Return To The Carnival ...

[Bazile]

...after two years absence

I know AOG would have put up a post , followed by a diversity of responses :-)

[Zacs-Master]

There all there via the search facility. Well, minus a few deleted posts.

[Zacs-Master]

They’re even

[ToraToraTora]

You mean the crimival? surely!

[Gromit]

Getty images need new photos of dancing policemen.

https://wp.inews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/GettyImages-597614202.jpg

[ynnafymmi]

To be honest with you,Baz,i dont think AOG is still with us any more.(Hopefully he is still logging on and watching us from somewhere).

[webbo3]

I bet this hurt lol, how stupid do you have to be to do this.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/29/london-bus-shelter-collapses-at-notting-hill-carnival-17259736/

[sp1814]

In terms of criminal behaviour Reading attendees are making a challenge.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11155993/Yobs-TORCH-tents-Reading-Festival-descends-violence-Fans-leave-early-brawls-break-out.html

[Barsel]

Who's going to clean up all that mess?
I know I seem like a spoilsport, but these festivals/carnivals seem to get more and more out of hand each year and I think they should stop them now before someone gets killed.

[sp1814]

https://www.junkhunters.co.uk/blog/cleaning-up-the-rubbish-after-notting-hill-festival/

[jourdain2]

I'm just pleased I don't live anywhere near there - or Leeds or anywhere there's a carnival like this. A wedding marquee in the village and music until midnight was plenty enough. I'm sorry A.O.G. seems to be no more.

[Gromit]

Sadly, I think AOG was in a care home, and was a victim of his beloved Boris’ utter incompetence at the start of covid. RIP.
A carnival mostly appreciated by our Caribbean cousins, will undoubtedly get dissed by ABs old fuddy duddys.

[Khandro]

I've never been able to understand what this 'carnival' is all about; it has always seemed to be about black people demonstrating their ethnicity, (very big deal!)

The word, 'Carnival' comes from the old Italian carnelevare a removing of meat (referring to the Lenten fast). I fails to see any religious connotations.

What exactly is being celebrated here, ?

[THECORBYLOON]

KHANDRO, from Wikipedia,

'Carnival therefore represented a last period of feasting and celebration before the spiritual rigors of Lent." Meat was plentiful during this part of the Christian calendar and it was consumed during Carnival as people abstained from meat consumption during the following liturgical season, Lent.'

[Spicerack]

????^

[THECORBYLOON]

KHANDRO said, "I fails to see any religious connotations."

The origin of carnival is a celebration prior to Lent but now it refers mainly to a celebration with or without a religious connexion.

[Spicerack]

Lol.

[THECORBYLOON]

From the OED,

"1950   Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 114/2   We now use the word ‘carnival’ in a general sense to describe a particular kind of public celebration or entertainment which includes a fancy dress procession through the streets.

1950   Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 115/1   During the summer holiday season,..seaside resorts sometimes arrange imitations of the continental carnival, the main feature being a beauty competition for the election of the Carnival Queen."

[FatticusInch]

Guess it reverted back to normal quite quickly.

https://news.sky.com/story/notting-hill-carnival-marred-by-serious-stabbings-and-violent-incidents-say-police-12684979

[jno]

76 arrests over three days in an area with a million-plus people sounds remarkably low.

[FatticusInch]

Latest says one man stabbed to death.