I was going to mock the guy in the photo that braillediver posted, saying "he doesn't know how a hat works," and then I realized that maybe the guy really does know what he's doing.

If he wants to shade both the back of his neck and his eyes from the sun while wearing this hat, he's doing it right.

The only place a backwards ball cap belongs is …

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Originally posted by egregore:
The only place a backwards ball cap belongs is …

Yogi does not agree.

^^^ OK, make it two places.

I fix and deliver appliances for a living. So my usual work uniform is an untucked work shirt and well worn jeans with either Red wings or Merrel boots. I seldom wear a hat and if I do, it gets removed the instant I come indoors with a couple of exceptions like working/shooting at an indoor range. I live in rural, blue collar America, so I look pretty much like most of the people around me.

The wife and I are pretty eclectic. Dreads, piercings, tattoos or hair colors don't faze us much.

The 'tells" for me are people who with a minute of meeting them tell you they are "something". Vegan, atheist, Baptist.....whatever. I don't really GAF as long as you aren't trying to convert me.

I'll judge you if you are unkempt or have 3 day BO. Nothing wrong with getting dirty doing work or even working up a sweat at the gym. But not bathing or wearing the same clothes days later is something different.

I use profanity, my bible college educated wife uses profanity. But it's an exclamation, not something to be used in every sentence. And while we are at it. speaking clearly and actually to a person not without at least some eye contact.

Being drunk or stoned out in public. As will disrespect for others around you.

And if you wear pajamas out in public.......

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Originally posted by Bassamatic:
Off the rails? This thread has totally tanked.

Oh, I was in the Army and I wear hats indoors all the time. I have been wearing Carhart clothes for years, some are pretty well worn and others are pristine. They are all good.

Much of my wardrobe is Carhartt, everything else gets destroyed. You see people wandering around with it like it's been starched and pressed.

The hat indoors really bunched some panties. If you're upset, you know in your heart you shouldn't wear a hat indoors...

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
You know, as I read through the list of examples in the OP, I'm putting together a mental image. You just know there's someone out there who pulled off the perfecta and checked every box on that list.

That would be hilarious, and I want to see that picture.

Every last one of us judges people in a split second the moment we lay eyes on them. Just admit it.

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Originally posted by bronicabill:

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
<<snip>>
Also:

- Otherwise beautiful women covered in tattoos. Clearly you have a pattern of making bad decisions and I'll not waste my time on you.
<<snip>>

I know... right?

Huh. Here I was, hoping to be their next poor decision.

Its called profiling when the police do it...And its right more times than not.

Show me someone with a face tattoo and I will show you a drug addict, criminal, or both

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Originally posted by Ronin101:
Show me someone with a face tattoo and I will show you a drug addict, criminal, or both

Or, y'know... A college professor who feels strongly about the traditional culture of his people.

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Originally posted by arcwelder:

most of my cosmetic notes can be overcome by personality.

Like it or not, appearance is a shorthand. You need to accept that your appearance tells people something, whether you like it or not. That might be traditional Mauri tattoos, or wearing your hat indoors like a dipshit. How you present to the world, matters. I see loads of people in the course of my job and must size them up quickly, but I also do it automatically because that is how we all work.

Just don't pretend like you don't do this, because you do. If you are unaware, it is time to admit it to yourself. It's not wrong or bad. It just is. No matter the efforts at "DEI" "Microaggressions" or any of these other things, your mind will always train itself to judge people immediately.

You can leave your hat on. ---- Joe Cocker

I thought that was Tom Jones?

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Originally posted by arcwelder:
Spanx are close fitting clothing, that most people shouldn't wear in public.

That’s the nice way of saying what we feel honestly. That most of the people you see wearing them are fat fucks. I mean I’m at the gym, and a heffer comes in there. These people think they will grow muscle or lose fat via osmosis. Because they don’t work up a sweat, or work at it, at all. You can size them up, like you mentioned, and put a 3 weeks, 2 months, 3 months flag on them. You may be off a week or two, but they never last.

But you know what they do though? They have their little outfits on. And most of them are wearing the tight fitting Spanx type pants. I mean it’s one thing to be a little overweight, it’s another to make out your mashed potato fat rolls in full view of everyone. It’s disgusting, and extremely bad taste. Your fat skin has mashed potatoes indentions in it. That means you eat entirely too much, as you aren’t just fat, you are obese and a double burger meal away from a heart attack. Wearing skin tight pants is for people in shape. For Ballerinas or gymnasts or something. Mary Sue is putting them on to drive to the gas station to buy a gas station hot dog and chips.

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Originally posted by arcwelder:
Every last one of us judges people in a split second the moment we lay eyes on them. Just admit it.

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Like it or not, appearance is a shorthand. You need to accept that your appearance tells people something, whether you like it or not. That might be traditional Mauri tattoos, or wearing your hat indoors like a dipshit. How you present to the world, matters. I see loads of people in the course of my job and must size them up quickly, but I also do it automatically because that is how we all work.

Just don't pretend like you don't do this, because you do. If you are unaware, it is time to admit it to yourself. It's not wrong or bad. It just is. No matter the efforts at "DEI" "Microaggressions" or any of these other things, your mind will always train itself to judge people immediately.

That's enough

The human species has survival mechanisms, obviously, and you've taken the one which allows us to differentiate quickly between friend and foe and turned it into something obscene and ugly. All the things you listed in your first post are about appearances.

In this forum, for many years, there has been a consistently-enforced policy about commenting on the appearance of others. You would say that you are speaking in the abstract, which is true, and therefore your remarks are not subject to this policy, which would be true but for the manner in which you've gone about it.

You might as well have made the subject of this thread the fact that all humans defecate. Excretion is necessary but what's not necessary is stating the obvious in an aggressive manner, telling members here that, hey, you know that they shit because everybody shits, and here's how you shit, and if they don't like you talking about how you shit, they need to get over it, because it's a fact of nature and they just need to admit it.

Really, it's pretty much the same thing. It's pointless and juvenile. In behaving this way, you're being rude to forum members and you're being disrespectful to me and if I didn't know better, I'd swear that your behavior in this thread is a challenge to me and to everyone here.

From this and some other posts of yours, I get the unshakeable impression of alcohol being used like rocket fuel. Quite frankly- and I say this to you in all seriousness and in no effort to display ego- the countless posts I've read here in almost a quarter of a century have attuned to me to making pretty accurate assessments of posts made during periods of, shall we say, decreased inhibitions. Then again, there can be and are at times other factors in play which account for such posts. I'll leave it at that.

I haven't looked back to check, but I do seem to recall that a few months back, I advised you to be polite to your fellow members of this forum, and I am telling you once again that I expect you to be as polite to others here as they are to you.

These pseudo-philosophical posts of yours seem to indicate that you feel you've got things to say. My suggestion to you is before dropping a fresh load of your wisdom on us, you take a couple of minutes to ponder how members might react, and if your approach is mannerly.

Mike, I'm not after you or anybody else. I mean nothing by it, I'm the same person I've always been. Some 20 years, a stint as a moderator, I just exist. Point taken, I'll chill.

Pajamas outdoors is enough to put me on edge, international sign of disrespect for both society and themselves.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

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Originally posted by Ronin101:
Show me someone with a face tattoo and I will show you a drug addict, criminal, or both

Or, y'know... A college professor who feels strongly about the traditional culture of his people.

I'll add mentally ill to the list!!

It's not mental illness. Just a different ethnic culture than yours.

There are a number of Polynesian, Asian, Inuit, and other aboriginal cultures where face tattoos are revered.

That man in particular is a Maori, one of the natives in New Zealand. Tāmoko face tattoos are an important part of Maori culture.

Neither a criminal, nor a drug addict, nor mentally ill.

And those specific face tattoos were not applied with a tattoo machine and standard bottled ink. Those would technically be called “tatao” as they would have most likely been applied with a sharpened stick and hammer, lightly tapping the stick.

Spanx- Never knew a name for it. Learn something everyday. Especially on sigforum.

Today, I had seen a very young fit woman who was wearing skin colored Spanx and a t-shirt.
With my weakened eyesight, I could have sworn she was bottomless.