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  1. Edward

    What is going on with this site???

    The promo material for that album saw the Virgin Megastore - in Nottingham, if memory serves - prosecuted. The defence, led by Geoffrey Robertson, established that it's a legitimate word with a specific meaning - a 'bollock' is a small ball, or a small stone, in Anglo-Saxon - and was therefore...
  2. Edward

    What is going on with this site???

    And then there was sixties alternative band The Fugs, who named themselves after a euphemism used in substitute for that other eff word in Norman Mailer's novel The Naked and the Dead. And so it comes full circle... The 'Van Halen' acronym above is wat is known as a 'backronym', one...
  3. Edward

    Chinese leather jackets

    Good score. There's nice stuff made out there for sure. I've seen "fakes" of all sorts that are most probably made in the same factory as some of "the real thing" - it's not unknown for contractors in China to double up on quantities and the surplus once the official order is fulfilled goes out...
  4. Edward

    A Zippo for pipe and cigar smokers

    Is the butane easy to fill? I spent a fair bit on a nice gas pipe-lighter a few years ago, but I could never et the damn thing to refill enough for more than a single light. User-error, I'm sure, but I really do need an idiot-proof version...
  5. Edward

    Crush On Retro

    I've seen the ads. Looks nice, but I'm wary of anything I see advertised heavily on Facebook unless I'm already familiar with the brand. Not been tempted to risk it anyhow as when I look at it the sizing is all too small - trousers all stop a size or two below what I'd need, and the top half...
  7. Edward

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I continue to be impressed with Disney plus - though I don't think I've watched any, strictly speaking, actual Disney content yet! Working my way through the final season of The Walking Dead. I had a couple of unexpected days in hospital last week, having been admitted when I turned up at A&E...
  8. Edward

    <<< Do you ever ignore measurements? >>>

    I'm in the same boat. Particularly, as a recovering hoarder, it's really important I stick to some rules or things would get unmanageable again. One of them is I only buy stuff I'll wear - if it wouldn't fit, or I'd be too worried about it being super-rare / fragile to actually wear it, it's not...
  9. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Thanks, yes - the doctor reckons it's definitely stress induced, so in future I'm going to have to make sure I don't go beyond the industry standard of doing fifty of the thirty-five hours a week the university underpays me for. ;) I've always been a bit rubbish at saying 'no', but this has...
  10. Edward

    The Daisy Mae work hat, denim to HBT 1941 - did the pattern change?

    Yeah, the big Japanese repro companies all do a version, as wellas many others. Start at about £15 for the very cheapest on the market, and go up to about £100 (not a typo!) for the big Japanese labels!
  11. Edward

    Indiana Jones V

    We've been experiencing some speed issues recently; management are investigating.
  13. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I don't think they, as a group or individually, offered anything particularly innovative at all. They were, of course, very popular and clearly lots of people wanted to listen to them, so. Nature of commercial pop music, I suppose - it's a world where the validity lies in the sales.
  14. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Thanks, yes - taking it as a warning, being careful. Stress-triggered, doctor reckons (I was told yesterday I'm now the third academic in our department in the last year to be hospitalised with a heart issue). The variety they think I have is one that's not got underlying lifestyle causes - it's...
  15. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I've always thought that in part it's to do with what folks actually wore back then. A lot of modern productions, even when they get the details perfectly right, the giveaway that these are 'modern' people dressed up is that often they look like they're wearing a costume. Folks back in the day...
  16. Edward

    What jeans are you wearing today ?

    I had a few bits from C&A many years ago. They were one of a small handful of incoming businesses that remained in the Six Counties across the period known as 'The Troubles', a large store on Belfast's Royal Avenue. I remember them as being fairly decent for the money; I had a couple of suits...
  17. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Spent a couple of days in hospital after going to A&E with chest pains late Saturday night (turned out to be a touch of angina, taking it as a warning...). The wife brought me in some bits on Sunday morning to occupy my time, including my phone charger. The phone was a real game-changer...
  19. Edward

    What jeans are you wearing today ?

    Holy Post Archaeology, Batman! I know, but.... What's the rise like on these? I've been very leery of Lee for decades because of experience in my teens. Back until I think the late or mid-late 90s, Lee had a factory in County Down where you could buy seconds (though in truth it was typically...
  20. Edward

    Turnbull & Dunn Caps

    Hmn, that's odd, I couldn't see any at all, must try again in case the,site was loading slow for me. Thanks!
  21. Edward

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    A modern Christy's, picked up for a song on eBay last year. Not a particularly special hat, but nice to throw on when I fancy a brimmed hat that feels a bit more casual. Mostly of note because today was the first day in a very long time on which it was possible for me to even think about wearing...
  22. Edward

    Turnbull & Dunn Caps

    https://www.turnbullanddunn.co.uk Any one familiar with this brand? I can't find any sign of pricing on their website, which likely means I can't afford them, but curious to know of anyone here has seen them? I stumbled across the website on a random google...
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  23. Edward

    Helmets didn't end hats, right?

    Going by these sorts of portrait photos having seen a fair few of them, a rakish angle like that does seem to have been popular. An element of stylistic self-expression within the confines of uniform, maybe? You know, your post reminds me of a psychological experiment I read about some thirty...

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