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Damn denim wearing hippies
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Jeans are comfortable, suitable for all ages, and hard wearing. There is nothing wrong with wearing Jeans. They can also be selected to look very different in any number of situations, from being hard at work to going out and having fun. They are not however suitable for all occasions, and perhaps sometimes people should try some variety.
I don't care about King of the Hill, but every time she complains about Top 40 I go "Wow. You should turn the radio off."
Seriously, though, I get why uptight old weasels bitch about video games and comic books but the whole infantilization of America (or whatever geosocial area you want) is getting tired. More people are into 'childish' things now than aren't. Doesn't that make it normal and okay? When do I get to stop being called a man-child (or equivalent buzz word) for my hobbies despite having three degrees, a full time professional job, a wife, a big house, two cats, a dog, and a car? The condescension of the punditry is starting to piss me off.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
If there were as many options for men as for women when it comes to looking classy, I wouldn't mind as much that they were trying to cut denim out of the badges, arbitrary though it may be, but without denim you're just left with business wear.
It's also telling that to him, style stopped at Fred Astaire and Grace Kelly.
Yes and no. I don't care for them, personally, but the idea is that the fake damage is designed to not deteriorate further, and the people who would actually buy it aren't ever going to obtain clothing damage naturally.
It's basically hipsters cosplaying as blue collar workers.
Maybe it's because I prefer the look?
No, wait. Remove the question mark.
PSN/Steam/NNID: SyphonBlue | BNet: SyphonBlue#1126
It's like he wrote this article to say that the middle class isn't acting like they're better than poor people, and he's mad about it.
DOWN WITH JEANS!!!
Also, I looked on Google for images of Fred Astaire and Grace Kelly and I can't find any pictures of them in anything but evening wear. I'm not just talking dressed up, I'm talking tuxes and evening gowns. Does he actually think people are going to wear a tux all the time? Wouldn't that kind of ruin the whole point of "formal wear" (IE, clothing that is reserved for special occasions)?
I think George Will might be a waste of a gravity vector.
Do you ever climb rocks and trees?
So what do you wear at home? Sweats? Fleece pants? Nothing?!
but would you waste an op-ed column in the washington post about how you dont like jeans?
No, I'm an adult.
PJs or sweats, or nothing.
I dunno, maybe. You don't know this guy. Maybe jeans killed his father, raped his mother, and kicked his dog.
Peter Pan wore jeans, you know.
:v:
PSN/Steam/NNID: SyphonBlue | BNet: SyphonBlue#1126
So you define being an adult by limiting your range of movement to walking between your desk and your bed?
Do you have any idea how many adults won their historical fame by climbing shit? Explorers and such?
It is definitely a step beyond "waste of oxygen." It's pretty much saying that the discernible footprint of George Will, as an object bearing mass, is itself a waste. The relationship between George Will and the Earth, and the sun, and every other object of mass in conception is a waste.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Hah! I never walk straight to my desk!
It's made of hot lava
Those aristocrats who went spear-hunting for boar were never older than 15 right.
How does wearing jeans or press pants have anything to do with walking between my desk and my bed? If I wear jeans will there be some sort of AGROCRAG to conquer?
Now you're getting it!
Which is worse:
1. Jeans which come pre-faded via rough washes and scuffed up via a sander before shipping.
2. People who are "working on" pairs of jeans to get them to the same state as soon as possible after buying.
Fake oldness and fake used-ness are the worst. Argh.
George Will's column is too stupid for me to even come up with a response.
I mean, I get it, old bastards like old bastard things, but you'd think someone along the line would take him aside and say, "George, come on now, this is too easy. Are you on any prescription medications?"
People look for reasons why their world has changed irrevocably and in a moment of peak-drunken-binge clairvoyance they see it broken down into a single, easily defeated root cause. What makes wind, Calvin asks his father. "Tree sneezing." Of course! It's the tree sneezing! Get those tree a tissue!
What I do find interesting about the article is the reference to video games. The market for media has diversified very rapidly and now people are more likely to get their news from the internet, more people are getting entertainment from video games, and the world of ad funded mega media conglomerates is is getting smaller.
We like to assume that a lot of these personalities are ignorant but when O'Reilly was on Letterman not long ago, Letterman said that he thought O'Reilly was too smart to believe a lot of the things he said. I believe it, too, and I think this article is as disingenuous as any in the screaming people genre.
I saw this on Romenesko the other day, from an NPR seminar by Poynter's Roy Clark: "We spent the 20th century professionalizing journalism and we're spending the 21st amateurizing it."
I mean hell, this might be George Will's most popular column in months, and this is a guy who won the Pulitzer for his commentary, albeit a long time ago. His writing is still pretty fantastic--too bad his ideas have fallen into the uncanny valley.
I think.
It's hard to tell, the concentrated stupid kept making me black out.
Wearing only dress clothes means you are incapable of your full range of movement unless you like to tear your clothes on a daily basis. I hope you at least strip down and do some stretches or something to keep from fucking up your body.
Someone should tell the royalty this before the next hunt.
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The irony of the video games thing is that video games allow for recreation while wearing a suit.
I do enjoy dress pants but they're pretty crap for anything but sitting down or standing up. They get torn apart too easily from normal use.
There's also a good reason why 99.9% of the pants in thrift stores are jeans. Because dress pants fucking fall apart if you look at them wrong.
Faded jeans aren't exactly more aesthetically pleasing than normal jeans. They may look good to some people because of a mental association with a ideal they agree with: that you don't care about your appearance, that you will wear jeans even though they are faded. You wear the jeans because you want to project that image about yourself. "Screw you man, I don't need to buy your new, fancy jeans, my old ones work just fine. You and your consumerist culture can just take a hike!"
Except that by buying new jeans that are pre-faded you are demonstrating that you are exactly the opposite of the image you are trying to project. In other words, being a hypocrite.
Though I believe that most people buying faded jeans aren't consciously trying to put up a fake exterior. They just buy the jeans because they like the way they look, but don't really think about why they like the look of faded jeans.
what the fuck
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As I said, you probably don't think too much about it. You have positive associations with faded jeans and you buy them. That's mostly fine. But the whole business is rather silly.
Yeah, this is how most decisions are made. Only so many people actually sit down and ponder the ramifications of a purchase other than "Does this make my ass look big?" and "Will this make Shiela jealous?"
Man, where do you buy your dress pants, a 7-11? Alternatively, is "normal use" going base jumping or something? A decent pair of trousers should not get "torn apart" by "normal use."