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@terry wrote:
@kent f OBE wrote:
In my opinion if the parents are members of the UKIP then it’s the right decision.
In my opinion you should stop being so politically correct and get yourself a life.
So the only possible reason for disapproving of UKIP and believing they are racist is political correctness?
I wonder if that’s the whole, or even real, story.
I was once taken aside by a woman who told me that her husband had been banned from a jazz club because of his political views – he was BNP supporter. However, the person who ran the club – a black woman – told me he’d been banned for sending her personally targeted, explicitly obscene texts.
We only know what the media have told us.
@simplysu wrote:
@momentaryloss wrote:
@rusty trawler wrote:
Doesn’t sound too appealing now, does it? Now let’s add a little bit more drama and think what would happen, heaven forbid, should someone drop the bar of soap.
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You have experience of these things?
:shock:
personally I’ve never dropped the soap :lol:
Eek … I’m such a butterfingers!
*Faints at the thought of Su picking up the soap, but disguises it as a nap.
@simplysu wrote:
@a certain sadness wrote:
Sounds like you spend half your day receiving gifts from customers Jen, can i work there?
Im cheap and willing to learn.
I’m cheaper … and willinger :D
Number, postcode and availability for coffee between now and Yuletide s’il vous plait . . . . . .
@simplysu wrote:
<~~ too timid to venture into the veritable lions' den … however, would just like to send a missive stating:
Men who wear hats are adorable.
Well I . . . er . . . I mean . . . . . My goodness! . . . . excuse me while I go to the washroom for some cleansing birch thrashing. . . . .@rusty trawler wrote:
Now that we’ve all discussed the rules of when to wear our best bib and tucker (although I’m more confused than I was) and since the ladies of the JC branch of the W.I always seem to employ guerrilla tactics and raid our gaff anyways, it might be a good idea to have an official ladies’ day.
We just need to get some half-pint glasses, sweep the dirt under the bear skin rug that Grand Master Words shot on safari and put a sign on the broom cupboard to make a makeshift ladies’ powder room. Oh, we might have to hold Panda back, we all know that she might kick off a bit, but other than that… Or is this a bad a idea?
I’m all in favour of a day where the memsahibs refresh our manly miasma with their giggles and geegaws. It is the 21st century after all and a brief intrusion of lace, whalebone and perhaps Buble instead of Pavarotti on the gramaphone would provide us with suitable contrast to help appreciate our usual gravitas.
@rusty trawler wrote:
@momentaryloss wrote:
I think we should install a turkish bath and a steam room.
I could do with one right now.
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Hmmmmm! Good idea in principle but i’m not too sure about that one, Brother ML. Before we eagerly make planning applications and identify which of our fellow brothers masquerade as dodgy builders, perhaps we should consider the following equation:
Turkish bath + (steam room) + (x * sweaty, beer swilling, hairy, fart-propelled man) + 1 bar of soap
Doesn’t sound too appealing now, does it? Now let’s add a little bit more drama and think what would happen, heaven forbid, should someone drop the bar of soap.
It will only end in tears and the ‘members’ swearing a new institutional oath never to speak of this outside these venerable walls.
The only plus side I can think of is that video might have some monetary value in certain circles.
A) such things never happen
B) even if they did, I would not only never speak of them but would deny them. But I don’t have to. They didn’t happen. That’s all I have to say about them. Or would have, if they happened, which they didn’t.
C) the Wordsworth Imperial Leather Lounge was named after my exploits in the service of the Raj, and the Chesterfields upon which we sit. The profits from the art fund which paid for it came from the sale of landscape watercolours. Any alternative explanations relate to things about which we do not speak because they never happened.
As far as hats go, I do believe that height and head size are an issue, My taller comrade carries off all sorts of hats: bowlers, trilbies, with the occasional pork pie or boater if he’s feeling rather jolly.
Being of more average height and having a rather large head size (recorded by my revered mother on one document as ‘ridiculously large’), I am restricted to the fedora, although I am grateful to have been spared the excesses of a Homburg or Gatsby.
I have been informed by several ladies of my acquaintance that the Fedora strikes just the right jazz-esque pose to impress even on less formal occasions. On a practical note, its wider brim is useful in keeping rainwater off one’s spectacles.
Do any of you fellows have a stylistic or practical preference for classic headwear?
I have managed to avoid games played using the personal computer, but I would like to recommend a beret for action scenes (unless your lack of skill results in many shots to your head), with a slouch for scenarios in sunnier climes, and of course, a peaked cap for ceremonial occasions. (being a francophile, I hanker after a kepi, but with my hat size, it would look out of proportion.).
@sceptical guy wrote:
.oh, I think my hero Panda – so macho!!! magnifico!!!!- must be fuming now at all these women coming into the Gents as though they own it…
grrr..
*trying to put on a cravat in an unsuccessful bid to show he’s a true gentleman…
Leave one end really long, tie it like a tie to stabilise it then put an extra fold over the top for bulk and colour. Cheating really, but it gets you to the luncheon on time.Anyway, it’s about time we started discussing chaps’ things. In a quest for sartorial significance, a buddy and I have recently started sporting cravats. On occasions this has made some impact, especially when topped off with a suitable hat.
What’s your view on ties (bow or straight) and cravats?
Should a chap wear a fancy hat indoors on dress occasions or should the tradition of hats for outdoors only be maintained?
