Quote Originally Posted by Tobus View Post
Maybe some of you live the kind of lifestyle where you never get dirty or sweaty, or you never have occasion to be anywhere that you're not dressed like perfect gentlemen, freshly groomed. If so, I envy you. But out here in the real world, for those of us who don't have the luxury of living such carefree lifestyles, there are going to be occasions where one finds himself indoors but doesn't think it's best to remove his hat. Because, quite frankly, it's not that important. Heck, the people who work at the hardware store wear hats themselves... indoors! Rubes and oafs, all of them!

Church, or a sit-down restaurant, or any other place where one would expect to be clean and well-groomed and 'proper', one would of course want to remove his hat. But to state that all indoor places without exception (MoR even underlined it to drive home the point!) must be places where a hat is removed, just doesn't jibe with real life.

Surely there's a reasonable middle ground here. Either that, or it's impossible to be a "gentleman" without having servants do everything for you, where you're free to remain pristine all the time.

But according to MoR, I'm a rube and an oaf, so I guess my opinion doesn't matter.
When the self-styled gentry look down from the county club on the working class, you need to remove you hat!