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[Anonymous No.21270839]

Books on how to be a British gentleman?

[Anonymous No.21270845]

>>21270839
>Books on how to be a British gentleman?
there's no point. thats not how you get the girls anymore

[Anonymous No.21270853]

>>21270839
Unironically

[Anonymous No.21271842]

>>21270839
no books, just be born rich. clothes make the man.
England is so backwards it’s funny and I for one welcome their decline in every aspect.

[Anonymous No.21271849]

>>21270839
He was German...

[Anonymous No.21271895]

>>21270839
Read the books of Sir Roger Scruton. He covers everything from wine tasting and fox hunting to art, philosophy and politics.

[Anonymous No.21272035]

>>21270839
You have to be born into it. I'm not saying it isn't theoretically possible, but the people that know won't give you a step by step guide, they just assume that you'll tend to your own education and be able to see what is "obviously" valuable from the English perspective.

[Anonymous No.21272041]

>>21270839
Few centuries of incest and luck.

[Anonymous No.21272349]

>>21272035
Being born in Britain is a part of it, but there it is also related to how one caries himself and what his values are. Mostly it has to do with how you treat other people. A gentlemen is always courteous, polite and recognizes his own worth and dignity, as well as that of others.

[Anonymous No.21272414]

>>21270839
Why the fuck would you want to be?

[Anonymous No.21272429]

>>21272414
Because we are dashing.

[Anonymous No.21272446]

All this trash talk, can we get some Anglosphere etiquette books in here please.

[Anonymous No.21272480]

>>21272446
These thing are deliberately not written. It is quite literally a club and you ain't in it. You would do well to read good English lit and essayists however, they tend to reference worthwhile tips and important do-nots.

PG Wodehouse, EM Forster, the Amises, even DH Lawrence and Hitchens. There's nothing easy about this.

[Anonymous No.21272562]

>>21272414
bruh british gentlemen are goated no cap

[Anonymous No.21272884]

Can we flip this thread to suggestions around a "Southern Gentleman" reading list? If we get enough together I'll make a chart.

[Anonymous No.21272887]

You should remember to find yourself a faithful gal.

[Anonymous No.21272891]

>>21272429
>vaping
Homosexual

[Anonymous No.21272904]

>>21272446
>>21272480
pic rel, maybe.

[Anonymous No.21273008]

>>21272884
southern as in Italian, right?

[Anonymous No.21273012]

>>21273008
>looks at pic
frankly, my whop, i don't give a damn

[Anonymous No.21273033]

>>21273008
As in Southern American.

[Anonymous No.21273203]

>>21271849
He was a danish prince

[Anonymous No.21273211]

Just read some war memorials of some highly decorated anglo-german officers. You don't want to become a sleezy type of gent like the new king.

[Anonymous No.21273212]

>>21273033
there are no gentlemen in America, except pic rel

[Anonymous No.21273231]

>>21273211
Any suggestions? I will add them to the list.

[Anonymous No.21273257]

>>21273211
Show some respect, cur!

[Anonymous No.21273269]

>>21273211
although good advice, I spit at your dubs for disrespecting the king

[Anonymous No.21273351]

>>21273231
The Nameless War by Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay
Storm of Steel
I would also add Slaughterhouse Five for it contains some examples of true gents, the ones Kurt meets in the prison camps.

[Anonymous No.21273358]

>>21273269
There is nothing to respect. He lost his foreskin.

[Anonymous No.21273539]

>>21270839
is there a novel about sucking black cock and sinking Atlantis?

[Anonymous No.21273568]

>>21270839
You should read: the book of the courtier, Meditation and, Down and out in Paris and London. You should also check out the moon and sixpence and gentleman in Moscow.

[Anonymous No.21273580]

>>21272884
>If we get enough together I'll make a chart.
Good idea.

[Anonymous No.21273596]

[Anonymous No.21273605]

>>21273539
If there is one, there's a 99.99% chance it's written by an anglo. Cuckoldry is their business.

[Anonymouṡ No.21273667]

>>21270839
Best is to read books by or about the sort of person you have in mind, and get a feel for how they think and behave.

A few typical non-fiction titles:

— The Voyage of the Beagle
English gentleman with a sort of scientific bent goes on a sea trip.

— Goodbye To All That
English [well, sort of] gentleman dislikes public school and then dislikes WWI.

— The Ascent Of Everest
English gentlemen climb mountain.

— The Lonely Sea and the Sky
English gentleman sails round the world.

— A Time Of Gifts
18-y-o English gentleman-to-be decides to walk to Constantinople carrying nothing but The Book Of English Verse and Horace's Odes.

[Anonymous No.21274473]

>>21270853
Will it actually help?

[Anonymous No.21274634]

>>21274473
no

[Anonymous No.21275498]

>>21270839
I'm a man of the British gentry, and while you have to be born of the class to truly be in it, I suppose with many years of study and practice you could try to fit in with us. But honestly, why would you want to? Most of us are terrible people with bad manners and corrupt values. Just be yourself.

A fun, if outdated book is the Sloane Ranger Handbook. If you don't get the references, your pursuit is hopeless.

[Anonymous No.21275516]

>>21272887
>mfw she literally looks like a thick Lady Edith Crawley

[Anonymous No.21275537]

>>21273212
Au contraire, mon ami. Texas is full of Southern etiquette which is oddly similar at times to the English, yet more terse. We're gentlemen cowboys and southern belles down here, but not exclusively.

[Anonymous No.21275545]

>>21275498
Tell us something fascinating about gentry life! Giv' a drop o' water to an 'elpless pleb across the pond, will ye?

[Anonymous No.21275835]

>>21275545
I've lived in NYC most of my life, watched the last vestiges of Wasp high society here die firsthand. It might be time to return to the ancestral home in Sheffield, hopefully it hasn't been overrun by Pakis.

[Anonymous No.21275876]

Yes, here is a good guide: be more french than normal.

[Anonymous No.21275883]

>>21275537
My grandfather used to watch Walker: Texas Ranger when I was really little. Chuck Norris would kick a guy and blow up a barn every episode.

[Anonymous No.21275917]

>>21272884
I would very much appreciate this
>i was going recommend a book but all that comes to mind is gunsmith books

[Anonymous No.21275927]

>>21275835
I'm a black anon, actually - despite loving Edith Crawley, gentlemen, and Texas Rangers. You might be surprised; I don't know. I can't imagine what Wasp society really was for you, but I mourn the death of such Americana no less. To me it was a sort of shadow of British influence and of our past, the kind which helps worthy past ideals to continue on into the future, and at its best something very wholesome, but that's my outside view. I don't, for obvious reasons, lament non-whites entering that world - of high society or education, but I lament that their entry has been thematically obliviating, though not necessarily subversive on an individual basis. It has been an infusion of fundamental cultural mutation, rather than exponential proliferation, and I don't think that had to happen. Were I to simplify my view, perhaps it could be said as, too much diversity, too quickly. I fear the same may happen hear in Texas, though in a different manner. Anyway, I hope your home will feel like home if you do return.

>>21275883
Haha! Yeah, and occasionally locate airplane crashes by scent! That show was something else. I never watched it much, but I loved the Walker Texas Ranger lever Conan O'Brien had on his show at one point.

[Anonymous No.21275956]

>>21275917
As in, actually making your own? Have you done it? That sounds pretty awesome, actually.

[Anonymous No.21276631]

>>21275537
>bunch of redneck hicks
>gentlemen

[Anonymous No.21277440]

>>21275927
My family and its social circle was profoundly dysfunctional by the late 70s, plagued by drug and alcohol abuse, physical violence, incestuous rape, and suicide. Being of gentle birth in a dying hegemony is probably worse than being a common pleb in many ways, since it’s so much further to fall. Seeing outsiders like Jews moving in, at first in emulation, but then as scavengers to pick over the bones of our dead empire is just sickening. The government of Britain itself maintains that there are no ethnic British people. We are now homeless, rootless, and unrepresented, just like your ancestors when they were kidnapped and sold by their neighboring tribes. Such is the fate of all great things made by men.

[Anonymous No.21277508]

>>21272884
"The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe,"
"The Complete Works of Tom Sawyer,"
...

[Anonymous No.21278387]

>>21276631
Rednecks and hicks aren't gentlemen, but there is a certain kind of gentlemanly cowboy that exists here in Texas. In truth, he isn't always even a cowboy, nor always academically polished, but you don't insult me if you're implying I'm a hard-working black simpleton, filled of naïve awe for the whites of my society. I'm not sure whether you are to be honest, but It isn't the case. I just love strong character and graceful manner wherever I find it, and strength of character is to me, gentlemanly. If I had to put it another way, very simply - imagine taking the heart and soul of a Matthew Crawley, a Mr. Darcy, or a Doctor Thorne and put it into a rancher, or an oilman. Its affect will be very different, but the impact upon persons will be much the same. What we do lack fully in Texas, is any vestige of aristocratic lineage, and in that regard there's nothing gentlemanly at all.

>>21277440
Brutal and sad - the personal, familial sorrows as well as the tragic erosion and collapse of your class as you've described it. I consider much of the general trend purposefully executed by elites, whose sole aim seems absolute control over all men - especially control over the channels to power, and to that end subvert the might of those outside their control to every degree they are able, but their influence is only clearly discernable to an outsider like me in more recent years, and exists only as shadows and implications the further one looks back in time. Would that we all, when in relative strength to our fellows, would uplift rather than salivate, perhaps the rising powers of your society might have preserved what was salvageable of the waning houses, but God only knows. The future may yet hold something bright for us all, anon, despite of those who would wish otherwise.

[Anonymous No.21278397]

>>21270839

[Anonymous No.21278848]

>>21272891
You can't smoke in pubs anymore. And you're not keeping Nigel out of the pub.

[Anonymous No.21278853]

>>21273033
So like, Argentinian?