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  1. grundie

    Besides English, What Languages Do You Speak?

    In the Twenty-Six it is mostly seen as a dead language, in particular by the young. I can see their reasoning as speaing English makes things easier for us as a a nation. I want to see the language thrive, but the langauge fundamentalists annoy me. These are the ones who refuse to speak...
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    Besides English, What Languages Do You Speak?

    I am fluent in Irish. There are only 80,000 people in Ireland who use it as their primary language and the government is really trying to push its use. I learned it at school as it is compulsory. Living in Dublin, a city of 1.5million people, I have yet to actually make use of my Irish...
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    A breakdown of Fedora Loungers by sex, location, age and marital status

    Male. Dublin, Ireland. 35. Married to a New Yorker. One child, with another on the way.
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    Nutty Neighbors

    When I was a student in Newcastle, UK I rented a house next door to a nice young couple. They were just married and inseperable. I know they were inseperable becuase I coudl hear everything they did in the bedroom at night... "More handcuffs!" "Make the straps tighter!" "I NEED MORE PAIN!"...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Our current car, a Hyundai, has lots of warranty seals in the engine bay. Even if I had the means to work on the engine (tools, plus expensive computer interface) I couldn't because our warranty would be void. This results in the weird situation where we worry about breaking down when...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I rememeber that until the late 80s it was possible to do some fairly major work on a car with a minimal toolkit. As a child, with a car obsession, I seem to recal nearly all cars having a simple toolkit in the boot that would contain spanners/wrenches, spare spark plug and bubs, some fan belts...
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    How's Your Summer Going?

    Wet. I took my family camping to the Cumbrian Lake District last week. It rained incessantly, so they jumped ship and booked in to a hotel. On the one day it didn't rain it was unseasonably sunny (for Cumbria anyways) and I got sunburn.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Local tailors - In particular the ones that tended to be 30-odd years behind the then current fashion trends. Growing up in regional towns both England and Ireland I remember plenty of the types of tailor, whereas now there are none. These were tailors where the average working man could afford...
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    Aftershave : That nostalgic true masculine smell!

    My favourite is Trumpers Sandalwood, sadly my wife hates it with a passion. Seeing as I can't wear Sandalwood all that often I usually go with one of my next two favourites, Dalvey Vitae (woody) or Chanel Allure Homme (warm and sexy, so the label says). The Chanel cologne was present from my...
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    Loungers' Pets

    This is my cat, Mr. Scamps. He loves to sleep on my sons bed, and generally follow him everywhere he goes. He also knows how to open the fridge and has the ability ability to consume all our ham very quickly.
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    Booze Hound Tags? (Take me home, cabbie!)

    One of the UK train operators (First Group I belive) gives out stickers with "Please wake me up at XXX station" during the Christmas party season.
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    Modern Products with Vintage Style Packaging

    IREL Coffee And most of Geo. F Trumpers products have a fairly vintage look to them...
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    If you had a chance to travel through a TIME MACHINE for a WEEK? where would you go?

    As much as I would love to go and witness a historic moment, or some part of the world before it went all modern. I would do something personal. I'd go back to Thursday the 4th of June 1987 at 7:20pm, O'Connor Court, Derry. Because at that time, myself and the beautiful Olivia were having a...
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    girls in guy's garb

    Hmmm, she really should be wearing a harness and hard hat.
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    Mobile Phones?

    I always have a phone with me, sometimes several. Such are the joys of being a tester for a well known Finnish firm, I get to play with all the latest tech. However, I will never use a phone if I am speaking to someone in person or sitting at the dinner table, that is just rude.
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    Of Sheep-Dip, Rot-Gut, and Furniture Polish. The worst of the worst.

    When I was doing the Christmas shopping back in December I was asked to pick up a bottle of Baileys by my wife. The store was completely sold out of Baileys, but they had something called "Irish Knights" that looked like an acceptable knock-off. The bottle was the same shape and the label was...
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    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    We recently moved home and due to a little bit of stupidity on my part I forgot to take my news keys one day and found myself locked out when I got home. I was in a tweed three-piece. Waiting at the door for my wife to get home, two girls (8-9 year olds) who lived nearby, stopped at the end of...
  21. grundie

    What are you listening to?

    A selection of Al Jolson songs, my colleagues think I have an odd taste in music. Grrr.
  22. grundie

    Chaplin Mustache in Modern Day Society?

    Last year British comedian Richard Herring did a show called 'Hitler Moustache' in which he attempted to reclaim the toothbrush moustache for comedy. Evidently, it caused some controversy -...
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    What's In Your Bathroom Library?

    The current issue of The Railway Magazine (UK) A copy of the TTL cookbook (it's about electronics) A very beaten up copy of Robert Opie's 1930s Scrapbook A copy of The Phoenix, a Dublin based satirical mag. And a copy of Viz Comic (sorry).

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