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« Reply #70 on: January 31, 2012, 12:45:PM » |
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I personally like to imagine the 1950's as the continuation of one giant film-noir period directed by Martin Scorcese, where everyone beat their wives, was a gangster, or was found sawed in half like the Black Dahlia around the corner. Oh, and somehow, people forgot about color.
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« Reply #71 on: January 31, 2012, 01:35:PM » |
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Yes, I'm familiar with the clothing you speak of, made famous by gangsters and criminals. Quite respectful indeed. Come, now, you can't invite me into a thread and expect not a reply!  Truthfully, men's clothing hasn't lost much, although I'd love for the fedora to make a mainstream comeback. It's that men, by and large, have lost much, gradually and gradually. Men's clothing today is fine, when it's actually men's clothing and not a t-shirt that could sail a boat and pants 10 sizes too big.  |
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« Reply #72 on: January 31, 2012, 01:49:PM » |
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HK, I think you'd have liked it. After the war and I don't mean for a one year period, Chicago partied. it was different then and people used to dress up for a night on the towne. It was known as cabareting. Men and women actually danced and touched. Oh My ! The soldiers took their unemployment benefits and nobody questioned them. Everyone believed it was owed them. Yes the gangsters were there especially in Chicago or other Big City. There were cigarette girls, hat check girls, photo girls, bell hops, elevator operators, telegrams, and waiters brought telephones to your table. Class ! As Radio died so did this life style.
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« Reply #73 on: January 31, 2012, 01:56:PM » |
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HK, I think you'd have liked it. After the war and I don't mean for a one year period, Chicago partied. it was different then and people used to dress up for a night on the towne. It was known as cabareting. Men and women actually danced and touched. Oh My ! The soldiers took their unemployment benefits and nobody questioned them. Everyone believed it was owed them. Yes the gangsters were there especially in Chicago or other Big City. There were cigarette girls, hat check girls, photo girls, bell hops, elevator operators, telegrams, and waiters brought telephones to your table. Class ! As Radio died so did this life style.
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Ha, I probably would like it. I just mean that the "Leave It To Beaver" aura is only a very, very small part of that era. My dad was old enough to have grown up in the '50s, so I got a few stories from him. |
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« Reply #74 on: January 31, 2012, 02:12:PM » |
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Oh no! WASPs not bowed down in white guilt and self-loathing. The horror! Getting our way might take something more than simply pointing out that we are perpetual victims if this keeps up!
Catholicism doesn't have room for white guilt. It encompasses all nations. Well, in that case I'm not sure what would be wrong with people taking some pride in their Anglo-Saxon heritage. Because it's been developed by Protestant thinking. The problem is one of attitudes and culture, not genetics. Does the whole culture really need to be rejected, though? How about Coleridge's "spiritual, Platonic old England"? |
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« Reply #75 on: January 31, 2012, 02:31:PM » |
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Does the whole culture really need to be rejected, though? How about Coleridge's "spiritual, Platonic old England"?
Old England is great. I made a thread about reclaiming the old Anglo-Saxon and English saints that aren't very popular in modern trad Catholicism, but the overall response seemed to be that most trads aren't of Anglo-Saxon descent so don't feel much affinity for them. Which is fair enough, I guess. |
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« Reply #76 on: January 31, 2012, 02:53:PM » |
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Oh no! WASPs not bowed down in white guilt and self-loathing. The horror! Getting our way might take something more than simply pointing out that we are perpetual victims if this keeps up!
Catholicism doesn't have room for white guilt. It encompasses all nations. Well, in that case I'm not sure what would be wrong with people taking some pride in their Anglo-Saxon heritage. Because it's been developed by Protestant thinking. The problem is one of attitudes and culture, not genetics. Does the whole culture really need to be rejected, though? How about Coleridge's "spiritual, Platonic old England"? They didn't wear any ties in merry old Platonic England, they wore tunics and whatnot. We should endeavour to bring Saxon back. |
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« Reply #77 on: January 31, 2012, 04:33:PM » |
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Oh no! WASPs not bowed down in white guilt and self-loathing. The horror! Getting our way might take something more than simply pointing out that we are perpetual victims if this keeps up!
Catholicism doesn't have room for white guilt. It encompasses all nations. Well, in that case I'm not sure what would be wrong with people taking some pride in their Anglo-Saxon heritage. Because it's been developed by Protestant thinking. The problem is one of attitudes and culture, not genetics. Does the whole culture really need to be rejected, though? How about Coleridge's "spiritual, Platonic old England"? They didn't wear any ties in merry old Platonic England, they wore tunics and whatnot. We should endeavour to bring Saxon back. Tolkien and Chesterton had the right idea. They were Englishmen as Englishmen SHOULD BE not as they are. |
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When you go up to receive communion, you're literally at the foot of the cross. Standing at all creation's center, the saints gather around. Martyrs, heroes staring into your very being. They lived AND died for Christ... can we say the same of ourselves? What are WE doing to further God's will in this life? Skipping Mass for our careers? Our education? Voting for heads of state, that don't recognize the source of all authority and power? They won't matter on your deathbed (or whatever end we meet).
So... why waste time with this modern world's nonsense? We have our own civilization: CHRISTENDOM. We must restore it whilst the modern world commits societal suicide.
Its naive and idealistic to believe government for man by man can succeed. Restore Christendom in our hearts and homes! Communities aren't that far off, its a numbers game.
"Accursed is the man that puts his trust in man" Book of Jeremiah Chapter XVII, verse 5.
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« Reply #78 on: January 31, 2012, 05:08:PM » |
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Sarah: What an absolutely terrific meme. Thank you. But I think you may have "gangster" confused with "gangsta." Observe:  And  |
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« Reply #79 on: January 31, 2012, 08:35:PM » |
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Sarah:
What an absolutely terrific meme. Thank you. But I think you may have "gangster" confused with "gangsta." Observe:
[gangsta pic]
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What's the use of either one? Both are low down thugs. |
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