can we please have a moratorium on...

Then he'll turn around, shaking with spastic, silent laughter. We'll all shrug and resume our business.

referencing David Lynch.

abstracted floral graphics.

telling people how amazing late Talk Talk is, and how moved you are by them.

"not so much"

please everybody

it's so awful & not even mildly funny at this point

not so much with the not so much

is it meant to be funnie?

I don't think lol funny but you always get the sense that it's supposed to be a somewhat clever way of saying "I don't like this one thing"

ugg boots

oh man can we give up on "that one thing/that one guy/that one time"

s0 played

ugg boots

― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:40 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Wait, are you saying "let's have a moratorium on Uggs" or is "Ugg boots" your way of expressing disgust at people who say "not so much".

somewhat clever way of saying

"clever" = "Jewish"?

i have no idea how the latter works xp

nicht so sehr

Every time I hear that one phrase, I throw up a little in my ugg boots.

It's like someone saying "Ugh," but then taking it just a little further: "Ugg boots."

UGG BOOTS ARE MADE FROM CLUBBED SEALS

^^let's get ourselves LIBELLED

and worn by clubbing chicks

'would smash'/'bro'

reasons

casually misogynist/sounds homosocial, also fratholish

I don't mind "bro"

I've always hated "would smash" but you gotta pick your battles & save yr ammo and the guys (and gals in fairness) who say are Totally Great Guys After All so y'know w/e

brobrobrocial

tbh being casually misogynist makes my fuckin day, every day.

tbh

starting posts with

"uh,"

"Smash" sounds hot/romantic/cute to me, not misogynist, although I could see how it could be interpretted that way.

you can just ctrl+f & replace with "would snog" tho right?

See, snog sounds really vulgar to me.

dyao do you copy ilx threads into word before reading

I use smash all the time and obv not in a misogynistic manner. I don't really get hung up on or bothered by language often though.

word is my browser :(

am firmly in the anti-'would smash' camp but aerosmith is pretty much otm there

oh lol at that last thing, dyao's more a notepad man i'da thought

xp- awesome concept.

rueful admission- am now concerned that inclusion of the word 'fuckin' in my previous bolshy post comes across as too sexually aggressive. y'all mfers getting to me.

hahahahaha

^this guy balls hard on ILX

not a guy iirc

but she does

u misogynist for noticing

"Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging" could be from H.P. Lovecraft, all the chills it inspires in me.

also makes searching youtube for drunk hen-night shenanigans a pointless exercise ime

dammit can't a dude forgo an xpost for once in his life

snog sothoth

lol am0n

LOL - perfect!

Ugg boots really are the most inexplicably prevalent fashion trends of the last ten years. I'd sooner parse croc-sandals before these glorified granny slippers of which wannabe fashionista girls never seem to tire.

Sure I've seen lots of ILX girls (and gay dudes) use the phrase 'smashable' to refer to blokes.

xp it's a clever ploy - by incorporating the very disgust they evoke into the brand name, they have effectively shielded themselves from all criticism

Ugg boots and crocs are equally awful. I really can't believe that people still wear either.

i don't have a problem w. ugg boots

kinda indifferent

good way of identifying people i don't want to talk to without actually having to do so, though.

If I see a girl wearing Uggs I automatically assume that I would hate her. I know thats awful but it's true.

uggs >>>>>>>>>>>>> crocs

Waiting for some sort of ugg/croc hybrid sandal/boot tbh.

with wheels

OK yeah, in terms of appearance only Uggs are not quite as awful as Crocs but I rarely see Crocs anymore. Thank God.

true--the longevity of uggs is striking, it's been like 5 years or something!

I became permanently biased against Fleet Foxes after seeing an early press photo where one of them was wearing crocs. Indefensible.

met a girl last week who seemed cool, then i noticed she was wearing ugg boots. within 10 minutes she was telling me that "benefits culture has got completely out of hand"

just another data point for you

What's benefits culture?

it was totally cute though when my mom asked me if I could score some ugg boots for her for cheap

What's benefits culture?

a band from Bethnal Green

What's benefits culture?

― ljagljana (kkvgz), Tuesday, May 18, 2010 4:00 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark

people living on benefits

hahaha oh shit that'd be quite a good band name

DOUBLE MEANINGS 'R' US

i've heard people defend crocs on the basis that they aerate (why can i not spell this word?) the feet if walking around a lot, and while they do make your plates look pretty ridiculous, I know from experience that when it comes to foot odour, sometimes practicality can outweigh aesthetics.

the straps can also get caught in escalators, possibly along with the rest of your foot.

hopefully

Man I'm so totally down with benefits culture at the moment. Visited the National Museum of Welfare and Freeloading the other day, and since then I've decorated one wall of my house with vintage UB40 slips. The single-mum look is really in right now, which might explain the prevalence of Ugg boots come to think of it.

joined up thinking ^

Still don't understand what's so hateable about Ugg boots -- seems like most people's hatred is based on the kind of woman who typically wears Uggs rather than the Uggs themselves, which just look like soft, comfortable-looking boots. (I mean, I totally get why some people hate Crocs -- they look silly.)

they are worn by the kind of people who wouldn't normally be seen dead in soft, comfortable, shapeless, unstylish, unflattering things. i just don't get it.

well i think in part because of the softness and comfort ppl took to wearing them with every conceivably outfit--uggs w/jeans, uggs w/skirts, uggs in warm weather, uggs and leggings that show yr butt, etc. and that's super annoying because you're just wearing slippers outside and getting away with it.

they're not hideous like crocs, but they are ugly

Waiting for some sort of ugg/croc hybrid sandal/boot tbh.

Done and done.

http://cdn2.overstock.com/images/products/1/632/P11723850.jpg

oh god no

ugg boots are cankles for the rest of us

the hybrid thing should at least be worn as a fancy genital adornment

that's the only semi-dignified use for it I can think of

Only you would think of it as such Louis. Only you. ;p

by this point of sleepless internet wurgling my brain is papier mache - I need a lie-down tbh

hey that could be comfortable - fur-lined, holes to breathe through.

the guys (and gals in fairness) who say are Totally Great Guys After All so y'know w/e

― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 14:35 (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

In the same spirit, annoying turns of phrase I overlook cos they come from solid peeps: 'your face' for 'you' as in "I miss your face" (idk how commonplace this is); girls calling their best friends 'wife'

I have defended both these terrible shoes before but I will do it again:

Aesthetically, I don't like Uggs, but on some cold ass winter mornings, I see women in their cozy, fleece-lined boots and I think to myself, "I really wish I was wearing a pair of cozy, fleece-lined boots right now." (I have warm, waterproof boots, which are nice, but they aren't as soft as I imagine Uggs to be.)

Crocs are hideously ugly but I have purchased two pairs of the mary jane style with the holes in them because sometimes my feet swell up in the summer and they are pretty nice to wear when that happens. I also have a pair of Crocs flip flops but I only wear those to the pool. Oh, okay, fine, I also have a pair of Crocs brand shoes that don't have holes in them but are supposed to just look like flats but I don't like them very much because when I walk in them, my feet make farty noises.

The worst is people who continue to wear Uggs despite the instep having visibly buckled and knackered.

^^^yeah this

Crocs are gardening shoes. The best gardening shoes ever devised.

i've never had a problem with crocs. and i hate everything! they seemed pretty functional on marthas vineyard. haven't seen them much since moving. though maria and the kids have them.

ugg boots seem like a fad that should have gone away by now. like rainbow suspenders.

your face' for 'you' as in "I miss your face" (idk how commonplace this is); girls calling their best friends 'wife'

granted im a shut-in but srsly not heard these

i guess 'face' kinda functions as...

actually im not going to say it. louisbait.

Ugg boots look like they would get totally snagged on a bramble if you were ever being pursued by a wolf.

i think uggs make sense in certain locations: i.e. cold-ass places, as a here-to-there sort of shoe. but as a fashion shoe they are ridicuous. wearing them to anywhere formal/fancy/dressy it is like wearing l.l. beans duck boots to a fucking high school prom

Ugg boots look like they would get totally snagged on a bramble if you were ever being pursued by a wolf.

― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), 18 May 2010 15:33 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

again, hopefully

would like moratorium on how fucking cloudy it's been every day for the last 3 weeks

massive heatwave predicted form tomorrow onwards for a fortnight, innit?

Well, call me oversensitive to language but I am a writer, therefore it's kind of my job to question usage if I identify a dodgy impulse behind the word choice. I don't like sexual contact slang that references smashing or hitting, or calls the object of desire 'that'. Reports of girls saying 'smash' does not make this OK.

Crocs are useful because we really needed another form of visual shorthand to identify idiots. Crocs signpost idiocy in a brilliant way if worn outside a nursing or gardening context..

My mom has black Uggs because she fucked up her ankle five years ago (it needed bolts and pins) and needed comfort in boot form. She gets a pass. As far as Uggs on women we don't like, surely the rest of their outfits can provide useful cues with the boots being the final confirmation of some personal shortcoming.

would like moratorium on how fucking cloudy it's been every day for the last 3 weeks

― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, May 18, 2010 4:36 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's been p nice up here in cambridge, in the mornings espesh

bit cloudy now tho

if I identify a dodgy impulse behind the word choice

It seems a little strident to use the word 'identify' as opposed to, say, 'attribute' in this context, don't you think?

I might have to question your use of the word 'strident'.

We have been plagued by beautiful mornings but the clouds come in just in time to ruin jacketless lunch plans, then fuck off again just as everyone goes back to their offices..

ha! yeah i was, admittedly, trying to find an alternative for strident but what you gonna do i'm at work.

No, that's totally fair, suzy. But when I think "smash", I think of how much it sounds like "smush" - like hard things yielding and becoming soft - plus having the (British?) connotations of success: "the play was a smash" "you look absolutely smashing".

many xps.

nah 'smash' is pure feral lust in this context, but i don't think it's enough to label it misogynist. i know plenty of ladies that are prone to smashing hot guys of a saturday night.

some of the kids say "lash" these days. maybe not "would lash", yet.

that's an irish thing from, what, the 90's?

most grime lyrics are just stolen from old Corrs b-sides

the word "impulse" is the one worth interrogating there imo darraghmac - I don't think you can argue that the word "smash" is generally a term of violence

that is ISN'T. dammit.

now, see, the comment i'm stopping myself from making about the corrs' b-sides would have been misogynist.

i'd argue the certainty of using 'identify' is more telling than the possibility of an'impulse' behind someone else's use of a word on the internet to be perfectly honest with you.

now look you are making me into one of those funhaters again.

xxp are you an 'all the Corrs' or 'none of the Corrs' man d-mac?

that really depends on whether 'all' includes jim.

in my defense, my crocs are black.

and not attached to boots

do uggs really offer a level of cozy plushness that can't be obtained via quality socks? ie the kind that make you feel you're walking on carpet even when on hardwood

shdn't wear boots on carpet imo

kinda want to say that i want a moratorium on outdated gangsta wear, but i think this is just me getting old. still, i do feel like i've been looking at people's gangsta boxer shorts for decades now.

The pace of fashion and style

okie, here is my challops MORATORIUM submission:

1) Vibram 5 fingers running barefoot style shoes

2) the specious advertising lines that gets repeated ad nauseum (and at length in christopher mcdougall's 'born to run' book) as if they were hard, consistent verifiable science w/r/t the shoes, e.g.: "people were made to run barefoot" and "it's a more natural way to run" and "it's how our ancestors ran" except that our ancestors did not take a 3 mile daily jog on concrete surfaces after a lifetime of conditioning to shoes. also they died at age 30 and hobbled around basically-crippled, and @#$^!@%#^&@!^&#^!@

like until there are at least a few independent and repeatable studies regarding the long-term benefits of running barefoot that significantly counteract the many decades of support and evidence for the comfort/stability/safety offered by athletic shoes, stop wagging the 'natural' card at me.

outdated gangster wear? like zoot suits and violin cases? that shit needs to come back in

/yeah sorry, couldn't resist.

haha, remy, I was thinking along those lines today when I noticed in our work cafeteria they were selling these highly overpriced teabags that advertised themselves as "how tea ought to be" (or something). I mean, come on - for how long have people been drinking twiggy lapsang souchong with wild berry essence "£(&£$&, as opposed to, well you know, the hot beige-grey stuff with too much milk - the stuff most people ask for when they want tea? It might be a taste sensation, but don't sell me authenticity as if this hipster nonsense is some traditional brew that our great-grandparents used to drink before PG Tips came and enslaved us all with their "not-proper" tea.

xxp how about this study?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=running-barefoot-is-better-research-2010-01-27

yeah, i've read that study. daniel lieberman and his one study doesn't really come close to convincing me.

fairy nuff, but i like the quote at the end:

"There is no hard proof that running in shoes… causes injuries," William Jungers, a professor of anatomical sciences at Stony Brook University in Long Island, NY, wrote in a commentary that accompanies the new study. But, he asserted, "In my view there is no compelling evidence that it prevents them either."

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2009/04/19/what_ruins_running/

So how do the Tarahumara, running in shoes that barely qualify as shoes, do it? Three years ago, I trekked into the Copper Canyons of Mexico in search of the secret. And once I learned how to run barefoot-style -- landing on the balls of the feet, while keeping my feet directly under my hips -- like the Tarahumara, my ailments suddenly disappeared. Plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinitis, sore knees -- all gone. Today, I wear something similar to a rubber glove for the foot (it has the thinnest of soles to guard against abrasions), and I haven't looked back.

Main problem is that no-one is going to fund research into running barefoot because it's not in anyone's economic interest.

Ugg boots & Crocs both part of the pajamafication of normal life. Hate this phenomena, hate them both for that reason.

hence the vibram 5 fingers, sure nike et al would come out with their own versions if it took off. oh they already have, kinda. (xp)

yeah, i'm anti-sweatpants. i really am an old fogey.

x-post

I dress like a disgusting bum at home, though. This is what pajamas and work/painting clothes are for, for doing messy chores on the weekend. And tshirts that you've (okay, I've) had since 9th grade, and (yes!) sweatpants! Only objecting to them in public.

Multiple xps: That Boston Globe article is by the same guy whose book Remy criticizes. Proven or not, I like his arguments cos the simplicity of barefoot running appeals to me.

Laurel OTM

yeah, totally. its when someone stumbles into a coffee shop at 8 in the morning in grimey pajama top and sweat pants and acts like they aren't in public but in their kitchen that gets me. for some reason.

I don't see anything wrong with pajamas in public. Clothing should be about being comfortable.

You have to switch it up. Like wearing a suit with flipflops. Or leather dress shoes, tight wool pants and a ribbed tanktop.

Or my own personal favorite, a baja paired with a thong.

choice of attire when in public is not 100% about being comfortable. that's the reason why i'm not wearing a sheer loincloth right now.

really if you can't find clothes that aren't suitably comfortable without resorting to pajamas, you don't deserve to ever leave the house

Comfort, modesty, and protection against the elements.

One of my students had worn pajamas & a sweatshirt to class for the seventh or eighth consecutive time, so I ribbed her about it a little: "Having another slumber party today?" And she said, "I live on campus," like the whole thing was her home or something.

But for some, pajamas are not something to "resort" to as much as something to look forward to.

Yes, I look forward to them while wearing actual clothes.

I don't see anything wrong with pajamas in public. Clothing should be about being comfortable.

Nah, clothing is about presenting an image of yourself to the world, and if the image you want to present is "I don't give a fuck about anybody but me and my comfort," then I'm going to shun you socially, shun you professionally and not get too torqued when I read about you getting busted for selling your baby for two bottles of beer.

That's pretty harsh, isn't it?

harsh but fair

xp Naw.

One of my best-loved friends wear pajamas/sweats in public bcz she has x-treme pelvic floor pain issues, I guess, and seams of jeans or trousers make her basically to pained to walk around. So, you never know.

It means she also has a bidet, which is like having a rollercoaster, in my mind.

But the point wasn't about professional associations. Scott was talking about people in coffee shops for crying out loud. I'm wearing a suit right now because I'm at work, but I'm not gonna add to my dry-cleaning bill because I want to impress someone at Starbucks.

I realize that 80 years ago people could have this discussion about not wearing a hat and tie (what's the female equivalent? full length dress?) in public, but as a society we've got to draw the line somewhere and I say it's drawn at pajamas.

Harsh would be me calling a moratorium on those faux Wellie rain boots that every woman in New York owns three pair of. Apparently. Bunch of oversized hydrophobic toddlers, is what they look like clomping around.

(I say it's harsh b/c I realize that good rain boots have a real purpose! I don't think walking from Grand Central to 46th St is that purpose, though.)

She should wear a dress, Abbott! I wish I could wear dresses, they have to be the most comfortable clothes ever.

I'm imagining ljagljana's wardrobe being divided into two sections - everything on the right is a suit or a dress shirt, and everything on the left is a different style of pajamas.

And on the desk is a stack of unpaid drycleaning bills that he grumbles over.

If you know what I mean

Fair point KKGZ but you do see people out who look like they've literally just rolled out of bed. I take the dog out for a walk before showering in the mornings and sometimes get coffee while doing so but I sure as hell brush my hair and throw on a pair of jeans before leaving the house.

No, it's not a fair point! I refuse to concede the point that it's a fair point! There's a hell of a lot of spectrum between suits and pajamas, and pls find something in the middle somewhere for wearage outside of your domicile/when not directly occupied by mucky chores.

I meant that he didn't have to wear formal/business attire just to grab some coffee not that pajamas as outerwear should be acceptable.

Suit pants and pajama shirt. I swear I have seen people do this.

I'm imagining ljagljana's wardrobe being divided into two sections - everything on the right is a suit or a dress shirt, and everything on the left is a different style of pajamas.

I don't actually wear pajamas outside of the house. I'm just sticking up for those who do.

Now, posts with 30% MORE feigned outrage, absolutely free! Mine, at least.

I'm from kind of a formal family -- my dad puts on a clean flannel, tucks in his shirt, and wears a belt to work on the car. If his shirt comes untucked while he's doing stuff, he tucks it back in. Revolutionary!

see also: doctors wearing their scrubs everywhere. Hey doc, I know you're saving lives, etc. but please get changed in the freaking hospital locker room.

Just want to make it clear that I don't want pajamas-as-outerwear to be illegal or any other first-step-to-Sharia, I just don't think there's any justification or rationalization for doing it that doesn't say "I'm lazy and can't see past the end of my own id."

Except maybe for medical reasons like Abbott's friend.

"It means she also has a bidet, which is like having a rollercoaster, in my mind."

totally read this as a bidet being like a rollercoaster in your mind. didn't see the comma.

Love Is A Bidet

Ugg boots & Crocs both part of the pajamafication of normal life. Hate this phenomena, hate them both for that reason.

I would call it 'toddlerfication' but THANK YOU there is something so mentally slobby about people who do this; also seriously unclassy like yr. basic woman in velour tracksuit.

anti pj people are like repressive governments

Crocs are gardening shoes. The best gardening shoes ever devised.

― nori dusted (Sanpaku), Tuesday, May 18, 2010 10:33 AM (2 hours ago)

I left my gardening sneakers outside last night in an unexpected rain, and they're nearly trash anyway, so I've been thinking about getting Crocs to replace them. But I wouldn't wear them past the perimeter of my property.

this thread is tempting me to attempt making an outfit made entirely out of Crocs

i guess an outfit can just be some shoes

I'm talking Crocspants

crocpants with ventilated crotch gusset

^^^ don't forget the matching Crocstank top

There's a person in the book Market Street by Arnold Lobel who is made entirely out of shoes, but I can't find the interior illustrations online. So this boring description will have to suffice (unfortunately).

http://materialconcern.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/amexdress.jpg

like this dress, only pants and shirt rather than a dress and Crocs rather than gold Amex cards

(btw I was so busy laughing at the Amex dress that I don't think I ever realized that that dude was wearing something secretly as terrible, if not actually worse)

who are those people?

why are they holding fake oscars?

loooooooooooooooooool

Those are the costume designers for "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" holding the Oscars they won for that movie wearing the outfits they wore to the Academy Awards ceremony.

I guess I find it hard to get very worked up about what other people wear. Sure, I might judge or stereotype people based on their attire, but it doesn't make me angry or anything, especially not in a broad "what is wrong with people??" way.

(Then again, I don't really put a whole lot of thought into what I wear, either, I just try to look decent most of the time.)

lol I just realized looking at those two that now we know what inspired Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale

dan i'm just going to pretend your post is completely made up

lol Omar Little's most recent FB status update: Inspired by a couple I saw at the post office: going out in public in your pajamas (post-college) is weird.

see also: doctors wearing their scrubs everywhere. Hey doc, I know you're saving lives, etc. but please get changed in the freaking hospital locker room.

Former nurse friend gets mad abt this, at her hospital there was no wearing scrubs outside of the ward for fear of them picking up bacteria and also that if folks are left to wash them themselves at home they'll get lax about doing it properly

(dunno if this is a general rule or has any sense to it, but it sounds like it might)

wearing scrubs around is essentially arrogant imo

Yeah wearing scrubs outside of hosp is for staff who might as well wear their street-clothes to work.

I get irrationally(*) upset when I get on the bus and see ppl wearing their scrubs heading into work, because I'm like "you are going to WORK and you are on the BUS, ew" and then I just pray I never get sick ever.

* perhaps not so irrational when you think about it

i live around like 5 nursing homes and see nursing assistants in their scrubs all the time. usually they're smoking and talking on the phone. i can't really be bothered to care about their attire, though.

My wife works in a medical lab and is very strict about where she wears her work scrubs. They get washed immediately, doesn't wear her shoes in the house, etc. Not everybody is as careful as she is though. It's pretty scary.

I had someone come into my store wearing hotel slippers once.

did you guys read that link I posted about how in Singapore it's normal to wear pajamas outside

Mammy minded mama
Til one day in Singapore
A sailorman from Turkestan
Came knockin' at the door

I thought the whole ida was scrubs was that you put on a clean, hygenic set when you entered the hospital and discarded them for laundering as necessary and then before leaving so as to minimise the contamination in and out of the hospital, but I guess this falls down when employees have to buy their own.

I wish people on the internet would stop referring to things as being "dope".

yeah, that would be gnarly

flipping the bird at the camera. You are not edgy or aggro doing that. Really.

unless it's an actual bird

I got five years suspended for flipping birds in front of a camera but my lawyer argued that the camera was unconstitutional and now I'm free

free as a bird, you might say

- in sports, calling any game that's not technically a potential elimination game a "must win game".

i won't ever stop saying things are dope.

dope

Fast food restaurant employees stupidly not understanding that wearing gloves during the preparation of food does not mean you can also touch things other than food while you're wearing them (money, your phone, whatever else).

that is nothing compared with customers sneezing/blowing their noses into their hands (for godssakes, when will this country learn to sneeze into their collective elbows..?) and then handing money to the cashier who has to touch snotty cash.

do not even get me started on people not understanding the mechanisms of communicable everyday viruses - that belongs in the "disgusting savages" thread though imo

flipping the bird at the camera. You are not edgy or aggro doing that. Really.

― p.j.b. (pj), Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:24 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hey WOW yes. or actually I don't know if it requires a moratorium or not; it's just weird. it's like the finger has become such a normal/widespread "attitude" (or even "sexy!") pose that it's basically lost any sense of signifying anything or being directed at anyone. which I guess isn't totally different from what happened to victory/peace signs, photo-wise, but it's totally fascinating to me for something that says "fuck you" to evolve into a gesture that only says "I've got sexy attitude," like the equivalent of a little sneer/pout or whatever.

which seems symptomatic of some way more general thing along those lines

LOLing at the "ew ugg boots have been around for like 5 years now!" thing.

You guys are aware that these are an Australian thing and have existed here since the 1970s and were EXCLUSIVELY the domain of grotty, white trash bogans in acid wash jeans and accadacca tshirts, right?

its like we played a big joke on slebs. It's freakin awesome.

Your putting it that way is helping me make my peace with them. At least until I next see a pair in the wild.

James -vs- The Bogans! i would watch that movie. it might even be as good as my fave aussie rachel ward movie Fortress.

Bogan is a pretty mintox word.

untooooold

I first saw Uggs in like 1984 when the fried hippie-ish third grade teacher from Germany at my school had them - she was bragging them up as an exotic Australian thing in that innocent post-Men at Work, pre-Crocodile Dundee era of American knowledge about Australia.

Former nurse friend gets mad abt this, at her hospital there was no wearing scrubs outside of the ward for fear of them picking up bacteria and also that if folks are left to wash them themselves at home they'll get lax about doing it properly

(dunno if this is a general rule or has any sense to it, but it sounds like it might)

― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:11 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

lol my dad wears his old scrubs around the house and when doing general household work (full disclosure my dad is not a licensed medical professional, just someone who works at a hospital). he thinks it's absolutely awesome he can get such roomy and comfortable clothes for cheap from work and always asks me if I want him to sneak me any scrubs on the downlow

<3 can we please have no moratorium on dyao's dad and his tricks.

yuh my buddy who's all but finished med gets around in scrubs because 'he doesn't have any other pants'

also busted my ugghs out for first time this year on the weekend : )

<3

other ilxors might not know this but we are allowed to wear what we like in queensland, we are a special case.

i just want you all to be happy

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/05/23/gps.last.look.cnn?hpt=T2

For the record, there are some of us in the medical biz who hate hate hate scrubs, and would never so much as wear them on the sidewalk outside the hospital.

That shit don't stretch. At all. And they itch like crazy.

More fashion things that don't exactly look bad, but just seem a bit over-done already:

Roman sandals
1940's fighter-pilot style haircuts

Burden's on you to explain what that even is to me, dog latin.

yeah im not really sure if either of those things are 'things'

since starting work in london i've noticed that the Roman-style sandal is the choice footwear for many women, and the Hoxton "fin" has been usurped by a kind of short-back-'n'sides plus side-parted quiff look on guys. It's not that either are that bad, but the sheer amount of people rocking these looks displays a sincere lack of imagination among trendy Londoners (shockah!)

Quiff has told me all I need to know, right there. Thanks!

gladiator sandals are definitely a thing - h mayne you clearly just aren't spending enough time looking at women's feet.

i have not noticed this hair business tho.

short-back-'n'sides plus side-parted quiff

I am sort of rocking this at the minute although 'quiff' would be stretching a point - if it is a thing (I am of the provinces innit) then so be it, I like it

I noticed the pomaded hair business...about two years ago. Fins are the preserve of the provincial nightclub thug now.

short-back-'n'sides plus side-parted quiff

hmm, not sure if im rocking this or not. more yes than no

got no probs w sandals on girls

men in flip-flops otoh

+ short-sleeved polo shirt + cargo shorts

they all appear out of nowhere on the first vaguely sunny day of the year

that's because it's hot, tbf

men in flip-flops otoh

Not this tired argument again.

Like, I just bought my flip-flops at Wal-Mart last week and my feet have never been happier. Cargo shorts are pretty lame though. What can you put in all those pockets?

a spare pair of cargo shorts

I adore that haircut but maybe the over-use phenomenon you speak of hasn't hit here yet...? Hmmph. Will get in line for being over gladiator sandals, does that start over here by the drinking fountain?

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Morbsbot is loose on the main deck, I repeat, Morbsbot is loose on the main deck

flip flops are comfortable! might as well have a moratorium on pajamas.

We did pajamas upthread last week.

What else? Cookies? Clean sheets? New tires?

find flip-flops incredibly uncomfortable, myself.

They're tough on webbed feet, it's true.

idgi

Flip flops are hated by podiatrists.

"flip flops cause trouble" lol