"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

More jean points! Jean and button downs pretty much it:

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Ladies too:

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I get eight extra points for the hats!
 
dantzk8 said:
Jackknife,

Forgive me, i didn't want to hurt you, make you drink and go south, stay with us.

I have a niece who, liking to kid me about my puritanism, has sent me the picture. To make me laugh, certainly, but it didn't. On the left: Cary Grant, personified elegance; on the right: the embodied ridicule.
Not just any of the ridicules, the indecent ridicule. Of this indecency that makes the world more ugly day after day.

Since we are talking cloth, be sure i'm not a fashionable hipster, have you seen how, nowadays, without falling into the extreme case of the photo, many people are dressed? Like kids! And they speak and behave like kids.

I have about that an anecdote.

Once a coworker told me he had never seen me wearing sneakers, blue jeans and tee-shirts. He wondered why and advised me to update.
I thanked him for his solicitude and advice but expressed my disagreement on that point. For two reasons:
I'm not the kind of guy who changes his uses, as bad as they can be.
Tee-shirts, sneakers, blue jeans are clothes for kids (i agree it's an exaggeration but often an exaggeration is the best, if not the only one, way to be understood in few words).
Kids are immature and ignorant, it takes time to learn, therefore they can't make relevant choices, therefore they depend on the decisions of those around them, therefore they are not free.

Free men wear shirts with a collar, closed with buttons, with long sleeves. Isn't it a clear and convincing demonstration?

Dan.
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Well said. But I must confess to wearing jeans (I own two pairs), t-shirt, and sneakers to mow the lawn or make a trip to the city dump. And I wear shorts and t-shirt to ride a bicycle. But most of the time it is dress clothes.

But I do sometimes wear jeans with a western shirt tucked in, cowboy boots, and hat. Pretty common around here in south Texas.
 
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Horsewright said:
More jean points! Jean and button downs pretty much it:
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I rarely ride a horse, i mean never, so i can't argue about wearing a jean in that case but i will keep on wearing my climber-pruner pants, so comfortable and tough.
I can see from your pics that there still are people who know all the advantages of a traditional shirt.

Horsewright said:
I get eight extra points for the hats!
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The referee agrees. Beautiful hats by the way. It protects from dust as much as from the sun I guess.

Prester John said:
But I do sometimes wear jeans with a western shirt tucked in, cowboy boots, and hat. Pretty common around here in south Texas.
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Pictures or it didn't happen.

Dan.
 
dantzk8 said:
I rarely ride a horse, i mean never, so i can't argue about wearing a jean in that case but i will keep on wearing my climber-pruner pants, so comfortable and tough.
I can see from your pics that there still are people who know all the advantages of a traditional shirt.



The referee agrees. Beautiful hats by the way. It protects from dust as much as from the sun I guess.



Pictures or it didn't happen.

Dan.
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Oh, wait--that's not me.

Okay:
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waynorth said:
They have opened up Operating rooms for non-critical surgery here!
Who knew I was at the top of the list??:eek: I go in to have one of my carpal tunnels fixed today, after waiting for a year and a half.:rolleyes: They have assured me it is safe and straightforward, and I will go home the same day! (today). I might not be typing for a short while, so I'll see you all later!!:)
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Good luck Charlie. You surely feel better when it's done! Before entering the surgery and in view of the days you can't use your hand, you should get trained to type on tip toes. :oops::D:D:D
 
jackknife said:
At first, my reaction to that abomination of demented fashion was unprintable. Upon reflection on it, its still mostly unprintable. But if that is indeed a real photo, then I feel joy that as an old fart soon looking at 80 years on this rock, that I don't have that many years to go, and I won't be around to see the fall of our country as well as maybe even the world society.

I think the time is come for me to spend the rest of what days I have, sitting on a bar stool in the Schooner Wharf bar until I have absorbed enough that I can no longer sit on said bar stool.

Then the next day, just repeat the action. Continue until...

I run out of funds and then just start walking south.
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If you've spent some time in London (GB) in the 70's and 80s, nothing can hurt your eyes (and ears maybe) anymore... :)
 
waynorth said:
They have opened up Operating rooms for non-critical surgery here!
Who knew I was at the top of the list??:eek: I go in to have one of my carpal tunnels fixed today, after waiting for a year and a half.:rolleyes: They have assured me it is safe and straightforward, and I will go home the same day! (today). I might not be typing for a short while, so I'll see you all later!!:)
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Here is to a Good and Quick Healing my friend . I have had both of mine done and I have never regretted it . This may keep you out of trouble for a short amount of time .

Harry
 
dantzk8 said:
Jackknife,

Forgive me, i didn't want to hurt you, make you drink and go south, stay with us.

I have a niece who, liking to kid me about my puritanism, has sent me the picture. To make me laugh, certainly, but it didn't. On the left: Cary Grant, personified elegance; on the right: the embodied ridicule.
Not just any of the ridicules, the indecent ridicule. Of this indecency that makes the world more ugly day after day.

Since we are talking cloth, be sure i'm not a fashionable hipster, have you seen how, nowadays, without falling into the extreme case of the photo, many people are dressed? Like kids! And they speak and behave like kids.

I have about that an anecdote.

Once a coworker told me he had never seen me wearing sneakers, blue jeans and tee-shirts. He wondered why and advised me to update.
I thanked him for his solicitude and advice but expressed my disagreement on that point. For two reasons:
I'm not the kind of guy who changes his uses, as bad as they can be.
Tee-shirts, sneakers, blue jeans are clothes for kids (i agree it's an exaggeration but often an exaggeration is the best, if not the only one, way to be understood in few words).
Kids are immature and ignorant, it takes time to learn, therefore they can't make relevant choices, therefore they depend on the decisions of those around them, therefore they are not free.

Free men wear shirts with a collar, closed with buttons, with long sleeves. Isn't it a clear and convincing demonstration?

Dan.
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Your conclusions are not necessarily the ones I would reach, but I like the reasoning that takes you there.
 
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