Perhaps Ivyists would like to read and perhaps join in a discussion about a possible book about John Simons. Posters will be able to quote and attach pics and clickable links.


https://www.dressedwell.net/threads/john-simons-the-book.10182/#post-297722

Last edited by Sammy Ambrose (2022-07-03 08:45:00)

Who was 'NJS' on 'The Wardrobe'?  Reads like the kind of lad who'll now be snorting and whinnying on DW.

NJS was a barrister who wrote a book about clothing. There is a photo of him on tinternet in a great hat like the Man from DelMonte would wear.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DN5U61M?SubscriptionId=AKIAJJIX76K7CKA7Q6TA&linkCode=gg2&creativeASIN=B00DN5U61M&tag=reedwebs-20&creative=165953&camp=2025

When there were characters in The Wardrobe forum. Very dapper.

https://www.keikari.com/english/interview-with-nicholas-storey/

Yuca said:


'Fortunately personal attacks are pretty useless when the person writing them knows nothing about the person they are attempting to attack.'

With regard to NJS, this is very true, unless AFS knows something we don't.  I always enjoyed Nick Storey' s posts.

There is something odd about attacks on the internet and on my experience they rarely do the attacker good.

I worked with a guy a few years ago who opened up a dedicated site to attack me and others. My response was to get his site closed down and to make him my hobby.

He is currently in his second year of a four year prison sentence in the UK.

There's more to evil than banality you know.

^ I paid back the attack on me by making his life a misery, but I have no idea whether that pushed him towards the behaviour that got him arrested.

No. I learnt about his imprisonment via internet stories which were linked  to newspaper accouts written by others he'd presumably annoyed.

I didn't fit him up at all, and I had had no idea that he'd been involved in the behaviour that had led to his arrest.

I think it always pays to be nice, and if not try to make sure nobody will take that against you.

Last edited by Sammy Ambrose (2022-07-06 07:26:25)

Oh, come Robbie.  Gentlemen on 'Talk Ivy' have been taking the piss out of one another for fifteen or sixteen years.  They're not about to quit now.  In the old days, of course, there used to be the occasional get-together dahn The Smoke.  Drink was consumed and much back-slapping and merriment occurred. 
Personally, however, I never attended these shindigs, as they were sometimes in remote places like Shoreditch.  I mean ter say, there are limits.

LOL!!  I'm with you, Robbie.  Our Mums would have got on nicely!

AFS said:

DWs 'Ivy Club' seems rather quiet, with only that moaning bleeder Skipper much in evidence recently.?  I never could work out what it is he actually wears (and where).?
What are the DW lads truly interested in clotheswise??  Italian??  English bespoke??  Boyer/Flusser-wear??  Early 70s Ralph Lauren??
Sammy mentions Turkish shoes...

Sammy mentions Turkish shoes on the Shoe Thread, not in the Ivy Club.

But give the Ivy club time, AFS. As has been said before, see it as a lifeboat.

And don't forget that there are lots of other threads on DW that attract posters. It doesn't always have to be about Weejuns.  It doesn't even have to be about clothes at all. It can be interesting, for example to talk about current affairs with people who view being well-dressed as a relatively  important aspect of life.

Last edited by Sammy Ambrose (2022-07-06 08:43:47)

Sammy, I see they're still playing ping-pong with Roe V.Wade.  I studied US Political Science for three years and remember Brown and Miranda a whole lot better ('Hill Street Blues' refreshes my memory on the latter from time to time) but don't remember much about the abortion issue except being told the Founding Fathers had diddly squat to say on the subject.  Fair dinkum, I'd say, if they were too busy slaughtering the native inhabitants.  But some of your dottier posters might well request a free transfer to the 'New Statesman'.  Actually, no, it would prove too open-minded for most of them.

“ It can be interesting, for example to talk about current affairs with people who view being well-dressed as a relatively  important aspect of life.??

Although on DW it is more likely to be a polemic, rather than an invitation to talk about current affairs.

‘On How The Planet's Going To Shit: The Undeniability Of Climate Change.’ for example.

Just having had a look at their thread on political news I can honestly say I enjoyed the 'Joe Biden Inconvenience Store' bit whilst finding most of the comments on the UK political scene retreads of comments, remarks, opinions, buffoonery peddled over the past half century and more.  Remember John Junor: When the pigs have their snouts in the trough it's difficult from looking at their curly tails to tell a Tory pig from a socialist pig.  I suppose this was said of the era of Wilson, Heath, Maudling, the QUANGO, the unions etc. etc.