I have clothes that have ink stains, I wear them in My apartment. I don’t go in public wearing them.
Stupid maybe, but a hundred years from now Bill Clinton will still be just The Stain Guy. It matters, like it or not.
Also, You bought hundreds of dollars worth of near-slave factory clothes and managed to fit them all in a dryer at the same time?
There’s something very not-smart to Me.
People who eschew ballpoint pens, presumably.
Rorschachian?
…deftly whacks Wolfman over the head with heavy elitism flagpole… We didn’t say we don’t judge. We DO judge and have pronounced your sentence to be: throw the dang spotted rags away!
If only someone would do that for wolfman.
Hey, I’m not the neatest freak in the world, but I don’t want to wear clothes in that bad shape even around the house – what if someone comes to the door? I limit those kind of clothes to the times I have painting, gardening or cleaning out the garage chores, exclusively.
This board is not full of douche-bags or hypocrites. This is just internet. Even the nicest person becomes an monster on the internet forums. I don’t know why. Perhaps, because of anonymity? Experts will definitely better explain, than I can do, the reason why we post messages in a tough and offending nature on the internet. But, let me express my UN-educated thought on the matter:
From my definition, an asshole is the person who has strong sadistic traits. And we’re all a little sadist. Some of us has learnt how to confine our sadist traits or aspects, some of us hasn’t. For some of us, internet is a perfect place to act like an asshole. It’s like masturbation. People who have strong urge to act like an asshole come to internet forums to masturbate! They masturbate via being an asshole. Let’s admit it. Most of us did this. But, should we do this? My answer is “no”. Not “completely no”, but no. Because if we were posting with our real identity or in the flesh, we wouldn’t be able to unhesitatingly make strong and thorough critics. That’s the only good reason.
After you’ve received some comments that you don’t like, you should list them and think about them thoroughly! It’ll help you improve your traits that might cause you problems. If you think all posts are arseholic and not based on logic and reason, then you should stop posting in this forum. As simple as that, I guess.
My guess is that you aren’t paid very well if spending $200 to replace stained clothes is a burden for you. If you are so extraordinary at your job, why don’t you have a few bills laying around to go pick up a couple of fresh shirts at Target or the Gap? Seriously, how much are you and your League of Extraordinary Nerds pulling down each year?
The most likely answer, of course, is that it isn’t about the money. Being an “unapologetic slob” is more likely to be a kind of aggressive behavior directed at others due to whatever personal issues you have, rather than simply being an aesthetic preference. Your hostile response to people not validating your subtle contempt for others is probably further evidence of that.
This first part is aimed at some IT guys in general. I’ve never met the OP, but it seems like he may fall into this category:
I find that IT guys often have an over-inflated sense of what they’re worth to their company. They assume that since they’re the only one in the company that can write code or back up a server, they’re the only one in the world who can do it as well as they can. They brag about how “exceptional” they are at their job, show contempt for the people they’re serving, and think things like “Huh, they’ll never fire me. Two days without me, this place would come crashing down.” They seem to think that they’re brain surgeons, when in actuality they’re more like car mechanics. Don’t get me wrong, a good mechanic is worth his weight in gold, but there are plenty of others in town if I’m unsatisfied with my service. There are about a billion other IT guys out there, some of whom dress quite smartly, who are just as good as you are. If they put an ad out today, they’d have a hundred applicants by Friday.
Second part aimed squarely at the OP:
Oh please. You don’t dress like a slob because you’re interested in the social justice issues of where dress shirts come from and the working conditions where they are made. The reason you dress like a slob is probably something like:
A) You feel different from the other people you work with, believe they are beneath you, and refuse to dress like them as a subtle, perhaps unconscious sign of contempt for them.
B) You really don’t know how to dress like an adult
C) You’re afraid to dress seriously because it would mean that people would take you seriously, and open you to criticism.
D) Three items is enough for a list, so I’m not thinking of any more reasons.
You’re whole “It’s too wasteful, I’m not spending $200 on work clothes, there are a million things I’d rather spend the money on” excuse is a joke. Dressing professionally isn’t really any more expensive than dressing like a slob. Clean pants, ironed (or wrinkle-free) shirt tucked in, belt, tie. Wearing that uniform neatly or slovenly doesn’t make it more or less expensive.
Go out, buy a pair of khakis and a cheap dress shirt a JC Penny’s or Sears. With Christmas sales going on it should cost you maybe $50. Do the same thing next week, and the next. Assuming you learned your lesson and will check your pockets for pens, this new wardrobe could last for years with proper care. Surely a brilliant IT guy who assembles and leads a team that produces “extraordinary results” can afford $200 for work clothes. If you can’t, I dare say you’re not as important to the company as you seem to think you are. Companies tend to pay people who are absolutely necessary for their existence quite well.
Culture changes over time, and we are a part of it, not just observers with no hope of influencing it and no choice but to blindly follow it regardless of our own beliefs. Look at how people dressed for various jobs even 25 years ago; a lot has changed. My mother was a programmer and was required to wear pantyhose, a suit, and 2" minimum heels. How she got anything done, I cannot imagine.
I really never thought of it this way. If that’s how people view me when I wear a stained shirt to the office, than I guess my wife has been right all along. Damn.
Dick gets Spot.
See Jane run.
Run Jane, run.
And Wolfman, I was in your corner as far as the ink-stains go, but these declarations of your intrinsic superiority unfortunately are only reinforcing the idea that wearing stained clothes is a symptom of bigger problems.
Just remember, people, he is one isolated stain-wearer, not representative of all stain-wearers… Please judge each as the individuals they are.
Heh.
I just finished re-watching Burn After Reading, and this line brings to mind the scene where John Malkovich is exercising to a cheesy videotape in his boat. 
Very good point, which also applies to pretty much any insecurity.
SOmehow a red top that still sheds color in the wash even after a decade got into the whitey tightey load. Pink fruit of the looms came out, hell no I ain’t replacing them.
Men would you wear pinkstained underwear to work? Would you get urinal stage fright?
What kind of sicko stares at another man’s underwear at the urinals? Gents, eyes forward and slightly up, if you please! If you know the color of your neighbors undergarments, you’re doing it wrong.
I’m going to be a hypothetical douchebag! I haven’t figured out how, yet.
Oh yes the fuck it is. There’s you for one.
No the fuck it isn’t. This is THE SMARTEST place on the entire internats filled with THE SMARTEST people in the world. Stupid ass.
No the fuck they don’t. Take me for example.
Of course you don’t because you’re a fucking retard.
Here’s a fucking reason.
And now I’m done reading your shitcockery.
aaaaand… Drunky Smurf notices that someone else on the Internet is getting attention, and needs to horn in on it.