Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Search results

  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In any era, I’m guessing. But then, so is homicide and sexual assault and incest and ... If all participants are consenting adults, well, okay, I suppose. But I gotta wonder just how consensual some of this stuff is. Could it be that people consent to coercion?
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Sounds like the adults got exactly what they bargained for.
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ I have little doubt that a significant percentage of those creeps got off on it.
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Don’t mistake my disdain for people who strike kids for a lack of appreciation for the teachers in the game for the right reasons. But then, I appreciate any person who cares enough about what s/he does for others, from hotel maids to brain surgeons, to be good at it. For every anecdote of a...
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ll forever remember a dinner party a good 25 years or more ago at the home of my brother’s mother-in-law, a weekly event with a cast of regular attendees (relatives, mostly, some of the shirt-tail variety, such as myself) and the occasional guests from outside that circle. On this particular...
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was raised nominally Catholic (long story) but attended public schools through grade 12 and public institutions of higher education (in fits and starts) as well as a Jesuit university that happened to be less than a mile from my house. I found the Jesuit school less academically rigorous, and...
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The reasons were largely if not entirely religious in the case of the few homeschoolers of my acquaintance, with the exception of one parent whose motive appeared to be his own sense of superiority. It was fortunate for his kid that the vanity project was short-lived. I knew one “parent” (an...
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Gotta wonder what effect online schooling will have on the mating rituals of juvenalus americanus.
  10. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    I agree. I don’t object to prominent garage doors on ramblers and other clearly post-war styles, but on a faux Tudor or Craftsman or whatever earlier style they are just wrong.
  11. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    ^^^^ Thanks for every word, Haversack. I’ll find a copy of the book. Our family’s house on what was then (most of the decade of the 1960s) the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin was a modest early post-war rambler on a dead end gravel street with another eight or so identical houses (except ours...
  13. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    My dear old ma did clerical work for Sears back when she was my dear young ma, nearly 60 years ago. Back then, going to Sears was a mini-vacation for me. A feast for the eyes, it was. Bicycles! Sporting goods! Color TVs! Who needs sugar plums with such latter-day wonders dancing in one’s head?
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ In the most recent issue of the Atlantic a fellow named Shadi Hamid offers that the decline in religious affiliation (church membership and attendance have been on a downward trajectory) is a factor in the social and political polarization we’ve witnessed in recent times. Social and...
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’m guessing nothing of consequence will change on account of that. Hope I’m wrong.
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ I’m distressed that Mad Magazine is no longer in print.
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Just looked at the upper left corner on my iPhone screen and saw that it’s an hour later than I thought it was. I like DST. Indeed, I wish it was the year-round “standard.” That way I’d be spared resetting all my time-keeping devices that aren’t connected to some network that reset themselves...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I just kinda wad ’em up. I’ve checked out the online tutorials and practiced some and still can’t do it. Investing any more effort might be of some benefit, but really, I don’t care if my bottom sheet isn’t hotel-maid worthy, so I can’t see why anyone else would, either.
  20. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Oh yeah. I’m not here to tell a guy he shouldn’t carouse. I did a lot of it myself, until I assumed responsibilities that didn’t allow for it. My dad (but not my biological father; he died when I was four months old) was undoubtedly an alcohol addict, but that wasn’t his weakness so much as a...
  21. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^ As to obscurity v. celebrity, virtue v. recognition ... A few weeks back I watched a PBS program featuring Maurice Hines, who told of encountering Sammy Davis Jr. along with his since-deceased brother Gregory when they were young. Sammy told them that there were young men up on 125th...
  22. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^ I have little objection to a fellow jumping from job to job and residence to residence and keeping a couple-three or four girlfriends at any given time and drinking to the point of intoxication most days and driving a car he can scarcely afford while piling up mountains of debt PROVIDED he...
  23. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    ^^^^ That slick paper is the worst. Phone books (remember those?) are the, um, good s**t.

Latest posts

Members online

... and 37 more.
Total: 3,069 (members: 87, guests: 2,982)

Forum statistics

Threads
109,275
Messages
3,077,716
Members
54,221
Latest member
magyara
Top