Posted on 09/05/2009 8:47:47 PM PDT by Schnucki
The Washington Post reckons you can gauge the state of the economy by the state of men’s underwear drawers. That’s because we’re supposed to assume that men will purchase underwear at a relative steady rate. The theory: “Sales of men’s underwear typically are stable because they rank as a necessity. But during times of severe financial strain, men will try to stretch the time between buying new pairs, causing underwear sales to dip.”
So apparently we are to believe that America got itself – and the rest of the world – into this recession because people were splurging on homes, cars, and vacations they couldn’t afford. However, when it’s time to cut back, men will cling to that old pair of briefs for as long as they can. In a recession, when a man sees $45 underwear on a male model in a Hugo Boss ad, he’s likely to think (a) that he looks gay and (b) that the guy’s wearing $45 in beer money. This is why the underwear purchase loses out.
Women would never do this – perhaps with the exception of women who make their own soap and take home the shampoo from a stay at a cheap hotel. There’s no way women’s underwear – or any other items made exclusively for women – could ever be used as a reliable economic indicator. Women will remortgage the house to fit a few more lingerie purchases onto their various perpetually juggled credit cards. I know of a few who have personally done so.
Women’s purchases are also difficult to gauge because – and I know it’s not politically correct to say this, but it’s the truth – they aren’t always paying for the things they buy. They may be living “Vegas style”. And by that, I mean they’re
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I did not want to see Pelosi on this thread.
If there was an upsurge in the purchase of mens underwear its probably because so many of them s—t thier pants in the past few months and needed to restock.
Hey now, be thankful,..... it was either that, or Helen Thomas in a naughty little number
Well, duh...
Quite appropriate, given that it's Bacon(strip) Day
This thread is useless without Real pictures. You know, with actual women.
speaking of blood-curdling nightmares....
There... is that better?
WHEN IT COMES RIGHT DOWN TO IT, LESS IS MORE!
You are cruel, man. Stone cold.
"Heh heh, Helen Thomas...Michelle Obama...Heh heh...Oh man..."
I have completely forgotten the subject of the thread...what day this is...and my name...
Nice, huh!?!
Why do women buy lingerie? Don’t their men want to see them NAKED?
Nobody is surprised by this, are they?
One of the 72 virgins waiting for the next dead islamonazi?
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