What is the fascination...

... with rennaisance fair/middle ages type shit?

I don't get it.

Me either- I mean, I can respect it for its historical factualness, but to me it's almost the same thing as Star Trek conventions.

I dunno.

What are you talking about? I say "huzzah" all the time! I don't worry about sounding like a dork!

ELpH, I hate you so, so very much.

They didn't even have Internet porn or bulletin boards back then... I think it's taking nostalgia just a little too far.

Ignored you? What are you talking about?

I enjoy the SCA more since it's more historically focused and people don't try to do retarded accents while their breasts flop over their vinyl bodice, but I do enjoy ren faires for the performances (like L's fire-blowing) and food (bread bowls, turkey legs, etc).

Like that's hard...

I have limited ren faire/SCA experience (and plan to keep it that way), but I do know that there is one salient feature to them that I'm sure everyone here can get behind:

ALCOHOL!!!!!!!!

These people drink like fish. Trust me.

That's because mead is so YUMMY.

Mead mead mead mead mead mead...

Wow, I remember there was a Rennaissance fair near Victoria when I was young............

rennaisance fair, never been to one not goin to one

where the hell do you get mead ne way???

Flux said:
oh, 'twas a more magical, chivalrous time!

...in which women were relegated to baby-makers.
...in which religion held the masses trembling under its feet.
...in which one was lucky to live past 40.
...in which the class divide made modern America look like socialist utopia.

Let's not forget that everyone used a communal wooden scraper to clean their ass in the out houses. Mmmmm-mmm..... disease. Progress is good. Toilet paper is good.

I lived with Ren Faire types for a YEAR. It was torture. Now, to bust some thread myths:

1) They drink like fish.
First of all, mead tastes like ass. All it is is lots of fermented sugar with bits of other flavor added in. Drink Koolaid for Chrissakes! I even had "good mead" once. No dice. Plus, the people I knew really could not handle their liquor.

2) Swords.
As much as I think L is a cool guy, the whole swords aspect does not outweigh the inherent strangeness of it all.

3) The women
Uhh...no. At least, not any of the Ren Faires I came into contact with.
3.5) The drugs
See above

4) The costumes
As much as I respect my roomate taking a whole year to make a chain mail vest, it was just too much for me to bear. Link by link by link. And what the hell is with those poofy dresses anyway?

5) The fantasy world aspect
As far as I know, people tend to get relegated to their spots prior to the Faire. Cool if you're royal. Sucks if you get stuck as the stable cleaner.

Nothin' personal. Courtesy of your local parade rainer- outer.

*Please don't hate me*

ren fests rule for the following (and ONLY the following) reasons:

most vendors sell smokes and beer to minors
you can dip your hand in hot wax and make that gnarly hollow hand mold
all the fey LARP kids from your drama class that you hated were always there, in character

I don't know, I've been to a couple and they were fun. Kind of like the anachronism without all the lousy things like sexism and communal ass-scrapers. Besides, watching guys battle it out in armor is more fun to watch in real life than in the movies, because there's no editing to mislead the eye.

http://www.atthefaire.com/info/puzzles/cleavage.htm


While looking for this link (which was originally a mocking joke) I saw that those things look pretty fun. Costumes, so it's like Halloween which is good. Lots of cleavage and hotties. People drinking and fighting and talking silly. Music. Sounds like a good time to me. What's *not* to like?! The sun.

Somewhere between fantasy and reality is a ground tread by those of us with room to dream that life can be more then it really is. We don't look for this time to over take life, but for awhile its what life is. Or maybe I've been drinking to much

Lord Brom Jotunkin
Baroney of Namron
Kingdom of Ansteorra

i love the ren fair. why are some of you complaining about this? its whatever makes a person happy. dont judge. im sure you do something that people hate as well. im sure i do. but i dont let it bother me. i will always eat drink and be merry hahah. ok that was lame

i think its the fun clothes
and all the cool art work that i cant find any where else.
that and all the cute boys dressed up in armour.
some people just have a fetish for such things.