunne
The girl in the red coat moving in the middle of the black-and-white image makes me a bit uncomfortable. Not sure why.
orangatuan
https://media1.tenor.com/m/jT1-oDnNN54AAAAd/the-matrix-woman-in-the-red-dress.gif
ZebraThree
RedWingedBlackbirds
Needs sound
HelloLetsGo
I'm so old...I can hear this vid without audio
tarataqa
I was raised on the Gong Show!
ElbowDeepInUserSub
wadenelson
Stonemarter
Shiny!
HandoB4Javert
Beelsebooob
Just let me check... thermos, sandwiches, corn plasters, telephone money, dandruff brush, animal footprint chart, and one tripple thick condom. You never know.
battlebetter5772
What whitey doing
homoerection
dreadpiratekhan
Austrian debutante ball
paintingagency
Me, white myself: "are the whites okay?"
boxak
We’re just doing regular old white people shit. I don’t understand it myself.
ItsACrazyWorld
Ya motha
Zootsoot
The same line dancing that eventually became square dancing in the states.
heathenhumanist
*Hamster dance intensifies*
Zootsoot
well, except for the waltzing bits
umbrellamaker
Waltzing used to be scandalous, because the couple would spin while in an embrace
guardian19d
Hetero sex is weird.
WhyDontYouMakeMe
White people
Baalzak
The good stuff always is
BeneBeGood
Shit, is this what they mean by foreplay? I'm learning that I've been doing it all wrong.
Soggybathroomsock
It is man. Especially when money and status get involved. Human mating rituals are wild.
lazybuthappy
Rich sex is weird
Keru
Tell you what, though, hiring a flautist every time is fucking expensive.
JoshuaFalken
Aristocratic sex*
SithElephant
Xaror
This looks like he didn't ask for consent
SirWadeWilson
Can i get this gif in Gay please 🙏
UnidentifiedPrisoner
Always nice to think something then scroll down and see someone else had the same thought
SirWadeWilson
I'm glad I helped you feel validated.
SithElephant
SirWadeWilson
Thank you!
PeeterGrant
Okay, what kind of weird cult religion wedding is this? Moonies?
duhqueenmoki
no, just a different culture (probably a somewhat isolated culture associated with certain time period, location, and wealth status)
LieselSkywalker
Wiener Opern Ball
Temzilla
Pretty sure this is the Council of Blood fight from WoW's last expansion in Castle Nathria.
ILike2TouchButts
Cotillion
quadraspaz1
I believe it's some sort of mechanised fabric loom. Or possibly a large scale printer
TheRicM
Cha Cha Slide
ErniesWidow
That was my first memory when I saw this.
fmrandom
Start of Vienna Opera Ball 2024. I posted a link to a YouTube video with original speed and sound ...
Twrecks123
Almost looks like a regency debutante ball reenactment?
kanybal
No? They wouldn't all be wearing the same dresses, all in white
OuijaThis
They actually aren't all the same, though they look close due to the color and movement. If you pause it, the column second from the legt gives the best example if you look at the shoulders/necklines of the dresses.
UmamiMama
Isn't that a bit childish cultish?
Mercurybird
Yes.
bittenicht39
It‘s not a reenactment. This is a serious yearly event in Vienna, Austria (Wiener Opernball). The young people are „officially“ „entered“ into „high society“ here. It‘s a tradition, but one that is extremely anachronistic.
TeeweeAndSmashboy
Nobody:
Rich people at a debutante ball: My daughter is ready to fuck. Do you like her dress?
MotherfuckingJesseEisenburg
Why do you use quotations like that?
Shit, what *languages* do quotations like that?
bittenicht39
German keyboard here. Too lazy to change it 😉
TicoMachi
What I want to know, is if a person of this language/culture were to do the air quotes gesture with their fingers, would they have one hand high and one hand low?
bittenicht39
Funny enough, we use both hands up as usual (Germany). The lower quotation marks are just a typographical convention (i.e. used with printed text). Still easier than the French Variant «quoted text».