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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Dec 24, 2022 2:16:47 GMT
Some Yukaslavian woman once claimed you can tell a man by his watch and his shoes. She had a previous job in some fashion boutique in Marbella. As a man of no watch or shoes at the time it made me wonder. Now though it is the man's bookcase, or even the woman's bookcase which can tell them appart. It's especially noticiable if you are autistic as they never look at the eyes. How much does this chick know - we'll check her bookcase and find out!
It's an interesting interaction. On the one hand you can easily tell the bookcase is the thing regarding display of knowledge and interlect, but often the details on eaxactly which books they read can show the opposite. I often watch a chap who does video on Ukraine and his bookcase goes right up to the ceiling and is the size of at least the back wall. He's an ex-lawyer you see. I've seen crazier examples where the outliers will have an entire home that looks like a library. I had a freind who used to live in such a house, as his dad was professor of English at Oxford. I've even got about 50 of his old books myself as a gift.
It's become a bit of a hobby of mine checking out the books our politicans read. The real cheap tricks are evedent becasuse they have behind them a stack of some sponsored book, perhaps one they wrote theirself. Sometimes they can display a whole bookshelf of books they have written themself. Then it starts to look real cool.
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Post by Red Rackham on Dec 24, 2022 9:47:49 GMT
As kids mum would always say she could judge a person by his fingernails and his shoes, and I think she was right which is why I have always had clean neatly trimmed finger nails and polished shoes never 'trainers', I'm not judging it's personal choice.
As for books, I'm not exactly highbrow but there are a few books in my bookcase that may surprise, they surprise me tbh lol. War & Peace for instance, over the years as people have perused my bookcase which visitors occasionally do, they sometimes mention the Tolstoy classic. I tell them, if you remove it you will see my bookmark is at chapter (cant remember exactly) two or three, where it's been for the past 20 years. I'm not a big fan of Tolstoy or the Napoleonic wars, but it's a lot of book and I think I paid £1 for it in a second hand bookshop. A more recent example of a book I started but will never finish is 'A War of Nerves' recommended by Carty as it happens. Again it's a lot of book, but too highbrow for me.
I quite like auto/biographies, memoirs, some history. I even have a few volumes of Victorian poetry, who'd a guessed that lol. I don't have a large collection of books, about 300 I think, the vast majority of which are non-fiction, I'm not big on novels. My book collection was culled by 20% or 30% when we moved to this property about ten years ago. I sorted the wheat from the chaff so to speak. But I quite like books, when we're in town Mrs R will usually attempt to steer me away from Waterstones. I can spend hours browsing in bookshops.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Dec 24, 2022 16:01:37 GMT
As kids mum would always say she could judge a person by his fingernails and his shoes, and I think she was right which is why I have always had clean neatly trimmed finger nails and polished shoes never 'trainers', I'm not judging it's personal choice. As for books, I'm not exactly highbrow but there are a few books in my bookcase that may surprise, they surprise me tbh lol. War & Peace for instance, over the years as people have perused my bookcase which visitors occasionally do, they sometimes mention the Tolstoy classic. I tell them, if you remove it you will see my bookmark is at chapter (cant remember exactly) two or three, where it's been for the past 20 years. I'm not a big fan of Tolstoy or the Napoleonic wars, but it's a lot of book and I think I paid £1 for it in a second hand bookshop. A more recent example of a book I started but will never finish is 'A War of Nerves' recommended by Carty as it happens. Again it's a lot of book, but too highbrow for me. I quite like auto/biographies, memoirs, some history. I even have a few volumes of Victorian poetry, who'd a guessed that lol. I don't have a large collection of books, about 300 I think, the vast majority of which are non-fiction, I'm not big on novels. My book collection was culled by 20% or 30% when we moved to this property about ten years ago. I sorted the wheat from the chaff so to speak. But I quite like books, when we're in town Mrs R will usually attempt to steer me away from Waterstones. I can spend hours browsing in bookshops. Iv'e got quite a few poetry books. I have one published in 1910 of Tennyson and it is kind of odd reading the preface to it.
I was interested to see our UKIP economist Professor Tim Congdon has Wealth of Nations next to Das Kapital. I'd give him some respect for that. You have to read both sides to it I suppose.
By the way this thread was inspired by this clip from GGTN. You have two chicks, one interviewing the other. One is the programme's host and the other a WTO lawyer. The journalist has a super minimalist bookcase and the lawyer chick has what I would call a serious bookcase behind her. You have to be a damn smart lawyer to deal with the WTO, so it looks like they are speaking to someone who knows her onions.
It really is not the same with our lot.
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Post by johnofgwent on Dec 24, 2022 22:38:10 GMT
Years ago my wife turned the telly on to watch a documentary and became utterly captivated with a screensaver on a laptop on a shelf in the background she utterly forgot what issue the programme was discussing.
She had the video running to capture the show and she told me about it so I sat and watched the playback. Apart from discovering the screen saver was Johnny castaway I also remember nothing of the show or the background to the item under discussion.
Maybe I’ve been desensitised to this now but I generally ignore - or try to ignore - things like bookshelves as I assume they’ve been rigged to boost the standing of the interviewee in the eyes of the audience
To be honest the most memorable interview I can think of now was not one I watched live but one brought to my attention by a work colleague and it featured a woman whose bookcase behind her in her covid lockdown zoom call included what I’d swear was a dildo.
I can’t recall a word of what she was being interviewed about either. Visual distractions like that have that kind of impact.
I don’t even know if the interview link was a spoof or real. But to me after what I think was over 100 days of house arrest I found it a strain on the heart and lungs to watch.
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Post by Morgan on Dec 27, 2022 7:54:48 GMT
Some Yukaslavian woman once claimed you can tell a man by his watch and his shoes. <snip> Sherlock said a man's shoes told you most about him. Of course that was in the day when they had to be polished and may have to be repaired. Today you have to decide if they've been round the athletics track or to a wedding in their trainers. |
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Post by walterpaisley on Dec 27, 2022 12:18:44 GMT
Some Yukaslavian woman once claimed you can tell a man by his watch and his shoes. <snip> Sherlock said a man's shoes told you most about him. Of course that was in the day when they had to be polished and may have to be repaired. Today you have to decide if they've been round the athletics track or to a wedding in their trainers. Just popped into town and bumped into a neighbour. He's a bit knackered up these days, due to old age and arthritis, and walks with a frame, but one look at his shoes tells you everything one needs to know about his past - mirror-polished black Oxfords. Sure enough, he was in the army and then spent twenty-odd years as a copper.. (I don't think anyone would be able to judge a SINGLE thing about me based on MY bookshelves, mind..) |
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