The Modern Gentleman

[CouchCommando]

Any man with a revolver, a British accent, and a preference of dueling is a gentleman.

I'd guess in this day and age any man with a revolver would clarify as a gentleman, as everyone would be calling them sir.

 

[Blayze]

Oh! I forgot to mention one 'Jolly should have a hat. Otherwise what would you take off when a lady enters, or tip when you bid someone good day?

One's toupee, if one possesses one. Guaranteed to get a reaction. Luckily, I don't need one and hopefully won't ever.

Oh! and one should say "Jolly good" occasionally.

There's a guy who goes to a LAN I frequent, and a few of us once got into a conversation about things he'd be likely to say during sex. It was pretty much all Ye Olde Agatha Christie English, with such gems as "I'm arriving! I'm arriving!" for the moment of climax and "Would you like a blowjob, dear?" "Ra-ther!"

It seems to me that there isn't a virtuous feminine role.

Sadly, almost all of the women I've mentioned the subject to seem to believe that femininity - and especially submissiveness - is a weakness. Many of them must decide "Masculinity is where it's at! Do what the men do!" and then emulate the worst of it.

 

[zirnitra]

Oh! and one should say "Jolly good" occasionally.

There's a guy who goes to a LAN I frequent, and a few of us once got into a conversation about things he'd be likely to say during sex. It was pretty much all Ye Olde Agatha Christie English, with such gems as "I'm arriving! I'm arriving!" for the moment of climax and "Would you like a blowjob, dear?" "Ra-ther!".

How is the way Agatha Christie spoke considered 'Ye Olde English'? she didn't die until 1976 'Ye Olde' is a patronising American term usually only used for theme pubs. it generally denotes around the time before the publishing of the king James bible which was well over 200 years before she was born. you perhaps mean Received Pronunciation or 'The Queens English' and I think you'll find that's just the correct way of speaking. Until recently all British Continuity Announcers had to speak it. I speak it and I think you shall find it's the correct way

 

[Melaisis]

The ability to wear a waistcoat with a shirt.

Not a bloody t-shirt, you teenage wannabe punk-rockers!

Or wear a smoking/suit jacket with a shirt.

Not a bloody t-shirt either, you middleaged 'I'm so cool' professional types!

 

[Blayze]

'Ye Olde' is a patronising American term

You just answered your own question. We used that language because it was patronising, I called it that because it was patronising.

 

[Hey Joe]

The modern gentleman will reply to all emails within a day.

They will also use correct punctuation in text messages.

Thy will donate to charity, and they will not tell anyone about it.

 

[Jamash]

I'd say the answer's in the name, being a gentle man, which encompasses lots of things mentioned above, e.g . not treating women like whores & not being a dick.

The traditional view of an upper class Gentleman more often or not, is a fallacy. They weren't gentle, they treated women & others badly & they often acted like dicks.

James Bond is a good example, whilst he is considered by some as the epitamy of a "Gentleman Spy", he certainly wasn't. He's chauvinistic not to mention also very violent, not gentle at all.

What about a gentlewomen? Do they even exist?

Not for every day of the month!

 

[Saskwach]

The modern gentleman will reply to all emails within a day.

They will also use correct punctuation in text messages.

Thy will donate to charity, and they will not tell anyone about it.

So I'm a gentleman, then. Oh, DAMN, I just told you guys my secret. No level 8 Gentleman for me.

 

[Blayze]

It's like The Game. "If you think - even for one moment - 'I'm a good person', you immediately and retroactively aren't."

 

[absinthe21]

Such loose definitions. Speaking as a Lord of the Realm, I can modestly consider myself a gentleman, and class does come in to it. The rule of thumb I was taught was: "If you can put Esquire on your envelope, you can call yourself a gentleman." Also I would say that not knowing what a gentleman was would disqualify one from being considered as such.

 

[absinthe21]

Go and read the Dorothy L. Sayers novels starring Peter Wimsey. There is a model gentleman beyond compare.

 

[Ultrajoe]

control, situational awareness and control.

Its is the marker of a true gentleman, makes him quick of tongue and sharp of ear.

Control makes him seem a stone in the room, a bastion of reason and manner.

Control my fellow men, get some.

 

[The Potato Lord]

Wearing a monocle probably helps a slight bit.

also saying "Good Show!" instead of "good job"

 

[Larenxis]

The modern gentleman will reply to all emails within a day.

They will also use correct punctuation in text messages.

They will donate to charity, and they will not tell anyone about it.

That sounds like the perfection. But then you wouldn't know, would you.

 

[meatloaf231]

A man with manners, who puts a woman before himself, and smokes from a huge ass pipe.

It's all about the huge ass pipe.

 

[John Galt]

Not a gentleman in real life? Then now you can play one in your favorite RPGs!

ST: 6 (Enough to carry his lady over an offending puddle of mud)
PE: 6 (Gotta know when the time is right)
EN: 5 (Smoking will kill too quickly with anything below this)
CH: 9 (Sharp wit required)
IN: 7 (Gotta stay on top of current events)
AG: 7 (Must be able to throw hands with anyone insulting you honor)
LK: 1 (A gentleman makes his own luck)

TRAITS: Good Natured and Sex Appeal (obvious choices)

TAGGED SKILLS: Speech(again, obvious), Barter (taking the ladies out to dinner gets expensive without this), and Melee Weapons (in case some cur insults his honor, fencing never went out of style).

 

[Rampancy]

A gentleman is anyone who falls into either of the following two categories:

1. Someone who has had their heart broken by the world's most beautiful woman.

2. Yahtzee.

I fall into the first group, but strive to emulate the second in many regards.