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  1. Shangas

    Pencil Mustache

    I have never thought of growing any facial hair. But I strongly suspect that if I DID try and grow any upper-lip fuzz, it'd end up looking like a Fu Manchu moustache... ...and I don't think that'd look good on me.
  2. Shangas

    Could you survive?

    Given a map, I'm pretty good at finding my way around town. With a bicycle and a satchel, I could be a telegraphic delivery-boy. But I'd make myself scarce from 1939 onwards. Telegram delivery-boys weren't very popular during the War.
  3. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    There is no pattern. It's simple black...cotton, I think it is...braiding over the plastic cables. The connection-points and the cables themselves are fine. It's the fabric sheath that's the issue...I've even considered pulling it off, or covering it with some other sort of fabric and sewing or...
  4. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    Hey folks, perhaps someone here can advise me on something... I'm packing up my grandmother's Singer after my latest sewing project, but I noticed that the cloth-covered electrical cord is starting to fray quite significantly. There's no exposed wires or anything - the electrical cable...
  5. Shangas

    Is Making (and attaching) a liner for this bag a possibility?

    Hey folks. I'd like to thank everyone who made suggestions about my little dilemma, but frustratingly, the problem hasn't been solved. The velcro won't stick to the interior of the bag well enough for this to be a viable solution. Does anyone else have other suggestions?
  7. Shangas

    Anniversary !!!!!!!

    Might one ask, what anniversary number be this?
  8. Shangas

    Anniversary !!!!!!!

    Many congratulations! Those are a beautiful selection of rings!
  9. Shangas

    Show us your radios!

    It's called "necroposting" online. Some forums I've been a member of have very strict rules about necroposting, and how you shouldn't post in a thread that has wandered all the way to the back of the line. Speaking from personal forum-running experience, I can say that it's a pain in the...
  10. Shangas

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

    Everyone should to a certain extent, never care what anyone else ever thinks, of them, or anything else. If we all thought alike, we'd be stuck in the Stone Age.
  11. Shangas

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

    I appreciate that. And perhaps I have, but only because I'm trying to differentiate, if possible, us from them, and to try and understand what makes us, 'us', and them 'them', so to speak. I've read other 'hipster' threads here before (as VCB suggests, there have been others here in the past, I...
  13. Shangas

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

    I absolutely understand that. But what we need to do is to differentiate between those who do it because it's the "in thing" and who'll get bored of it in six months, and those who do it out of historical appreciation and as a lifestyle thing. I'm only 25. I do it because I've had a lifelong...
  14. Shangas

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

    Tony, if we accept hipsters as being shallow, for want of a better word, non-mainstream people, who buck the trend and try to make 'things' cool by claiming that they do it for some asinine reason such as 'nobody else does it', or claiming to do something 'before it was retro-cool', then I ask...
  15. Shangas

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

    I'd say the difference is that we do it because we feel a connection with history (at least, that's why I do the things I do). I'd say that hipsters do it just to be 'different' and 'cool' and 'out there'.
  16. Shangas

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

    I suppose that makes sense in a certain way. But it seems like a silly way of showing "individuality" and "rebellion". Trying to "identify" with a class that you've NEVER been a part of in your life. I can see why some people would be offended by that. "Oh look at you, you SO know what it's like...
  17. Shangas

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

    Sounds like the reverse of that old expression of 'putting on airs and graces'. ...Although WHY anyone would bother to go in the opposite direction is a puzzle to me. Perhaps someone can explain this attraction? I could guess why, but it might be rather insulting...
  19. Shangas

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

    My father's side of the family was certainly working/lower-middle class. My grandfather was a newspaperman, and a photographic assistant. My grandmother was a dressmaker. My oldest uncle was an English master for 40 years. That's about the most senior position that anyone held in our family...
  20. Shangas

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

    I prefer to use the Victorian term. Eccentric.
  21. Shangas

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

    Hahahahahaha!!! Is there a doctor in the house? I think one of our members is suffering from a panic attack!
  22. Shangas

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

    Thanks, that was a great help. Yes I've heard that phrase a lot. I can see how that gets annoying. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Aaaah...Yes I know what a grifter is! No need to explain that. But damn that was funny!
  23. Shangas

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

    Can someone please give me an objective definition of what a Hipster is? Urban Dictionary was no help in this area.

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