Too late.
Yeah, but only those boring numbers. No flash, no pizzazz.
Serving cheap wine at dinner. Not dressing for dinner. Substituting cheap chopped chicken liver for foi gras, or lumpfish roe for sevruga caviar.
Inviting the “wrong” people to a polo match.
Not having proper fish forks for the fish course.
Needless ostentation - nouveau riche vulgarity.
I was on a dress code committee and it consisted of a lot of “women should do x” stuff. I said I wanted men to wear t-shirts under their work shirt because I was tired of ‘nipple-peek.’
You dictate to me I have to wear a bra/hose/no slacks and not show my belly-button, you can expect a slap down right back. I started to go on about how men should wear shirt garters and socks that go with their shoes, no gym shoes, and leather lace ups but not loafers, but the committee started backing down about the lady dress issues and eventually the management just dissolved the committee.
My old boss was one of the hairiest guys I’ve ever seen. How did I know this? He didn’t wear undershirts. You could see his gorilla-coat under a white shirt as well as you could have if he wore no shirt at all.
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Calling a sexually active woman who has a child when not being married a “slut” is tacky.
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What else would you call her???
I blame Laura for that.
I find this weird. My parents got divorced 32 years ago, and while I wasn’t the only kid in my class with two different houses, I was very much DEFINITELY in the minority. And when I know someone who gets divorced…well, the only cases where there’s been celebration has been in extreme cases, usually involving abuse of some kind.
How about a single woman who has a child? Or hell…call her a mother. Why bring in judgmental shit like “slut”?
Is this really a serious response?
A mother.
Ah yes, the “single mother” euphemism.
Are infomercials and Home shopping channels still considered tacky? They always seemed to me to be so tacky they were parodying themselves, I can imagine they might now be thought ‘cool’ by some segments of society who choose to swim against the tide.
This is easy. I look like a high schooler when I am freshly shaven and hate looking so baby faced, yet I cannot grow a full, thick beard or mustache-I do not have dense enough hair follicles. So I bite the bullet and shave as seldom as possible until my thinly populated “beard” and “mustache” scruff become too stupid looking.
You should feel sympathy, not scorn.
Foie gras, Philistine.
I think you’d be surprised about beards.
I know dozens, though only one whose tattoos are visible in business casual dress.
They’re the height of entertainment.
Until this thread, I’d never heard of cake smashing and had to look it up. I am surprised it is a thing.
This thread reminded me of a random story in my life.
My high school was ruff. Like there were riots and shit there in the recent past. The hallways had giant fence things they could use to close off sections if need be.
Students often used rather crass language that even today would raise an eyebrow. Fights were not uncommon. Often the only thing preventing actual sex was a layer of Levi denim. The hallways between classes were interesting times to say the least.
One of the hall monitors between classes was a teacher. I forget his exact title at the moment though all he “taught” was homeroom. But he was the guy that literally beat your ass with a paddle if you caused too much trouble or were late to too many classes or had too many unexcused absences.
He let pretty much all this stuff slide.
But dare to WEAR a hat while walking down those hallways that were 12 foot high and 15 feet wide and weren’t even air conditioned (there were more like covered sidewalks honestly).
That would get you in deep shit fast.
I like your style.
I had a similar conversation with a director at my former employer (hint: it’s an insurance company, and has a color in its name) who was obsessed with whether women wore pantyhose.
I suggested he wear pantyhose during a northeast Florida August day, with a full suit, and then we’d talk about a pantyhose for all rule.
I also suggested that getting that close to a female employee’s legs might be considered suspect by HR.