Comments on: argh (or, this is also why people wear pleated pants)

By: blueberries

blueberries — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:29:54 +0000

I had to buy a black suit for my wedding (it was cheaper than renting tuxes, and all my groomsmen needed suits too). Now we look like the Guys Who Own Black Suits.

The nice thing is that now I own a suit I can wear to a funeral (for certain values of “nice thing”).

By: gcrumb

gcrumb — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:04:19 +0000

“guys don’t ask directoins”

… Or use spell-checkers.

By: gcrumb

gcrumb — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:13:19 +0000

I suspect it’s just defensiveness.

I present the following hypothesis as a corollary to ‘guys don’t ask directoins’: Any guy who does ask is required to pretend that he knew the location all along, and to argue with the direction-giver about the validity of said directions.

By: fiercekitty

fiercekitty — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:11:11 +0000

Seconded.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:10:00 +0000

That’s it, basically. And doubly so because when someone comes to me and says “I don’t know anything about suits except that I need one” I know it’s going to end up going exactly this way!

By: mahakala

mahakala — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:00:03 +0000

Serious. Deadly serious.

By: tubesocksandals

tubesocksandals — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:55:42 +0000

Agreed. I’m probably somewhere in-between. I choose to not know the rules and disregard the ones I do know. :-)

I guess the most annoying thing in this scenario is the whole “I’ve asked you for your advice, but I didn’t like it so I’ll ignore it” thing, which drives me bonkers. It’s like they’re just asking you to justify some decision that they’ve already made, and if you don’t you must have been wrong. Arrrg. >:-P

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:49:13 +0000

Up here where it snows it's a bit more relevant than down there in the Endless Sunshine!

By: sensitive_one

sensitive_one — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:40:52 +0000

white and light is good all year round here in california. :D

i didn’t know people still obeyed the no white after labor day rule. my mom used to live by it.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:24:50 +0000

Dude, I so had to physically restrain Schmidty from ordering a black blazer. Eventually I laid down the law and got him a navy wool blazer, grey charcoal flannels, and he STILL owns a black suit. Ick.