How well hints work, illustrated

[NightSG]

Always loved this scene because Debra Winger is trying so hard not to laugh during the "awkward pause."  You can tell she knows just how true it is.

 

[Guest LiterateParakeet]

Ahhh, that just makes my heart hurt.  I grew up with country music and it brings back some good memories....I just want to linger there, but then the bad memories come too and I just want to turn it off.  Why is country music so connected to drinking and all the mess that follows?  Or is that just my experience?  (I wasn't the one drinking...it was my parents).  

Oh sorry, for being a downer NSG!  Great clip.  I've always liked Debra Winger. 

Edited September 18, 2016 by LiterateParakeet

[askandanswer]

makes me wish I knew what to do with my feet on a dance floor

 

[NightSG]

6 hours ago, askandanswer said:

makes me wish I knew what to do with my feet on a dance floor

 

8 hours ago, LiterateParakeet said:

Ahhh, that just makes my heart hurt.  I grew up with country music and it brings back some good memories....I just want to linger there, but then the bad memories come too and I just want to turn it off.  Why is country music so connected to drinking and all the mess that follows?  Or is that just my experience?  (I wasn't the one drinking...it was my parents).

Some of the Dallas area mid singles go en masse to the country nightclubs, but even then, you're surrounded by people who came to drink and the dance floor is just an afterthought.  Watch for real dance halls, where it's a ballroom size floor and a lounge size bar instead of acres of bar and a dance floor the size of an efficiency apartment.

I'd have to say Billiy Bob's is the exception; there's a good size dance floor and although there's a bar pretty much every direction, you don't get treated like an annoyance when you're only ordering water or Coke, and they have dance lessons there fairly often and a low tolerance for problem drunks.

[Latter-Day Marriage]

14 hours ago, askandanswer said:

makes me wish I knew what to do with my feet on a dance floor

 

Same here.  My wife's parents are amazing dancers, I am as inept as can be and I know my wife wishes I was better.

[Guest LiterateParakeet]

21 hours ago, askandanswer said:

makes me wish I knew what to do with my feet on a dance floor

 

Me too!  My brother can do Western Swing and the two-step.  I danced with him at his wedding.  This was possible only because he is great at leading.  

My three of my four son's do ballroom dance.   My husband dances better than I do too.  My daughter and I are the ones with two left feet!  

And...I just have to share an example.  My missionary is in this (before his mission obviously).  You can see I have abandoned my redneck roots, LOL!
 

 

[askandanswer]

17 hours ago, NightSG said:

Some of the Dallas area mid singles go en masse to the country nightclubs, but even then, you're surrounded by people who came to drink and the dance floor is just an afterthought.  Watch for real dance halls, where it's a ballroom size floor and a lounge size bar instead of acres of bar and a dance floor the size of an efficiency apartment.

I'd have to say Billiy Bob's is the exception; there's a good size dance floor and although there's a bar pretty much every direction, you don't get treated like an annoyance when you're only ordering water or Coke, and they have dance lessons there fairly often and a low tolerance for problem drunks.

Thanks SG. If I watch it ten times in slow motion I might begin to pick up the first couples of moves. But if I'm ever on the dance floor, I;'ll need to bring my laptop with me so I can watch this again while I try to dance

[NightSG]

4 hours ago, askandanswer said:

Thanks SG. If I watch it ten times in slow motion I might begin to pick up the first couples of moves. But if I'm ever on the dance floor, I;'ll need to bring my laptop with me so I can watch this again while I try to dance

Quick quick slow slow.  All you really need to work on until you've got that internalized.  Short-step-and-together on the first two beats, then a two beat walk on each of 3-4 and 5-6.  Also check YouTube under user "showheroff" for some basic drills you can work on.  Careful, though; like anything else, you can find plenty of awful advice on YouTube mixed in with the good stuff.

Also, YouTube user blong206b has a ton of other dance styles.  I'd recommend working on foxtrot and waltz from his videos.

Edited September 19, 2016 by NightSG