The SF/AAAC/FNB trainwreck thread

Yea settled in for now. We are open now by appointment. Going to italy to get suits made, get more dress shirts for the store and also visit almansa to see about a shoemaker. And maybe pickup some other brands for store... mostly small stuff
 
This has potential. Now if only we could get some of the SWD people to order 6 cases at a time from this Simon character DW could live off the misery for another 9 months.

http://www.styleforum.net/t/34253/briefcase-porn-thread/2360_40#post_8418097

Simon mentioned that his old email server was down and that emails were not getting through. He has a new outlook account and has been good about replying. I'll post here if/when I have more information or updates.

Just for perspective: I put down a deposit in December of 2014.


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prince nez said:
This has potential. Now if only we could get some of the SWD people to order 6 cases at a time from this Simon character DW could live off the misery for another 9 months.

http://www.styleforum.net/t/34253/briefcase-porn-thread/2360_40#post_8418097

Simon mentioned that his old email server was down and that emails were not getting through. He has a new outlook account and has been good about replying. I'll post here if/when I have more information or updates.

Just for perspective: I put down a deposit in December of 2014.


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mm 2 years wait for a MTO briefcase.

I maybe out of touch with the young people these days but when I last remembered briefcases were a pretty standard items you got off the shelf and they didn't need customising for your hands or whatever.

I am curious what the purchaser is using in the 2 intervening years - whilst waiting for perfection
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You just don't say Japs anymore. It's like saying Abo here in Australia, unless you are on then it's off limits.
 
Out of interest, what is the general view of the expression "tar baby" in the US?

In Australia, the expression is not so well-known but to anyone who knows it, the association would be with the "Brer Rabbit" stories by Uncle Remus (Joel Chandler Harris), where Brer Fox persuades Brer Rabbit to hit a tar baby - a doll-like figure covered in sticky tar - that he put beside the road. Brer Rabbit becomes stuck and cannot escape. In other words, using "tar baby" as a metaphor means a sticky situation (quite literally) and isn't racist.

However, of course, language changes over time and so perhaps it is now perceived as having racist undertones in the US.

On the other hand, perhaps it's a case like "niggardly", which has nothing to do with race whatsoever but does sound like a highly derogatory term for African-Americans, and which has unfortunately been mistaken for an insulting, racist term.
 
Journeyman said:
Out of interest, what is the general view of the expression "tar baby" in the US?

In Australia, the expression is not so well-known but to anyone who knows it, the association would be with the "Brer Rabbit" stories by Uncle Remus (Joel Chandler Harris), where Brer Fox persuades Brer Rabbit to hit a tar baby - a doll-like figure covered in sticky tar - that he put beside the road. Brer Rabbit becomes stuck and cannot escape. In other words, using "tar baby" as a metaphor means a sticky situation (quite literally) and isn't racist.

However, of course, language changes over time and so perhaps it is now perceived as having racist undertones in the US.

On the other hand, perhaps it's a case like "niggardly", which has nothing to do with race whatsoever but does sound like a highly derogatory term for African-Americans, and which has unfortunately been mistaken for an insulting, racist term.
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The tar baby reference in the Song of the South was a double entendre for a sticky situation and that black people were conniving.
 
doghouse said:
The tar baby reference in the Song of the South was a double entendre for a sticky situation and that black people were conniving.
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Well aren't the Uncle Remus stories strongly based in African folklore? Sub-Saharan Africans traditionally believe that the rabbit is the most intelligent of animals. Although it is weak and helpless before numerous predators, it is nonetheless ubiquitous, so obviously it survives by its wits, which actually seems kind of logical. That this would be an analogy for people of African ancestry suffering under slavery and using their wits to circumvent the worst aspects of oppression would be unsurprising.
 
Jan Libourel said:
Well aren't the Uncle Remus stories strongly based in African folklore? Sub-Saharan Africans traditionally believe that the rabbit is the most intelligent of animals. Although it is weak and helpless before numerous predators, it is nonetheless ubiquitous, so obviously it survives by its wits, which actually seems kind of logical. That this would be an analogy for people of African ancestry suffering under slavery and using their wits to circumvent the worst aspects of oppression would be unsurprising.
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The stories were completely Afro American in lineage with Brer Rabbit as the aforementioned hero. The Song of the South however was a total bastardized version by Disney. I actually own a copy on VHS still believe it or not.
 
I have vague memories of having seen Song of the South at the time of its release. Since that was 70 years ago and I was only four years old, any memories I might have are understandably vague.

I very much liked the character of Uncle Remus in the actual Joel Chandler Harris-- versed in the traditions of his people, patient, kindly and wise in his folksy, unlettered way. Harris was quite sympathetic to the interests of black people, at least for a white Southerner of his era, as I recall.
 
Looks like PooPoker finally got his wish - an iGent passed away and his family have agreed to give all his stuff to Spoo to sell on. Sure, it's not KitonBrioni and the level of alligator products is probably for the worse as a result, nevertheless Spoo rides in as the White Knight on his red Ferrari stallion to raise money for the family.

Sounds like a nice gesture but at no point does he say he will be doing this for free - i.e. the funds raised on the dead guy's stuff will go to the family all right... minus Spoo's commission it seems! Not only that, he's getting other SF suckers to do the listings for him so he doesn't have to pay the eBay fees!!

http://www.styleforum.net/t/525112/...-needed-to-aid-the-family-of-a-fallen-brother

So where exactly is the charitable act? Seems like a normal business transaction at best, profiting from tragedy at the worst. #ForBrian more like #ForPooPoker...
 
prince nez said:
Looks like PooPoker finally got his wish - an iGent passed away and his family have agreed to give all his stuff to Spoo to sell on. Sure, it's not KitonBrioni and the level of alligator products is probably for the worse as a result, nevertheless Spoo rides in as the White Knight on his red Ferrari stallion to raise money for the family.

Sounds like a nice gesture but at no point does he say he will be doing this for free - i.e. the funds raised on the dead guy's stuff will go to the family all right... minus Spoo's commission it seems! Not only that, he's getting other SF suckers to do the listings for him so he doesn't have to pay the eBay fees!!

http://www.styleforum.net/t/525112/...-needed-to-aid-the-family-of-a-fallen-brother

So where exactly is the charitable act? Seems like a normal business transaction at best, profiting from tragedy at the worst. #ForBrian more like #ForPooPoker...
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Here is a more humanitarian gesture

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prince nez said:
Sounds like a nice gesture but at no point does he say he will be doing this for free - i.e. the funds raised on the dead guy's stuff will go to the family all right... minus Spoo's commission it seems! Not only that, he's getting other SF suckers to do the listings for him so he doesn't have to pay the eBay fees!!

http://www.styleforum.net/t/525112/...-needed-to-aid-the-family-of-a-fallen-brother
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I was reading through that last night and I think that Spoo said that he will *reduce* his commission - but not waive it entirely.
 
I was set to send him some stuff until I read that he was making money off it. He is such a relentless money grubber.
 
some new *notes* added since i first looked at it.

** Note that many of you had asked me to sell pieces of yours and donate your portion of the sale to his family - I can facilitate this if your auctions are also going live that same week, so I will contact you if your items are. If your items that I am selling are not going live during the week, I can still make the donation to the family, however it may not get the same exposure, just FYI.

** Double note - for full disclosure, I am also deeply discounting my commission rate on these auctions, the great majority of the payout goes right to Brian's family.
 
What a stand up guy.

YOU can donate what you get from the sale

HE is discounting his fees

Wow. Top, top humanitarian
 
Everything he does is viewed as a transaction to make money and everyone is a mark to be sold to. Even when he posts his admittedly nice finds in the thrift thread, the pictures are taken after the Luxeswap tag is put on and conspicuously displayed to remind people that the item is for sale. A good portion of his WAYWRN pics are stuff he is selling. There is nothing genuine about him.
 
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