# I have bad taste. Please join me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 4, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319 "2005-02-04T04:18:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/21 "2005-02-04T14:34:40Z")
By the end of this year, I will officially be in my thirties. Today at work, I am wearing a brown t-shirt with a large picture of Luke Skywalker on it and a horrendous 70’s-style orange/yellow/tan border. My socks have Care Bears on them, and if anyone besides me ever saw my underwear, they’d be thoroughly amused by the fact that they’re _actually_ Supergirl underoos. Never, ever, _ever_ grow up. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/22 "2005-02-04T14:55:11Z")
> [@BrattiAtti](#): > > First off, I’m your new best friend, so you’re going to send the quilt to me. 😉 Damn! You beat me to it! ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/23 "2005-02-04T15:27:40Z")
IMHO, maturity is not something to _strive for_, it’s just something that just happens. It’s important to be mature in the sense that you must be serious about your responsiblities to other people. Pay your bills on time, and do not be rude or selfish. But in all other areas of life, enjoy your immaturity while it lasts. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/24 "2005-02-04T15:49:23Z")
Wear whatever makes you happy. Personally, I have decided to thin out my closet by getting rid of anything not any shade of green, blue, brown, black or white because I realized I really don’t like reds, yellows and purples. This most definitely includes those orange and pink things I have no idea why they are in my closet. I have to ask myself “what the hell were you thinking when you bought those things?”, then I remember “Oh yeah, they were on sale.” ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/25 "2005-02-04T17:47:10Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > By the end of this year, I will officially be in my thirties. Today at work, I am wearing a brown t-shirt with a large picture of Luke Skywalker on it and a horrendous 70’s-style orange/yellow/tan border. My socks have Care Bears on them, and if anyone besides me ever saw my underwear, they’d be thoroughly amused by the fact that they’re _actually_ Supergirl underoos. > > Never, ever, _ever_ grow up. 🙂 Omigod, I love Care Bears! You know what else is cool? Smurfs! And Weebles. But I digress. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/26 "2005-02-04T17:49:58Z")
And what about footy pj’s? They’re so cool… ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/27 "2005-02-04T17:52:24Z")
> [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](#): > > I’m so ashamed. I want to change. Really I do. No, you don’t. My best friend was just like you. She had a good time with her “kindergarten” taste and so did the rest of us. Then she started trying to acquire good taste. She learned that navy and black don’t go together. She learned that sweatshirts and jeans aren’t suitable for every social event. She learned that posters of wizards and dragons weren’t “grown up” enough for a married woman of 27 to hang on the walls of her house. She’s having a lot less fun. ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/28 "2005-02-04T17:52:58Z")
Oooh yeah! Footy pj’s! I actually can knit socks. I mean, I obviously don’t knit every pair I own. But I have some of the whackiest hand-knitted socks you’ve ever seen. I don’t think anyone ever really notices, so it’s like my dirty little secret. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/29 "2005-02-04T17:56:48Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > And what about footy pj’s? They’re so cool… I got those, too! 🙂 They’re light blue with clouds all over them, so I call them my Microsoft Promotional PJ’s. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/30 "2005-02-04T18:25:32Z")
> [@Q.N. Jones](#): > > No, you don’t. > > My best friend was just like you. She had a good time with her “kindergarten” taste and so did the rest of us. > > Then she started trying to acquire good taste. **She learned that navy and black don’t go together. She learned that sweatshirts and jeans aren’t suitable for every social event. She learned that posters of wizards and dragons weren’t “grown up” enough** for a married woman of 27 to hang on the walls of her house. > > She’s having a lot less fun. Wha? Okay, I guess I’m still not grown up then. That’s a relief. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/31 "2005-02-04T21:57:05Z")
As proof of my childish taste, [this](http://www.goats.com/store/item/tshirt_awesome-1.html) is my next t-shirt purchase. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/32 "2005-02-04T22:23:52Z")
> [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](#): > > You know those t-shirts with the rainbows across the chest that were popular sometime in the 70s or early 80s? I think they’re really cool. I can’t help it. I’ve been in therapy to try to change, but I just can’t. I think rainbow-colored tops are, at least to some extent, back. I am taking full advantage and buying them now, while I can get them. I will wear them as long as they last, even if they go out of style, because I like them. > [@](#): > > I try hard to have “adult” tastes. To pick out things that include the color “beige” and that involve things called “neutral colors.” I think that’s a conspiracy of the boring people to try to make the rest of us boring, too… ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/33 "2005-02-05T00:12:20Z")
> [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](#): > > “The time has come,” The Walrus said, > "To talk of many things. > Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, > Of Cabbages and Kings. Your username is awesome. And the next two lines are “And why the sea is boiling hot, And whether pigs have wings.” It’s a great poem… ( **The Walrus and the Carpenter** ). Second only to the classic **Jabberwocky** among Carroll’s poems, imho. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/34 "2005-02-05T00:42:46Z")
Well… I’m several years older and I have a deep purple bedroom with pumpkin-colored roman shades (made 'em myself). My kitchen is sponge-painted bright apple green and has a tall cabinet that I covered in [kryptonite](http://www.hancockfabrics.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=11289&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=5&iSubCat=196&iProductID=11289). And I am currently wearing grape-colored birkenstocks. And I like it. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/35 "2005-02-06T00:14:08Z")
Navy and black don’t go together? Huh. I thought black went with everything. I have Supergirl panties too. Lots of them. Quite a few are thongs. I’m 28 and my house is full of action figures and assorted pop culture ‘n’ comics crap. My husband and I both like it, so sue us. ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/36 "2005-02-06T00:40:28Z")
Everyone has some bad taste. I use to watch “Earth: Final Conflict” even though i knew it was absolute crapola. Although i gotta say, I have the exact opposite problem as you CeilingWhacks, when it comes to clothing colors. My entire wardrobe is drab olives and blacks and greys and browns and beiges and navys and slate blues. I think I’m allergic to color. ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/37 "2005-02-06T00:40:45Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > Navy and black don’t go together? Huh. I thought black went with everything. It looks a little strange. Mostly, though, it’s a faux pas because it makes you look like you got dressed in the dark or can’t see the difference between navy and black. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/38 "2005-02-06T01:20:47Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > By the end of this year, I will officially be in my thirties. Today at work, I am wearing a brown t-shirt with a large picture of Luke Skywalker on it and a horrendous 70’s-style orange/yellow/tan border. My socks have Care Bears on them, and if anyone besides me ever saw my underwear, they’d be thoroughly amused by the fact that they’re _actually_ Supergirl underoos. > > Never, ever, _ever_ grow up. 🙂 Eee! I have Supergirl underoos too! Red and blue (and blue and red) ones, and pink with dark pink trim and white with blue trim! I will always have a bit of little-kidness in me. I love silly socks and fun undies. I adore hideous patterns for socks, especially, like this: [http://store1.yimg.com/I/absolutesocks\_1827\_214174797](http://store1.yimg.com/I/absolutesocks_1827_214174797) . My favorite pair of socks are my bright fuschia with an argyle pattern of green and brown diamonds, with orange tick-lines. :eek: Oh, and I love my t-shirt that is black, says “hugs and kisses” and has a crossbones, a smiling skull, and another crossbones and smiling skull (in white with iridescent glitter!). I love bold colors and obnoxious colors. I’m only 22, so I figure I have time before I start to get the “aren’t you going to grow up any time soon?” questions. I get bright-colored things most especially in notebooks and socks and nail polish and whatnot. The small things that make you smile, but aren’t overpowering. ---
**Author:** ![ebok47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@ebok47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ebok47)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/39 "2005-02-06T02:20:56Z")
Well, being fourteen, the whole “adult” thing dosent really apply, but if it helps I went to school once in green and red slippers, mismatched socks (one black and purple striped, the other one was a “grinch who stole christmas” sock), a light red patchwork ankle legnth pesanty skirt, a light orange mighty mouse shirt with an orange, brown, purple, pink, red, light green, and white sweater. oh, and green and gold ribbons braided into my pigtails (which are, btw, two and a half feet long.) As a good friend of mine put it “So which fairy threw up on you this time?” ---
**Author:** ![Naz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@Naz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Naz)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319/40 "2005-02-06T04:35:12Z")
What’s wrong with bad taste? Good taste is boring! Our house is filled with various pop-culture, cartoony, and videogamey stuff. We’ve even got a couple of posters that we talked our local military base Burger King into giving us on the walls. And while my clothes tend to be muted colors, my jewelry is big, silver, and glittery. I wear as much as I can. 🙂 I’m moving to Phoenix, AZ soon, and I’m itching to go back to their vintage clothing stores. That way I can get more interesting clothes! (And I’d offer to take the black-and-pink kitty quilt, but **BrattiAtti** beat me to it.) 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-bad-taste-please-join-me/288319.md?page=3)