The P+Lite Strictly Come Dancing Thread (2015)

[stephec]

You lot serious? Even Mrs 26 has given up on watching that chatter programme

I never said I watched it.


Five seconds of Teas Daly's hysterical screeching has me wanting to put my foot through the screen.

 

[Silver Fox]

This years Strickly is a dance competition not one based on personality, no seriously fat or old competitors there for the wrong reason who clearly have no chance of progressing far.

And Carol Kirkwood is hot.

 

[dellzeqq]

Ah-ha! Will the Mod who moved the thread care to tell us why?

 

[SD1]

What else do cyclists not do?

Listen to you?!

 

[Andy in Sig]

Notwithstanding my earlier post, I can vouch for the fact that learning to ballroom dance is hard work, both physically and mentally.

Salsa is hard too, but in a different way - it's basically an improvised street dance that you can't do at all until you get your head around the rhythm. Most of the professionals on Strictly don't even try to do it properly.

I was minding my own business one unseasonally warm evening in October about five years ago in a place called Aachen. I heard latin music and went to investigate and there amongst the columns of a post-classical temple type building were a group of people dancing salsa. They had obviously put the work in because they made it look effortless and their skills were such that they could just enjoy themselves, all the moves coming automatically. For the first and perhaps only time in my life I wished that I had learned that old fashioned kind of dancing. It showed what dancing could be. Magical.

 

[Paulus]

Notwithstanding my earlier post, I can vouch for the fact that learning to ballroom dance is hard work, both physically and mentally.

Salsa is hard too, but in a different way - it's basically an improvised street dance that you can't do at all until you get your head around the rhythm. Most of the professionals on Strictly don't even try to do it properly.

Shes my girlfriend,---She doesn't know it yet---

 

[Over The Hill]

OK so I will "out" myself as a fan.

A good call. Lusted since about here-


But then there is Anita .............



It is only women who vote in this so they will choose the sleb or pro that most floats their boat.

 

[Over The Hill]

So....phieeeee

 

[Andy_R]

For those in the know, this is THE only salsa you need to know about:

 

[Dan B]

I'm more interested in why you thought it wouldn't be.

Wishful thinking, I expect. SC&Polite is not what it used to be

 

[User10119]

Hurray! The "chef" has finally gone, which means I won't have to fast forward as much.

Kids in school always think I'm spinning them a line when I tell 'em it's my favourite show, usually as part of the introduction to a music/computing lesson, because it doesn't really tally with their perception of me. Until I start waltzing round the classroom and occasionally wittering on about Colin Jackson's rumba and stuff. After an hour of using software to investigate and create 3/4 and 4/4 rhythms they generally realise the Truth...

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I never said I watched it.


Five seconds of Teas Daly's hysterical screeching has me wanting to put my foot through the screen.

Ditto - and the glossy haired one too.

Camp central doesn't do it for me either.