# MTV/Nokia can man my jackhammer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mtv-nokia-can-man-my-jackhammer/316523>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 10, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mtv-nokia-can-man-my-jackhammer/316523 "2005-08-10T22:49:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mtv-nokia-can-man-my-jackhammer/316523/21 "2005-08-13T04:51:00Z")

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> [@ultrafilter](#):
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> I don’t think that anyone really takes the “that guy” thing seriously. I’ll joke about it, but I don’t give a hoot what anyone wears.

So you make fun of completely innocuous things other people are wearing and feel cool about being better them, but you don’t _really_ care, because you know it’s not cool to _really_ care, but you want to, you know, feel a little bit smug and superior, without admitting you’re feeling smug and superior, because that wouldn’t be cool. Right?

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**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mtv-nokia-can-man-my-jackhammer/316523/22 "2005-08-13T04:52:19Z")

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> [@Hal Briston](#):
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> It’s just one of those things (and has been since at least 1993) that makes you “that guy”. You don’t wanna be “that guy”.  
> Naaaw. Talking about “that guy” just make you that guy talking about “that guy”.

…and possibly a high schooler. Because every single one of the grown ups I know don’t even fucking NOTICE what the other guys are wearing.

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