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  1. Shangas

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    Did you bring your own slabs of marble to school or were they provided free of charge? Or did P.E. class involve quarrying new writing-surfaces?
  2. Shangas

    Terminology: US vs. UK - 1942

    I never understood where "lorry" comes from, either! "Van" I'm sure, comes from "caravan". "Car" comes from "motor-carriage". "Automobile" comes from the words "Self Moving". "Lorry"??? No idea!!
  3. Shangas

    "Thirty Things that Need to Stage a Comeback"

    I'm sure some women find it attractive to have a man who can do all the heavy work. Just as how some men find it attractive to have a woman who can do all the "householdy" stuff. There was an article about a week ago in the news, that suggested that married couples who stick to 'traditional...
  4. Shangas

    Male grooming?

    It's my understanding that, unless climate caused it to be a necessity (tropical regions, for example), most people only bathed once a week. Partially due to bathroom availability, and the trouble of getting hot water.
  5. Shangas

    "Thirty Things that Need to Stage a Comeback"

    I believe the notion that "women can do anything that men can do" is bogus. There are things that men can do which women can't. And there are things which women can do, which men can't. Or which can't do as well, in either case. We all have physical, and possibly, mental, limitations. For...
  7. Shangas

    Terminology: US vs. UK - 1942

    I never really understood that, either. The "trunk" for storing stuff came from the early days of motoring, when literally the only way to store things in your car was to load it into the TRUNK (the steamer-trunk) which was strapped onto the rear luggage-rack of your motor-car... In...
  8. Shangas

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    I never understood why, up well into the 1930s and 40s, and in some places, even the 50s, students were forced to write in school with dip-pens. It was only after I studied the history of fountain pens that I really understood why dip pens lasted for so long into the 20th century. My dad, I...
  9. Shangas

    Male grooming?

    There's plenty of threads here on vintage shaving. And plenty of men who do it. I've been shaving with a straight-razor for about 3 years.
  10. Shangas

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    Please spell it correctly. SHEAFFER. In the 1920s-1950s, the big pen companies were Parker, Sheaffer, Waterman, and Wahl-Eversharp. They were called the "Big Four". Models of the 1930s included things like the Parker Duofold & Vacumatic lines, the Sheaffer Balance line, and into the 1940s...
  11. Shangas

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    I think in the history of the fountain pen, there's something like two or three dozen different filling-mechanisms. You can find a full list of them at www.richardspens.com (the fountain pen bible, that website is). The main ones are: Button Lever Crescent Piston Plunger C/C...
  13. Shangas

    Terminology: US vs. UK - 1942

    Tap V. Faucet. Toilet V Crapper V Dunny V Loo V John. (this could go on for a while...!!)
  14. Shangas

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    I know a lot about fountain pens. Fire away.
  15. Shangas

    Terminology: US vs. UK - 1942

    To me, I check to make sure that I haven't lost my keys. I write a cheque if I need to pay for something. If I need to pay for a meal, then I ask for the bill. And in Australia, we never tip. If we do, then there's a tips-jar at the cash-register/front counter. But we never tip in the...
  16. Shangas

    Terminology: US vs. UK - 1942

    It gets even more confusing if you throw in the Antipodes. (US) Downtown (UK) City Center (AUD) CBD/Central Business District.
  17. Shangas

    Terminology: US vs. UK - 1942

    Which causes no-end of confusion. This is not one of difference of terminology, but rather, one of pronunciation. One that ALWAYS threw me off was the word "Aluminium". My year-9 Geography teacher always pronounced it the American way ("Al-oo-min-um"). Here in Australia, it's pronounced...
  19. Shangas

    Bought a bargain Panama and need some info

    Doesn't look like paper to me.
  20. Shangas

    "Thirty Things that Need to Stage a Comeback"

    Almost without exception, my main gripe about modern society is the total absence of quality in most consumer products made today. It's gotten to the stage that nobody knows what 'quality' is anymore.
  21. Shangas

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    In visiting the bank today, it occurred to me that writing a cheque is probably a GES. I haven't written one in years.
  22. Shangas

    "Thirty Things that Need to Stage a Comeback"

    Lizzie, despair not, dear damsel. In the next suburb, we have a while-u-wait shoe-repair shop.
  23. Shangas

    In what era were vest popular for men?

    I generally say 'waistcoat', never vest. But occasionally if I'm lazy, it'll be 'weskit'. The waistcoat died out in the 1950s and 60s. It had a brief revival in the 70s and 80s, but never really returned to the prominence that it once had. One reason was the intense fabric-rationing during the...
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