Are there any real gentlemen on the USMB?

[random3434]

As some of you might already be aware, the subject of being a gentlemen came up in a recent thread- specifically the contrast between the 1st and 2nd-wavers who believed in equality, responsibility, and independence and the modern neo-gentlemen who, much like those same groups who took over the Coloured Civil Rights movement, seek to invert, rather than abolish, the historical system of exploitation and socio-economic and political inequality.



Or do you just play one on T.V.?

 

[dilloduck]

Or do you just play one on T.V.?

I just play one IRL. To be a gentlemen here opens one up to ridicule and suspicion.

 

[Madeline]

There are tons! How can you ask that, EZ?

Bootneck, Colin, Middleman, Toro, Trajan, Radioman, The Light, froggy, Lumpy, Kalam -- so many, I cannot name all of them. Truely misognystic men are the exception here IMO, not the rule.

 

[Sherry]

This sounds serious....like a college essay question.

 

[dilloduck]

This sounds serious....like a college essay question.

It is----your very status as a person depends on your answer

 

[random3434]

This sounds serious....like a college essay question.

Yeah, you know me and how serious I am on the USMB!


Now send me some more pics in my PM box woman!

 

[California Girl]

Navy1960! That dude rocks!

 

[hjmick]

Huh?

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Neanderthal and proud!

 

[strollingbones]

mr fitnah....sunni man....ring....radio...saveliberty....huggy...meister*...xox...hjmick...mr. h...toro...
navy 1960..sfc ollie....jimh52(?)...immie*...manuel...spoonman...middleman....skull....the list goes on....i am sure i have left people out...

* always gentlemen regardless of what is going on....

 

[goldcatt]

Neanderthal and proud!

 

[Luissa]

No

 

[Sarah G]

My favorite gentleman?

Harry Dresden

 

[strollingbones]

elvis, jeremy....samson..house...

and zander*

 

[strollingbones]

gaux....this is hard...i find many of the men on here to be gentlemen....i feel like i am leaving some really nice men out....

i cant believe i left zander out....he is always above the fussing

 

[dilloduck]

Anyone who thinks that they can tell a gentleman by the manner in which he posts is bound to be sorely disappointed.

 

[JBeukema]

As some of you might already be aware, the subject of being a gentlemen came up in a recent thread- specifically the contrast between the 1st and 2nd-wavers who believed in equality, responsibility, and independence and the modern neo-gentlemen who, much like those same groups who took over the Coloured Civil Rights movement, seek to invert, rather than abolish, the historical system of exploitation and socio-economic and political inequality.



Or do you just play one on T.V.?

If you're going to go rdeaning, try learning your vocabulary words for the week.

The term gentleman (from Latin gentilis, belonging to a race or "gens", and "man", cognate with the French word gentilhomme, the Spanish gentilhombre and the Italian gentil uomo or gentiluomo), in its original and strict signification, denoted a man of good family, analogous to the Latin generosus (its invariable translation in English-Latin documents). In this sense the word equates with the French gentilhomme (nobleman), which latter term was in Great Britain long confined to the peerage. The term "gentry" (from the Old French genterise for gentelise) has much of the social class significance of the French noblesse or of the German Adel, but without the strict technical requirements of those traditions (such as quarters of nobility). This was what the rebels under John Ball in the 14th century meant when they repeated:

When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?[1]
​

John Selden in Titles of Honour (1614), discussing the title "gentleman", speaks of "our English use of it" as "convertible with nobilis" (an ambiguous word, like 'noble' meaning elevated either by rank or by personal qualities) and describes in connection with it the forms of ennobling in various European countries.
To a degree, "gentleman" signified a man with an income derived from property, a legacy or some other source, and was thus independently wealthy and did not need to work. The term was particularly used of those who could not claim nobility or even the rank of esquire.

Gentleman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Kinda the opposite of equality...

 

[Luissa]

As some of you might already be aware, the subject of being a gentlemen came up in a recent thread- specifically the contrast between the 1st and 2nd-wavers who believed in equality, responsibility, and independence and the modern neo-gentlemen who, much like those same groups who took over the Coloured Civil Rights movement, seek to invert, rather than abolish, the historical system of exploitation and socio-economic and political inequality.



Or do you just play one on T.V.?

If you're going to go rdeaning, try learning your vocabulary words for the week.

The term gentleman (from Latin gentilis, belonging to a race or "gens", and "man", cognate with the French word gentilhomme, the Spanish gentilhombre and the Italian gentil uomo or gentiluomo), in its original and strict signification, denoted a man of good family, analogous to the Latin generosus (its invariable translation in English-Latin documents). In this sense the word equates with the French gentilhomme (nobleman), which latter term was in Great Britain long confined to the peerage. The term "gentry" (from the Old French genterise for gentelise) has much of the social class significance of the French noblesse or of the German Adel, but without the strict technical requirements of those traditions (such as quarters of nobility). This was what the rebels under John Ball in the 14th century meant when they repeated:

When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?[1]
​

John Selden in Titles of Honour (1614), discussing the title "gentleman", speaks of "our English use of it" as "convertible with nobilis" (an ambiguous word, like 'noble' meaning elevated either by rank or by personal qualities) and describes in connection with it the forms of ennobling in various European countries.
To a degree, "gentleman" signified a man with an income derived from property, a legacy or some other source, and was thus independently wealthy and did not need to work. The term was particularly used of those who could not claim nobility or even the rank of esquire.

Gentleman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Kinda the opposite of equality...

Shut up!

 

[Ravi]

Just how big is that chip on Buttemia's shoulder?

 

[random3434]

Just how big is that chip on Buttemia's shoulder?

I guess he doesn't like parody.