Like others above me, I would venture to say that those females are terminally flawed in their own right and are perfectly suited to the guys they’re with. They all deserve each other and are doing the rest of us a favor by not spreading their douchebaggery among the general population.
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All these pictures come from the Promoters website. They hire photags to show up and capture the people and the action to promote the next event. These people love attention and love waking up the next day seeing themselves on a website or in a club magazine. To get that attention the dress even more ridiculous and make the stupid faces and poses and the promoter encourages it by selecting those photos for their website.
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I don’t normally countenance mass extermination, but maybe it’s time to at least get a dialogue started…
I cannot understand the vitriol. It’s a subculture. No more or less worthy of derision than Ren-Faires or Sci-Fi conventions.
Until they form up into packs to push little old ladies under buses, destroy property, or steal all the napkins at fast food establishments, color me unimpressed.
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Man, what DOUCHEBAGS!
I was trying to explain to a couple girls at work why ‘popping’ your collar makes you a douchebag. The thing is, I couldn’t give a reason, other than the fact that it does. I mean…doucebags pop their collars, and if you pop your collar, you’re a douchebag. It’s one of those weird things that describes itself. For some reason, they actually like popped collars and the guys that have them, but they are otherwise NOT the type of girls you normally see with douchebags! They aren’t tanned out, coke heads, or ditzes, or what have you. It’s weird, but they just don’t seem to get what, exactly, makes a guy a douchebag.
Oh, and since we’re on the subject, here is a google image search for douchebag that I found: Damn, that guy’s a douche!
And here’s a picture of me at a costume party. I came as a douchebag. I also had not seen the previous picture until just five minutes ago, and the similarities are eerie.
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Awesome. I laughed like an insane person.
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I cannot understand the vitriol. It’s a subculture. No more or less worthy of derision than Ren-Faires or Sci-Fi conventions.
Until they form up into packs to push little old ladies under buses, destroy property, or steal all the napkins at fast food establishments, color me unimpressed.
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And there are ample opportunities to make fun of SCAdians, LARPers, etc. In fact, people who like those sorts of things tend to find themselves already pretty low down on almost any social hierarchy. It is about time that the douchebags, who are very often toxic to people in their proximity, earn their rightful place at the bottom.
[QUOTE=bouv]
And here’s a picture of me at a costume party. I came as a douchebag. I also had not seen the previous picture until just five minutes ago, and the similarities are eerie.
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Was the Miller Lite part of your costume? 
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Yeah, I’m not seeing the problem, here. Those girls look like they are matched up perfectly with those guys. They all seem to have a lot in common.
I’m not hatin’, either. They all look right together.
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I agree. There’s a lid for every trash can, as it were.
And trust me, I live in a college town. They’re everywhere. Frat guys/sorority girls, and those who used to be and wish they still were. It’s kind of an infestation. (Looks a little different in the south, but still quite identifiable.)
[QUOTE=threemae]
I cannot understand the vitriol. It’s a subculture. No more or less worthy of derision than Ren-Faires or Sci-Fi conventions.
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I think to some degree, the vitriol comes from a sort of misguided envy. The little hindbrain in us guys sees these girls, and thinks they’re hot, and then sees them cavorting and frolicking with those douche bag guys, and we resent them, because they ARE overly self important, ridiculous, and prissy to the point of making most women look low-maintenance.
Add to that, they usually spend every spare minute not in the club or at work at the gym, and every dime they make on hair, clothes, tanning, cars, etc… which the rest of us don’t, which makes us feel like to women, that we look inadequately huge and moneyed relative to these guys.
In other words, normal guys see hot women hanging around with assholes who spend all their cash and spend all their time trying to be “cool”, and it discourages us because we want to hang around the hot chicks, and they want to hang around with those assholes, while the rest of us have to hang around with “regular” women.
Of course, wisdom comes with time, and most of us realize that those girls are indeed the female counterparts to those guys, and we really didn’t want to do anything other than screw the hot chicks, because we probably couldn’t stand being around them.
On the other hand, hot chicks that aren’t douchey… oof!
(note: 2/3 of the pictures on that site seem to be the douchebags getting their pictures taken with the hot women hired by the bar or liquor companies to hawk their stuff… not their girlfriends. How sad is that?)
[QUOTE=threemae]
It’s a subculture. No more or less worthy of derision than Ren-Faires or Sci-Fi conventions.
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See, now we have a dialogue going! Whom else should we include?
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This image seems appropriate for the thread.
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Man, that is awesome! Dude looks like a cabbage…
This thread is made of win. I’m dying at the blog, at the pictures, at/with bouv…
And in my head, I hear the classic SNL line. “Ladies and gentlemen, Lord and Lady Douchebag!” And I just laugh all the harder.
I just graduated from Boston College, and indeed there were many douchebags or douchebags-in-training there. The impact was lesser, but it was there. I didn’t hang around them, but they were a common site while walking back from parties.
I’ll admit that I’m jealous though. Subtract the douchebaggery from those people and for a lot of them you have extremely hot, fit people.
I remember going to FSU and a good portion of those in social fraternities being douchebags or at least dressing like them. Then again, a large portion of the social sorority population tended toward the douchebaguette end of the spectrum with loads of makeup, fake tan, and stupid looking trendy clothes on emaciated bodies. Getting hit on by douchebags during college was always an adventure, as a lot of them couldn’t keep up and I got bored. ::shrugs:: They were, at times, entertaining in that “train wreck” sort of way.
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I’ll admit that I’m jealous though. Subtract the douchebaggery from those people and for a lot of them you have extremely hot, fit people.
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Isn’t that the issue though? Frequently, very good looking tend to be arse holes because they can be - the world gives you an easier ride if you’re pretty, and you are also more likely to be able to make it into the world of “cool”.
I’m not going to say that good looks and douchebaggery are synonomous (as there are unattractive douchbags too) but I think there is a statistically significant link.
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The girls look pretty douchey too, for the record…
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I think douches would only improve them.
Let’s face it- the males & females in these pics both are what skew the STD statistics. As DB as the guys are, their hot-but-slovenly female draperies are not without major blame. They enable the D-baggery.
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I noticed some New Jersey spilling over into my monitor as well. To be fair, you can’t assume it is New Jersey-itis without a second opinion. Parts of the Philadelphia area produce them and some of the most prized champion stock specimens in the world are bred in Revere, Massachusetts just outside of Boston. It is getting harder to spot them from a distance since the IROC-Z was discontinued.
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Also, Miami, FL and Orlando, FL have a strong D-bag presence.
I just want to know what these guys do in their day to day jobs. Are they trust fund kids who have nothing better to do than not work and look slick all day? Or do they work real jobs all day and then get all douched up at night?
[QUOTE=Skara_Brae]
Was the Miller Lite part of your costume?
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Actually, yes. I don’t normally drink the cheapo beer.
[QUOTE=threemae]
I cannot understand the vitriol. It’s a subculture. No more or less worthy of derision than Ren-Faires or Sci-Fi conventions.
Until they form up into packs to push little old ladies under buses, destroy property, or steal all the napkins at fast food establishments, color me unimpressed.
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Well it HAS been hard to find napkins at the local White Castle . . .
More examples of douches:
http://www.lookatmystripedshirt.com/characters.asp#LAMSS
So it is. I guess I just assumed it was part of the Town of Dedham because I had to pass through it every day to get to Hyde Park (I lived near the Readville station). It is a geographical and political distinction, not a cultural one. For all intent’s and purposes they might as well be a part of the same community.