Can someone explain to me the American phenomenon of "renaissance fairs"?

A place to larp. What's not to get?

All of those things sound like stuff you'd do every weekend anyway, except we'd eat chicken instead of turkey. Why do you need a LARP theme park to do it?

because its fun and we are a care free people sad you dont like fun dude

You just gonna dress up and eat a bigass turkey leg any day of the week?

Why would you eat turkey legs at a Renaissance fair when turkeys were a New World bird and not available in Europe until the very end of the Renaissance?

It’s like carrying around a big chunk of mutton dude I don’t know

Don’t overthink it

idk but we have that kind of autistic shit here too

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me in the middle getting a handy from the red boy

>Falconry show
Pretty neat. Do they catch rabbits and stuff like that?

I live 20 minutes from the Texas Renaissance festival which is the largest in the world and I can't answer you. I love it. For me, it allows us to turn back time to when we were in Europe like our ancestors. Despite what the Europeans think, I'd say 80% of White dream of living in Europe during the "good ol' days".

>which is the largest in the world
Neat.
>living in Europe during the "good ol' days"
Imagine dying a horrible death due to something that can easily be healed with over the counter medicine today, fuck that.

>No symposium on Neo-platonism, hermetism and pythagorism
>No bucolic poetry contest
>No gothic architecture diorama exhibition
>No discussions on Tycho Brahe's astronomy
Lame

Yeah I've always wondered how people functioned if they had bad eyesight. I wear glasses and I can't imagine not having them. That and aspirin.

>the "good ol' days"
When the Turks dominated the Mediterrean?

Nah, mostly the romanticized view of Medieval England with the castles, knights and magic; as well as old Germany with princes and fairy tales.
>Turks
I guess so. I mean they did rule from the 11th century.

Reading these negative user reviews are kind of funny at times.
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>I have gone to this festival every few years for the last 20 years and watched it progressively slip away. It is so over priced. $25 admissiOn. $9 turkey leg. $5 lemonade $1 for a program. Multiply that by 2. Crazy! The shows are ok. Nothing special . There used to be actors walking around interacting with the guests-no more. I will not return. So dissatisfied and dissapointed.
Imagine going to a glorified circus/festival for decades and not catching onto the fact that things tend to get more expensive and watered down over time, lel. Boomers gonna boom.

But medieval stuff is part of your country's history. America didnt exist during the renaissance.

There are always going to be that person that finds a problem with it. There are indeed a ton of boomers, but I've noticed in the last 4 or 5 years, there are more teens and college students. That's cool! The best part imo is that you can dress anyway you want and nobody gives a shit.

...oh yeah. It is $25 to get in, but there are also coupons galore everywhere.

its kinda like a carnival with a theme, don't think about it too much texas.

For me it's consuming the authentic European delicacy of Turkey legs.

By that time, Europeans had taken various vegetables, spices, plants and animals from around the world to add to their various dishes. Think of it as a meta loophole to enjoy oversized chicken.

basically, the turkey legs are fucking delicious

unironically want to join an HMB team and go to the battle of the nations shit they do, it is like larping except you actually hit people and use historical armor and [blunted] weapons

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Those guys are hardcore. Blunted blades, but that's still metal being swung like a baseball bat, or a cricket bat for our brothers down under.

lmao, it's like handegg where everyone is a linebacker with a metal pole. That's gold.

Good thing most Americans are descendants of people from the British isles then

John Locke talks about Algiers as a slavery hub, and it sounds as if even Brits feared being taken by pirates and sold in Algiers

He was referring to merchants going into the med.

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>tfw trosswife

I'd take our Roman LARPers over shitty American fairs any day
youtu.be/pNauPikEJ7M

who's going to stop you?

Come on, middle age fairs exist here as well, I've been to one in Britain even.

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And they are very comfy

Sure as fuck feels boring and silly if you do it alone.

Nobody farms pheasant.

I once fucked a Performer in the woods at my local Renaissance fair (Pennsylvania) between one of his shows. Dude was jacked and fucked me against a tree. Frankly, if I learned one thing from that experience, at least 70% of all Renaissance Fair performers are gays and 20% are closeted homos in denial

sounds hot I wanna go there and suck some dick (no homo)

wish lgbt fags would stay on their containment board

Based beaner

they can be cool and they have jousting at the one near me, there are also some hot girls there into medieval shit which is based but i will probably never talk to one. there are also some fatties like OPs pic though

>wish lgbt fags would stay on their containment board

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thats not how that works.

I know this gets use a lot but that is literally me on the right in this image.