User blog comment:Wass12/Translation help 2/@comment-1330314-20110520221434

Sorry soul: Sorry here means wretched, pitiful. Soul can be sort of be replaced with "person" or "sap/sod (miserable person)".

The second is a bit of an old idiom. A gander is a male goose, so here it means: "what's good for the guys gets the ladies thrown off the Drop".

"someone in a fancy hat" here means somebody who tries to act respectable, usually with uptight and "fancy" connotations. Here, Sinclair's basically saying "I find it funny when respectable people fall into disgrace".