And was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Forget it, he’s rolling.
Do I think wearing ink-stained clothes to work speaks to you ability to do your job? Of course not.
Do I think wearing ink-stained clothes to work speaks to your attitude towards your job? Fuck yeah.
I, also, have never been stupid enough to stick an ink pen in the dryer and ruin $200 worth of my clothes. We’ll leave out the simple fact that all of my clothes together are not worth much over $100 for the moment, if that’s fine with you.
Fine with me - I also don’t have a dryer, and use £ not $, but that wasn’t as fun to say 
Yep, sure dat. Give this 'man a cigar!
This might help next time wolfman:
foreach(Item in arrayWashingBatch)
{
if (Item.IsClothingArticle)
{
[INDENT]washingmachine.Insert(Item);
}
else
{
Item.Dispose;
}[/INDENT]
}
Well, out of curiosity, I checked the thread the OP is complaining about. He opens it with:
…which right off the bat expresses something of a contradiction, i.e. “tell the guy who doesn’t care what you think, what you think”. He asks for opinions yet pre-emptively declares they won’t matter.
ETA: Looking at his follow-up responses in that thread, it sure seemed important to him to remind people how much he didn’t care about their opinions.
But Rob, that will only work if the Item is an Object. So it will prevent pens in the pocket, but not Strings 
I’ll just go ahead and make the obvious point that children aren’t generally responsible for buying their own clothes.
Be a grownup, and either buy some clothes or *genuinely *stop caring that people think you’re a loser.
Code Monkey get up get coffee
Code Monkey go to job
Code Monkey have boring meeting
With boring manager Rob
Rob say Code Monkey very diligent
But his output stink
His code not “functional” or “elegant”
What do Code Monkey think?
It’s common here to get OPs who aren’t looking for opinions but for validation. Most of them don’t bother pit the rest of the Board for the sins of disagreeing and/or trying to be helpful, though.
FTR, my idea of “professional clothes” would be considered overly casual by the immense majority of this Board, yet the only clothing with permanent stains that I think it’s ok to bring to work is overalls and lab coats; that is, clothing which is specifically identified as “likely to get uncleanable stains”, employer provided and chosen in order to protect the wearer’s normal clothing.
I’m a software developer. At the companies I have worked for, there has never been any room for a programmer who dressed, wrote, or reacted to disagreement like the OP.
I can wear shorts, jeans, T-shirts, et cetera to work, but if I showed up on a regular basis with obviously stained clothing I would be asked to take a bit more care about my appearance. If I wrote an email that looked like the first post in this thread, my boss would tell me to pay more attention to grammar, spelling and punctuation. If I reacted to adverse reactions to my ideas as the OP has, I would be reprimanded or fired.
I make decisions daily which may not be “acceptable” to most people. However, I make those decision for myself, considering my personal situation, and would never consider asking a Message Board what they thought of it. Because I honestly do not give a damn what anyone else thinks about my lunch choices, whether a bowtie is appropriate to wear to the movies, or what impression my pirate tchotchkes might make on my co-workers.
He keeps Strings in his pocket to show he has Class.
Sloppy clothing
Sloppy thinking
Sloppy work
Attention to detail is important in programming.
You might think “I don’t care if my clothing/code is sloppy as long as it works”
I think “I care because I’ve had to maintain/modify/rewrite far too much code written by sloppy code monkeys.”
This isn’t to say that I am or would hire a bunch of Felix Unger OCD neatness freak programmers. One doesn’t necessarily follow the other. But I would have to consider that if someone doesn’t give a shit about his appearance, his hygiene or his clothing, I probably don’t want him on my payroll or team not giving a shit about his code or documentation.
[QUOTE=some weirdo by a pond]
Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer’s character, until we hesitate to lay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies. No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. But even if the rent is not mended, perhaps the worst vice betrayed is improvidence. I sometimes try my acquaintances by such tests as this – Who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee? Most behave as if they believed that their prospects for life would be ruined if they should do it. It would be easier for them to hobble to town with a broken leg than with a broken pantaloon.
[/quote]
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No one is saying it needs to be a three piece suit and tie. Just not stained (or dirty or ripped). It’s not an unreasonable standard.
OP, couldn’t you at least wait until we interact once or twice before you call me a douchebag? I mean, I’m sure I’ll be one at some point, so you’ll certainly get your chance.
Exactly. There were a few people in the original thread saying, “Well, I wear shorts and T-shirts to work!” But I can’t believe that they don’t see the difference between wearing (presumably clean and neat) shorts and T-shirts and wearing obviously stained clothing. One is casual, the other is sloppy and off-putting.
My favorite part of the OP in the original thread when he said, “So a pen snuck into my dryer.” Nice use of passive action and shrugging off of personal responsibility there. Not “I left a pen in my pants pocket by mistake.” Nope, the pen somehow got into the dryer all by itself. Amazing!