161
Those 1920's flapper girls sound amazing 
Not knowing how to play Bridge or do the Charleston really makes me feel like I need to step my game up.
Bridge kind of sucks, though. It has an official set of rules for game play, but then an unofficial set of conventions for coded communication in the bidding phase that you have to learn separately. You can't actually play the object level game, you have to play the meta. It is extremely neurotypical.
Low-level bridge play requires quite a lot of intuition, but high-level play is very much the opposite. Top players have basically a phone book of what every bid, every play means, and expect their partners to follow it exactly. The only communication allowed is through numbers and cards, and they must precisely follow what you have. In competition play, if anyone makes a strange bid or plays a 'weird' card, you may stop play to ask their partner what they understand by that, and they must answer correctly or risk having points deducted by the adjudicator if they were perceived to have mislead. It's very mathematical.
Ironically, I quite enjoy playing with low-level players when it's a laugh, but high-level players tend to start with OCD and build on top of that.
In competition play, if anyone makes a strange bid or plays a 'weird' card, you may stop play to ask their partner what they understand by that, and they must answer correctly or risk having points deducted by the adjudicator if they were perceived to have mislead.
Can you share an example of this? Sounds intriguing but I'm not sure what to search for ("bridge weird card (adjudicator)" ain't it, apparently).
"Announcing and alerting", and the adjudicator is the Tournament Director (TD). English Bridge Union rules on this are in their ethics book; basically the entire contents are on what information you must and must not share. I understand most bridge unions work the same way.
https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents/laws-and-ethics/blue-book/blue-book.pdf
Now we need the modern response to these types of memes where someone draws them making out 
earn my own living
wow this is so bad. west has fallen. holy shit
Huh so that's why grandmas like bridge
Yeah, playing Bridge used to be cool. But people born after 1950 seem to have collectively decided to not play it anymore.
Bridge's predecessor Whist (or even earlier Trump) was the primary upper class gambling game for 300 years. If you read a book about someone losing the estate playing cards it was Bridge, not poker and probably not proto blackjack (which both existed in some form but were a bit lower class)
It could be schafkopf if they're central European. Which is also basically bridge.
There's also Basset and Faro, which could be charitably described as "card roulette" except even less fair to the player in the former case.
Quadrille was big for a while i think too. But really you want your trick-taking card games (Bridge etc.) for "game responsible for bringing down a dynasty stretching back to the middle ages"
The youth of today is wasting their time playing Bridge while sipping on their cocktails instead of becoming doctors 
Next thing you know they'll be hanging out in jazz clubs and smoking reefer sticks 
This cultural change was largely driven by WWI. By finding a way to also get women to work they could much more efficiently contribute to the war effort. At the same time, expanding recently-industralised capitalism is looking to sell more stuff to more people. Coincidentally that got women involved in new and what were previously exclusively "male" pursuits.
Ok but crocheting and playing the zither at the same time is pretty impressive. And what's the point of playing the zither if no one knows how to Charleston? Sounds like these two ladies should hang out with each other more, they'd probably have a great time together.
i'm forming a polycule with both of them
Hot
I respect them both 
Bit idea: Girl who knows how to wisecrack, how to shake a cocktail and how to play the zither.
flappers can't even wear a big ass hoop skirt to cosplay as a cake topper smdh
The dress on the left is perfect for hiding a undeployed law rocket launcher.
Yeah but check out her GAMS!
Both dope-ass Rimworld toons. Sounds good.
Thank you to whoever in the meme chain transformed back this image from a terrible Instagram still video
~~The sister on the left can maybe do one of those things, judging by a dress~~
Wiki suggests crinoline was also worn by working ladies, but I still doubt farmers would have it
Don't judge by the dress, even if they were upper class. They were taught "womanly skills" so they'd have an easier time getting them married.
Also, tend farm doesn't mean "work the fields", but anything from doing household chores to supervising workers.
Outside of southern plantation owners, they weren’t rich in other parts of the world, more akin to tenant farmers migrating to cities cause pay is so shit than hundreds horses type guys. Big successful farmer before mechanization was somewhat rare
I’m more on the “they didn’t have money for that stuff”, not that people in crinoline are functionally incapable
Outside of southern plantation owners, they weren’t rich in other parts of the world, more akin to tenant farmers migrating to cities cause pay is so shit than hundreds horses type guys. Big successful farmer before mechanization was somewhat rare
I'm sorry this just is not true. Large landowners and upper class farmers have been a staple of humanity since roughly always. Fancy lady schools in Germany and Scandinavia at the time of flappers were actually teaching skills like farm household management to old money ladies. Other skills taught include cleaning carcasses, first aid, cleaning, cooking, and sewing.
a considerable part of human social and technological changes have been centered around "farming fucking sucks, i wish i didn't have to do it"
i ain't been crackin' no wises honest sir
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
161 points (100.0% liked)
chapotraphouse
13971 readers
683 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS