Things that time forgot.

[P. G. Tipps]

Gentlemen doffing their hats/caps to ladies when greeting them in the street ...

[greenilex]

Trouble is, they didn't bother doffing to the ones not considered ladies.

So we wimmin cannot approve...

[vinteuil]

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... men standing up when a woman comes into a room / gets up from a chair.

[Bryn]

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... men standing up when a woman comes into a room / gets up from a chair.

Gone, along with women 'knowing their place', thank goodness.

[ahinton]

Gone, along with women 'knowing their place', thank goodness.

Indeed.

[french frank]

Gentlemen doffing their hats/caps to ladies when greeting them in the street ...

Are you sure? No gentlemen round these parts (well, no ladies either) and hard to doff a hoodie …

[P. G. Tipps]

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... men standing up when a woman comes into a room / gets up from a chair.

Indeed and also extending an invitation to the grateful lady to park her very own posterior instead on the chivalrously vacated gentleman's chair ...

[LeMartinPecheur]

Indeed and also extending an invitation to the grateful lady to park her very own posterior instead on the chivalrously vacated gentleman's chair ...

It's also fun to see if one gets thanked or glared at if one holds a door open for an approaching female.

I do of course hold to the view that they are far too weak and/or ignorant about mechanics to do it for themselves...

[Serial_Apologist]

Are you sure? No gentlemen round these parts (well, no ladies either) and hard to doff a hoodie …

Hats (on men) have made quite a comeback here in London - mostly of the broad-rimmed variety. I've taken to wearing my 1960s black leather trilby again lately - wonder when someone'll run off with it...

Speaking in St Sprees this morning of disappearances from shelves (as one does) the checkout lady mentioned Fray Bentos meat pies, which, since I've been mostly a veggie now for some time, I'd not noticed.

[ardcarp]

I've just cleaned the fridge.

[Serial_Apologist]

I've just cleaned the fridge.

In the 1980s I had a wonderful, Soviet Union-manufactured fridge, which defrosted automatically and then self-drained whenever overloaded with ice, then switched itself back on, so that I never lost any perishables.

[jean]

It's also fun to see if one gets thanked or glared at if one holds a door open for an approaching female.

I do of course hold to the view that they are far too weak and/or ignorant about mechanics to do it for themselves...

It's even more ineresting, if you're a woman, to watch the reaction if you hold a door open for an approaching male.

Consternation doesn't begin to describe it - because they're well aware of the subtext involving weakness/ignorance.

[Pulcinella]

My holding of doors for others is in general a non-gender-specific activity, based more often than not on whether it is better for me to go in/out first or the other person(s) involved to do so; and I invariably thank anyone who does hold a door and let me through!

[teamsaint]

My holding of doors for others is in general a non-gender-specific activity, based more often than not on whether it is better for me to go in/out first or the other person(s) involved to do so; and I invariably thank anyone who does hold a door and let me through!

Couldn't have put it better myself. I also take into account whether or not the persons concerned are carrying a tray of tea/coffee, but again in a gender neutral way.
Of course where I work it's usually women carrying the refreshments.



But there are lots more women than men working there........

[Serial_Apologist]

ineresting

The almost disappearance of Cockney, and its successive replacement, first, by Estuary ("ineresting"), then during the past couple of decades by what has become known as Multicultural London English, was the subject of a Radio 4 programme yesterday. 'Oo woulda ever fought it'd 'appen!"