tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post7965468488669475943..comments2024-03-28T07:13:10.797+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: Leather's sentimentRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-49036892175104604282021-09-01T11:16:34.111+01:002021-09-01T11:16:34.111+01:00Daisy Limousine provides the best black car servic...Daisy Limousine provides the best black car service in the tri-state area. We can provide limo service or airport service in New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Our on-time ground transportation service will drive you pretty much from A to B anywhere in the North East of America. Give us a call or book a ride online at your convenience<br /><a href="https://buffalojackson.com/" rel="nofollow">Leather Bags</a><br />sherazabbasihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08723379454715121769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-86670742831291574972016-05-17T07:39:47.692+01:002016-05-17T07:39:47.692+01:00Lucy: Although I'm not entitled, I take a prop...Lucy: Although I'm not entitled, I take a proprietorial attitude to your comments of this length and density; lying to myself that I'm the one who freed observations that would have otherwise remained untapped. The credit should, of course, lie with you<br /><br />This one leaves me with a mystery - that you can do without a watch. For me it isn't simply about knowing the time at any given moment (though I frequently play a game whereby I guess the time and see how close I can get). Time on an analogue watch-face is expressed as a shape, a shape which in turn generates comfort (time in hand) or harassment (too close to a deadline). In that way the watch reflects my state of mind and I'm not alone. Too fanciful<br /><br />Mind you I admire your vagabondish attitude towards watches (Which pocket, etc) but can't help feeling that this is driven by desire. You enjoy avoiding curbs. Yes, I think watchlessness is you even if it isn't me.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-45464847726628071812016-05-16T17:59:42.320+01:002016-05-16T17:59:42.320+01:00I hate hankies up the sleeve, firstly because they...I hate hankies up the sleeve, firstly because they feel disgusting, secondly because they fall out and thirdly because the only reason to have one there is the deplorable convention that women's clothes shouldn't have pockets, something to do with 'ruining the line' (in my case, what line?) and that women are expected to carry handbags at all times.<br /><br />The amount of grubbiness and sweat collected by a watch strap is also quite gross. Probably a bit nastier collecting in the interstices of a metal bracelet than on a leather strap, but it's a close thing. In my twenties I had one of the first Swatches, in a funky (as I then thought it, only the word hadn't really come into that kind of usage) bright yellow. My job at the time of roasting coffee precipitated the plastic strap turning a really horrible grubby grey green then breaking so the watch was useless, as strap and casing were moulded all of a piece. <br /><br />I've since had a number of others, including my dad's old wind-up after he died, the battery operated version of my childhood Timexes, a more girlie thing with an expanding metal bracelet, a squarish light men's one... all gone the way of all cogwheels. I must be very hard on watches, I think. Now I have in a pocket somewhere a red plastic kids' thing I got in Lidl for five euros. I frequently lose it for long periods since I've now decided I can't stand wearing a watch, have few appointments to keep and am never far from a clock of some kind or from Tom who is never without his beastly metal braceletted one anyway, so I only occasionally stick the watch in a pocket if I'm going for a walk. Not wearing very feminine clothes means I have a lot of pockets, so I rarely remember which one it's in. Last time I found it it had stopped and I'm really not sure it's worth replacing the battery. <br /><br />That's a poignant thing about your brother.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-39992487314539939882016-05-12T17:26:37.972+01:002016-05-12T17:26:37.972+01:00I thought you would be able to talk your way out o...I thought you would be able to talk your way out of it!<br />I was a regular wearer of Hush Puppies, too (but never kept a hankie up my sleeve)Avushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-27267055777634314022016-05-12T11:50:13.607+01:002016-05-12T11:50:13.607+01:00Avus: You fail to see... etc. But would a beast ne...Avus: You fail to see... etc. But would a beast necessarily recognise or admit to his own beastliness; most would say he was an interested party rendering his testimony nugatory.<br /><br />While impractical the leather strap is, to my mind, more elegant than the expandable bracelet. That is merely my opinion although it also happens to be the opinion of the manufacturer (Longines) since the watch came with a leather strap. Since that judgement (ie, on beastliness) was issued by someone I respected other equally subjective reasons for disliking expandable bracelets have occurred to me: they are heavier than leather, I tend to associate them with callow "yoof", they seem to predominate and if possible I avoid the herd, and try as I might I cannot avoid seeing them as ugly symbolical chains.<br /><br />Fanciful nonsense you will say but practicality does not always rule. Otherwise, for instance, house windows would be much smaller (ie, as in Sweden), since "having a view" would be thought a matter of taste compared with greater thermal efficiency.<br /><br />Opinions formed in 1952 are not necessarily invalidated by the passage of time. Only a few years previously political opinion decreed that an NHS would be desirable.<br /><br />In the North effeminacy was marked by keeping a hankie up one's sleeve. The suede-shoe opinion must have lost traction with the introduction of Hush Puppies which belonged to the rather mannish genre: desert boots.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-22460608788246861332016-05-12T09:59:54.178+01:002016-05-12T09:59:54.178+01:00PS:
Those who wore suede shoes showed signs of eff...PS:<br />Those who wore suede shoes showed signs of effeminacy - Your red pen, as sub editor, will not be necessary.Avushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-17300262316736533112016-05-12T09:13:07.681+01:002016-05-12T09:13:07.681+01:00I fail to see why an unostentatious expandable met...I fail to see why an unostentatious expandable metal watch strap should be "the mark of the beast" RR. If it is, then I have been a beast since about 1970, having experienced precisely the worn leather symptoms which you describe. My band fits snugly, but is easily removed from my wrist for washing, etc. (and these days, for regularly taking my blood pressure!)<br /><br />Can you justify that statement from 1952? In those days the received wisdom was that a well-dressed man should wear a hat and that suede shoes were the mark of effeminency. Autre temps, autre mores.<br /><br />Avushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.com