Manton's Law - Page 7

A few heavy handed DH's would clean up the thread. Yeah, the graffiti will be on the wall the next morning for the first week or so, but eventually people will go elsewhere. The recent burst of good but not great fits in Good Taste has both hurt that thread as well as WAYWRN. It would be nice to see a few of the more obvious "mis-fits" migrate back over to WAYWRN.

 

I'm not saying that Good Taste > WAYWRN (though I'll say it now...it generally should be when the fits are averaged out), but WAYWRN has looser strictures and benefits from people exploring those broader boundaries. As is, there are simply way too many "how does this look/does this fit me" first time posters in that thread now.

 

Anyway...a shift from Machiavellian to Draconian (homeboy knew how to wear a toga) would be nice.

The counter example is Vox's Subjective and Totally Unfair thread. It stayed on topic while there were willing editors. Instead of trying to weed out the chaff, consider making a weekly digest of Manton's Approved but Completely Arbitrary Ensembles (TM). Once you embrace and demonstrate the fact that you will answer to no one, the whiners will go away (or at least fall on deaf ears).

You know, if you did your job in WAYWRN, you wouldn't need all the legislation.

From the standpoint of formal logic, I agree, the British punctuation style for quotations makes more sense. But it is ugly and inelegant. And this is America (fuck yeah). At any rate, E.B. White -- in many ways the Manton of American English, very prescriptive and very opinionated, but often wise -- favored the American style.

On the subject of the '96 Accord, I feel obligated to say that it was my first car. I would still be driving it to this day if a tree hadn't fallen on it some 12 years ago, crushing it like, well, like something crushed by a tree. I loved that car.

(It was a coupe, not a sedan).

Wut?


Never mind. That explains it.

But Vox left.

Vox who?

All of you are wrong and make for extremely inept Grammar Nazis.
The divide isn't between British and American systems. In both countries, both systems are used. The system called "logical punctuation" is slightly more prevalent in Britain, although both systems are widely used. If you go to a newspaper stand, you'll see one paper using the "logical" system, and another using the "inside" system. Incidentally, "outside"/"inside" are misleading labels for the respective systems. The logical system just as often places the punctuation on the inside of brackets/speech marks as it does on the outside -- it depends on the sentence; it's something you have to learn. The so-called "American" system is just a simplified version of the logical system, and it lacks the subtlety and flexibility of logical punctuation.

@Big Texas: your last sentence (in brackets) is incorrectly punctuated according to both systems. Congratulations on that.

Asking a question is wrong?

And I thought for sure that you have a Prius.

This is very true. My brother purchased a MB in 2002 for 72k and recently traded it in and was shocked that he only received 9k for the trade in. He now realizes he pissed 60k down the drain. He is happy with his Toyota Avalon hybrid now!!

Cars are a horrible investment. In fact they are not an investment at all, just an expense...overhead.

Well, the good (and bad) posters on LL also post here but isn't odd to say on the one hand how knowledgeable and experienced everyone there is and how you glean much better info from there and then on the other hand say, but no one posts any examples of their commissions?

It's great to know the inner workings of how handmade garments are made, the names of different buttonholes and differences in regional styles but if when you put pen to paper, it comes out looking the way some of it does, what is the point?

At the end of the day, dressing up is not like taking the SAT, there are no points for knowledge. You either dress tastefully or you don't. The rest is all mental masturbation for the internet.

It isn't that no one posts pictures. There are just fewer posts and fewer pictures. But to be honest, your post makes it sound like you aren't that interested in bespoke tailoring (which is fine), but I can understand why you wouldn't like the LL. This board is undoubtedly a better place to go if you want to see a lot of pictures of people trying to put together a decent outfit. And the noise doesn't seem to bother you. These are just different boards serving different purposes.

But of course, everyone should know what real investments are: cordovan shoes, canvased jackets, seven fold ties, and cream silk pocket squares.