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  1. Viola

    Dating for Fedora Loungers?

    My guy's not very vintage, aside from a taste for classic decor and girls in '50s type pin-up stuff. I may yet have an effect, though. ;)
  2. Viola

    Bug out bag ETO 1939

    I'm a Jew. Our Bibles and prayerbooks are a bit easier to pick out. I don't think I'd carry a King James for the sake of a cover story, its a bit heavy to carry and I wouldn't feel right.
  3. Viola

    Bug out bag ETO 1939

    Well I was thinking of the Bible thing, and it'd be my life if I was caught with it but I suppose it would be anyway for having a revolver, hey?
  4. Viola

    Bug out bag ETO 1939

    Naughty! ;)
  5. Viola

    Vintage Sunglasses

    My eyes are a bit defective and the pupils never get very small even in bright light, leading to massive headache and general malaise, but I find I get nearly as much relief from amber lenses as dark ones - I don't know why. I also was wondering when amber came into use?
  7. Viola

    Bug out bag ETO 1939

    Revolver, ammunition, Zippo lighter, monocular in its case, glacier glasses, some cans of food, canteen, candy bars, a small wool blanket, socks, any money and jewelry I have, a big knife and a small combat folding knife. A passport if I have one but if I have one I would have either used it or...
  8. Viola

    WHAT CAN THE FEDORA LOUNGE DO FOR YOU?

    1. An awareness that I am not as strange or alone as I had thought, even in my generation. 2. Its given me a real education in aspects of vintage-loving that were outside my original focus when I came here. 3. I had never bought or dreamed I could wear red lipstick. 4. An appreciation...
  9. Viola

    Any writers?

    I think I am going to try to write a submission (a delightfully vague word, note I didn't say "anything good") for the alternate history contest, and set it in, I think, the fifties of an Earth where FDR lived to the end of WWII and did not nuke Japan and went with one of his pet ideas of...
  10. Viola

    Any writers?

    There's a new writing contest on, prize being 20,000 pounds, for writing an alternate history novel. Terry Pratchett prize. I'm sort of mulling that over - I love the period and there's a lot of ways to go besides the alternate history classic of what-if-the-Nazis-had-won.
  11. Viola

    The Antipodean thread

    I'm going to be good and bring some cardigans, just to be safe, but I remember a July in Katoomba I was in tank tops; the locals thought me mad. I would posit, however, it is NOT cold this time of year. :P
  13. Viola

    The Antipodean thread

    Monday, July 5th, I arrive in Sydney airport, and officially become an Antipodean Lounger. Traveling with one not-so-vintage nylon duffel, and two vintage suitcases! We'll see how it goes. I am so terrified but very excited.
  14. Viola

    Question: Tipping in Restaurants, for Services, ??

    He left while I was replying, I wouldn't have posted after his dramatic exit.
  15. Viola

    Question: Tipping in Restaurants, for Services, ??

    You said nothing about anything the waiter did, and in fact said that the owner should step into the gap on the waiter's behalf - a gap of your creation. I can see I am the one who is being rude, it all comes clear now.
  16. Viola

    Question: Tipping in Restaurants, for Services, ??

    Then buy from a produce stand not a restaurant, it's not hard.
  17. Viola

    Question: Tipping in Restaurants, for Services, ??

    Who said anything about allegiences? You proclaim loudly nobody has any right to expect good behavior from you, yet you also have the right to have nobody develop (or is it share?) their opinion of this behavior? I have travelled? What's your point? You should behave well where you are, not...
  19. Viola

    Question: Tipping in Restaurants, for Services, ??

    Ah, but Doran, nothing in this life is guaranteed. Life is indeed an uncertain proposition.
  20. Viola

    Question: Tipping in Restaurants, for Services, ??

    Excuse me, you're saying it would be okay to go in knowing you're "too broke to tip"? Or did I misunderstand you?
  21. Viola

    Wildwood's (nouveau vintage) Haunted Ship

    Wildwood, the land that time remembered.
  22. Viola

    Question: Tipping in Restaurants, for Services, ??

    Yeah, I'm not saying being peeved is wrong. I would take my table of eight and leave. If I was feeling real aggrieved I would loudly warn people away as they walk up. But I wouldn't sit down and eat the food and pay the check - how does management learn any lesson - and then whip around and...
  23. Viola

    The Antipodean thread

    It will be my 2nd trip...I had two lovely months in 2008, not exactly time to "see everything" or anything, I'm afraid. Got to see the Opera House and the Blue Mountains (Katoomba is GORGEOUS, James!) but am looking forward to having more time. We're going to be in the Western Suburbs of...
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