Thanks Charles!

[eekee 182]

...beating the cats?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

After witnessing my wife beat our cats there's no way I'd reproduce with her.

Alla will announce..."Hold your ears, I am going to beat the dog (or cat)" The resulting "beating" is more smoke than fire, but it generally works and the bad behavior seems to cease. When she is finished she will say "You have to scare them"

...beating the cats?

Oh yeah! Ask our cat what happens if she is caught on the dining room table.

[eekee 182]

Everyone I know just yells FOO!

My cat is very sensitive. You look at her mean, she runs away.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Everyone I know just yells FOO!

My cat is very sensitive. You look at her mean, she runs away.

we say that also. I actually just say "Foo" and clap my hands. Alla picks them up and spanks them accompanied by ear piercing screams of Russian bad words.

The cat will get off the table if I say "foo" and clap my hands. But she will go back. If Alla gets hold of her, she will STAY off the table.

[Laveau 67]

She sounds like "Senator" Barbara Boxer ("Call me Senator!").

This may be veering off topic (big shock) but I still remember the very first time someone called me "sir." I wasn't that old so I was taken aback somewhat. Yet it felt good too. I'm aiming this only at Americans...I think we need more "Yes sir" and "Yes ma'am" in our culture. Civility and courtesy are diminishing more and more. Some of this has to do with the whole feminist, unisex, informal society we have inherited from the 60s through the 80s.

When I watch movies from the 30s to the 50s, I see men wearing suits, ties and hats...not reversed baseball caps either. They had real style and masculinity as well. Those great Fedoras etc. And the nice topcoats and trench coats. Now many look like slobs...men and women. I blame Levi Jeans and Nike sneakers for this downward spiral (well kind of joking here) but society's dress code has really gone south. That's why we American men rave about how the RUB ladies look. Sexy, definitely. But importantly, classy too. The best of both worlds.

End of lecture.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, V V. My 16 year old son is obsessed with the 1920's fashion (thanks to Showtime's Boardwalk Empire) and often laments how he wishes people still dressed like that on a regular basis. He attends public school but is well known for his formal attire. He usually dresses in suits to school. I recently found an outer winter coat very similar to one Nucky T wears and ordered it for him online as a surprise. He made me feel like the best mom ever when I gave it to him. However, he wants suits like the ones worn in the 1920's - with a VEST. I've yet to find any like THAT. His parttime job is an usher at the symphony center here in Dallas where the uniform is a tux. The job suits him to a tee.

But anyway, I, too, wish it was the norm to dress classy the way people use to dress earlier in the 1900's.

[eekee 182]

^not if it involves corsets!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

She sounds like "Senator" Barbara Boxer ("Call me Senator!").

This may be veering off topic (big shock) but I still remember the very first time someone called me "sir." I wasn't that old so I was taken aback somewhat. Yet it felt good too. I'm aiming this only at Americans...I think we need more "Yes sir" and "Yes ma'am" in our culture. Civility and courtesy are diminishing more and more. Some of this has to do with the whole feminist, unisex, informal society we have inherited from the 60s through the 80s.

When I watch movies from the 30s to the 50s, I see men wearing suits, ties and hats...not reversed baseball caps either. They had real style and masculinity as well. Those great Fedoras etc. And the nice topcoats and trench coats. Now many look like slobs...men and women. I blame Levi Jeans and Nike sneakers for this downward spiral (well kind of joking here) but society's dress code has really gone south. That's why we American men rave about how the RUB ladies look. Sexy, definitely. But importantly, classy too. The best of both worlds.

End of lecture.

Not a Bad lecture and most of us have had to come up a notch or two to match our women when we go out.

I find classy or elegant to also be extremely sexy. One of the things that always impressed me about RUB women (well maybe not some of the young ones in Kips photos ) is that they look just smoking hot, just dripping femininity and sexuality, without dressing like sluts. They are not overtly sexual, but very sexy. They stop people in their tracks and generate a "WOW" reaction, yet they do not look like a wardrobe malfunction about to happen.

^not if it involves corsets!

[Laveau 67]

^not if it involves corsets!

Did women wear corsets during the roaring 20's???

[eekee 182]

Did women wear corsets during the roaring 20's???

I think they had foundation garments that were far more... involved than what we have now, and that this was the case probably until the second half of the 60s. I know the female cast of Mad Men have complained in interviews. Although I'm sure that 100-lb flappers just said screw it.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

She sounds like "Senator" Barbara Boxer ("Call me Senator!").

This may be veering off topic (big shock) but I still remember the very first time someone called me "sir." I wasn't that old so I was taken aback somewhat. Yet it felt good too. I'm aiming this only at Americans...I think we need more "Yes sir" and "Yes ma'am" in our culture. Civility and courtesy are diminishing more and more. Some of this has to do with the whole feminist, unisex, informal society we have inherited from the 60s through the 80s.

When I watch movies from the 30s to the 50s, I see men wearing suits, ties and hats...not reversed baseball caps either. They had real style and masculinity as well. Those great Fedoras etc. And the nice topcoats and trench coats. Now many look like slobs...men and women. I blame Levi Jeans and Nike sneakers for this downward spiral (well kind of joking here) but society's dress code has really gone south. That's why we American men rave about how the RUB ladies look. Sexy, definitely. But importantly, classy too. The best of both worlds.

End of lecture.

Nobody takess the time anymore these days to dress up a bit. I see jeans and baseball caps when on xmas, Thanksgiving, etc... occasions that call for looking a bit spiffy and showing some class. It's really bad up here in that regard. It's like nobody cares anymore.

I agree. I am in the position of hiring people and you would not believe the way some come to interviews and act at them. I mean, I laugh but it is not funny. And these guys are interviewing for construction trades for the most part. If they were my sons I would hold their heads under water.

I am hardly a formal guy bt I do dress decently and act respectfully to people in public. If you are interviewing for a job in construction wear clean clothes, work shoes, pull your pants up and wear a decent looking hat. Showing up at a job site with your own helmet is a good effort. Act like you know what is required for goodness sakes.

Amen to that. We even tell guys applying for an apprenticeship (interview in front of the board), that wearing a suit isn't over kill by any means. Not to slouch, don't act like their hanging with their friends at the bar, and to show total respect while being grilled by the board.

Worked for me. I have two employed college graduates. The key is not to let the cries for mercy from their mother distract you....

"Moms to the rescue!"

After witnessing my wife beat our cats there's no way I'd reproduce with her.

My wife is a big time animal lover and wouldn't beat one, but Iv'e learned all too well about the RUB cold streak. It consist of a dead eye look and a voice with zero emotion when she's in one of her moods.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, V V. My 16 year old son is obsessed with the 1920's fashion (thanks to Showtime's Boardwalk Empire) and often laments how he wishes people still dressed like that on a regular basis. He attends public school but is well known for his formal attire. He usually dresses in suits to school. I recently found an outer winter coat very similar to one Nucky T wears and ordered it for him online as a surprise. He made me feel like the best mom ever when I gave it to him. However, he wants suits like the ones worn in the 1920's - with a VEST. I've yet to find any like THAT. His parttime job is an usher at the symphony center here in Dallas where the uniform is a tux. The job suits him to a tee.

But anyway, I, too, wish it was the norm to dress classy the way people use to dress earlier in the 1900's.

We wore suits to church sometimes, and weddings, funerals, etc... when we were kids but if we were to wear them at school on a regular occasion someone at school would have been getting a beating by classmates.

Everyone I know just yells FOO!

My cat is very sensitive. You look at her mean, she runs away.

When Kira's cat wants food she comes to me first knowing I'm a pushover. But that cat doesn't listen to me at all...no respect whatsoever, but when Kira says something to it in Russian...I swear to god that cat is trained like a dog. Never seen anything like it in my life. I asked her why the cat never does that for me, and she said because it doesn't understand English. There might be something to that...the cat came over from Belarus so I'm guessing it was trained in Russian.

Edited January 26, 2012 by Why_Me

[visaveteran1 33]

I agree with you wholeheartedly, V V. My 16 year old son is obsessed with the 1920's fashion (thanks to Showtime's Boardwalk Empire) and often laments how he wishes people still dressed like that on a regular basis. He attends public school but is well known for his formal attire. He usually dresses in suits to school. I recently found an outer winter coat very similar to one Nucky T wears and ordered it for him online as a surprise. He made me feel like the best mom ever when I gave it to him. However, he wants suits like the ones worn in the 1920's - with a VEST. I've yet to find any like THAT. His parttime job is an usher at the symphony center here in Dallas where the uniform is a tux. The job suits him to a tee.

But anyway, I, too, wish it was the norm to dress classy the way people use to dress earlier in the 1900's.

Glad to hear your son wants to honor the era when attire meant more than two cheap suits, one pair of decent shoes and tons of jeans, sneakers, and cheap trendy clothes that go out of style in 6 months. Used to be nice clothes came mostly out of NYC Now it's China, Indonesia, etc. Really a shame.

My son hasn't gone to your son's level, but he never wears jeans or sneakers. He has a Fedora and a nice black topcoat to match. He has not worn jeans since he was 3 or 4 years old. We didn't promote his dress code, he did it on his own. But I'm not unhappy about it.

The vest, three piece suits and double-breasted jackets were the style. Think I'll go watch Casablanca.

[TBoneTX 45,309]

Ask our cat what happens if she is caught on the dining room table.

This is one of the very few contentions between me and Mrs. T-B., sigh man. She will NOT allow the cat on the kitchen table! I make the very true point that the cat is investigating what's good, and that I will feed her from my plate (or let her lick it) only after I'm finished. This apparently does not satisfy Mrs. T-B., who shoos the cat from the table. Animal abuse is what it is.

[TBoneTX 45,309]

Did women wear corsets during the roaring 20's???

I think that we should go back even further, to Renaissance times, and resume the wearing of codpieces. These were apparently quite handy -- not only as an external jockstrap, but as an extra pocket in which to store hankies, loose change, chicks' phone numbers, et al., si man.

[slim 1,525]

...beating the cats?

Yep. And acting as if it worked.

My cat is very sensitive. You look at her mean, she runs away.

My cat is not. He will sink his claws into my head while I'm sleeping just because he's hungry. I will shoo him away and yell and he will wait until I fall back to sleep then do it again.

he wants suits like the ones worn in the 1920's - with a VEST. I've yet to find any like THAT.

There should be a high-end custom tailor shop downtown. (If not, they'll usually do it at Saks, Macy's, etc.) He can get bespoke suits for cheaper than Men's Wearhouse as long as he buys several at a time. And yes, they will make 'em with a vest.

If that fails, go be an English teacher in Korea and when he comes to visit you he can get "cheap suits... cheap suits!" for about $100 each - and that includes suspenders and shoes, a tie, maybe even a hat. If he can dream it up, they'll make it.

Although I'm sure that 100-lb flappers just said screw it.

They had a lot less to hold in!

When Kira's cat wants food she comes to me first knowing I'm a pushover. But that cat doesn't listen to me at all...no respect whatsoever, but when Kira says something to it in Russian...I swear to god that cat is trained like a dog. Never seen anything like it in my life. I asked her why the cat never does that for me, and she said because it doesn't understand English. There might be something to that...the cat came over from Belarus so I'm guessing it was trained in Russian.

We have two cats. One is "hers" and one is "mine." (Even though they're both her cats.) The one that's "hers" only acknowledges me when she's not around. If my wife is on vacation or something, the cat loves me. Comes up and cuddles, purrs, etc. If my wife is home, she won't even look in my direction unless she needs food or the door opened. That's it. Other than that... I don't exist.

Just like my wife.

I think that we should go back even further, to Renaissance times, and resume the wearing of codpieces. These were apparently quite handy -- not only as an external jockstrap, but as an extra pocket in which to store hankies, loose change, chicks' phone numbers, et al., si man.

I recently bought a groin protector to add to my body armor. It aint a codpiece but it's about as close as we can get.

[Laveau 67]

We wore suits to church sometimes, and weddings, funerals, etc... when we were kids but if we were to wear them at school on a regular occasion someone at school would have been getting a beating by classmates.

Haha! He never had that problem. Although, he entered as a freshman knowing most of the varsity football players. He partcipated in summer atheletic program the summer before his freshman year at the high school. Thus, when the school year started he knew the REALLY big guys walking around. I doubt anyone would have messed with him because of that. But he didn't wear suits his 9th grade yesr. That started last year. He's a junior now and by the time you're a junior yourhigh school niche has been established. His is very similar to Alex Keaton, politics and all.