Problems Only Steampunks Have

[GideonFaile]

Being asked, mockingly, when the train's going to arrive.
(I usually answer this one with something like "Whichever departure time gets me away from you the fastest.")

Also: catching your pocket watch's chain on things.

[OswaldBastable]

No hat racks in pubs anymore

or coat wracks, my nerves start to strain when people walk on my greatcoat when its draped on the back of my chair or I find that both myself and the people I'm with have all accidently got there chairs on top of it

[tophatdan]

No hat racks in pubs anymore

no hat racks anywhere it seems

[Rockula]

No hat racks in pubs anymore

no hat racks anywhere it seems

Very few hats sadly, ergo....

[Auntie Ludmilla]

Sorry, too techno-moron to figure out hoew to do the quote-transfer, however, in response to Mr Edward Barstable, (chair leg on great coat), I can sympathise totally.... Try chair leg(s) on very long skirt.... Then trying to stand up to get to the bar.... Thank heaven for strong belts

[James Harrison]

No hat racks in pubs anymore

or coat wracks, my nerves start to strain when people walk my greatcoat when its draped on the back of my chair or I find that both myself and the people I'm with have all accidently got there chairs on top of it

I ruined the lining of my first 3/4 length coat that way.  Fortunately it wasn't vintage apparel, but that is hardly the point. 

[Auntie Ludmilla]

Sorry, Oswald, for getting your name so badly wrong.... Rubbish short term memory, as well as computer skills!

[MWBailey]

retrofit your hat with its own hatrack!

[Thaumaturgical Nuissance]

Sorry, Oswald, for getting your name so badly wrong.... Rubbish short term memory, as well as computer skills!

Madam, if you look below the text field while typing a reply you will see a window titled "Topic Summary" and there you will find a list of all that has been said up to this point, simply locate the message you wish to quote and look to the right of the screen, where you will find a bit of text that says "Insert Quote". Click it and it will do just that.

In addition, if you wish to do it a slightly harder way, you may type [quote ] at the beginning of the quote and [/quote ] at the end, without the space before the last bracket, and copy/paste the desired bit of text between them like a sandwich.


-Seeing otherwise useful gears glued to the outside of an otherwise beautiful piece of obsidian and weeping for shame and fear someone will think that's what you mean when you tell them you are a steampunk.
-Having to constantly tell people that while I'm flattered, I do not actually own a plane, or that if I do I can't honestly say where I left it, however if I DID own it, I would most certainly be amenable to taking them up in it.

[Auntie Ludmilla]

Madam, if you look below the text field while typing a reply you will see a window titled "Topic Summary" and there you will find a list of all that has been said up to this point, simply locate the message you wish to quote and look to the right of the screen, where you will find a bit of text that says "Insert Quote". Click it and it will do just that.



I clicked it, and it did just that! Thankyou for the tip, much appreciated.

[tophatdan]

retrofit your hat with its own hatrack!

i have concidered this many times with a magician's appearing cane and a few pegs, however i fear that a jolt would cause it to propell the hat off of my head with some force...

[Burr]

-Seeing otherwise useful gears glued to the outside of an otherwise beautiful piece of obsidian and weeping for shame and fear someone will think that's what you mean when you tell them you are a steampunk.

Not a fan of seeing gears being used for decoration? That's a pretty common theme here.

[Flynn MacCallister]

-Seeing otherwise useful gears glued to the outside of an otherwise beautiful piece of obsidian and weeping for shame and fear someone will think that's what you mean when you tell them you are a steampunk.

Not a fan of seeing gears being used for decoration? That's a pretty common theme here.

And a lot of us wish it wasn't, let me tell you. Particularly the combination of real gears, glued, and to something that they don't belong on.

The cogwheel-as-a-focus on a hat, I can live with. A cog-inspired motif (quite some time ago, there was a wonderful lady on here who had designed a form of cog-paisley... marvellous!) can -- in the right context -- work out nicely. But something looking like a watch exploded into a pot of glue and got dumped on something else? Can we give that one a miss, please?

[OswaldBastable]

Sorry, too techno-moron to figure out hoew to do the quote-transfer, however, in response to Mr Edward Barstable, (chair leg on great coat), I can sympathise totally.... Try chair leg(s) on very long skirt.... Then trying to stand up to get to the bar.... Thank heaven for strong belts

eeeek

Sorry, Oswald, for getting your name so badly wrong.... Rubbish short term memory, as well as computer skills!

I'll live  

No hat racks in pubs anymore

or coat wracks, my nerves start to strain when people walk my greatcoat when its draped on the back of my chair or I find that both myself and the people I'm with have all accidently got there chairs on top of it

I ruined the lining of my first 3/4 length coat that way.  Fortunately it wasn't vintage apparel, but that is hardly the point. 

The horror 


Clearly we need coat/hat wracks to be installed across the land!

[James Harrison]

Quite.  The lining was only polyester, but the coat itself was 100% wool and rather expensive.  Not to mention brand new.  I was not happy! 

[Johannes Schiffer]

Having an uncoordinated moment and tripping over your cane/umbrella.

Also: Finding somewhere convenient to prop your cane/umbrella when sitting down to a meal (or anything else).

I encounter both of these problems quite frequently. I have problems somewhat with balance and I can never determine whether I'm walking properly with my umbrella so I consistently trip over it. The rest of my clothing gets in the way frequently also, particularly my baldric which I haven't got tight enough so every time I lean forward, the front of it is pulled downward by gravity a good two or three inches. Rather a shame, really.

[Burr]

-Seeing otherwise useful gears glued to the outside of an otherwise beautiful piece of obsidian and weeping for shame and fear someone will think that's what you mean when you tell them you are a steampunk.

Not a fan of seeing gears being used for decoration? That's a pretty common theme here.

And a lot of us wish it wasn't, let me tell you. Particularly the combination of real gears, glued, and to something that they don't belong on.

The cogwheel-as-a-focus on a hat, I can live with. A cog-inspired motif (quite some time ago, there was a wonderful lady on here who had designed a form of cog-paisley... marvellous!) can -- in the right context -- work out nicely. But something looking like a watch exploded into a pot of glue and got dumped on something else? Can we give that one a miss, please?

So you don't like things like these ideas? http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,20042.0.html

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Or is it only this sort of thing?

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[Thaumaturgical Nuissance]

Allow me to clarify sir. I love gears. I love them very much, and I love it even more when someone uses them in such a way that they LOOK useful, whether or not they are. That ring you posted is a beautiful example of this, it is both aesthetically pleasing, and one can see how the gears could be useful in some way. I love this forum because this is the trend, you all endeavour to CREATE things, useful, cool little gadgets that I would kill to own.

However, due to my love of gears, it hurts me very badly when I see them abused, I feel they are being abused by anyone who thinks "steampunk?1! oh hei, i can do tht by gluring geres to stuf, rite?" and then glues them where they are neither aesthetically pleasing nor useful in even the wildest dreams of Mr. Silverstein. The helmet being a good example of this trend.

The reason I mentioned it was because I saw a gemstone with gears that had been sloppily glued to the outside and then labeled as "Steampunk". I honestly did weep, and I think anyone in my position would have. People see stuff like that and then think "Oh, steampunk = retarded, glad to get that cleared up." and then think of the rest of us as having no sense of propriety or fashion, which in turn means they'll go and tell their friends that all steampunk is is gluing gears to every available surface and then giving the resultant pile of barely discernible rubbish some strange archaic name.

[Burr]

I think we are of a similar mindset then. It's really a matter of good taste (and some pride in the craft). 

[James Harrison]

Yes indeed.  Gears that look they have some use or function = good.  Gears just randomly applied to anything= murderous rage  .      

[Burr]

Genuine mechanisms (working or preserved whole) or tasteful gear/machine motif and hints = fine

Heap of junk slapped onto something that looks like the bag lady from Labyrinth fell into the glue pot = bad

?

 

[Thaumaturgical Nuissance]

 

Quite so

[oldskoolpunk]

• Having to take TIG welding class to weld your brass parts together.
• Every time someone sends you a text message, your antique Teletype machine starts up and hammers it out on paper. Very loudly.
• Spam at 5 characters per second.
• Trying to buy neon lightbulbs and discovering they're now expensive antiques.
• Needing screws with Whitworth threads.

[Tobias Lestrade]

Being asked such questions as

-are you from the past?

*the latter is one fine youth of Hull who audaciously proposed the question to me and my girlfriend*

getting your waistcoat caught on things at the arms O_o *though you understand that that is merely a work grievance*

[steamtastic]

I got called that once and thought it was quite funny. I went on to come up with a story about a confused Victorian time traveller trapped in our time but mistaken for a Steampunk. I’ve got a few funny and childish plots. All I need now is micromedia flash 8 and I can turn it into and animation. Anyone know where I can get it for less than £300?