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I'm so proud of you.

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I hate a related fad: what LP and 343 attractively refer to as "plumber crack". Seen primarily on young dumpy teenagers.

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That often strikes me as sad, somehow, like the clothes aren't quite working as the wearer wanted? Maybe I should be less forgiving.

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I agree. Less forgiving. And I think those kids choose clothing that isn't working a-purpose. I mean a couple of years ago most people could remember to buy pants that covered their ass.

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Well, it's also true that like Denis Leary says, there were no straight pants in the stores. Lowrisey pants are really all over the place, and... I don't care enough to finish this sentence. Sigh.

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Someone should make an official week where we do something about that.

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Right now, I hate people/companies who pose as masonry contractors but who actually want to sell brick-lookalike vinyl siding.

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That is just odd.
My understanding was that masons could charge whatever they wanted, because the discipline is becoming much less common/popular. Maybe the guys you are talking about are trying to carry the prestige of masons without the education? Or something?

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This was actually a topic of discussion at a party I was at this weekend. The quote 'sometimes it's better to wear something unflattering than unfashionable' was tossed around (by a wearer of these 'skinny jeans'), but I was having none of it. Not a bit. You are right to be alarmed, because you will be seeing this for the next six months at least, and you are right that it looks terrible.

Though now I am thinking about it and I realize that most people who follow fashion look terrible. Okay back to work!

I hate drivers who pull directly in front of cyclists (while they are moving forward) and try to make an immediate right turn, basically forcing the cyclist to plow into them. No sense. Also people who bung up pedestrian traffic flow in various ways.

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Gosh. When it's reduced to an aphorism like that it seems even less sensical. Is that really how people think of fashion?
Weird bastards.

I think there is a context problem with car-driving and non-car road occupants; I know that I have a hard time seeing non-car things while driving because my mental filters are set up to focus on other cars (the dominant thing I encounter on the road). I wonder how common this is.

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That explanation makes more sense when the bike appears out of basically nowhere (particularly those other morons who ride their bikes opposing traffic), but not so much when the cyclist (hereafter referred to as "I" or "me") is riding along the side of the road, and the driver has just zoomed ahead to specifically pass me so they could turn right in front of me. I generally try hard to not surprise any motorists, I know it's a bad idea.

Then again (about 10 years ago), a friend of mine here had two different drivers personally harass him (one with a baseball bat) for no reason other than being a cyclist. This one time, a group of us were riding around Stanley Park (which is specifically for leisure, so I'm pretty sure no one there has any reason to get huffy about speed-- the speed limit on the road is 30km and I'm often keeping up with that). Anyway, there are two lanes, only one direction, and signs that read 'drivers change lanes to pass cyclists'. This SUV (of course) has to switch to the very empty lane to pass us, and blares the horn the whole way. Then, the best part: there are two bikes strapped to the back of the SUV.

Normally, when someone blares their horn at me while I'm riding, I wave like they're just saying hello, but that time I had to point and laugh instead.

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Whoa, what a bunch of assholes.
There must be some kind of cultural bike-hate that I'm unaware of. Maybe a bike is kind of the opposite of an SUV, in the world of conveyances, and you respresent everything they despise?

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There can be no other explanation. That must be it.

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That's bizarre! I always thoguht the idea was that fashion is about being awesome in the physical domain; the wide variety of styles and modes available are to ensure that something strange and lovely can be found.

I would say wearing something unflattering is an admission of poor taste and slavish brainlessness. But surely we all agree!

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Maybe there are different practitioners; those who are really trying to look awesome, and those who are trying to look cool by association with Britneh etc. I mean, I'm sure there are, but since the vast majority are of the latter type it's hard to identify many of the first. Further, the people who are looking awesome seem to be paying little attention to what is currently in style, at least from what I've seen.

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I think there's a naiveté that applies to some, too: time was people would pick and choose which fashion fads to follow and half of dressing was learning which suited you and which didn't. (I'm referring to any period up to like 1940 here if you're wondering what planet I'm from). I don't even know how often people talk about "apples" and "hourglasses" any more, let alone how to determine how low your waistband should drop. I think many people believe that "fashionable" means "attractive" regardless of body type. Or that "fashionable" replaces "attractive" in the lexicon of desirability. I think maybe that's it. And I say this knowing full well most of my coworkers think I'm corky because of my clothes.

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I think there's definitely an age thing at work here too. People often start to dress better at some point in their late 20s or so when they realize that there are some things that just don't look good on them and some things that do.

There are many things implied by dressing fashionably (rather than flatteringly) these days: I expect it indicates more involvement with popular culture, an acceptance of 'normality', and some measure of disposable income. I suppose these things are very attractive to many people.

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