[Misc] So was Tony Soprano right all along...............

METALMICKY said:

So is it just me in my old age feeling like Tony? Now fair play it was only the Harvester so hardly fine dining but surely it's still good manners to take your your baseball hat off. Packed to the rafters yesterday and I counted 4 blokes scoffing with their hats on. One was forgivable as looked only 15 and you could blame the parents. However, the other three were early mid 30's and aside the manners perhaps too old to have baseball hats on backwards.

Rant over!

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

I think you have resolved your conundrum by yourself.

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

I think you have resolved your conundrum by yourself.

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Whitechapel said:

If the people they’re with don’t care that the person is wearing a hat then why the f*ck would anybody else care?

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Whitechapel said:

If the people they’re with don’t care that the person is wearing a hat then why the f*ck would anybody else care?

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Stat Brother said:

A couple of months ago, not through choice I found myself in a Harvester.

The menu was slightly better than I expected/remembered.
The staff were pleasant and friendly.
The food was plenty good enough.

I could have paid a lot more for a lot worse.

It'll still not be in the culinary rotation of the Stats, but by the same token Harvester will no longer be dismissed out of hand.

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METALMICKY said:

Does you using the f word validate your opinion more? As a later poster points out it's just standards. Its like the Albion fans who don't let people exit the packed trains before they pile on. It's called courtesy and good manners.

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Whitechapel said:

I don’t think it validates my point any more or any less, if I’m honest. It’s a word.

It’s nothing like people barging on to a train before people get off which actually causes an inconvenience for people. Having a set system of who moves first makes things run smoother for everyone. Not wearing a hat at a dining table is an arbitrary rule made up decades before the people in question were born and has no actual reasoning behind it. There’s no more logic behind it then deciding people should take their watches off on public transport to show respect to the drivers timekeeping. I know more than one bloke under the age of 30 who wears a hat absolutely everywhere because they’re embarrassed by the fact they’re balding. At least one of the blokes in there was probably in a similar boat. It’s another problem with a society where more and more young men feel pressured in to reaching stupid standards of masculinity set by social media and reality TV.

Personally I’d find it more rude if the person I was dining with was so bored of my company that they spent time counting how many people were wearing hats than if they were wearing one themselves. But that’s just me, like.

You’re in a Harvester, not The Ritz. If some bloke you’ve never met before feels more comfortable in a hat then let them be.

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el punal said:

When I scoff a hot dog/burger/piglet’s pie in the West Upper concourse I will make sure that I remove my imaginary, non-existent baseball cap so as to not offend the masses. I will insist on wearing my smoking jacket in those convivial surroundings though.

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Whitechapel said:

I don’t think it validates my point any more or any less, if I’m honest. It’s a word.

It’s nothing like people barging on to a train before people get off which actually causes an inconvenience for people. Having a set system of who moves first makes things run smoother for everyone. Not wearing a hat at a dining table is an arbitrary rule made up decades before the people in question were born and has no actual reasoning behind it. There’s no more logic behind it then deciding people should take their watches off on public transport to show respect to the drivers timekeeping. I know more than one bloke under the age of 30 who wears a hat absolutely everywhere because they’re embarrassed by the fact they’re balding. At least one of the blokes in there was probably in a similar boat. It’s another problem with a society where more and more young men feel pressured in to reaching stupid standards of masculinity set by social media and reality TV.

Personally I’d find it more rude if the person I was dining with was so bored of my company that they spent time counting how many people were wearing hats than if they were wearing one themselves. But that’s just me, like.

You’re in a Harvester, not The Ritz. If some bloke you’ve never met before feels more comfortable in a hat then let them be.

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GT49er said:

Fair enough. You'd wouldn't half look a plonker though.

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Whitechapel said:

I don’t think it validates my point any more or any less, if I’m honest. It’s a word.

It’s nothing like people barging on to a train before people get off which actually causes an inconvenience for people. Having a set system of who moves first makes things run smoother for everyone. Not wearing a hat at a dining table is an arbitrary rule made up decades before the people in question were born and has no actual reasoning behind it. There’s no more logic behind it then deciding people should take their watches off on public transport to show respect to the drivers timekeeping. I know more than one bloke under the age of 30 who wears a hat absolutely everywhere because they’re embarrassed by the fact they’re balding. At least one of the blokes in there was probably in a similar boat. It’s another problem with a society where more and more young men feel pressured in to reaching stupid standards of masculinity set by social media and reality TV.

Personally I’d find it more rude if the person I was dining with was so bored of my company that they spent time counting how many people were wearing hats than if they were wearing one themselves. But that’s just me, like.

You’re in a Harvester, not The Ritz. If some bloke you’ve never met before feels more comfortable in a hat then let them be.

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Guinness Boy said:

All completely true but does it HAVE to be a baseball cap? Shove an Englishman in a flat cap or a bowler so that we know his class status FFS. Or a trilby. Or beeney.

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