The Oxford-Shoe-Worn-Casually Appreciation Thread

[dieworkwear]

"Kids these days spend too much time online," I confidently typed and entered as my 24,560 StyleForum post

 

[yorkshire pud]

Kids have been absolutely inundated by gadgets and screens from a young age.

Not their fault. Parents are, by and large, overworked and/or tired and/or lazy.

But honeslty there are choices parents can make that are better or worse for children that have long range impacts.

My mother went back to work after 6 weeks of ML. She was very high earning and my family depended on her working.

My first nanny got fired for letting me watch TV. The second for feeding me McDonald's. Harsh? Maybe. But probably for the best.

During the 70s we had the massive choice of three TV channels in the UK ?

I didn't get to try a McDonald's until the early 80s!

 

[A Y]

"May I please ask who is Vox? I've been reading that name a lot on this forum."

 

[Sir Jack II]

Younger people seem to be savvier and more worldly than we were (I’m gen. X and in my mid-forties). Even as teenagers, they know the names of all the cabinet members, the names of foreign leaders(!), the internet-driven political narratives. Obviously, a big thing is these kids never had a non-internet life, and there’s probably no accounting for the ways this impacts their worldview. They also will never know what it was like to live without a hysterical 24/7 news-entertainment cycle that is keen to slot them. When we were their age, national news was something your parents watched if nothing better was on at 10pm, or they paid attention to in an election year. Aside from SNL skits, as a teenager I had little idea who the politicians were, nor did I care. They had nothing to do with my life.

The younger generations are aware of themselves as being members of this or that generation, and how they’re supposedly different from the generations before and after them. I had no idea I was part of something called Generation X until Time magazine told me one day, and the designation did not resonate with me. It simply seemed like the kind of generalization older people indulged in; now, it seems the youth indulge in this kind of generalization as well (and okay, I guess I'm indulging here as well).

The younger people I see are more motivated and driven than my cohort (which was middle-class, Midwest). They think about college far sooner than I and my friends did, and everything is more competitive and more expensive. I and so many of my friends got “soft” degrees. Younger people generally seem harder headed. I think they’re not allowed the kind of complacency we had growing up. And they kind of grow up way earlier, perhaps before they’re ready for it. They “know” a lot, but they don’t really know (god, I know, this is such an older person thing to say). I don’t envy them.

 

[smittycl]

"May I please ask who is Vox? I've been reading that name a lot on this forum."

An old Styleforum luminary, interesting guy but morphing into simply a Twitter smart ass it seems? Would love to have him chime in here periodically. At least to excoriate Manton if nothing else?

voxsartoria

Their vanity is greater than their misery.

voxsartoria.com

https://twitter.com/voxsartoria

 

[dieworkwear]

An old Styleforum luminary, interesting guy but morphing into smart ass it seems?

Morphing?

 

[yorkshire pud]

Younger people seem to be savvier and more worldly than we were (I’m gen. X and in my mid-forties). Even as teenagers, they know the names of all the cabinet members, the names of foreign leaders(!), the internet-driven political narratives. Obviously, a big thing is these kids never had a non-internet life, and there’s probably no accounting for the ways this impacts their worldview. They also will never know what it was like to live without a hysterical 24/7 news-entertainment cycle that is keen to slot them. When we were their age, national news was something your parents watched if nothing better was on at 10pm, or they paid attention to in an election year. Aside from SNL skits, as a teenager I had little idea who the politicians were, nor did I care. They had nothing to do with my life.

The younger generations are aware of themselves as being members of this or that generation, and how they’re supposedly different from the generations before and after them. I had no idea I was part of something called Generation X until Time magazine told me one day, and the designation did not resonate with me. It simply seemed like the kind of generalization older people indulged in; now, it seems the youth indulge in this kind of generalization as well (and okay, I guess I'm indulging here as well).

The younger people I see are more motivated and driven than my cohort (which was middle-class, Midwest). They think about college far sooner than I and my friends did, and everything is more competitive and more expensive. I and so many of my friends got “soft” degrees. Younger people generally seem harder headed. I think they’re not allowed the kind of complacency we had growing up. And they kind of grow up way earlier, perhaps before they’re ready for it. They “know” a lot, but they don’t really know (god, I know, this is such an older person thing to say). I don’t envy them.

They do??

I must be mixing them up with the dumbest generation of idiots the world has ever seen ?

 

[dieworkwear]

They do??

I must be mixing them up with the dumbest generation of idiots the world has ever seen ?

I don't know why, but I read every one of your posts in the voice of a person who sits alone at the pub, and smacks a beer stein on the dirty bar counter after making a joke.

 

[RJman]

I don't know why, but I read every one of your posts in the voice of a person who sits alone at the pub, and smacks a beer stein on the dirty bar counter after making a joke.

Think the locals, including Rik Mayall, at the beginning of An American Werewolf In London.

 

[smittycl]

Think the locals, including Rik Mayall, at the beginning of An American Werewolf In London.

Lord Flashheart was in AWFL? I must have totally forgotten that!

 

[Bromley]

Is "pud" not slang for anything in Yorkshire?

 

[RJman]

Lord Flashheart was in AWFL? I must have totally forgotten that!

gives a new resonance to his catchphrase WOOF!

 

[yorkshire pud]

I don't know why, but I read every one of your posts in the voice of a person who sits alone at the pub, and smacks a beer stein on the dirty bar counter after making a joke.

Do you do the accent when your pretending to be me? ?

 

[dieworkwear]

Think the locals, including Rik Mayall, at the beginning of An American Werewolf In London.

What I think @yorkshire pud looks like when he ends every post with multiple exclamation marks and ???

What @yorkshire pud looks like in reality when he uses multiple exclamation marks and ???

 

[yorkshire pud]

What I think @yorkshire pud looks like when he ends every post with multiple exclamation marks and ???

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What @yorkshire pud looks like in reality when he uses multiple exclamation marks and ???


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I love that they think loudmouth Yorkshiremen would be playing Chess in a pub ?