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  1. Shangas

    Show us your vintage home!

    I love how the moment they figure it's worth money, they destroy it by fighting over it and rip it to pieces and now it's worth bupkiss.
  2. Shangas

    What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?

    Exactly WHY I hate cellphones or mobilephones is because they force you to be connected to everyone else every hour of the day. And sometimes, you just don't WANT that. It irritates me no end. Whenever I make contact with someone, I INSIST that they call me ON my household telephone. I...
  3. Shangas

    Show us your vintage home!

    Maybe there's a body inside? You mentioned a flue. Maybe it's the wood/coal-fired water-heater?
  4. Shangas

    The Town

    If we all donated a dollar, we could buy it...
  5. Shangas

    The Golden age of Glamour

    A fascinating film. Amazingly while 25% of Americans and 35% of Australians were out of work during the Depression, the film industry was booming. And exactly WHY it was booming is shown in that documentary. For a few pennies, you could forget about your troubles for two or three hours, go to...
  7. Shangas

    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    I made this: It's a wraparound cosy for this: Holds 2.7L of boiling water. Lovely to cuddle on a cold night. It's made out of cotton fabric. Two layers. One fire-engine red, and one royal navy blue/purple (it looks much lighter in the photographs, I apologise!). I was...
  8. Shangas

    Finding Period Old Clothing In Australia Is Impossible

    Britain was severely effected by WWII. It's a fact that rationing lasted twice as long as the war, or almost twice, at any rate. Entire neighbourhoods and blocks of London, Conventry and other major English cities were completely obliterated by the Blitz. Don't forget that before the War...
  9. Shangas

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Towering Inferno, with O.J. Simpson, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Fred Astaire...
  10. Shangas

    Finding Period Old Clothing In Australia Is Impossible

    Australia started giving up the WAP during the postwar years. They began to realise how stupid it sounded and how ineffectively it was maintained. Basically it became a waste of time and manpower to have it.
  11. Shangas

    The Rise of the Term "True Vintage"

    The very WORD "Vintage" relates to WINE. Literally the Age of the Wine - Vint Age. The year in which a particular batch was harvested, processed and bottled. I remember there was a discussion about this somewhere else online once. And someone asked how to diefine 'vintage' as we would...
  13. Shangas

    History Channel Gone Wrong

    I never understand why half of the shows on the HS are even there. Some I really do. Others...I don't. I know a guy who lives in Long Island. He told me that the American version of "Top Gear" was going to be launched on the History Channel. And the first thing I asked him was: "What the hell...
  14. Shangas

    Finding Period Old Clothing In Australia Is Impossible

    Sorry Mike. It had to be said :D
  15. Shangas

    Poirot Finale 2013

    "I say, you're pulling my leg!" "Yes Hastings! We pull, ever so gently, the leg..." I saw in an interview somewhere that the writers deliberately worked in the phrase "I say!" into as many of Capt. Hastings' lines as possible. Hugh Fraser is an excellent actor. I first saw him in the 1980s...
  16. Shangas

    Finding Period Old Clothing In Australia Is Impossible

    It was the inaugural meeting of the Australian chapter of the Fedora Lounge, the global gentlemen's club that existed before the formation of the online community.
  17. Shangas

    Assistance if you please.

    Welcome to the Lounge, Papa Bear. We're all quirky around here.
  19. Shangas

    Assistance if you please.

    It wouldn't be a rope, it'd be a cable.
  20. Shangas

    What's for Dinner?

    I just think it's funny. I've never seen anything written like that before.
  21. Shangas

    What's for Dinner?

    That's the most interesting photographic recipe I have ever seen. Because it's freezing and rainy and terrible outside, I am making spaghetti for dinner to warm me up.
  22. Shangas

    Boater faction!

    Viktor, that is a stunning Boater. Don't let youth get in the way of looking awesome. I don't. This is me in my boater, a year or two ago: I was attending a public event, and the whole outfit was very well-received.
  23. Shangas

    What's for Dinner?

    *drops sombrero on the floor* Dinner last night was beef curry. Dinner tonight will be steak & egg sandwich.

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