BF2S Forums Why's it disrespectful to wear a hat inside?

random website wrote:

Amanda Gamble, an "ettiquitte expert" at about.com states the following:

    I'll tell you the origin of the
    "no hats on men indoors" rule. It began with men of
    'lesser rank' removing whatever headress or coronet
    (crown) they had on to show that they were not trying
    to challenge or be disrespectful to the king or cheiftan
    of their country."

Locoloki wrote:

HurricaИe wrote:

Locoloki wrote:

walk into the officers club wearing a hat...

then you get to buy everyone in the bar a drink, or you can gtfo

huh

the officers club is a bar on a naval base where only officers go to drink, if someone walks in wearing a hat (cause like you said, disrespectful), that person buys drinks around the house, i guess merchant marines do it to, but ive only been to one bar that did that and it was in Gitmo, if someone told me i had to buy drinks round the house i would tell them to fuck off

SEREMAKER wrote:

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:

Ive heard that.


Ive also heard a different origin for the salute.  It stems from the days of body armor and face visors.  two knights meeting on a road would lift their visors to show their face, putting their hands in the same position as the modern salute.

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VicktorVauhn wrote:

Why is it disrespectful to flip some one off?

Perhaps even more arbitrary that wearing a hat when you consider the significance of eye to eye contact (look me in the face!)

Typically it goes way back. Flipping people off is allegedly a sign given by french archers in midevil times. When they were caught there bow finger was cut off, so showing there bow finger to the enemy to show they could still shoot was a "fuck you"

Random little things turn into cultural habit. People are raised with it and accept it as normal.

Welcome to society.

VicktorVauhn wrote:

HurricaИe wrote:

VicktorVauhn wrote:

Why is it disrespectful to flip some one off?

Perhaps even more arbitrary that wearing a hat when you consider the significance of eye to eye contact (look me in the face!)

Typically it goes way back. Flipping people off is allegedly a sign given by french archers in midevil times. When they were caught there bow finger was cut off, so showing there bow finger to the enemy to show they could still shoot was a "fuck you"

Random little things turn into cultural habit. People are raised with it and accept it as normal.

Welcome to society.

flipping someone off is a bit different from wearing a hat (especially when you can still see my face...)

explain.

HurricaИe wrote:

VicktorVauhn wrote:

HurricaИe wrote:

flipping someone off is a bit different from wearing a hat (especially when you can still see my face...)

explain.

Flipping off is widely regarded in the US as "Fuck you." I personally do it to my friends all the time, but I certainly wouldn't flip off my teacher in class for instance.

Wearing a hat inside, however, is generally regarded as disrespectful by people who were born at least 100 years ago and whining crybabies. Everyone else who lives in the now doesn't give two shits.

VicktorVauhn wrote:

HurricaИe wrote:

VicktorVauhn wrote:

explain.

Flipping off is widely regarded in the US as "Fuck you." I personally do it to my friends all the time, but I certainly wouldn't flip off my teacher in class for instance.

Wearing a hat inside, however, is generally regarded as disrespectful by people who were born at least 100 years ago and whining crybabies. Everyone else who lives in the now doesn't give two shits.

So the fact that society regards something as disrespectful makes it disrespectful?

HurricaИe wrote:

I just don't understand it. I can sort of understand not swearing in public, I can understand not having sex in public. But wearing a hat inside? Who the hell made up that bullshit "rule"?

It seems like one of those decrees a King made one day, and it never died off. I asked my friend why people ask you to take off your hat and he's like "It's disrespectful." I wanted to flip out and say "WHY THE FUCK SO" but I kept my cool.

I don't even care about wearing a hat. If I had cash to burn I'd just get my hair cut every month or so (my hair grows obscenely fast). I wear a hat for convenience mostly... just pop it on, don't worry about how your hair looks. Now I think I'll wear it in defiance, just to spite people who think it's disrespectful when it's not.