Fruit Machine

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

In countries where male sarongs were acceptable I wore one as cooler than pants.

Agreed - makes a lovely alternative, knocks the spots off cargo shorts.

Worn a sarong in Bali, and a longi in Burma (but tricky to tie properly!)

6 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I love a woman in a suit and tie, with tight pants, riding way up high.

Do any of you have a thing about Angela Merkel?

She always, but always, wears trousers, never a dress or a skirt. A search engine came up with one picture of her in a long dress at a diplomatic function, but that was the only one I could find. I guess her pants must be pretty tight as she's not Paltrow.

Gosh, I'll miss that woman when she's gone, and the German's will too as they embark on maybe months of horse trading to decide who's to succeed her.

John Steed in the Avengers, played by Patrick Macnee, was a wonderfully eccentric character. I recall his suits were always impecable and always in the latest style, such as width of the lapels, number of buttons etc. No chance of his suits coming from China; that would've been back in the day when chairman Mao was in charge so his countrymen would've had a pretty miserable existence waving their little red books and denouncing all and sundry as capitalist roaders, but I daresay a decent suit could've been purchased in Hong Kong.

Not long ago it seemed to be the fashion in a three-button jacket to button the top two buttons. That was a faux pas IMO as only the middle button should be buttoned. No wonder we talk about somebody being buttoned up when they're a bit reserved or stand-offish, what with all these rules and that's without going into whether the buttons on the sleeve of a jacket should unfasten or not, and if they do whether leaving oneor two unfastened to indicate to others your suit isn't off the peg is buttoned up behaviour.

On 9/23/2021 at 5:31 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

 

 

 

 

 

Coke-slurping fiend from Omaha, lacking any fashion sense:

 

(Except, he is wearing quite a BEAUTIFUL tie, one must admit.)

 

 

 

 

Rather like Bond's liking his drink shaken, not stirred (or is it the other way round?), one may wish to proffer ones preference for imbibing in general: are you a slurper or a sipper? The sage of Omaha may have a decent tie but no way I'd slurp (guzzle?) my drink in that fashion, plus it's 15 - 20 years since that kind of fizzy abomination passed my lips and the last time was on a blazing hot day in Mexico coming down from one of the Mayan temples and I was dying of thirst, so even I am mortal. And yes, I guess I did guzzle it down rather sharpish. In general though drinking any liquid from the bottle isn't my style, and since this is a rather Thai / tie-obsessed forum I like my Singha, Chang or whatever beer I am drinking drunk from a glass perhaps with a little ice as I do like my beer cold and it warms up ever so quickly in Thailand, and no, I seldom sport a Windsor knot, indeed the size of my knot varies according to my mood. 

Not noticed it before, the dollars on the cap of the gutless creep. 

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