Subtle signs that someone is 'old fashioned'?

jeanjolie

One of the things I really don't like about our country is the number of old fashioned attitudes and beliefs (even among young people 21 and under coming from wealthy backgrounds) towards a few things DESPITE our claims that we're progressive and liberal.

Now, I won't say them as to not skew the start of this thread but if we're taking old fashion to your meaning, what do you think the signs are?

I'm waiting to see if someone defines it the same way as I do...

jeanjolie

jeanjolie wrote: »

One of the things I really don't like about our country is the number of old fashioned attitudes and beliefs (even among young people 21< coming from wealthy backgrounds) towards a few things DESPITE our claims that we're progressive and liberal.

Now, I won't say them as to not skew the start of this thread but if we're taking old fashion to your meaning, what do you think the signs are.

I'm waiting to see if someone defines it the same way as I do...

How about the people who rightly state that Ireland is NOT progressive and liberal, and shouldn't apologise for that fact.

Mervyn Skidmore

They ride around on a penny-farthing.

jackwigan

They treat their elders with respect.

Roger Hassenforder

They wear a monocle

Allinall

Being progressive and liberal will be old-fashioned in 40 years time.

It's a generational thing.

TheDriver

Going outside for a dump

corner of hells

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

They wear a monocle

And a top hat.

my3cents

They think boards.ie is great.

andekwarhola

They do anything that subtly underlines whatever esoteric point I'm implying.

Plus they smell of Wethers Originals.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Not being progressive and 'liberal' (which seems to find a new definition every year) does not equate with being old fashioned. Indeed the implication that 'old fashioned' is not a good thing, at many times or in many situations, is flawed too.

Forget the risk of skewing the thread. What do you mean yourself

Gravelly

They think for themselves.

Ciderswigger

When they say someone is "doing a line" they mean dating and not snorting coke

Roger Hassenforder

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

They wear a monocle

Or boot-cut jeans

jeanjolie

jackwigan wrote: »

They treat their elders with respect.

Don't forget they are 'whiteknights.' Had a guy in Junior Cert a few years ago spill the beans on what I thought of a few girls from a sister school that we did plays with because I shared my opinion that I thought they dressed quite provocatively.

I was never rude enough to say it to their faces or tell anyone besides him but apparently he got mad and told them everything after he got angry for an unrelated incident.

Don't think it's a coincidence that his father has the typical 'macho, old-fashioned gentleman' personality. Also not a surprise at all that he was known as the 'kissup' to teachers.

That's my opinion of being to old-fashioned

jeanjolie

jeanjolie wrote: »

Don't forget they are 'whiteknights.' Had a guy in Junior Cert a few years ago spill the beans on what I thought of a few girls from a sister school that we did plays with because I shared my opinion that I thought they dressed quite provocatively.

I was never rude enough to say it to their faces or tell anyone besides him but apparently he got mad and told them everything after he got angry for an unrelated incident.

Don't think it's a coincidence that his father has the typical 'macho, old-fashioned gentleman' personality. Also not a surprise at all that he was known as the 'kissup' to teachers.

That's my opinion of being to old-fashioned

Good to get that off your chest?

Roger Hassenforder

jeanjolie wrote: »

Don't forget they are 'whiteknights.' Had a guy in Junior Cert a few years ago spill the beans on what I thought of a few girls from a sister school that we did plays with because I shared my opinion that I thought they dressed quite provocatively.

I was never rude enough to say it to their faces or tell anyone besides him but apparently he got mad and told them everything after he got angry for an unrelated incident.

Don't think it's a coincidence that his father has the typical 'macho, old-fashioned gentleman' personality. Also not a surprise at all that he was known as the 'kissup' to teachers.

That's my opinion of being to old-fashioned

Very ironic in this thread.

DEFTLEFTHAND

jeanjolie wrote: »

Don't forget they are 'whiteknights.' Had a guy in Junior Cert a few years ago spill the beans on what I thought of a few girls from a sister school that we did plays with because I shared my opinion that I thought they dressed quite provocatively.

I was never rude enough to say it to their faces or tell anyone besides him but apparently he got mad and told them everything after he got angry for an unrelated incident.

Don't think it's a coincidence that his father has the typical 'macho, old-fashioned gentleman' personality. Also not a surprise at all that he was known as the 'kissup' to teachers.

That's my opinion of being to old-fashioned

Fellas don't seem to understand that women despise "whiteknights"

I guarantee you that the girls this lad grassed you up to think that he's a pathetic excuse for a man.

jeanjolie

Deleted User wrote: »

Good to get that off your chest?

Ahhh..no. It was ages ago and I've forgotten about it, but there are still many of those people in Ireland.

That's why I am particularly cautious with associating closely with people who either obviously claim to have strict parents, come from a traditional cultural and/or religious background (African, Asian, christian, Muslim) or particularly adhere to 'traditional masculinity/femininity along with parenting'.

Sarn

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Or boot-cut jeans

You sir have offended my sensibilities. I challenge you to a duel.

Ah, so good manners equals old fashioned.

Right so.

DEFTLEFTHAND

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Fellas don't seem to understand that women despise "whiteknights"

I guarantee you that the girls this lad grassed you up to think that he's a pathetic excuse for a man.

He wasn't a man. He was a boy. A child.

jeanjolie

JayZeus wrote: »

Ah, so good manners equals old fashioned.

Right so.

What do you mean? Where did anyone mention manners?

jeanjolie

jeanjolie wrote: »

Don't forget they are 'whiteknights.' Had a guy in Junior Cert a few years ago spill the beans on what I thought of a few girls from a sister school that we did plays with because I shared my opinion that I thought they dressed quite provocatively.

I was never rude enough to say it to their faces or tell anyone besides him but apparently he got mad and told them everything after he got angry for an unrelated incident.

Don't think it's a coincidence that his father has the typical 'macho, old-fashioned gentleman' personality. Also not a surprise at all that he was known as the 'kissup' to teachers.

That's my opinion of being to old-fashioned

How is any of that particularly old-fashioned as opposed to just this guy being that guy?

What does his dad have to do with you saying the girls looked like slu.. dressed provocatively and him telling them?

I'd say they thanked him for the heads-up btw.

Sarn

Sarn wrote: »

You sir have offended my sensibilities. I challenge you to a duel.

You can use your pointy brown shoes as a weapon!

Sue Pa Key Pa

Saying Please & Thank You comes naturally to them (us)

BoatMad

even among young people 21 and under coming from wealthy backgrounds

so ..... young people from poorer backgrounds are liberal and progressive, err Trump, le Pen, Brexit would seem to suggest that its poorer backgrounds that wish to turn the clock back

DEFTLEFTHAND

JayZeus wrote: »

He wasn't a man. He was a boy. A child.

As a randy teenager he's following the same pattern of behaviour seen in certain adult males.

By grassing up his friend to the girls, he thinks he's going to get in with them. He thinks he'll see some action out of it. I know exactly how these lads operate.

In reality they view him as a sniveling rat, an untrustworthy individual of weak character. Not a potential mate.

VonLuck

Deleted User wrote: »

Or boot-cut jeans

Hold on, this is considered old fashioned? Are we all supposed to be wearing skinny jeans?

DEFTLEFTHAND

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

As a randy teenager he's following the same pattern of behaviour seen in certain adult males.

By grassing up his friend to the girls, he thinks he's going to get in with them. He thinks he'll see some action out of it. I know exactly how these lads operate.

In reality they view him as a sniveling rat, an untrustworthy individual of weak character. Not a potential mate.

Must be great being a mind reader.

Filmer Paradise

Drinks pints of Smithwicks.

Smokes Carrolls/Major.

Smokes a Pipe.

Wears a flat cap.

Sports a 'Ronnie'.

Wears slacks.

Sacred Heart lamp & picture in the Kitchen.

Lots of clues really.....

longshanks

A little bit racist but still goes to mass. When talking about their parents, even to complete strangers, they call them Mammy and Daddy. A dinner without spuds isn't a dinner.
And bootcut jeans with square brown shoes that have velcro fasteners.

You don't know that. Plenty of lads have less tolerance for the OP's crap than most young fellas might wish to think. And plenty of girls would be glad to be put wise to yer mans comments. Plenty.

jeanjolie

JayZeus wrote: »

You don't know that. Plenty of lads have less tolerance for the OP's crap than most young fellas might wish to think. And plenty of girls would be glad to be put wise to yer mans comments. Plenty.

Mate...elaborate please?

BoatMad

longshanks wrote: »

A little bit racist but still goes to mass. When talking about their parents, even to complete strangers, they call them Mammy and Daddy. A dinner without spuds isn't a dinner.
And bootcut jeans with square brown shoes that have velcro fasteners.

ah , Ive met a couple of them , usually they mutter about " them Musiiilisms " and " A-rabs" without a clue about what they are talking about

jeanjolie

jeanjolie wrote: »

Mate...elaborate please?

There's another good indicator.

Grown men who object to random people on the internet addressing them as 'mate' when they are anything but their mate.

Mate.

Flirts coyly from behind her fan while wearing a conservatively perfumed powdered wig. May have a glued on velvet beauty spot in a non-risque facial location. Crosses her legs at the ankle and to the side, making sure only the tips of her shoes are visible.

Sends correspondence directly from her fathers desk and stamped with his seal, so you know they still have Paters permission.

Never travels in a carriage without a chaperone.

Fills her dance card with relatives as well as with the names of societies more sedate dandies.

Harry Palmr

Holds a door open for someone.

Is able to speak correctly, not like someone from South Central Los Angeles.

Turtyturd

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

As a randy teenager he's following the same pattern of behaviour seen in certain adult males.

By grassing up his friend to the girls, he thinks he's going to get in with them. He thinks he'll see some action out of it. I know exactly how these lads operate.

In reality they view him as a sniveling rat, an untrustworthy individual of weak character. Not a potential mate.

They post sh!te like this.

infogiver

jeanjolie wrote: »

One of the things I really don't like about our country is the number of old fashioned attitudes and beliefs (even among young people 21 and under coming from wealthy backgrounds) towards a few things DESPITE our claims that we're progressive and liberal.

Now, I won't say them as to not skew the start of this thread but if we're taking old fashion to your meaning, what do you think the signs are?

I'm waiting to see if someone defines it the same way as I do...

I can't hear you because I can't find my ear trumpet

cml387

Funnily enough the description "old fashioned"referring to a young person was by my parents generation (1950's) meant to imply that the person had notions and was rather precocious for his/her age.

VonLuck

VonLuck wrote: »

Hold on, this is considered old fashioned? Are we all supposed to be wearing skinny jeans?

Wear whatever ya want. But they have long left their mid-noughties fashion heyday, I don't think that can be denied

milehip

Referring to nonwhite people as 'coloured'

Going to the pictures.

Saying God forgive me after cursing.

Serving butter in cubes or fork scrapes in a glass bowl for the stations.

Having the stations.

Inability to utter the word gay, can only use the phrase 'that way' under duress.

Bambi985

Isn't surgically attached to their smart phone and favours human interaction over social media communication.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Candie wrote: »

Must be great being a mind reader.

It's not mind reading, it's a common male behavourial pattern.

Most widely observed in males of a low sexual market value.

DEFTLEFTHAND

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's not mind reading, it's a common male behavourial pattern.

Most widely observed in males of a low sexual market value.

How do I find out my market value?

Senna

VonLuck wrote: »

Hold on, this is considered old fashioned? Are we all supposed to be wearing skinny jeans?

Did you not see the thread in bargain alerts, someone posted a link to a good value pair of jeans, then everyone lost their **** because they weren't skinny or trendy enough.
They were just a normal pair of jeans.

DEFTLEFTHAND

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's not mind reading, it's a common male behavourial pattern.

Most widely observed in males of a low sexual market value.

How do I post that Picard doing the facepalm thing from a phone? Really, eg, bigly. Grab her by the whatsit and show you're a silverback primate, blah blah.

Turtyturd

[Deleted User] wrote: »

How do I find out my market value?

Knock out an animal with your club and drag it back to the cave and then the women will assess you.

DEFTLEFTHAND

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's not mind reading, it's a common male behavourial pattern.

Most widely observed in males of a low sexual market value.

Do you know what denotes males of the lowest value on the sexual market?

Knowing all that stupid jargon, that's what.

indioblack

Candie wrote: »

Flirts coyly from behind her fan while wearing a conservatively perfumed powdered wig. May have a glued on velvet beauty spot in a non-risque facial location. Crosses her legs at the ankle and to the side, making sure only the tips of her shoes are visible.

Sends correspondence directly from her fathers desk and stamped with his seal, so you know they still have Paters permission.

Never travels in a carriage without a chaperone.

Fills her dance card with relatives as well as with the names of societies more sedate dandies.

You'll be getting the vapors next.