Oh Pur-Leeeese!!!

[pastafreak]

The Twitter Mafiosi have decided last night's Eurovision winner was guilty of culturally appropriating the dress of Japan. They are up in arms, to say the least...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5723023/Eurovision-fans-accuse-Israeli-winner-cultural-appropriation.html#comments

[DTCwordfan]

ah, he was the one who got his liederhosen in a twist.....

[Togo]

Oh dear. There goes the "we would all benefit from more cultural diversity" mantra then. Better chuck my Leopard skin print undercrackers away then.

[DTCwordfan]

shame togo, let's have a sight of them and then the AB fashion guerillas loose.....

[Togo]

Can I don my Fez as well DT?

[woofgang]

oh Japan was it? I thought it was Star Wars on acid,

[DTCwordfan]

Be my guest, سيدي المحترم

[Jackdaw33]

Talking of fez, poor old Tommy Cooper would have been in for some stick from these snowflakes.

[NoMercy]

I'd better not buy any more soy sauce. I wouldn't want to culturally appropriate the Japanese cuisine.

[rowanwitch]

I culturally appropriate anything I fancy, there have been a few men from other cultures I could seriously appropriate as well. While wearing a Salwar suit and eating a Thai curry. Listening to indigenous American chants, drinking Belgian lager.

BTW I thought the outfit was fun and suited her personality, kimono themed is how I'd put it. Replacing the obi with a corset was a clever move too. And I liked the sentiment of the song.

[naomi24]

Sour people get on my pip. The drab and dreary make life drab and dreary. Heaven forbid that anyone should have a bit of fun.

[Peter Pedant]

cultural appropsy ?
i dont know
I thought the waving cat was a Chinese thing
and Japanese were at the throats of the Chinese not so long ago...

its both
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki-neko

and yes I am one of the people thinking the cat is waving and not beckoning as a result of my cultural background

[Peter Pedant]

// Can I don my Fez as well DT?//

erm no not in Turkey - the fez was banned in 1922 innit?
part of Ataturk reforms - surnames. Latin alphabet and all that.

used up to the fifties in Egypt

[Peter Pedant]

can anyone conceive of
We are siamese if you please
being sung by Zee Zee top ?

they are the ones who look like a cross between grandfather moses and the Cookie Monster - long beards and pork pie hats