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  1. Pompidou

    What gives a thread life?

    One theme that never fails to spawn huge post counts is "Look how terrible these modern people are". It pairs like wine and cheese with examples where a member was superior to a person of modern values. Throw in the posts of trolls/modern-apologists, and you've got a popular thread on all counts.
  2. Pompidou

    The nicest comment I ever heard

    Tradition is at its best when there's sincere enthusiasm in discovering it, I think. I think rediscovering the fedora will prove to be better than if it had never been forgotten. A fresh set of eyes.
  3. Pompidou

    The Age of Entitlement

    I used to judge everyone by their appearances. I quit after encountering more exceptions to the rules than expectations from the rules, that, and being on the receiving end of it all. I judge actions and words.
  4. Pompidou

    Gentlemen - Delicate Question Regarding Bathroom Decor

    I'll have to pick up a couple of those for the cafe. Cleaning the bathrooms has proven to be a never ending task. Every little bit helps. I'm a germophobe, and the patrons benefit. Never would've thought to have hands free toilet seats, despite having hands free trash cans.
  5. Pompidou

    Why doesn't the Golden Era extend to the 50s or early 60s?

    Post-WWII brought in the age of the consumer and the start of the Cold War. The end of the golden era would vary depending on what you thought was golden about it, or perhaps, when the list of things you hate about the modern world began happening.
  7. Pompidou

    Men: Would it bother you if your wife were the main "bread winner" in the family?

    I'd welcome the situation. I'd never quit my cafe, so there'd be some tough questions should child care ever become an issue. My hours are pretty much whatever I want them to be, so I doubt we'd have any problems. That, and anyone who marries me marries the business, so there'd be few surprises.
  8. Pompidou

    Why!!!! Hipsters!!! Why!!!!!

    To argue otherwise demands that all populations around the world and through time are/were striving to meet some perfect image. This is hard to believe, given the sheer volume of different tastes out there.
  9. Pompidou

    The meaning of etiquette!

    Etiquette always is, whether people know about it or not. It's a label to define generally expected behavior, and wherever I go, I usually know what to expect.. It just changes over time. It's certainly not what it used to be, but they said that when it was what it used to be, so really...
  10. Pompidou

    Fedora Towns

    One patron at my cafe asked if a person had to wear a hat to get service, because at the time, everyone in the building seemed to be wearing one. A Steampunk cafe lends itself well to costuming, and I went in expecting it, but instead we get hipster attire and fedoras/newsboy caps - me included-...
  11. Pompidou

    Going to work in vintage apparal

    Owning a Steampunk Café gives me broad leeway in both answering to noone and having cause for creativity to wear any sort of outfit I want, and my sister was kind enough to grab me a handful or two of old suit jackets and vests. I've had an old 1895-1920 range pocket watch for ages, and it fit...
  13. Pompidou

    Passive Resistance?

    Definitely - Just had our second health inspection a week ago. I suppose it's the freedom to determine how I meet obligations that I like, moreso than any assumption that I'm free from obligations. I'm not just pushing a broom around because the boss says look busy, for example.
  14. Pompidou

    Passive Resistance?

    I've never been fond of regimentation and regulation, being told what to do and how to do it, so I had to start my own business.
  15. Pompidou

    The general decline in standards today

    I think the parents who just saw their babies' heads get blown off in their laps by an assault rifle are feeling lousy enough already, and immediately telling them that their choice of movies was inappropriate doesn't sit well with me. We might have lost a lot of moral values in the last hundred...
  16. Pompidou

    does it ever bother you that vintage clothing is a deceased person's clothing?

    The only vintage clothes I have are suit jackets, of which I've got a handful or two, and I'm not bothered by the idea that the original owner might not be alive. Belonging to a now deceased person and being taken off a decaying corpse are two different things, after all.
  17. Pompidou

    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    It's impossible to come across as flattering with a premise that the poor should starve to death. I've never really considered myself a gentleman, and I suppose I shouldn't, what with having compassion and all. A heart is unbecoming of a man with any class.
  19. Pompidou

    SWANK ADVICE-Don't ask because you won't like the answer

    Since my cafe opened, I've gotten more suggestions on what I need to do if I want to make money (serve alcohol) than requests for how much my cafe makes. I'm usually fairly honest in either case - bills are being paid, but salaries have room for improvement. Those are the breaks for a new...
  20. Pompidou

    The lost art of dressing for the occasion

    I'll have to dig up this sign I saw on the Internet some time ago. It was a photo of the running of the bulls in Spain, with the caption, "Tradition: Just because you've always done it, doesn't make it smart." I thought it pretty well encapsulated my view. If the things people here can't stand...
  21. Pompidou

    The lost art of dressing for the occasion

    Tradition shouldn't hold any particular value for its own sake. If something is right, tradition doesn't make it better, nor does tradition make wrong actions better. I, personally, think it's important to look good, but "because that's how we've always done it" doesn't mean anything to me. I...
  22. Pompidou

    The lost art of dressing for the occasion

    I don't go to church, but when I'm waiting for the hoard of churchgoers to cross the street, they tend to be all dressed up, for what it's worth.
  23. Pompidou

    The casualization of the world

    They have a few nice ones for looking like an ancient Mesopotamian king.

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