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

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

I'm totally anti-shorts for myself though. I'm a pants or skirts kind of gal - there is no in-between.

There are girls who wear shorts at my office, too, as if they're interchangeable with skirts. I know that, rationally, there's nothing wrong w this -- if a woman can show her legs in a skirt, why not be able to show them in shorts if they're "nice" enough, made of good fabric, well-cut, etc whatever? But I just can't get on board. Shorts as skirts, shorts with tights underneath -- IF IT'S COOL ENOUGH TO NEED TIGHTS, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU WEARING SHORTS??

hahaha otm

Skirts are cuter and more flattering on most ppl anyway. Also, more comfortable!

shorts on women meh. do ladies still wear sundresses?

I would just like to pre-emptively say that I exempt La Lechera from any and all complaints about shorts. She can wear anything she wants and I promise to be charmed.

where do you stand on the "jeans-under-dresses" thing?

I used to see deadhead girls doing this in California and it was weird to me

then I met super-fashiony weirdo people from Scandinavia who did it too

is it just a "warmth" thing? is it a good look or is it anger-inducing?

Proper Summer Attire

its so no one can see the hippies bush.

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

have you tried the politics thread

Or the Search link.

where do you stand on the "jeans-under-dresses" thing?

no

just, no

What if they're like those pajama jeans as seen on tv? Those are like leggings, right? :)

what enbb said re: jeans under dresses

Can I add a sidenote complaint about girls wearing tiny short shorts in cold weather? I mean, I know it's not an ew gross and eyeroll they sure are purty etc perv perv whatever...but THAT much bare leg in the freezing cold is just not right and it annoys the shit out of me. I want to throw them in my car and drive them home and make them get changed. Or take them to a shelter that provides pants for inappropriately dressed girls.

pants lol.

I want to throw them in my car and drive them home

You too, huh?