Nazi Uniform to a fancy dress party?

Matt_Trakker · 26-03-2014 11:35PM

4 of my wife's grandparents were in various concentration camps during WWII, if you came to a party in my house dressed in a Nazi uniform you wouldn't make it past the front door and you'd never be spoken to again.

Obviously you're incredibly ignorant of what the Nazis did so here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5WXIF67J2w

Muise... · 26-03-2014 11:43PM

Matt_Trakker wrote: »

4 of my wife's grandparents were in various concentration camps during WWII, if you came to a party in my house dressed in a Nazi uniform you wouldn't make it past the front door and you'd never be spoken to again.

Obviously you're incredibly ignorant of what the Nazis did so here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5WXIF67J2w

Yes, we're all ignorant of what the Nazis did. Just like we didn't know jack about cancer till the selfie campaign. Thank heavens for the internet.

woodoo · 26-03-2014 11:52PM

newmug wrote: »

There's some amount of gobsh1tes on this site.

Its NOT ok to dress as a Nazi, a black-and-tan, or a KKK member.

It IS ok to go as a Viking, a Roman Legionnaire, a romantically fictionised pirate etc.

Its also ok to go as a priest, priests are not automatically paedophiles, as some people on this site seem to believe.

Do you want to know why? BECAUSE THE ATROCITIES THE NAZI'S / B&T'S / KKK COMITTED ARE STILL IN LIVING MEMORY!

If you cant figure that out, no amount of schooling will ever wise you up. And if you really are dopey / insensitive enough to think "screw what other people think" even if your actions offend others, well newsflash for you, other people don't think a lot of you. But sure go ahead and live your life in ignorance, you don't care.

Some people are just too po faced these days.

Femme_Fatale · 27-03-2014 12:01AM

I don't understand it as a choice of fancy-dress (other than to shock and be "rebellious", which is childish IMO) but that's just me.

Matt_Trakker · 27-03-2014 12:03AM

Muise... wrote: »

Thank heavens for the internet.

Yes, the Internet sure is a fine thing alright.

Rhotheta · 27-03-2014 12:03AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I don't understand it as a choice of fancy-dress (other than to shock and be "rebellious", which is childish IMO) but that's just me.

The same reason that people dress up as Vikings.

Kintarō Hattori · 27-03-2014 12:03AM

Kind of amazing that a school can get it this wrong:

Students in a school in the northern Thai capital of Chiang Mai thought they would give their teachers and parents a surprise on their Summer Sports Day.

They kept their secret under wraps until the day was upon them and then with flourish and a fanfare they arrived to gasps and groans from within the crowd.
Leading the march into the sports ground was Adolf Hitler replete with toothbrush moustache followed seconds later by his squad of rather effiminate SS guards with plastic machine guns.

http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2011/09/nazi-schoolgirls-start-heil-storm-in.html

mikom · 27-03-2014 12:04AM

newmug wrote: »

Its NOT ok to dress as a Nazi, a black-and-tan, or a KKK member.

Do you want to know why? BECAUSE THE ATROCITIES THE NAZI'S / B&T'S / KKK COMITTED ARE STILL IN LIVING MEMORY!

http://www.joke.co.uk/bad-taste-fancy-dress/osama-bin-laden-costume~64004/

http://www.joke.co.uk/revolutionary-guerrilla-costume~69001/

Femme_Fatale · 27-03-2014 12:05AM

Rhotheta wrote: »

The same reason that people dress up as Vikings.

Soz, I don't buy it. Vikings - 12th century like; Third Reich - 70 years ago, some survivors still living.

It's disingenuous to say there's no difference.

darkpagandeath · 27-03-2014 12:08AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Soz, I don't buy it. Vikings - 12th century like; Third Reich - 70 years ago, some survivors still living.

It's disingenuous to say there's no difference.

Clerical abuse survivors ... But people think it's ok to go as a Priest.

Femme_Fatale · 27-03-2014 12:13AM

Yes, because child abuse is specifically a priest crime, and there was an official policy of child abuse that all priests had to/wanted to comply with...

mikom · 27-03-2014 12:15AM

http://specializedhauler.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=514&d=1362361784

darkpagandeath · 27-03-2014 12:25AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Yes, because child abuse is specifically a priest crime, and there was an official policy of child abuse that all priests had to/wanted to comply with...

I see so that makes it ok then so. As long as it was not all priests. Refresh my memory did the entire Nazi party/anyone wearing the uniform only work in the camps.

Muise... · 27-03-2014 12:27AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Soz, I don't buy it. Vikings - 12th century like; Third Reich - 70 years ago, some survivors still living.

It's disingenuous to say there's no difference.

1997 - me and my friend dressing as Mother Teresa and Princess Diana for Hallowe'en. Taste doesn't come into it - or rather, the whole point is to be shocking. Otherwise it's a historical reenactment affair and I'd rather not go to one of their parties.

Femme_Fatale · 27-03-2014 12:33AM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

I see so that makes it ok then so.

You can't genuinely think I remotely implied child abuse is ok. If you do genuinely think it, oh dear... but I don't think you do.

Femme_Fatale · 27-03-2014 12:37AM

Muise... wrote: »

1997 - me and my friend dressing as Mother Teresa and Princess Diana for Hallowe'en. Taste doesn't come into it - or rather, the whole point is to be shocking. Otherwise it's a historical reenactment affair and I'd rather not go to one of their parties.

Oh I think people can dress up as a nazi if they want, but I don't understand why they would, other than to say "Hey everyone, look at me! Aren't I so outrageous?!" which is something for teenagers IMO. It's not brave or original; it's pretty lazy.

Dressing up as Princess Diana/Mother Teresa isn't a big ****-you to people who were holocaust survivors and involves a bit of imagination and originality.

Rhotheta · 27-03-2014 12:37AM

Nazi uniforms simply look the business, pirates are raping and killing today but it's fine to dress up as one

Femme_Fatale · 27-03-2014 12:38AM

Rhotheta wrote: »

Nazi uniforms simply look the business, pirates are raping and killing today but it's fine to dress up as one

Context, historical perspective. The cliché of the long-john silver guy with the parrot on his shoulder is obviously not the same thing as the Somali lads.

mikom · 27-03-2014 12:39AM

Rhotheta wrote: »

Nazi uniforms simply look the business, pirates are raping and killing today but it's fine to dress up as one

Indeed.............. http://www.joke.co.uk/adult-somali-pirate-costume~63425/

Muise... · 27-03-2014 12:41AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Dressing up as Princess Diana/Mother Teresa isn't a big ****-you to people who were holocaust survivors and involves a bit of imagination and originality.

But we were far more likely to encounter people who idolised the princesses than Holocaust survivors in Dublin in 1997. We did it because we were sick of the piety and hagiography - we wanted to cause offence because we were brash young ones.

Riamfada · 27-03-2014 12:42AM

mikom wrote: »

Indeed.............. http://www.joke.co.uk/adult-somali-pirate-costume~63425/

thats brilliant. even better than the nazi one because it even has blackface

Mint Aero · 27-03-2014 12:42AM

Nope, Water White costumes is where it's at!!!!

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeatch

RandomName2 · 27-03-2014 12:42AM

Zed Bank wrote: »

I don't think it would ever be okay to dress in a Nazi uniform, a bit like it would never be okay to go dressed as a member of the KKK.

Would it be okay to go as a Bolshevik?

mikom · 27-03-2014 12:42AM

Riamfada wrote: »

thats brilliant. even better than the nazi one because it even has blackface

Yep.......... winner alright

Femme_Fatale · 27-03-2014 12:42AM

Muise... wrote: »

But we were far more likely to encounter people who idolised the princesses than Holocaust survivors in Dublin in 1997. We did it because we were sick of the piety and hagiography - we wanted to cause offence because we were brash young ones.

Amen to that. There was a f'ucking two-minutes silence in a Tesco in Cork I worked in when Diana died. :rolleyes:
IMO it's not the same thing as the nazi thing.

Muise... · 27-03-2014 12:49AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Amen to that. There was a f'ucking two-minutes silence in a Tesco in Cork I worked in when Diana died. :rolleyes:
IMO it's not the same thing as the nazi thing.

That's why I wouldn't wear a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party, but I wouldn't mind it per se because piety drives me mad. It'd be especially good if it was worn by someone who was connected to the history and gleefully satirising it. Mel Brooks' Springtime for Hitler is the funniest retort I have ever seen.

Timmyctc · 27-03-2014 12:51AM

My mum had a 40s themed Birthday for her 40th a couple years back. All the ladies came in snazzy dresses ready to dance the night away. ALL the guys came as Nazis and Nazi Zombies. Was great. Not a bad word said to them.

Micky Dolenz · 27-03-2014 12:52AM

Timmyctc wrote: »

My mum had a 40s themed Birthday for her 40th a couple years back. All the ladies came in snazzy dresses ready to dance the night away. ALL the guys came as Nazis and Nazi Zombies. Was great. Not a bad word said to them.

Isn't it past your bedtime? :P

mikom · 27-03-2014 12:53AM

Costume Nazis............. ah, the irony.

Timmyctc · 27-03-2014 12:57AM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Isn't it past your bedtime? :P

Screw you :pac: I'm not that much younger than you.. I think :pac:

Nazi Uniform to a fancy dress party?

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