T/S: UGG BOOTS vs GU DESSERTS

it existed in my high school among band geeks as an "i don't give a shit" statement, but that's about it as far as i know

Yeah, I thought it was a local aberration but a look at google yields gold:

PJs all the rage from Shanghai to Dublin...

My parents came back with plenty of pyjama shots when they went to China. Their take was that being able to afford a splendid pair of pyjamas was a status symbol, so old guys would wear them out & about instead of just to bed.

Goodfellas was supposedly a microtrend a couple of years back in the New York area, but mostly for boys - I remember seeing a couple of photostories with kids all fake tan and wide-lapelled suits

my mom wants to buy a pair of uggs :( and now I have to trawl the internet looking for deals which will drop them below a benjamin

Yes, pyjamas thing is a thing. Have seen it v. occasionally here in Oxfordshire, but mainly in Belfast: at any time of day it's not wildly uncommon to see young(ish) women in pyjamas in the supermarket, and a friend reports that apparently they have a pair for home wear and a nice (warm?) pair to wear to the shops.

Or, much what the comments on that page say about Dublin.

dyao does your mom care if they are ugg brand or just ugg style boots? because you can find (sometimes cuter) knockoffs for like $25 easily.

Hasn't the PJ's thing been a "thing" for just about forever in parts of Liverpool?

guys uggs became popular when consumers became ashamed of their fat ankles, there is no other reason (afaict)

a result of eating too much gü

man I never worried about ankle fatness until Ross accused Rachel of it on Friends and now phobia of such is an epidemic of vast enough proportions to get its own hideous footwear trend

Pyjamas out & about - the backlash begins

The Dude not welcome at Tesco.

I saw my first girl in pyjamas at the Silverburn shopping mall in Glasgow just last night!

Is this the same grocery store that banned hooded sweatshirts and Jedis?

I though the pyjamas thing was just a US college thing but clearly I am wrong.

Sent link to friend in Belfast, who provided me with this one in return:
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article1901953.ece

June 2007, for anyone plotting a timeline of pyjamas across the UK

Unexplained urges

Dr Strangelove Syndrome
Sufferers lose control of one hand, which starts to act of its own free will

wearing pajamas outside seems like such a "I just started living alone and my parents can't tell me what to do!" thing

hell yes it is

For some people, I think it's more of a "you only live once, so you might as well be comfortable" thing.

how the hell do you get to a tescos barefoot though?

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/416/alanpartridgetobleroneui3.th.jpg

(i didn't really mean 'how' but really 'why' or 'how do you get the motivation to')

Yeah, I'll agree with that. At least put on some UGGS, ffs.

Do wish people who work in supermarkets would learn to make proper, readable temporary signs.

http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpd9701gza1qa26qlo1_r1_500.gif

I know ledge already mentioned him, but, you know, the dude abides.

Why do temporary signs say 'temporary sign' on them? It puts them on the back foot unnecessarily. See also: 'Polite Notice'.

So many Gü ramekins round this flat. They're pretty expensive at RRP but have been 2-for-1 or 3-for-2 quite often at Sainsbury's over the past year, which makes them a reasonable price.

― brett favre vs bernard fevre, fite (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 1 January 2010 12:23

they're really very good at 2 for 1! just got thru 2 lime cheescakes and will do well not to get thru the chocolate soufflé's as well

silly name tho, natürlich

Gü is fucking delicious. But I think I've only bought them for something like 90% off on the day of going out of date.

I appear to have lost my little ramekins though.

But I did keep that Robert Burns Coca Cola bottle after the drink surprisingly cost me something like £2.

Apparently Ugg (Ug?) boots were originally just a STYLE of boots made by many makers in Australia, and UGG has since fucked a lot of them over by successfully trademark suing them out of using the word Ug.

the two subjects of this thread are uneasy company

I just realised why someone would start a thread like this. 'Ug' is 'Gu' spelt backwards! Wow I'm so fucking sharp today!

Man, do I love uggs.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3163/2917499038_70b2d239bf.jpg

http://homepages.baylor.edu/riley_ross/files/2008/10/uggs-and-shorts.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QatMJHEcU9A/SmFmgDoCFsI/AAAAAAAAKBw/Ouzgq8XE7uk/s400/Shenae+Grimes+Metallic+UGGs+UGG+Boots+Shorts+004.jpg

yow!

I just realised why someone would start a thread like this. 'Ug' is 'Gu' spelt backwards! Wow I'm so fucking sharp today!

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:53 (9 minutes ago)

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