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  1. Shangas

    Typewriters

    You mean this? ...or this? I think they both look damn cool. Although I would prefer the first version, if I had to choose only one. If I could, I'd love to buy a Remington 5 streamline: To me, that model SCREAMS the 1930s.
  2. Shangas

    The Mindset Lists

    All these talks about writing are hilarious. Hilarious, but sad, and true. I dunno about the rest of the world, but 'round here, at least, cursive writing hasn't been taught in at least ten years. I'm 25. That gives you some idea of how fast things are changing.
  3. Shangas

    The Mindset Lists

    Not that they're not aware of it, but that they forget the details so easily.
  4. Shangas

    The Mindset Lists

    I don't wish to be rude, but you reminded me of something that I saw on TV, about how, ten years after it happened, most Americans had completely forgotten about 9/11. This wasn't some comedy TV show prank or something. It was a real, honest-to-goodness survey. They went around America...
  5. Shangas

    The Mindset Lists

    The Complete List of Mindset Lists (starting with the first published list, in 2002) The text of the first-ever "Mindset List", from 2002 The lists for all other following years, may be read on the link above (they're listed down the right side of the screen): The people starting college this...
  7. Shangas

    The Mindset Lists

    RSVP - Respondez Si vous plait - "Please Respond/Reply" in French. "Dude, you can TOTALLY taste the blue..." What? God help us... I remember those! What a bloody nightmare...
  8. Shangas

    The Mindset Lists

    Hahaha. Ronald Reagan. Y'know it occurs to me, before very long, 9/11 will be something that people will hear about secondhand. I was 13 when it happened. It's scary to think that it's been long enough already, that there is a whole generation or more of kids, who will grow up not knowing...
  9. Shangas

    The Mindset Lists

    For those who are confused, "Beethoven" was the name of a dog-character in a series of movies... I graduated highschool in 2005, and university in 2013. I think was one of the last generations in Australia, at least, to be taught cursive handwriting in school. And in my childhood, I was 'old'...
  10. Shangas

    The Mindset Lists

    I found this on my local news website, and thought it might be of interest here. http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/to-us-students-beethovens-a-dog-michelangelo-a-virus-20100818-128sx.html The "Mindset Lists" are a series of publications. They're basically questionnaires presented...
  11. Shangas

    Potentially condemned to a hatless life.

    This is my Panama which I bought at my local flea-market... It has a circumfrence of 58cm (which feels a bit small, but it fits comfortably enough), and a brim of about 2-1/2 inches.
  13. Shangas

    Potentially condemned to a hatless life.

    If you're heading to a hot country, you'll definitely want a nice Panama to keep the sun from roasting your head into a crisp. I'm a small fellow myself. My hat size is 7. Or about 56-58 in metric; it varies according to hat-style. There are certainly hats which come in smaller sizes than...
  14. Shangas

    What do you use to shave?

    Those old travelling kits are ten for a penny, but they're very nice. I always thought about buying one, but then I'd have no idea what to do with it, once I bought it. I don't travel enough to really justify having one.
  15. Shangas

    What do you use to shave?

    So long as it's uncontaminated, yes. Just re-hydrate it with water and lather it up.
  16. Shangas

    Post New Hats Here!

    My thanks to MikeBravo, who gave me a lovely Akubra Hampton :) It's very nice, but it needs a bit of TLC. I shall be taking it to the hat shop next week to have it cleaned and reblocked and shaped. Then, I shall post pictures of it.
  17. Shangas

    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    Sir, that is an excellent suit. ...When can you make one for every other guy on the Lounge?
  19. Shangas

    Typewriters

    I actually ordered some brand new ribbons yesterday from the stationer's shop in town. I must try this out.
  20. Shangas

    Show us your vintage home!

    Give it a few months and it'll probably plunge in price. ...Most likely by several dozen yards.
  21. Shangas

    Typewriters

    When you mean a 'new ribbon', do you mean a nylon ribbon that's been used once? Or a "new" ribbon being those plastic one-use, throw-out ribbons that electric typewriters use? If you hit two keys at once, a typewriter will freeze. And pressing the carriage-release button can cause it to crash.
  22. Shangas

    "A Gentleman Does Not Wear a Straw Hat in the Metropolis, sir"

    We're all cads, rakes, bedlamites and ne'er-do-wells around here. That's for sure.
  23. Shangas

    Show Us Your True Colors: Regimental, School, Club, Fraternity & other Prestige Ties

    I saw an English university tie at a shop here in Melbourne, once. I think it was for...Oxford or Cambridge. One of the big schools. *Edit* Having had a look at a few ties online, I think it was an Oxford tie. How it ever made it halfway around the world is a mystery for anyone to solve.

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