Nice of you to write me a thread old boy
I am huge football fan, my favourite food is curry (spicy as you like), I do free weights, press-ups and sit-ups every day, have a tattoo, enjoy unnecessarily violent films, have been involved in several fights (mostly - NOT all, however - on the losing side) and, regardless of what any of you may think, Ballroom dancing is a very masculine pasttime.

Grunt.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:35, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

How?

( Kroney, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:36, Reply)

because it takes plenty of balls to swan around room full of them

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:36, Reply)

Alright Hiawatha
Think about it. The basic principle of Ballroom dancing is that the man leads and the woman follows. If anything else is apparent, the judges mark you down and your teacher tells you off. The man is categorically in charge. Only way I ever know how that feels.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:38, Reply)

It also involves prancing about in fake tan and sequins

( Kroney, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:41, Reply)

No it doesn't
That's Latin dancing, which I will admit is camp as tits. In Ballroom traditional dress is either a shirt, waistcoat and tie, or white tie and tails.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:42, Reply)

tiehotpants
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:45, Reply)

So, when you've done competitions
in which you've admitted the whole fake tan business, that was latin dancing?
( Kroney, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:46, Reply)

I've never worn fake tan, although doubtless I'll get pressganged into it when we move up the rankings
But yes, being an horrific shade of orange is traditional in Latin, not Ballroom. Competitions always have a Ballroom and a Latin section - men can often be found whacking obscene amounts of foundation on in between the two.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:50, Reply)

Dancing and fighting are very similar, all about balance.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:47, Reply)

i imagine you'd be great at both, what with your heavyset figure and low centre of gravity

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:48, Reply)

Wanna dance?

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:51, Reply)

I'm better at dancing
This generally counts for very little in a mugging
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:50, Reply)

Especially
When they are Break dance fighting... bring on the Electric Boogaloo
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:51, Reply)