The technical word is “grown up.”
Yes is it, because the Apple fanboys generally don’t fight and stab each other or riot over the newest iPhone.
iPhone 4S: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaXHwrg0CyI
Air Jordans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5W956OrC8k
To be fair, the iPhones aren’t limited editions that can be resold for hundreds above what was paid.
Not that this makes it okay or right, etc.
They also make knockoff Jimmy Choo shoes; they’re called Wushu Choo Shoes, and the ad line is “Choose Wushu Choo Shoes”.
Ah. Somehow I missed the acerbity the first time around.
Cicero: I can’t help myself. Tis my nature. 
I don’t see anything “wrong” about people wanting X or Y and even standing in line to get it (although we did used to pity the Soviets and their line-standing back in the day…), it’s the pushing, stabbing and leaving children nonsense that bothers me, and I expect, most people here and well, everywhere. Except those doing the pushing of course. So, as has been said, Air Jordans are no different from the newest Apple or tech gadget or tickle me Elmo–it’s the human behavior that is being deplored here. Or at least I hope it is. I am not often here and the Dope may have changed.
I was outside of an AT&T store during the iPhone 3G release. They had hired security guards to make sure that the line stayed orderly and people didn’t cut in line. They only let five people in the store at a time. After the first five were let in, they would only let a new person in after someone else left.
None of this shit would have happened if they had intelligently managed the lines outside of the shoe stores.
Too bad they’re not made in Chattanooga. 
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This…this is a whoosh, right? This is clearly a joke and I’m just not getting it?
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
I work with a guy who is a sneakerphile. I asked him today “So how many people did you kill to get your new Air Jordans?”
He said they arrived many hours before the store opened and there were already about 20 people in line. His friend went in, bought a pair that didn’t fit, walked out and sold them to someone at the tail end of the line for a $120 profit.
Too bad they’re not made in Chattanooga.
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Or Honshu, or Honolulu.
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“Hey boy, is that the Chattanooga Wushu Choo shoe?”
“Yeah, size 29.”
I know, and we miss you.
The Jordans were in our local news last night since someone who’d just bought a pair was jumped and beaten for them at a party. So he’s out the shoes and pretty sore, but better than the girl involved that was stabbed in the face, requiring stitches from her cheekbone to her chin, both inside and out.
I wonder which suture pattern the doctor used?
That’s what I’m trying to figure out. The premise is sound enough: “We all engage in conspicuous consumption,” but the conclusion, “So, really, aren’t we all knifing each other over sneakers?” just does not follow. Also, sven does not seem to have sufficient grasp of the principle to come up with any valid examples of it. So if you don’t live in a cramped studio above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley, if you own any item that is not absolutely necessary for survival, then aren’t you also abandoning your toddler for a pair of sneakers? Because it’s just like that.
No one has a job where it’s okay for their car to break down several times in three years. It has to be whoosh.
One should take into account the damaging effects of neurotoxic African parasites on the portions of the brain that control logic and reasoning.
That was unjustified. even sven is one of our most helpful, intelligent, and informed Dopers and always an asset to the whole community, always has something interesting to contribute. Back the fuck off of her, you jerk.
The “whole community” benefits from a diversity of opinion, does it not? And like you, sven is a big, sturdy girl, more than adequately equipped to wage her own battles and face the consequences of her own actions. (Or to avoid them altogether, by occasionally refraining from swinging her sole hammer at the same ubiquitous nail.)
We have much to learn from neurotoxic African parasites.