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Damn denim wearing hippies
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George Will's latest column is a real masterpiece. It's all about how blue jeans are an outward manifestation of the fact that Americans have lost their sense of class and don't want to grow up. He spends a whole column lamenting this sign of the juvenilization of American culture.
http://townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/04/16/forever_in_blue_jeans
A few choice quotes for those of you who prefer the TL;DR version of things:
“Denim is the infantile uniform of a nation in which entertainment frequently features childlike adults (“Seinfeld,” “Two and a Half Men”) and cartoons for adults (“King of the Hill”).”
“Denim is the carefully calculated costume of people eager to communicate indifference to appearances. But the appearances that people choose to present in public are cues from which we make inferences about their maturity and respect for those to whom they are presenting themselves. “
"Edmund Burke -- what he would have thought of the denimization of America can be inferred from his lament that the French Revolution assaulted "the decent drapery of life"; it is a straight line from the fall of the Bastille to the rise of denim -- said: "To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely." Ours would be much more so if supposed grown-ups would heed St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, and St. Barack's inaugural sermon to the Americans, by putting away childish things, starting with denim. "
So what say you, Penny Arcaders? Does he have a point? Should we all dress like Fred Astaire and Grace Kelly? Or is George Will really just a cranky old crank who's completely out of touch with modern life and
standards?
Oh and if this isn't obvious, my opinion is the latter.
http://townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/04/16/forever_in_blue_jeans
A few choice quotes for those of you who prefer the TL;DR version of things:
“Denim is the infantile uniform of a nation in which entertainment frequently features childlike adults (“Seinfeld,” “Two and a Half Men”) and cartoons for adults (“King of the Hill”).”
“Denim is the carefully calculated costume of people eager to communicate indifference to appearances. But the appearances that people choose to present in public are cues from which we make inferences about their maturity and respect for those to whom they are presenting themselves. “
"Edmund Burke -- what he would have thought of the denimization of America can be inferred from his lament that the French Revolution assaulted "the decent drapery of life"; it is a straight line from the fall of the Bastille to the rise of denim -- said: "To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely." Ours would be much more so if supposed grown-ups would heed St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, and St. Barack's inaugural sermon to the Americans, by putting away childish things, starting with denim. "
So what say you, Penny Arcaders? Does he have a point? Should we all dress like Fred Astaire and Grace Kelly? Or is George Will really just a cranky old crank who's completely out of touch with modern life and
standards?
Oh and if this isn't obvious, my opinion is the latter.
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Subtext: My sense of fashion should be king, and would you goddamned women get back in dresses already?
edit: less snarky, I will say that I disagree with a lot of fashion choices in the modern age, but jeans aren't one of them. Jeans I can clearly see your thong through the holes in? Yes, those I think go too far.
No shit?
Goddammit, stop making it hard to parody you fucks.
This is about the extent of my interest in clothing. Also wool is a grotesquely uncomfortable fabric to wear all day.
Next thing you know, they're going to have comic books and Nintendos for adults!
I don't know how this happened, but it's true. You should know it. This is basically like reading survey course materials that some crotchety old fart decided to regurgitate and call his own after he missed all the deeper implications. Oh, and after he got thrown out of the class before ever making it past the first chapter of the text.
"What have you got?"
Those Palin rallies just got a lot creepier.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Though to be fair, if Barney Stinson (aka Neil Patrick Harris) has taught me anything, is that you never wear denim to a lapdance, because you wont get your moneys worth that way.
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They're comfortable. I enjoy "dressing up" though. I like looking nice, but in my day-to-day life where I am only seen by other programmers there's not much of a point.
I'm also surprised he didn't use the term dungarees. That wouldn't have pegged him as an old man raging against the times which are a'changin'...
Do not engage the Watermelons.
If only George Will's acuity had been available to The Greatest Generation. He could have warned them of the impending havoc to be caused by sailor style trousers popular wiyh German women in the 1930s.
Fuck this guy. I love how he also implies that 'gamers' should not be allowed to vote.
You can have my buttonfly 501's when you pull them from my cold, dead, um, legs.
However, I believe George Will has a point. I feel childish. I would much, much, much prefer to wear robes. Like our august ancestors, the Romans, the Greeks, the Hebrews, the Babylonians. Like the Saudis do today. Like the people on Avatar: The Last Airbender wear.
The Dude abides.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
That guy isn't just yelling at clouds, he's clubbing them over the heads and skull-fucking them.
edit: But not on his lawn, no sirree.
Asshole.
Well in his defense, the text of the bill of rights actually says that we're allowed to wear jeans as part of a militia.
Make up shit about global warming and talk about baseball a lot. Then yell at some clouds and be mysteriously given a Washington Post column.
it's a lot better than cargo pants with a dozen pockets on them
Wills: The increased wearing of jeans is a sign of reduced class in our society.
Person B: I feel this could be an interesting topic of discussion.
Wills: And King of the Hill is destroying America!
Person B: Um... I'm going to leave now...
Grandpa? Is that you?
The Republican ticket in 2012 is going to be Tim Gunn and Carson Kressly?
They're going to campaign on a message of a fabulous makeover for the country?
The fact that this guy is making an argument that was irrelevent before he hit puberty tells me that he's just trying to piss people off, and failing miserably at it. Shit, is there any social class that doesn't wear jeans regularly now? Who is his sympathetic audience here?
The Washington Post editorial board.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I miss the days of when farmers worked in corduroy pleated pants.
Alternately: the biggest morons in the country, but that's kind of redundant.