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God those are ugly.
by naner 16y ago
God those are ugly.
- rokhayakebe 16y agoYeah, I was wondering if they actually made a mistake by buying it for that 49.99.
- mitjak 16y agoWelcome to HN, the meeting place of finest fashion tastes and trend setters.
- jrockway 16y agoI like 'em.
- rokhayakebe 16y agoYou like the boots, jrockway? You are my newest hero/hera.
- jrockway 16y agoHah! I was indeed referring to the boots. :)
- mitjak 16y agoI love them. The price tag obviously bites but coupled with some slick jeans and a plaid shirt this would be irresistable.
- ErrantX 16y agoAgreed. But my girlfriend just gave me a 10 minute lecture on "How You Have No Taste" :) so what do we know.
- Groxx 16y ago"taste" goes in circles anyway. You're just ahead of the curve to such a degree, you appear to be behind it. Maybe you've lapped Good Taste, and are catching up to it again.
- ErrantX 16y agoSomehow I don't think XKCD t-shirts will ever come [back] into fashion :)
- Groxx 16y agoThis implies they've been in (and left) or are attempting to be in fashion, though I prefer to believe they've escaped. (the difference being left-out or left-willingly, vs running away after being captured) I've got a "Shrodinger's cat is dead" (with "not dead" on the back) shirt which helps me find interesting people (THE most random people understand it). I'd argue that's more useful than fashion (does it have a use?), and remember that stick-figure shirts occasionally explode in popularity (I remember a big burst several years ago). XKCD is just a superior-taste subset of those. edit: heck, "fashion" hasn't served me too well anyway. I wore a blue-screen-of-death shirt to one of my interviews, and got the job. The interviewer called the boss in to laugh at the shirt :)
- benmathes 16y agoFashion does have a use; the goal is to send social signals about status and group. While most people go way overboard and just follow along religiously, you too are in fact using fashion to socially signal like-minded people!
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- jackowayed 16y agoI wore an xkcd tie to prom with overwhelmingly positive response. Of course I go to a math/science magnet school (which really is just the high school where most of the smart people in the state go, regardless of their interests)