# Abercrombie pisses me off **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 22, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855 "2003-08-22T03:36:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deathstatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Deathstatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deathstatic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/1 "2003-08-22T03:36:26Z")
I went to the mall again today for the first time in ages, and I happened to pass the Abercrombie and Fitch store. I am thoroughly annoyed. I can’t believe I used to buy this shit. They were selling pants that looked like they had been been pre-worn by some poor pakistani kid that was paid to walk around on his knees for a week… who later took them off and spackled paint on them. The worst part of this whole experience was actually watching people–hordes of the twits–walking out with big grins on their faces and a bag in their hand containing their “clothes.” So I thought, “perhaps they aren’t that expensive…” LOL. You can buy three pairs of NEW jeans at the store next door for what you will pay for these jeans. Everybody is wearing these jeans now and paying a shit load of money for them… I just can’t make any sense of it. They are going to pay that much money for somethign that will fall apart in two months, turn around and buy another pair… the stupidity cycle continues. I got an idea for all you preworn-Abercrombie-pants-wearin-mother-fuckers: Let’s take all the money you are going to lose from buying these stupid-ass jeans and clothe some people who actually need it… or even better, give the money you will lose to me. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/2 "2003-08-22T05:01:35Z")
GREED and VANITY, it’s the American way. If you can find a way to prick the greed and vanity of any group of Americans, you will be a zillionaire. Witness the SUV phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/3 "2003-08-22T05:23:14Z")
Why are you so pissed off at other people buying pants? Did they really hurt you that much? There are far more pressing matters at hand to be annoyed about. Like slushies that aren’t fully frozen. What the fuck is up with _that?_ ---
**Author:** ![Thaumaturge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Thaumaturge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaumaturge)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/4 "2003-08-22T06:23:38Z")
I call people who wear Abercrombie aberzombies. 😛 There’s just something retarded about _paying_ for advertising. If I am to become a corporate billboard for some company, _they_ should pay _me_. Therefore I never wear clothing that has large corporate logos (advertising) plastered all over it. I might change my mind if I start receiving checks for that activity, but I’m not holding my breath. ---
**Author:** ![ooga\_booga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b77776/32.png) [@ooga\_booga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ooga_booga)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/5 "2003-08-22T07:00:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Thaumaturge \* > \*\*I call people who wear Abercrombie aberzombies. 😛 \*\* Heh. I worked for a time at a bookstore adjacent to an A&F in the mall, and we were forever having to hassle with them to turn down their damn bass-thumping sound system, not to mention the residual spillover of idiot teeny-boppers. Eventually one guy at the store made up a few T-shirts with a little “Aberzombie” logo on the front. They were GOOD…at a casual glance it looked like something you’d buy off the racks next door. We never quite got the gonads to wear them on the job, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/6 "2003-08-22T07:06:44Z")
The first time I saw a t-shirt that said “Abercrombie & Fitch,” I assumed it was a corporate giveaway for the firm Abercrombie & Fitch (that I’d never heard of). I mean, my dad worked for Ernst & Young, so I’ve got some E&Y shirts, seemed logical to me. Paying huge money for used clothing? Not so logical. I’ve never shopped there. ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/7 "2003-08-22T11:42:40Z")
Heh heh, Aberzombie & Kitsch. Like it. ---
**Author:** ![booka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@booka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booka)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/8 "2003-08-22T13:41:30Z")
Up here in da U.P. dey call 'em Abermaki and Fish, ya. ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/9 "2003-08-22T14:21:01Z")
I went into Abercombie once with a friend. For whatever reason she likes their stuff. Anyway my friend who is all of a 115lbs had to buy a large tshirt. A LARGE. At any other store she could wear a small but at Aberzombie she had to buy a large. That’s some fucked up shit yo. ---
**Author:** ![Ill\_Logik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Ill\_Logik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ill_Logik)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/10 "2003-08-22T14:40:37Z")
Sometimes when my parents yell at me I go upstairs to my room and play my Blink182 records really loud and iron my abercrombie and fitch t-shirts. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/11 "2003-08-23T11:39:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ill Logik \* > \*\*Sometimes when my parents yell at me I go upstairs to my room and play my Blink182 records really loud and iron my abercrombie and fitch t-shirts. \*\* …_Records_???.. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/12 "2003-08-23T12:14:28Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Rilchiam_ > …Records???.. You know. Short for recordings? They’re these things, sometimes big, black and round, these days more often little round and silver that make music when you put them is special machines. Pretty amazing I know, but records, or musical recordings have been around for quite a while. If you’d like me to, next, I’ll explain why DVD is still video. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/13 "2003-08-23T12:24:39Z")
**I know that, gex gex.** I had amassed about 200 LPs and any number of 45s, plus the stuff I inherited from my sisters, by the time I caved in and got a CD player. But I hardly think that Blink 182’s music is available on 12-inch vinyl. Well, maybe club DJs have some. But not A&F-wearing, WB-watching, nobody-understands-me-saying teenagers in 2003. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/14 "2003-08-23T13:29:57Z")
How come A&F has all of those good-looking kids for models? Ya know, the gals with huge hogans and the guys with big muscles…and nary a zit on any of em? The poor kids who buy this shit think that they will be magically transformed into good-looking hunks and hotties, by wearing their overpriced, crappy clothes! Its hilarious to see all of those huge butted , acne-afflicted girls spending their hard-extorted dollars 9from their parents), thinking that they will look like supermodels! Ahh, the power of advertising! ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/15 "2003-08-23T14:47:02Z")
Ya know, I’m old enough to remember when A&F sold picnic sets, table ware and large leather rhinos as opposed to overpriced clothing. I suppose that means that I’m not in the right age demographic to wear the stuff now… 😃 (Actually, I have an A&F T-Shirt that I bought when they still sold household goods - it’s for fly-fishing - It says “Times fun when you’re having flies.” I thought it was funny.) ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/16 "2003-08-23T15:27:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by alice\_in\_wonderland \* > \*\*Ya know, I’m old enough to remember when A&F sold picnic sets, table ware and large leather rhinos as opposed to overpriced clothing. > \*\* And, before then, they used to virtually everything that could be regarded as sporting equipment, up to and including elephant guns. Ahh, those were the days… ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/17 "2003-08-23T15:49:24Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Rilchiam_ > **I know that, gex gex.** I had amassed about 200 LPs and any number of 45s, plus the stuff I inherited from my sisters, by the time I caved in and got a CD player. But I hardly think that Blink 182’s music is available on 12-inch vinyl. > > Well, maybe club DJs have some. But not A&F-wearing, WB-watching, nobody-understands-me-saying teenagers in 2003. Perhaps you missed my point. Records are _musical recordings_. A musical recording can exist on many formats, vinyl, tape and CD. A Blink-182 recording is a record, whether it comes as a 12" or a CD. And I’ve seen Blink on vinyl, I like Blink, I own lots of vinyl and if Abercrombie and Fitch had stores in Australia, I’d wear their stuff. It looks pretty cool and doesn’t have the over-exposure here that it seems to suffer in the U.S. market. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/18 "2003-08-23T15:58:16Z")
Well, I guess A&F does have a redeeming quality. It’s a very quick way to tell if someone is gullible enough to pay $80 for a shirt. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/19 "2003-08-23T16:11:27Z")
> [@](#): > > How come A&F has all of those good-looking kids for models? Ya know, the gals with huge hogans and the guys with big muscles…and nary a zit on any of em? _White_ ones. You may be interested to know that some folks are preparing a racial discrimination lawsuit against A&F. It’s alleged that they either do not hire, or fire, nearly anyone who isn’t white. At one store, there was 95% white people, a racial proportion unmatched by any of the other stores nearby. I have a T-shirt somewhere that says ANTICROMBIAN BITCH. ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/20 "2003-08-23T16:45:34Z")
You guys are all retarded. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855.md?page=2)