[Misc] What does it mean if you're called a "dressing gown"?

[AmexRuislip]

There doesn’t seem to be a definitive answer to the insult ‘dressing gown’, although a synonym is a ‘lounging robe’ which I consider to a rather complimentary term if somewhat louche. Very Noel Coward, dear boy.

I would've thought a caftan is your sort of thing.
Whilst you were sloping around Southampton docks touting for business as a yacht geek

 

[el punal]

I would've thought a caftan is your sort of thing.
Whilst you were sloping around Southampton docks touting for business as a yacht geek

Believe it or not I do have a Kaftan (or caftan) obtained in Egypt back in the 1980s, but not me at all! No, I’m afraid I’m a ‘lounge lizard’ sort of chap, you know, smoking jacket with cravat and cigarette holder to boot. Terry-Thomas, the filthy bounder, is more me - so hard cheese, old boy!

 

[AmexRuislip]

Believe it or not I do have a Kaftan (or caftan) obtained in Egypt back in the 1980s, but not me at all! No, I’m afraid I’m a ‘lounge lizard’ sort of chap, you know, smoking jacket with cravat and cigarette holder to boot. Terry-Thomas, the filthy bounder, is more me - so hard cheese, old boy!

Brilliant

 

[el punal]

This thread just about describes everything that I love about North Stand Chat compared with all the other football fans’ forums. You would never get this complete, wonderful, banal bollocks on any other board. Long may it continue!

 

[AmexRuislip]

This thread just about describes everything that I love about North Stand Chat compared with all the other football fans’ forums. You would never get this complete, wonderful, banal bollocks on any other board. Long may it continue!

You could always write an email to Paul Barber

 

[darkwolf666]

Maybe they had this in mind...

 

[LamieRobertson]

You could always write an email to Paul Barber

Do you wear your dressing gown on the allotment with your flask of earl grey and copy of the times?

 

[AmexRuislip]

Do you wear your dressing gown on the allotment with your flask of earl grey and copy of the times?

Well as you're talking about sophistication, style, prescence and guille.
No

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Just been called a "dressing gown" on Twitter. I have no idea what this means other than I am guessing it is an insult because the guy didn't agree with my comment.

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It means that you know where your towel is.

“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

[N17]

It's obviously made up cockney rhyming slang for clown. As is 'Gordon Brown'.

Mockney rhyming slang even.

 

[bha100]

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