# This board is a bunch of hypocritical douchebags **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 29, 2012, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450 "2012-11-29T07:49:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/81 "2012-11-29T16:45:58Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I’m going to be a hypothetical douchebag! I haven’t figured out how, yet. Ooh, me too. I’ll bet there’s a how-to book (I’ll check the self-help aisle of Powell’s on my way to the meeting\*). \*After the streetlights turn on, at the clubhouse in the old oak behind Skippy’s house. Pull the ladder up behind you so none of the gang from the Actual Douchebags Club can spy on us. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/82 "2012-11-29T16:46:03Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > But I don’t really think the core of the OP’s issue is about stained clothes. I think it’s about feeling judged. And, almost always, in my experience, when someone is feeling judged, it’s just a reflection/projection of how judgmental they are being of others. They feel it, though it’s not really there, because they are nothing but judgmental of others, and cannot imagine they are not being just as harshly judged. > > What an awesome world it would be if, just once, in such cases, people could realize, people think about them, not at all. And it’s hard to judge someone you don’t even consider, clean clothes or dirty, good hair/bad. Now the word judge looks funny. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/83 "2012-11-29T16:54:00Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Men would you wear pinkstained underwear to work? Would you get urinal stage fright? Given that I own underwear that came from the store pink, no, it doesn’t particularly bother me and regardless of who is or isn’t going to see it, stained underwear bothers ME. Also, re: kids showing up with stained clothes, as a society we not only understand that kids treat their clothes more roughly than adults, we expect that children’s clothing should show some signs of use. A kid with jeans that don’t have grass stains is a kid that hasn’t lived. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/84 "2012-11-29T17:05:40Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > aaaaand… **Drunky Smurf** notices that someone else on the Internet is getting attention, and needs to horn in on it. I think that you are being whooshed. I’m reading Drunky Smurf’s comments as being extremely tongue in cheek. I’m frankly shocked that the OP is washing his expensive work clothes in a machine and not taking them to the dry cleaners. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/85 "2012-11-29T17:22:45Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Yeah, all bragging about how, ‘awesome’, you do your job, in threads where the OP also can’t find a shift or spacer key, spell, or produce even junior school basic grammar, is a totally wasted effort, to my mind. > > No one believes you are anything but a poser, when you can’t communicate, beyond a 7th grade level. Hard facts, but true. > > But that’s beside the point, though hard to overlook. It’s a free country and you’re free to wear whatever stained garment to any place you feel too. Just like that teenager next door is free to style his hair into an 18" mohawk, if he fancies. But, just like his choice, yours comes with consequences. > Am I going to verbally abuse or assault the teen? No, nor you and your stain. I _am_ going to make some instant, possibly incorrect assumptions. That you’re not much into your appearance and that he has the makings of an attention whore. In both cases, were we to interact, neither of these meaningless affectations would enter into whether we could be friends or I could respect you. > > The OP’s protestations sound way too much like that teenager next door, sneering, “What are you looking at?”, at anyone with the temerity to stare at his hair! Which he purposely styled so as to draw maximum attention. > > If you don’t like the attention you draw, make better choices. Like your choice? Stop caring what other people think. (Yeah, just saying it won’t do, you’ll actually have to develop indifference.) > > But I don’t really think the core of the OP’s issue is about stained clothes. I think it’s about feeling judged. And, almost always, in my experience, when someone is feeling judged, it’s just a reflection/projection of how judgmental they are being of others. They feel it, though it’s not really there, because they are nothing but judgmental of others, and cannot imagine they are not being just as harshly judged. > > What an awesome world it would be if, just once, in such cases, people could realize, people think about them, not at all. And it’s hard to judge someone you don’t even consider, clean clothes or dirty, good hair/bad. You may want to unstick your comma key before you spend multiple paragraphs criticizing someone else’s grammar. Jesus Christ. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/86 "2012-11-29T17:25:55Z")
Commas aren’t grammar and some people just prefer a slightly more Dickensian flavor to their punctuation. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/87 "2012-11-29T17:28:54Z")
> [@Caffeine.addict](#): > > I’m frankly shocked that the OP is washing his expensive work clothes in a machine and not taking them to the dry cleaners. There’s nothing wrong with this. Lots of people did this through the 50s and 60s. But shirts are a pain in the ass and with many dry cleaners offering $1 shirt cleaning, it’s often a better idea to just send them in. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/88 "2012-11-29T17:30:08Z")
> [@Caffeine.addict](#): > > I think that you are being whooshed. I’m reading Drunky Smurf’s comments as being extremely tongue in cheek. Drubky Smurf’s Law: when you’re an asshole, people don’t give you the benefit of the doubt about whether you’re being one. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/89 "2012-11-29T17:34:35Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Commas aren’t grammar Didn’t say they were. > [@](#): > > and some people just prefer a slightly more Dickensian flavor to their punctuation. > [@elbows](#): > > No one believes you are anything but a poser, when you can’t communicate, beyond a 7th grade level. I haven’t read Dickens in a few years, so I’ll take your word for it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/90 "2012-11-29T17:46:19Z")
Will no one clap for the Wolfman? ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/91 "2012-11-29T17:47:22Z")
The OP is much better than me, I dropped over $200 this morning on breakfast for my team, out of my own wallet! Guilty as charged! I feel shame! > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Will no one clap for the Wolfman? Not unless he rates my record high! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/92 "2012-11-29T17:54:16Z")
> [@Caffeine.addict](#): > > I think that you are being whooshed. I’m reading Drunky Smurf’s comments as being extremely tongue in cheek. Whereabouts of his tongue aside, if \*\*Drunky Smurf \*\*is in fact performing an extended _parody_ of a rampaging boardshitting asshole, I confess to being whooshed as well. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/93 "2012-11-29T17:55:13Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > So ink blots _can_ be used to analyse personality and emotional functioning! Nice 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/94 "2012-11-29T17:56:18Z")
One case of clap for **wolfman**! So let it be written. So let it be done. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/95 "2012-11-29T18:05:22Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Ooh, me too. I’ll bet there’s a how-to book (I’ll check the self-help aisle of Powell’s on my way to the meeting\*). > > \*After the streetlights turn on, at the clubhouse in the old oak behind Skippy’s house. Pull the ladder up behind you so none of the gang from the Actual Douchebags Club can spy on us. Wait, do we actually _have_ a meeting, or will we just talk about what would happen if we did have a meeting? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/96 "2012-11-29T18:19:09Z")
> [@Caffeine.addict](#): > > I’m frankly shocked that the OP is washing his expensive work clothes in a machine and not taking them to the dry cleaners. I don’t think that $200 is all that expensive, for work clothes. Especially if the OP is using the new price to determine the value, rather than replacement price. If a pair of jeans or khakis cost $30 new, for instance, if the OP uses that cost for determining the value, then 7 pairs will come out to a perceived value of $210, even though they are not new any more, and it would be more realistic to value the pants at five or ten bucks a pair. Same thing with shirts, especially if the OP has to wear polo shirts instead of Ts. The OP is probably estimating how much money he spent on buying the clothes, and how much he’ll have to spend replacing the clothes, rather than estimating how much the clothes would currently be worth on the open market, assuming that they are unstained. My husband and his co-workers are allowed to wear jeans, but my husband tends to wear khakis or similar pants, and he does take them to the dry cleaners, not because they need the special laundering, but because he prefers to have his work pants pressed, and I won’t do it. He’s found out WHY I won’t iron stuff, and he’s decided that HE doesn’t want to drag out the iron every week, either. I know that my father’s work suits were dry cleaned, but they were suits, made of wool. And my mother did his shirts (mostly button down long sleeved shirts) at home. She also shortened his shirt sleeves (Daddy was only 5’3", and off the rack clothes always had to be shortened just about everywhere) at home. Now, I do think that the OP is being unreasonable in his responses to the board members. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/97 "2012-11-29T18:37:39Z")
> [@Absolute](#): > > Make sure this man has his stapler. Won the thread in one. Nice. 🙂 > [@al27052](#): > > \ It would still be impeccable if I were naked, in a thong, in a bikini, a sari, etc.. That’s one way to stop people from stealing your chair. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/98 "2012-11-29T18:46:10Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > you and your League of Extraordinary Nerds … Don’t know why that makes me chuckle so much. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/99 "2012-11-29T18:48:27Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Yeah, all bragging about how, ‘awesome’, you do your job, in threads where the OP also can’t find a shift or spacer key, spell, or produce even junior school basic grammar, is a totally wasted effort, to my mind. > > No one believes you are anything but a poser, when you can’t communicate, beyond a 7th grade level. Hard facts, but true. > > But that’s beside the point, though hard to overlook. It’s a free country and you’re free to wear whatever stained garment to any place you feel too. Just like that teenager next door is free to style his hair into an 18" mohawk, if he fancies. But, just like his choice, yours comes with consequences. > Am I going to verbally abuse or assault the teen? No, nor you and your stain. I _am_ going to make some instant, possibly incorrect assumptions. That you’re not much into your appearance and that he has the makings of an attention whore. In both cases, were we to interact, neither of these meaningless affectations would enter into whether we could be friends or I could respect you. > > The OP’s protestations sound way too much like that teenager next door, sneering, “What are you looking at?”, at anyone with the temerity to stare at his hair! Which he purposely styled so as to draw maximum attention > > If you don’t like the attention you draw, make better choices. Like your choice? Stop caring what other people think. (Yeah, just saying it won’t do, you’ll actually have to develop indifference.) > > But I don’t really think the core of the OP’s issue is about stained clothes. I think it’s about feeling judged. And, almost always, in my experience, when someone is feeling judged, it’s just a reflection/projection of how judgmental they are being of others. They feel it, though it’s not really there, because they are nothing but judgmental of others, and cannot imagine they are not being just as harshly judged. > > What an awesome world it would be if, just once, in such cases, people could realize, people think about them, not at all. And it’s hard to judge someone you don’t even consider, clean clothes or dirty, good hair/bad. . I’m calling the Comma Police! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/100 "2012-11-29T18:51:21Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > . I’m calling the Comma Police! I went into a comma after reading her post. Oh, and I’ve alerted the period police. They’ll be along shortly. Prepare to surrender your maxi-pads! 😉 > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > There’s nothing wrong with this. Lots of people did this through the 50s and 60s. But shirts are a pain in the ass and with many dry cleaners offering $1 shirt cleaning, it’s often a better idea to just send them in. Isn’t the proper term for “but shirts” just… underpants? By the way, if your underpants are a pain in the ass, I hear Goodwill sells knickers for a wide variety of occasions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450.md?page=6)