Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

(i don't have a dog, but i do that when i'm dog sitting)

my neighbor does this all year. he's out taking his dog for a shit in shorts and a fucking sweater.

Oh man it takes FOREVER to get dog shit out of shorts, your neighbor is in big trouble.

some people just aren't that bothered by the cold, it's no big deal and I don't think they're doing it because of some macho attitude

YETIs

I had a friend in junior high that always wore a combo of shorts and sweaters. It got to the point that even our history teacher was poking fun at him for it, throwing asides in class about his "confused internal temperature" and stuff.

I do remember that when I started going out with my girlfriend, she would often refuse to put on a hat no matter how cold it was (and it can get pretty cold here) because it would mess up her hair. Then later she would complain about the cold.

I get pissed at people who keep their homes extra warm during the winter. If you have radiant heat and can't control it, whatever. But if you have a house with central heat, why would you ever put it above 70 degrees?

I'm not sure if old people are a special case, but I'm pretty sure I've been in 80 degree old person homes.

my house is a toasty 70 degrees in the winter, pellet stove.

that has to be the worst name for a heating unit ever, it sounds like it runs on rabbit shit

pellets look like rabbit shit too.

some people just aren't that bothered by the cold, it's no big deal and I don't think they're doing it because of some macho attitude

― peter in montreal, Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:09 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

I didn't say all but I'm pretty sure that some are esp when it's < freezing outside. Also, the people that do this under the kind of conditions I'm talking about are almost ALWAYS meathead looking dudes.

Oh man this should probably go on the things that make you irrationally angry thread for me. It's freezing here right now and I saw some asshole yesterday walking around in shorts. I HATE those idiot fratty dudes who insist on wearing shorts when it's ridiculously cold out and there seem to be tons around here. What is that? I mean, what are they trying to prove? Hate them.

― ENBB, Friday, December 17, 2010 10:01 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

― ENBB, Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:56 AM Bookmark

When I went to school in Missouri, the cold weather season would start a lot sooner than it did back home. After one night of sub-teens and nine inches of snowfall, my roommate from Kansas City and I were walking to class and kept seeing dudes walking around in shorts.

"What is wrong with those people?" I asked.
"You know what you call those people?" my roommate asked back. I shook my head no. "IOWANS."

Also, I went to high school with a guy who perpetually wore a sweatshirt and shorts every day. One day I called him out on it, and he replied, "You ever wear pants and a t-shirt? SAME THING."

It's not the same thing, but 20 years later, I still don't have a good snappy comeback. He's a Methodist minister now.

I do remember that when I started going out with my girlfriend, she would often refuse to put on a hat no matter how cold it was (and it can get pretty cold here) because it would mess up her hair. Then later she would complain about the cold.

i never wear hats, not b/c they mess up my hair but i feel uncomfortable wearing them, and i still complain about the cold - hats don't really do me much good against the cold

TS: Shorts as a specific answer to a specific problem, ie really hot weather-dressing, and only to be applied when that problem is present

VS

shorts as a "neutral" clothing item that is equal with pants and can be applied at any time that circumstances don't absolutely prohibit it, like, say, you are in Antarctica.

i also wear shorts in winter sometimes, but only when running/exercising. i don't hate men who do cuz those men usually have nice legs to look at

I have gotten past it, but I always liked the idea that wearing shorts was somehow inherently undignified and shameful in men.

I mean, I am so far past this and wear shorts and flip flops and shit now, but only during the hottest couple months of the year.

Just to be clear - I don't have a problem with shorts in general per say just the inappropriate wearing thereof by a specific breed of tough guys.

I think it's kinda "I was raised by wolves" to think of shorts as just the same as all other clothing, but it doesn't make me IA in particular.

When I went to school in Missouri, the cold weather season would start a lot sooner than it did back home. After one night of sub-teens and nine inches of snowfall, my roommate from Kansas City and I were walking to class and kept seeing dudes walking around in shorts.

"What is wrong with those people?" I asked.
"You know what you call those people?" my roommate asked back. I shook my head no. "IOWANS."

this is hilariously OTM

I'm against inappropriate wearing in general, although now I keep thinking about a guy who lived near me in college who would wear shorts during the winter. He also was barefoot often and was medicated for being batshit insane. The year before I was there he'd randomly kick people in the shins.

fwiw, he was MINNESOTAN and going to school in Iowa. lol.

Just to be clear - I don't have a problem with shorts in general per say just the inappropriate wearing thereof by a specific breed of tough guys.

i sense a tough guys/nice legs correlation

Also correlation to be drawn between wearing shorts over the age of 30 and a Crate Logic sleeve full of Jimmy Buffet CDs in the sun visor.

I think we're saying "tough guys" as a pejorative. I'm envisioning ratty cargo shorts, oversized sweatshirt, backward baseball cap here.

pukka shell / hemp necklace

bad facial hair creating illusion of a chin on a beer-engorged face, maybe a goatee

wearing shorts over the age of 30

uh-oh

Also correlation to be drawn between wearing shorts over the age of 30 and a Crate Logic sleeve full of Jimmy Buffet CDs in the sun visor.

WHAT????

xp

There was another thread on ILX where people were going "Ugh, shorts!" as though they were somehow inappropriate for wearing out in public (like, say, sweat pants), a notion which I think is patently insane.

(I am a man over 30 who wears shorts and whose favorite thing about summer is men in shorts)

you aren't actually surprised that ppl on ILX have insane opinions about stuff, are you

(also I think a large portion of that argument was US/UK disagreement)

"I think we're saying "tough guys" as a pejorative"

Yes. I mean meatheads.

Unless you're in a place where the temperature is over 85º, you should wear pants.

There are two sides to this argument, I concede. But shorts are the tank-top of the lower body's wardrobe.

Never Forget

the only solution is to wear a tank top as pants and shorts as a shirt

x-post - oh no

I wish I hadn't seen that. THANKS PP.

ok formal shorts for men are an abomination, that i think we can agree on

I don't care how intensely menswear designers try to make shorts happen. Shorts are casual wear for hot weather. That is it. They're not professional or formal except in Bermuda, and if you want to wear them the BERMUDAN way, be my guest. There are knee-socks involved, is all I'm sayin'.

what the heck are you supposed to wear in the summer heat? linen pants?

yeah those are a bit short those shorts.

For formal/professional applications? Yes, linen pants. Or whatever, but not shorts.

Dammit, I can't read that NYT article b/c it requires log in and I don't know my log in info.

I agree with Laurel re shorts not being a part of a professional wardrobe. I could not believe it when a friend told me that he wore shorts to work at his job at Chicago U. Or when another friend said that "professional shorts" were part of his office job's dress code. NO.

chinos in formal settings

oh god, never wear shorts to work....i wear linen. but when your just out at a bar.

I don't care how intensely menswear designers try to make shorts happen. Shorts are casual wear for hot weather. That is it. They're not professional or formal except in Bermuda, and if you want to wear them the BERMUDAN way, be my guest. There are knee-socks involved, is all I'm sayin'.

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:20 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah. I'm 100% A-OK with shorts in hot weather as casual wear but for a formal thing? C'mon. Those guys look ridiculous.

I've been to Bermuda and saw the businessmen in shorts and even there it looked pretty silly tbh. Cute on the little kids though.

Good a place to ask as any: Is there a giant thread about what's going on in Wisconsin?

Seeing giant threads about anything else is making me irrationally irritated.

huaraches