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Drag Queens

  • 03-07-2011 8:10am
    #1
    Resi12
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    How does one get involved in it all/become one?


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  • #2
    hare05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭hare05


    Buy heels, head to the George, profit.


  • #3
    Platinum2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 452 ✭✭Platinum2010


    hare05 wrote: »
    Buy heels, head to the George, profit.

    :D It's as simple as !


  • #4
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Well I'm fairly sure it also requires a good few hours sitting in front of a mirror practicing unnecessarily bitchy and hurtful put downs but then again maybe that comes naturally!


  • #5
    hare05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭hare05


    stephen_n wrote: »
    maybe that comes naturally!

    Yup, comes with the heels.


  • #6
    Platinum2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 452 ✭✭Platinum2010


    hare05 wrote: »
    Yup, comes with the heels.

    you may laugh but I tell ya High Heels give some amount of power :D


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  • #7
    deirdre_dub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭deirdre_dub


    I believe the Dragon holds an annual drag competition - you could try entering.


  • #8
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    stephen_n wrote: »
    Well I'm fairly sure it also requires a good few hours sitting in front of a mirror practicing unnecessarily bitchy and hurtful put downs but then again maybe that comes naturally!

    or maybe not all drag queens are bitchy and hurtful

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #9
    hare05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭hare05


    Platinum2010 wrote: »
    you may laugh but I tell ya High Heels give some amount of power :D

    TO THE SHOPS!


  • #10
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    High heels, I prefer boots for the walking, cos

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPtfsk4ETjM


  • #11
    Resi12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭Resi12


    I was more curious really. Personally I don't think I would have the nerve for it.


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  • #12
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Johnnymcg wrote: »
    or maybe not all drag queens are bitchy and hurtful

    Probably not but I haven't met one that isn't yet and I really should have used a smiley at the end there as it was supposed to be somewhat tongue in cheek.


  • #13
    Rick_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Rick_


    To become a drag queen, simply go to a gay club and get bitten by a drag queen or a drunk gay man who has just sniffed a lot of poppers. On the next Saturday night you will feel the urge to put on heels and be incredibly bitchy to everyone and anyone. That's how it starts...

    Seriously though, get some outrageous female clothing (or just some normal girls clothes if you refer) and put them on and style your own make-up. Then get your voice style perfected if you are choosing to speak in a female voice or accent and then get the funny one liners to say. Look online at other drag queens to get tips or advice (or just blatantly copy!).

    Do this in the privacy of your own home to start off, then maybe entr a drag competition if you feel strongly enough about it.

    Oh, and don't forget to have a fabulously witty sexual innuendo name. :)


  • #14
    Kanoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


    I wouldn't mind having a go at the drag king thing :pac:


  • #15
    MsBojangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭MsBojangles


    Kanoe wrote: »
    I wouldn't mind having a go at the drag king thing :pac:

    Same here .Seems like a laugh


  • #16
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    What's the deal with generalising about drag queens and bitchiness?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #17
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Johnnymcg wrote: »
    What's the deal with generalising about drag queens and bitchiness?

    I can only speak for myself on this but certainly in the case of all the drag queens that I have met over the years it is part of the persona to be bitchy! It is not part of who they are as people but certainly seems to go hand in hand with the act! I play rugby with a guy who has a drag queen persona who is completely caustic but that's very different to how he is sans drag! It may be a generalization that is generally correct!


  • #18
    baby and crumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,512 ✭✭✭baby and crumble


    What about Panti? She never really seems overly bitchy to me at all?

    :confused::confused::confused:


  • #19
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    stephen_n wrote: »
    It may be a generalization that is generally correct!

    Not generally. Sometimes.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #20
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    baby and crumble wrote: »
    What about Panti? She never really seems overly bitchy to me at all?

    :confused::confused::confused:

    In which way? I have seen her decimate people for a laugh which is what I am refering too.
    Johnnymcg wrote: »
    Not generally. Sometimes.

    As stated generally in my experience, well actually without exception in my experience


  • #21
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    stephen_n wrote: »
    In which way? I have seen her decimate people for a laugh which is what I am refering too.



    As stated generally in my experience, well actually without exception in my experience

    Right so; it's just your opinion.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #22
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    baby and crumble wrote: »
    What about Panti? She never really seems overly bitchy to me at all?

    :confused::confused::confused:

    Agreed. I don't think Panti is bitchy. She can do a slagging but not in a bitchy way.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #23
    baby and crumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,512 ✭✭✭baby and crumble


    Most comedy acts 'decimate' people for laughs, but Panti doesn't do it to cause offence, at least from what I've seen.


  • #24
    azezil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    I've never seen Victoria Secret be anything but very nice friendly and welcoming.


  • #25
    Kanoe
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    Joanna Ryde, legend and sweetheart. Funny in all the right ways

    [watching Jo scale an 8ft wall in platforms, amazink..ledge]


  • #26
    apache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,495 ✭✭✭apache


    i love veda! think shes the business.
    mstarosta-0205.jpg


  • #27
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Johnnymcg wrote: »
    Right so; it's just your opinion.

    Yes sorry did I ever give the indication it was anything else because if I did I don't know how!

    Does bitchy = offensive? because I must have missed that circular!


  • #28
    Daith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,151 ✭✭✭Daith


    Found Bunny and Victoria personally to be the less bitchy drag queens out there.


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