Anger at school ban on short skirts

[mossj]

Steampunk

 

What is a 'SteamPunk'

[LeMarchand]

What is a 'SteamPunk'

 

Think Victorian with a botched-together but beautifully constructed look. Do an image search on "steampunk keyboard" (I want one!) for a good example.

 

Anyhoo, it'll be a while before I can afford this beauty:

 

http://www.sharpe-designs.com/images/alchemyAW15white.JPG

[jamesb]

What is a 'SteamPunk'

 

Genre of fiction, games, music and so on. Also includes certain fashions.

 

Cyberpunk of course is based on the projection of computer technology, cybernetics and similar to a futuristic, highly advanced state.

 

Then you've got Dieselpunk which is based on a similar projection, but rather than electrical equipment its applied to the petrol engine and technology with the same 'feel'. Mad Max is a fairly good example of Dieselpunk, or Fallout. Tends to be (but is not always) post-apocalyptic.

 

Then there's Steampunk, where instead clockwork and steam power are used as the basis for 'futuristic' technology. Often it is set during a modifed Victorian-style era.

[blackcat]

I work in a sixth form college with over 2000 students, so about 1000 girls aged between 16-19 years. About 4 years ago there was a rash of ultra short skirt wearing. There is there is no uniform worn and the only dress code is for it to be sensible. Well the boys inadvertantly put paid to the short skirts. They filmed up the skirts using phones and made a video set to "The Stripper" and posted it on the web. There was some sort of contest to see who could identify the girls. All hell let loose with loads of parental complaints, but the senior management team more or less restated the policy and told the parents to take charge of their kids. I may have the video somewhere, but I think it quickly got deleted off the web (if that is ever possible). Maybe I should dig it out and make it available for enrolment in September as a warning to the newbies.

[SYNACK]

Exactly!

 

I'm just hoping I live long enough for it to be acceptable for me to wear a waistcoat and tophat in public, and carry a walking cane.

 

you mean its not already, just a second while I go and change