"Do you laugh at fat reenactors with beards and glasses?" Topic

Do you take their uniforms seriously?

Yes, if it's Murphy.

I leave it up to you to decide which of your two questions I answered.

yes.and no.

It is somewhat humerous.

Modern reenactors are all too tall.

They're having fun so what the heck !

Laugh, yes. Uniforms, no.

No more than I laugh at fat gamers with beards and glasses. Of which I am one.

Yes. Yes I do, even though I resemble that remark. I am only posing as myself. Re-enactors pretend to be someone half their age and half their waist size. Someone who had read more than one book. Someone whose daily calorie count was in four figures.

It's wrong.

It's what keeps me out of reenacting, as I've said before. But you guys don't listen to me anyway, so who cares? *sniff* I'm going to go drown my sorrows in a gallon of Rocky Road ice cream and a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

I only laugh when they fall off their horse after some one fires a cannon 2 miles away :)

In that I am old and fat with glasses…..not so much..

dont do it streitax, think of the guilt tomorrow…

But think of the pleasure now….

When I was reenacting I was in the Army with the Rapid Reaction Force. So PT was 5 miles plus calistenics per day. And that didn't count the field schedule.
So fat and wearing glasses, not so much.
On the computer today I'm fat and wearing glasses. Go ahead, laugh yourself silly. I might even join in. But My reenacting days are long behind Me.

You care! You really care! *cue Sally Field tears*

Ah, come on, Sally Field couldn't cry anything like as anoying as Sally Struthers. That gal could get on your very last good nerve in no time!

No I don't laugh, but it makes me cringe a little because I feel embarrassed for them. Not so much the glasses, but the overweight guys trying to look serious.
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Tim

I'm a somewhat pudgy guy who plays a little fairy (Windling) in a roleplaying game… so no, I'm not poking fun at anyone's hobby.

Madmonkey, are you sitting on his other shoulder, telling him to do bad things ?

I was at an event at the weekend and someone commented it was more like 'Dads Army' than the Siege of Bastogne as various people dropped out puffing and wheezing.

I run, so I'm thin, but still far too old and too tall:)

And I wear glasses, but for most WW2 impressions that is fine. I took them off for my profile picture. Vanity.

No.
I laugh at reenactors in general…

Being one myself, yes I do laugh at them (and at myself as well.) There an event in Mary land, "Marching Threw Time" which features groups from throughout history. For a lot of these groups it looks like the war is at the bitter end, as even the quartermaster units are being sent to the front. One year though there was a WW2 Japanese unit that had a somewhat disproportionate number of 6 foot, 200+ pound blond-blue eye men.

I'm an ACW reenactor myself,pretty much an old hand. I'm hardly a picture perfect example of the typical Yank or Reb of the time(period style glasses,etc.),but do have a willing spirit,which helps.

I'm with RicharD on this one! 8)=

I do not have a beard.

I take mine seriously. So would you if your coat cost $400 USD

I do, in fact, as I got older, fatter, and balder, I gave it up, that, and the fact I was a mounted geezer, and thought that I wouldn't bounce anymore, when I fell off!

John

Im 53, I gave it up after 20plus years in the federal army, then of course theres the US Army that I retired from in 08, so I would say no I would not laugh at old fat re-enactors, I dont do the CW thing because I am too old to pull it off, I didnt want to be "that guy who cant let go" thats also why I got out of the army when I did, I didnt want to be "That guy who doesn't know when to quit". So with dignity in hand, I walked away It was fun, but thats in the past. however, if there was an affordable way to do Russian Crimean War, I'd probably do that. those guys soldiered on until they dropped.

Gamers laughing at reenactors because they're old or fat, is like one group of clowns laughing at another group of clowns because they have blue noses instead of red ones.

Depends on what they are trying to portray:

If the Santa Claus at the start of Gettysburg – who got his role because of his links to the reenactors. Then I'm, embarrassed. Confederates, repeat after me; "there were no old fat me in the Army of Northern Virginia". Or the Army of Tennessee for that matter.

If it is an appropriate role for an old fat man, then no.

I'm too old to do the combat roles now – apart from artillery where it doesn't matter so much.

This weekend I'll be an RAF flight surgeon for a WWII event. And yes, I'm trying to shed a few pounds but I'm not obese.

Wargamers are the last group who should try at laughing at others because of their weight.

One of the reasons I'm now into Steampunk/Victorian Science Fiction at SF Conventions.

Modern reenactors are all too tall.

Re-enactors pretend to be someone half their age and half their waist size.

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Bull Nelson….hardly a "skinny Minnie"…

Yes, I laugh, no I don't take their uniforms seriously. Late answers to a timeless set of questions….

I've often felt that a lot of reenactors would be better suited to being in either the British Home Guard or the Volkssturm, where age and physical status aren't really drawbacks, and the uniforms can be cheap and ragged and incomplete and still be considered authentic.

Only if they appear in movies. The average infantryman in the War Between The States (American Civil War) would have been a rather thin, even gaunt fellow because he would have had to walk everywhere that he went.

I give credit to reenactors and appreciate their efforts to keep history alive, but motion picture casting agents should know better.