Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Whatever happened to appearances and when did it happen?
Self | July 24, 2014 | Billhilly

Posted on 07/25/2014 11:06:44 AM PDT by billhilly

Appearances matter. All of our lives we were told that by our mothers, school teachers, employers and etiquette books.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: optics
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-142 next last
To: jsanders2001
Even the gambling tables.


A faro game at the Orient Saloon. Photo by C. S. Fly, ca. 1900.

41 posted on 07/25/2014 11:36:41 AM PDT by Bratch
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Psalm 73

"So how was your day Little Cindy?"

"Mrs. Krutz taught us all about fisting and lesbianism, I have a date with Lisa for sleep over"

"That's nice dear"

"Who is Lisa, sis, is she hot?"

"Oh, that my teachers first name, for when we aren't in school"

42 posted on 07/25/2014 11:39:29 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Psalm 73

It does look like that, doesn’t it?


43 posted on 07/25/2014 11:40:03 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: TexasCajun

Gadzooks! She looks...sticky.


44 posted on 07/25/2014 11:42:39 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: GeronL

Thanks to everyone for posting and confirming that appearances really do matter. “Optics” only matter to Politicians and MSNBC talkers.


45 posted on 07/25/2014 11:45:08 AM PDT by billhilly (Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: GeronL
I fear for the human race

Especially if that last one sits on them.

46 posted on 07/25/2014 11:45:52 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Resolute Conservative

Hey man. I dress by calendar. After April 1st and before Nov 1, I am in shorts. That is just the way it is.

Not at church, but every day.


47 posted on 07/25/2014 11:46:20 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

Ricky was a band leader in a Club. He dressed appropriately.


48 posted on 07/25/2014 11:47:19 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: billhilly

What a nifty gadget, a cold box right in the house.... one day it's electric lights and now this... what's next an indoor toilet??

49 posted on 07/25/2014 11:47:22 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: Sirius Lee

“I take a bath once a month whether I need it or not”


50 posted on 07/25/2014 11:49:30 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: Psalm 73

Well based o airline service, it is not unexpected to see the same people there as on Grey Hound.


51 posted on 07/25/2014 11:49:43 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Jim from C-Town

But even at home, he always would be in his suit.


52 posted on 07/25/2014 11:49:50 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: GeronL

LOL but no.

Slovenly dress is bad enough, but then it spreads to eating habits and general behavioral sloppiness as well. Just another day in Obamaville.

If “adults” still need correction to guide them in basic social behavior, they are too far gone to say anything to them. It’s a big red flag that says they’ll be quick to pick a fight rather than get a clue.


53 posted on 07/25/2014 11:49:55 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: Still Thinking

SPLAT!


54 posted on 07/25/2014 11:50:06 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: Vaduz

There was a time when wearing jeans was the ‘slob look’, now, wearing jeans is getting dressed up. Sweat pants, pajama bottoms, tattoos, and godawful body piercing is what people wear. Slouching towards oblivion, IMHO.


55 posted on 07/25/2014 11:50:50 AM PDT by fhayek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Ezekiel

and the next generation will be worse than this one probably


56 posted on 07/25/2014 11:50:58 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: fhayek

If women stopped dating guys who look like trash this would all end.


57 posted on 07/25/2014 11:52:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: billhilly

The American Cultural Uniform: One dark T-shirt with smarmy, sexually oriented and/or idiotic messaging; one pair blue jeans, tattered by design; one baseball-style hat to help round off the stupid Larry-the-cable-guy look. Yeah! As I traveled back to the USA from overseas destination, the closer I got, I came in proximity of more and more of our citizens proudly donning the “uniform,” thinking they were unique and exceptional. They are/were just clones of the arrogant, ill mannered dregs that have become the bulk of a once great citizenry.


58 posted on 07/25/2014 11:52:49 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

Absolutely. I wore a leisure suit in the seventies because woman dated guys who wore them. What were they THINKING?


59 posted on 07/25/2014 11:54:12 AM PDT by fhayek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: TexasCajun
Yo!

Tell her they invented this new thing called "bathing"

and that it's fun.


60 posted on 07/25/2014 11:54:46 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-142 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson