Tweed not greed

[degenerated]

One for dashing bob :greengrin

Quite right these chaps are too :agree:

http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=1050

[heretoday]

I like the phrase "Stabbing the air defiantly".

Always thought A and F were quite posh but then what do I know?

[degenerated]

I like the phrase "Stabbing the air defiantly".

Always thought A and F were quite posh but then what do I know?

I quite like their manifesto

The Chap Manifesto


1. THOU SHALT ALWAYS WEAR TWEED. No other fabric says so defiantly: I am a man of panache, savoir-faire and devil-may-care, and I will not be served Continental lager beer under any circumstances.

2 THOU SHALT NEVER NOT SMOKE. Health and Safety "executives" and jobsworth medical practitioners keep trying to convince us that smoking is bad for the lungs/heart/skin/eyebrows, but we all know that smoking a bent apple billiard full of rich Cavendish tobacco raises one's general sense of well-being to levels unimaginable by the aforementioned spoilsports.

3 THOU SHALT ALWAYS BE COURTEOUS TO THE LADIES. A gentleman is never truly seated on an omnibus or railway carriage: he is merely keeping the seat warm for when a lady might need it. Those who take offence at being offered a seat are not really Ladies.

4 THOU SHALT NEVER, EVER, WEAR PANTALOONS DE NIMES. When you have progressed beyond fondling girls in the back seats of cinemas, you can stop wearing jeans. Wear fabrics appropriate to your age, and, who knows, you might even get a quick fumble in your box at the opera.

5 THOU SHALT ALWAYS DOFF ONE'S HAT. Alright, so you own a couple of trilbies. Good for you - but it's hardly going to change the world. Once you start actually lifting them off your head when greeting, departing or simply saluting passers-by, then the revolution will really begin.

6 THOU SHALT NEVER FASTEN THE LOWEST BUTTON ON THY WESKIT. Look, we don't make the rules, we simply try to keep them going. This one dates back to Edward VII, sufficient reason in itself to observe it.

7 THOU SHALT ALWAYS SPEAK PROPERLY. It's quite simple really. Instead of saying "Yo, wassup?", say "How do you do?"

8 THOU SHALT NEVER WEAR PLIMSOLLS WHEN NOT DOING SPORT. Nor even when doing sport. Which you shouldn't be doing anyway. Except cricket.

9 THOU SHALT ALWAYS WORSHIP AT THE TROUSER PRESS. At the end of each day, your trousers should be placed in one of Mr. Corby's magical contraptions, and by the next morning your creases will be so sharp that they will start a riot on the high street.

10 THOU SHALT ALWAYS CULTIVATE INTERESTING FACIAL HAIR. By interesting we mean moustaches, not beards.

[Eyrie]

6 THOU SHALT NEVER FASTEN THE LOWEST BUTTON ON THY WESKIT. Look, we don't make the rules, we simply try to keep them going. This one dates back to Edward VII, sufficient reason in itself to observe it.
That has always bugged the hell out of me. Just because some inbred clown was too obese to fasten the lowest button over a century ago doesn't mean to say that the rest of us have to tug the forelock by apeing our lessers.

I wear a waistcoat to work every day (personal choice, not uniform) and am proud to state that I can and do fasten all the buttons.

[heretoday]

Wear fabrics appropriate to your age.

Yes I will.

Does the omnibus courtesy rule extend to the upper floor of the vehicle?

Forgive my query but to date my chivalrous overtures to various females on the "top deck" have been repulsed - sometimes with interest.

[lyonhibs]

There's just something so aspirational and glorious about the word "chap"

I long to reach the age when I can wear tweed and smoke a pipe without looking like an absolute art school tosser.

[Geo_1875]

These rules are brilliant, but I want to know whether they become appropriate at a specific age, say 40 or 50, or do you have to stick to them during your 20s and 30s, thereby looking a complete prat for most of your life.

[Dashing Bob S]

Fabulous stuff. I agree wholeheartedly with their stance on the Abercrombie and Fitch store desecrating Saville Row - those purile outlets belong in Malls.

[degenerated]

Fabulous stuff. I agree wholeheartedly with their stance on the Abercrombie and Fitch store desecrating Saville Row - those purile outlets belong in Malls.

Some good stuff on their website in the archive section.

[Hibrandenburg]

11. Don't forget to refer to yourself as "Northern British". Being "Scottish" will simply not do.

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11. Don't forget to refer to yourself as "Northern British". Being "Scottish" will simply not do.



And PLEASE refrain from the abominable habit of splitting verbs with adverbs.

The CORRECT usage is "simply will not do".

[lyonhibs]

And PLEASE refrain from the abominable habit of splitting verbs with adverbs.

The CORRECT usage is "simply will not do".

:not worth

[Hibrandenburg]

And PLEASE refrain from the abominable habit of splitting verbs with adverbs.

The CORRECT usage is "simply will not do".

I refuse to be corrected by a grammar dilettante who hyphenates goal difference. Even if he was correct in the first place. :na na:

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I refuse to be corrected by a grammar dilettante who hyphenates goal difference. Even if he was correct in the first place. :na na:


At the risk of causing further offence, might I point out that I am NOT a 'grammar dilettante'.


A dilettante, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, is "a person who studies a subject or area of knowledge superficially". As an adjective it means "trifling, not thorough; amateurish".

I plead guilty to being a pedant. Not a dilettante. And 'goal-difference' - with a hyphen - is perfectly correct usage. :devil:

And in regard to the chaps' rules, number 2 is wrong. A gentleman never smokes in the presence of ladies, unless having asked permission and received it.

And the only person who always wears tweed is one's gamekeeper. :devil:

[One Day Soon]

The whole top button/bottom button debate is an interesting one.The fly boys would never have their top jacket button buttoned up, whereas an informed Italian man in a sharp suit would leave the bottom jacket button undone. Both correct in my view, but then contradictory. A little individuality is required.