Jonathon Delacour ended a blog posting on hat etiquette with the comment that "Tony Soprano understood: a society with no respect for hat etiquette is only a step away from lawlessness." in reference to Tony Soprano being offended in an episode about a guy wearing a hat inside a diner. Interesting outlook on hat etiquette, which includes not wearing hats inside buildings.

Today in class the instructor decided he thought hats were rude, people have been wearing hats in here all semester, but that is besides the point. I don't personally find it rude or distracting. I was curious to hear what others thought.

I remember High School when guys couldn't wear earrings or hats or have long hair. For them it was rude and distracting. Maybe I am just a bit too liberal or maybe I am right about there being nothing wrong with it. Mind you I go to what could very well be the most conversative tech school in the country. But maybe it is because there is a proper way in the real world and I am just missing it.

Thoughts?

In Western society at least wearing hats inside has always been considered bad etiquette for men. It is also bad etiquette not to remove your hat upon meeting a lady for the first time.

Having said that I note that it is now "cool" to wear baseball style caps any way but with the bill forward by the hip-hop crowd and white wannabes.

The only time I'd really consider it "rude" is if the hat was so tall that it blocked line of sight (e.g. wearing a Fez or a 10 Gallon hat in class might obstruct the person behind you from seeing the board).

Personally I'm usually more amused than annoyed at people that wear caps/hats indoors. It typically makes me think either a) They're stupid (baseball caps mentioned above) or b) They're bald or going bald in which case they're still stupid because eventually they'll have to take it off for some reason.

If I were going to rant about etiquette I'd have more to say about all sorts of horrors than about hats. Personally I don't ever wear one even in the dead of winter because they make my head itch.

The only time I ever wear a hat now is when I go work on my dad's farm on the weekends. But in college I wore a hat all the time. I wore it forward, the way God intended us to wear a ball cap. Basically I was pretty much always running late, so instead of taking the time to comb my hair I would throw a hat on. But now besides a couple hats that have mixture of motor oil and manure I don't ever wear them.

Personally, I don't think that hats should be considered bad etiquette unless you are in a church or a person's home. Public places such as schools should not be viewed in the same regard. It used to be a security issue, but how many guys wear a pistol or knife in their hat?

Pistol or knife maybe not - but in an age when they're making us take our shoes off at the airport...

I can see it now - infamous hat bomber Achmed bin Achmed.

I keep a bazooka under my hat, just in case.

Lol-ya, usually my regular defense is a Panzer I picked up from WWII. Now they don't even allow finger-nail clippers on an airplane. Speaking of hats, when I went to Africa, my Father was always wearing his cowboy hat-everytime he did, he was searched. So my sister wore it once-she got searched. Its all in the hat...

here its considdered good manners to remove headwere inside any building, in fact if you persistanly forgot top take yoru hat off at school you coudl get lines

"get lines"?

Is that a euphemism for corporal punishment?

Here they called it "paddling" or "tanning one's hide" but it's not allowed in most schools now. Hell even parents are likely to get arrested for it these days.

I remember once in Junior High School, I and some others guys were going to get paddled by the coach in gym class (I forget why). He had two paddles - one about a yard long and another about the size of a ping pong paddle. He gave us our choice. I figured it would hurt either way so chose the big one to show I could take what was coming. All the other guys chose the small one. The coach lightly tapped me on the bottom then gave a large whack to each of the other guys. Sometimes showing a little guts helps.

Ahh, those were the good old days. In the 8th grade my circle of friends had a running contest to see who could get the most paddling in a year from the teaching staff. I beleive I came in second. It was over 8, I remember. The guy who won got close to 20 I believe. Good times.

My folks didn't care if I got paddled. My dad said in his day, if you got paddled at school you'd come home and get paddled again. Now like jlitner said, it's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

nope, CP has been outlawed here since the 70s
and was usially refered to by much the same things as uin teh US
thjough they diddnt use paddles, rather a rattan cane

and yes here perants can go to prioson for hitting their kids. it is considered child abuse.
mabie thats whty we have so mucgh trouble with yobs



nope, lines refoers to being forced to write out the same thing multiple times.

ie "i must not wear my hat inside the classroom"
100 times.

somtimes this is done in detention but mostly it was set as an adittional punishment homework!

We call 'lines' write-offs. I had a lot of those too. Except they were about 5 sentences long and we had to do them between 50 and 500 times - depending on the severity of the offense....

It would be something like: I will not do such and such in Mr Edwards classroom. It is considered rude and disruptive to the other students in the classroom. In the future I will be more considerate to not do such and such and do my best to behave myself.
Or something to that effect.

Of course we would number them funny - 1 2 3 5 6 7 9 10 and so on.... leave out sentences in certain ones.

If you are a Gentleman, then you will remove your hat when indoors. A few people who wear cowboy hats don't because they cause a crease in their forehead.

My dad worked for the power utility company in my home town. He and his partner were servicing an electric stove, when the wife came in and asked if they could help her husband. He was carrying a folding bed down the stairs to the basement when it expanded, pinning his head against the railing. They had to break into a basement window to release him. The next day, my dad was dropping off a letter at the post office. It was then that my dad recognised the postmaster who was wearing a hat inside, to hide the crease left behind by the folding bed.

Well, I guess I could hide the bazooka in my pants instead. That shouldn't raise any suspicion.

here lines are normally exacltly 1 line liong on A4 paper and the amount is in sides, (normally 32 lines to a side)

worse is squares, where you get a sheet od squared paper and have to write a short thing in each square,
like "late book" for returning libary books late, 1 side per day!