Hey everyone look at me!!! I'm different! I don't conform to social norms, but my choices are just as, if not more, contrived than yours! In your face!!!!
Meat187
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Originally posted by Miss Pie
Hey everyone look at me!!! I'm different! I don't conform to social norms, but my choices are just as, if not more, contrived than yours! In your face!!!!
Yeah, spon on, it's exactly like that. Probably Lira will soon dye his hair red.
Lira
By the way, this is the last post in which I'm trying to take this thread seriously... I just can't do it any longer. I mean, really!? :stongue:
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Originally posted by Miss Pie
Hey everyone look at me!!! I'm different! I don't conform to social norms, but my choices are just as, if not more, contrived than yours! In your face!!!!
Totally, and I am so different and original that I'm doing what loads of people have done before me and I chose a pair of converse shoes that resemble the most ordinary formal shoes. Next thing you know I'm going to sport a mohican and get my eyebrow pierced because no one ever thought of doing that before!
I'm a bastion of rebellion! :cool:
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Originally posted by Moral Hazard
If she expects you to because that's the kind of self-centred cunt that you are and she begrudgingly tolerates it then yes... still disrespectful.
Oh, well, you're assuming she begrudgingly tolerates it: have you ever considered the fact that, as a friend (and one of my most straight-forward ones) who knows me and enjoys my companionship, she might not actually care/mind?
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Originally posted by Renzo
I can't believe Lira would go through the trouble of creating 11 alts :o :o
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Wait, are you talking about the first option or the third one? Because, you know, I didn't vote for the first option myself :D
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Originally posted by Meat187
If I wanted Lira's approval I'd just post some verbose thread about applying Hans-Georg Gadamer's theory of hermeneutics to big breasts.
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Originally posted by Meat187
Yeah, spon on, it's exactly like that. Probably Lira will soon dye his hair red.
And join a punk ska band!
Woohoo!!!
Edit: Wait, let me just confirm something, Jenny... you reckon I do this because I want to be different!? Really? It's funny because, of all arguments I gave, being different isn't among them. Even Craig has a point when he says I'm self-centred (which I actually consider a positive trait). If anything, my "contrived" arguments are just two... converses are comfortable (and are discrete as far as trainers go) and I find this sort of style aesthetically pleasing...
See, nowhere have I argued that I want to be different or unique. Even because posting pictures of other people and claiming I want to be original is a bit of a contradiction.
Meat187
Lira
Oh, I see what you're doing there, you sneaky German: you're showing me the opposite (antithesis) so I will eventually do a combination of both (synthesis) that consists of formal shoes minus the jeans plus the suit minus the converses.
Pretty clever!
Meat187
Exactly, I figured that pure flaming doesn't do any good, while applying Hegel's dialectics with thesis, antithesis and synthesis would certainly work on you. :p
Lira
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The funny thing about it is that yours is actually the most compelling post so far, and I may actually have to wear formal shoes with a suit in order to honour German idealism.
Well played, Meat, well played!
bananas
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Originally posted by Miss Pie
Nobody over the age of 14 should wear sneakers with any kind of formal wear.
noikeee
Keep in mind the whole cultural differences thing... I don't think it's a coincidence the angry answers are mostly from the folks from North America.
Not sure what's it like on Brazil, but over here basically what happens is that I always go formal just to be sure, only to find out there's a bunch of wankers that got away with dressing half-formal and nobody gives a . Though I do think people are a bit stricter with weddings than other formal occasions, not sure why.
Lira
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Originally posted by noikeee
Keep in mind the whole cultural differences thing... I don't think it's a coincidence the angry answers are mostly from the folks from North America.
Not sure what's it like on Brazil, but over here basically what happens is that I always go formal just to be sure, only to find out there's a bunch of wankers that got away with dressing half-formal and nobody gives a . Though I do think people are a bit stricter with weddings than other formal occasions, not sure why.
This reminds me of how awfully overdressed I felt when I attended my first funeral. I had never seen an actual funeral before, but I used to see those beautiful funerals in Hollywood films where everybody wore suits and whatnot. My parents had already told me that was not the case here, but I decided to wear black anyway because there's this myth that you should wear black at a funeral.
Except for the coffin and the Buddhist monk chanting, the people that showed up dressed like they always are: coloured t-shirts, jeans, and the occasional dress. Nothing fancy. And when I went to my godmother's funeral, once again people didn't seem to adhere to any sort of dress code. I swear I actually saw a guy wearing flip flops in this one occasion, and I only noticed it because I reckoned it was weird to walk on the grass wearing something like that. It probably itches afterwards, doesn't it?
But, I digress, and Noik's got a point: If I'm correct, Canadians in general seem to be most hostile to this quirk of mine than most other people... but that could be a coincidence.
