Christ, that guy looks badass.
That guy looks hot. Love the suit on the dog, too. What does the marine dogs’ field uniforms look like, though? Anything like this?
It’s all about placement and accessories. It looks MUCH better stripped of the clothes and sprawled across the sheets on my bed. 
Better your bed than mine. Yuck.
This is from the public sector, so I’m not sure it meets the OP’s requirements.
I give you. . . “Izzy”, the OFFICIAL MASCOT of the 1996 Summer Olympics. Look at it. Don’t look away; keep your eyes on it for at least a few seconds. It’s the product of an entire well-paid committee’s best creative efforts. Here in Atlanta, we had to look at that fucking thing for months.
I still don’t get the appeal of the Hummer. As my husband would say, “it has the aerodynamics of a breadbox”, and the aesthetics of one too.
Oh yeah, and let’s not forget the most recent version of RealPlayer (that I’ve seen, anyways). Technical concerns aside, I had to download it a couple years back for a school assignment, and it was even worse than I remembered–about 80% of my screen was covered in ads, and it took me a minute to figure out which part of it was supposed to show the video.
That thing looks like it got a good dose of gamma rays and developed a supergenius-level intelligence.
You, obviously, never had to try to hold it while undoing the Thirteen Buttons of Doom. Sometimes known, even more tragically, as “Thirteen chances for her to say, ‘no.’”
The point isn’t so much, I believe, to actually provide camouflage but to provide blue-shirt scum with a working uniform that doesn’t look completely unprofessional, and unsuitable for wear in public. For a long time in the 80s and 90s enlisted Navy personnel were forbidden from wearing their working dungarees off base, because of how they were perceived by the civilian population. At least with camos people aren’t going to assume that the squid is dressed like that because he can’t afford any more reasonable clothes.
Is it really worse than these two?
That is really bad. It made me google search for past and present Olympics mascot. This webpage lists the summer mascots from 1972 and onward (there are some interesting winter mascots too, but not featured in the link):
http://www.mapsofworld.com/olympic-trivia/olympic-mascot.html
USA were responsible for commercializing the mascot - no surprises there. Maybe America felt responsible for the capitalistic effect and created something that nobody in their right mind would want to buy.
Misha, the Russian bear of 1980, is exemplary.
I almost didn’t click it. I didn’t think our ideas of ‘hot’ would match. I am so happy I decided to click it. Jesus Christ, is he an absolute dime piece.
ETA: I mean the marine is hot…not the dog in the quoted link.
Seriously? Most of the Winter Olympic mascots belong in this thread…
No one has yet mentioned the incredibly ugly Zune? After all the cool, sleek iPods, this is what Microsoft thought would compete?
And in reading this thread to my drill instructor brother his reply was:
“Of course he looks like a bad ass. Know why? Because his fucking shirt is tucked into his fucking pants.” To me that’s the worst part of the army BDU’s that you see soldiers in at the airport, they look sloppy. You can’t shine those boots, your shirt is too big and not tucked in, and the army regs on shaving and haircuts must have been written by Jerry Garcia. I’m patently aware that serving ones country is not about a fashion show, but for fucks sake, take some pride in your uniforms and square yourself up soldier.
It’s called skeuomorph design, and I hate it. The entire field of audio engineering and music production is ridden with this nonsense. Most of the main programs are OK, and employ sensible, standardized and efficient designs.
But the plug-ins! Oh dear lord, the plug-ins are horrible! Nearly every one is emulating some obsolete piece of equipment, down to the most minute detail like rack handles and screws - none of which have the slightest thing to so with actual operation.
For instance, a long time ago, a company called Teletronix made a signal compressor called the LA-2A. Because it used analog components, it was pretty big - the front panel was 19" x 5.25". But that big metal face only held one meter, two knobs, and three switches, all of which could fit comfortably fit into screen space 200 pixels square. No…every freaking LA-2A plug-in has to duplicate the rack ears, screws, chrome switches, hinge and original manufacturer logo! And there is NO option to turn all this utterly useless frippery off!
It’s like a plot to sell 30" monitors! I imagine a lot of electronic musicians have additional monitors on their computers where three-quarters or more of their expensive display is wasted on this nonsense. And what’s worse, this is not even current ugly design, this is the accumulated ugliness of decades, lovingly preserved to retain the “original experience” for people who, in all likelihood, will never use the original devices being emulated.
Haircuts the soldiers should be staying on top of (incidentally, the regulation for males in the Air Force at least is hair no more than an inch and a quarter in bulk, not touching the ears or collar, sideburns no lower than the bottom of the ear (IIRC), mustache no farther than the ends of your upper lip, clean shaven otherwise, you can look like a Chia pet and still be within regs, as long as the hair doesn’t touch anything it shouldn’t).
The shave thing could be one of a couple things: 1) The guy has a shaving waiver, basically a case of some facial skin or facial hair condition where he can’t shave, simple as that. 2) He is one of those guys with fast-growing facial hair, and didn’t think to shave before disembarking from his plane after a long flight. Hopefully he’ll tend to that soon.
As for the rest of the stuff, the shirt is probably the right size (the new Marine and Air Force camoflage uniforms are somewhat form-fitting, the Army ones are supposed to be form-supressing, as far as I can tell), and it is not supposed to be tucked in (for Army, Air Force, Navy, or Marines), unless you’re in the Coast Guard, who tuck in their fatigue blouses for some odd reason. And as far as the boots go, they can’t polish them, but they hopefully are keeping them clean if they are going out in public.
For the Air Force, the BDUs traditionally include polished black boots, but are rarely worn off base, and the new ABUs switch out the polished boots for green(!) suede boots. Oh yeah, don’t get me started on the fuzzy green mold-looking boots.
That said, this is all just for the camoflage uniform, the service uniforms should be pressed, tucked in, shined, and properly fitting in the proper ways, and should generally look sharp, regardless of your service (the Air Force uniform looks like a business suit no matter how well you wear it).
Which uniform you wear while traveling depends on you circumstances and orders (from what I understand, Army has to travel in camo when they go on leave or deploy. We Airmen travel in civvies while on leave, ostensibly as an opsec thing and so we can have drinks/smokes on the way if feel the need, neither of which we are allowed to do in uniform).
I actually think the zune looks nicer than the standard Ipod.
Camouflage?? on board ships?? seriously wtf… why not have them just battleship grey. Then every sailor can blend into the bulkheads…
There are ways of looking military without camouflage. Sheeesh…
Agreed. Are those first generation Zunes that are pictured? I like the newer ones a bit better. The hardware and interface have a nice minimalistic design.
Am I the only one who thought he looked like a big ol’, happy sperm?
Jizzy.
Flyers still get the good old-fashioned back kind. I might brush some polish over them twice a year, though. The shine is always gone 2 hours into a flight anyway.