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brixtonbroodSelected extracts from the Guardian's article on the Marines story.
All are naked save for one man in a surgeon's scrubs and one wearing a schoolgirl uniform.
Other rituals which have come to light include "babooning" in which the backsides of new soldiers are beaten until they are as red as baboons' bottoms. It has been claimed that recruits in a mounted regiment are stripped and covered with food which a horse eats off their bodies.
...while tribespeople in Borneo forced their young men to do painful things with sharp sticks.
"...If it was some kind of party, the fun ended pretty quickly. Why are they naked for goodness sake?"
On the other hand, assuming it is all true, the Brass Eye-ness of the story is probably no coincidence. If I were doing something like this that I knew or suspected would be filmed, then I'd be tempted to put in some surreal elements in order to discredit the footage. More mundanely, the silly bits serve to improve the complicity of the group - to reassure them that nothing too bad can be happening if Jonesy is dressed as a school-girl, and to mark out anyone with objections as a killjoy with no sense of humour.
All are naked save for one man in a surgeon's scrubs and one wearing a schoolgirl uniform.
Other rituals which have come to light include "babooning" in which the backsides of new soldiers are beaten until they are as red as baboons' bottoms. It has been claimed that recruits in a mounted regiment are stripped and covered with food which a horse eats off their bodies.
...while tribespeople in Borneo forced their young men to do painful things with sharp sticks.
"...If it was some kind of party, the fun ended pretty quickly. Why are they naked for goodness sake?"
On the other hand, assuming it is all true, the Brass Eye-ness of the story is probably no coincidence. If I were doing something like this that I knew or suspected would be filmed, then I'd be tempted to put in some surreal elements in order to discredit the footage. More mundanely, the silly bits serve to improve the complicity of the group - to reassure them that nothing too bad can be happening if Jonesy is dressed as a school-girl, and to mark out anyone with objections as a killjoy with no sense of humour.
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Date: 2005-11-29 09:13 am (UTC)This was the image which most grabbed me, I must say. What sort of food -- hay and carrots?? Sounds more tickly than anything else.
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Date: 2005-11-29 08:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-29 06:51 pm (UTC)Anyone else wondering why we haven't heard from Chris Morris lately?