The Little World

I mean it happens all the time in the theatre and art galleries. Books are published and the critics review them in the newspaper. The Sunday Morning Umpires are always replaying someone else’s game…

And we all read forums and groups and posts on social media that degenerate into flame wars. Why not the scale model competition hall? I mean, a fight is a fight, and what better to become savage over than a pleasant hobby.

I should put a pad of paper and a pencil beside each model on display and let whoever wants to comment on it. The most unpleasant ones would most likely be anonymous, but eventually the handwriting would give the author away. Then the pads could be exchanged and everyone would have a good laugh about it…

Or a panel of three who would examine the modeller like a professional board while the rest of the spectators stood round and heckled.

At the very least people should be able to write nasty little notes and slip them under the exhibitor’s display table. There is little to do while the exhibition is open and this would give the exhibitors something to read.