tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post636956912120197936..comments2023-11-03T07:23:30.909-05:00Comments on The Monarchist 2.0: The Traditional Gentlemen's ClubUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-73679623942684520172007-04-11T08:34:00.000-05:002007-04-11T08:34:00.000-05:00While doing research for a novel in which the prot...While doing research for a novel in which the protagonist goes to England during WW2, I came across this article.<BR/><BR/>Very informative and educational! Even though I am an American, I've always been of the Victorian and Edwardian era in the UK's history.<BR/><BR/>The idea of a traditional gentlmen's club is wholly appealing. It's shame that no such thing exists here in America. <BR/>Gentlmen's club here refers to very low class strip halls. Now, I've no problem with the female form,quite the opposite, I enjoy it immensely.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I'm straying away from the point of my posting. I spent a great deal of time reading the rest of your entries and have enjoyed them immensely. I'm going to subscribe using Google Reader.<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-28731820309436772232007-01-14T18:45:00.000-05:002007-01-14T18:45:00.000-05:00I have limited the crossed out part to the club an...I have limited the crossed out part to the club and not the society. It does sound rather ghastly plain to recommend as an Old-World Gentlemen's Club.The Monarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10362198840081512460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-34292173269470972272007-01-14T04:52:00.000-05:002007-01-14T04:52:00.000-05:00I was curious as to why the Commonwealth Club had ...I was curious as to why the Commonwealth Club had been crossed out, especially as it is the private members' club of the Royal Commonwealth Society. The pictures of it provided in its website are absolutely dire though; the Beijing airport has more soul. It claims to be "the first club of its kind to open in London for several decades and as such is totally unique", possibly in its having been influenced by hospitals.Keirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17780519140837852601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-4204808985629022722007-01-06T22:49:00.000-05:002007-01-06T22:49:00.000-05:00Oh dear. The Commonwealth Club has been duly scrat...Oh dear. The Commonwealth Club has been duly scratched out, and will henceforth not be on my list of places to stay whilst in Londontown. I hope the Commonwealth Club in Sydney, Australia, has not been similarly debased, assuming they are associated.<br /><br />Another one in Toronto that I forgot to mention, and which I've been a few times, is the National Club, still in the original building in the central core, replete with Old Dominion character. Unfortunately the original building of the Rideau Club in Ottawa burnt down, and they've never found a suitable replacement. Instead they rent an opulent penthouse office tower overlooking Parliament Hill, which is not quite the same thing. In MacDonald, Laurier or Borden's day, they would have built another stone building with the money of their members. Even though its members include the Governor-General, Prime Minister and various Captains of Industry, the will is just not there. They could have taken over the old American Embassy right across from Parliament, for example.<br /><br />Incidentally, there must be some fine gentlemen establishments in New York, no?The Monarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10362198840081512460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-73231711378885583692007-01-06T16:33:00.000-05:002007-01-06T16:33:00.000-05:00I am told the Commonwealth Club used to be a prope...I am told the Commonwealth Club used to be a proper club but, sadly, was completely gutted by modernisers a few years back and replaced by minimalist all-white boredom. It's all "contemporary" now. The RCS has really declined, from a combination of gentleman's club and learned society (originally the Royal Empire Society) to a debased, politically-correct organization obsessed with the dreaded multi-culturalism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-60066095961324351842007-01-06T12:26:00.000-05:002007-01-06T12:26:00.000-05:00Great clubs you have mentioned. The Toronto Club w...Great clubs you have mentioned. The Toronto Club was also a great gentleman's club in the past, although women are now allowed in.<br /><br />I am fond of many Old World ideas and I hate how people are upset that a group of men would want to socialize together in privacy. It's even more upsetting that they get very emotional about it and call it discriminatory.<br /><br />People should be allowed to associate with whomever they wish, without an angry mob of Liberals telling them they're elitist jerks.WEDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00897749565496304270noreply@blogger.com