Posted on 03/12/2010 10:43:24 AM PST by Kaslin
IIRC grown men have been wearing jeans for about 180 years.
It’s a shame half the posters (it seems) got stuck on the jeans and basebal cap comment.
It seems that many read no further than that before slamming this article.
Too bad. It really is a good commentary.
I’ll leave the ballcap and jeans fascination to others to offer this observation:
I came of age in the late ‘70s when “if it feels good, do it” and the “me generation” was all the rage. As I went into young adulthood, HIV started to spread.
My peers routinely abandoned their families as they got bored with being parents. “Children are resilient,” they told themselves and anyone else who would listen as they indulged fleeting desires and substance abuse.
Now after our 30-year reunions, we compare notes. The majority of us have made children with multiple partners. Many of us are on the market, with tons of emotional baggage and exes mooning around. Some of us haven’t seen our now grown children since they were babies.
If we were trying to be hedonistic, we didn’t succeed very well. We would have been happier staying together with our original spouses visiting with our grandbabies.
We have an attorney in San Diego known as the “Lawyer in Blue Jeans.”
Don’t forget your silk house coat
LLS
I'll just do what I stated I would in that thread while wearing blue jeans now!
Unfortunately that happens so many times here in FR
I usually wear a Knit Burberry tie with a matching tweed jacket
What a joke!
Our government is, for the most part, feeding like a vampire on the American voters. Why would they "trust" us? Where's the profit in that?
Wonder what that dish would taste like without any salt?
Give everyone cardboard to eat and watch those pounds melt off.
I read the whole article. But, the first statement stands out as very odd. It doesn’t fit with the rest of it. That’s probably why we’re all focusing on it. It was held out as an example of grown men behaving immaturely. It made the writer sound out-of-touch with reality.
I got hung up on the admonition to “grow up” and then the fact that the first thing being cited was wearing blue jeans and a cap as if that has anything to do with anything let alone maturity. Let’s just alienate everyone and see how that works now ‘eh?
I’d bring a sea salt grinder with me everywhere! Like a street peddler I’d have a jacket full of spices. Hey buddy, want to buy some turmeric? I got some garlic right here for ya pal...
Not true. For example, Hollywood has never done anything but "push the envelope".
George Will is twit. I like jeans. I don’t like suits and ties. And, yeah, I’m middled aged.
And, as long they wear them correctly, what the hell is wrong with ball caps?
I remember in the late 60’s boys were not allowed to wear T-shirts to school. They had to wear button shirts.
School was not a casual place.
If 40 years of 501’s and my “NRA” hat aren’t good enough for you?
Then you can kiss my buttered toast.
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