Crocs and Birkenstocks.
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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.
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Thank you for saying it. I think they look sloppy as hell. I also hate the scrubs I have to wear at work because they are not ironed (I have to change into them once I’m at work). We look rumpled and unprofessional, IMO. I loved the look of the sailors in their (well, I call them sailor suits or Cracker Jacks, I dunno the right name), with their white hats etc. I also liked the Army green (I suppose I am thinking of the dress uniforms) and the AF blues. I don’t like camo scrubs, un-tucked and un-ironed. They’re great for battle and yes, use them there. But I do wish there was something a bit more formal and military looking for civvies…
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TI loved the look of the sailors in their (well, I call them sailor suits or Cracker Jacks, I dunno the right name), with their white hats etc.
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Cracker Jacks was a completely understandable nickname for the enlisted dress blue uniform. And no one ever doubted that they looked good. It was just certain pragmatic factors that no one I knew liked about them.
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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…
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From what I understand, the new Navy camos are supposed to replace about 80 different work uniforms they have, making things generally easier (I mean, just imagine how much less weight the ships will have to haul around without the sailors having to pack so many uniforms!), and the reason I heard for them being camo is that various smudges and stains (coffee, machine lubricant, whatever) not showing up as easily and marring the appearance of the uniform.
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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.
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Yet another reason for me to be bitterly jealous of Aircrew. Do you guys really get issued bomber jackets? 
We really need to take a page from the Nazis’ playbook when it comes to military uniforms.
[QUOTE=Argent Towers]
We really need to take a page from the Nazis’ playbook when it comes to military uniforms.
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Capes, death heads, jack boots, that sort of thing?
[QUOTE=gaffa]
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!
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The absolutely worst thing about these awful plug-in interfaces are the knobs. They’re almost always impossible to move precisely. Using these plug-ins properly is all about fine-tuning. Let me just type in the fucking gain value, please. Here’s some more plug-in GUI nonsense:
I don’t know about capes, but everything else looks pretty sharp.
The Rhode Island State Police uniforms (image) look alarmingly similar to the Nazi SS ones. Which is a good thing, because the Nazis may have been evil bastards but they really knew how to design a uniform.
[QUOTE=Argent Towers]
I don’t know about capes, but everything else looks pretty sharp.
The Rhode Island State Police uniforms (image) look alarmingly similar to the Nazi SS ones. Which is a good thing, because the Nazis may have been evil bastards but they really knew how to design a uniform.
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Wow…how did Rhode Island get their Asian AND their African-American resident to join the State Police?
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
There’s a Doper around here who’s still a big fan of that look and refuses to buy any electronics that don’t have woodgrain stickers on the sides of them. I don’t remember who it is, but I presume that this is what he drives.
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That is the Family Truckster with some after-market mods. It is good for taking the family cross-country but it sucks at off-road stuff.
My contribution is ranch houses. My sperm count drops just a little more every time I see a concentration of them. The only thing worse is the split-level ranch which, unfortunately, some of my wife’s family live in and we have to attend holiday events in some of them. I just ask that people leave the bathroom door or exterior doors free so that I can barf periodically as I take the ambiance in and my stomach starts to churn and I get all dizzy from the implications of it all. To be fair, I have visited some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses and I didn’t know if I could even survive let alone make it back to the car. I haven’t been the same since and certainly not in a good way.
[QUOTE=Robot Arm]
Am I the only one who thought he [Izzy", the OFFICIAL MASCOT of the 1996 Summer Olympics] looked like a big ol’, happy sperm?
Jizzy.
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No. In his book Culture of Complaint, art critic Robert Hughes spent a couple pages discussing the mascot’s unfortunate resemblance.
Incidentally, is it true that Izzy was so unpopular that he stopped appearing at non-Olympic sporting events in Atlanta after only a short time because he was mercilessly razzed by the fans?
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Incidentally, is it true that Izzy was so unpopular that he stopped appearing at non-Olympic sporting events in Atlanta after only a short time because he was mercilessly razzed by the fans?
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According to this 1996 article :
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Banned from ceremonies
Despite nips, tucks and a name-change at the advice of childrens’ focus groups, Izzy remained outcast and out of sight: The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games disowned him, banning Izzy from the opening and closing ceremonies. He was sparsely seen throughout the fortnight, thus spurring “Where Izzy?” “Izzy injured?” “Izzy fail a drug test?” and other unavoidable Izzy-isms.
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[nitpick]Correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t that be children**'s**?
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[QUOTE=cactus waltz]
The ugliest piece of electronics I own is the old XBOX console. It’s not only ugly, but it’s big and heavy too.
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I liked the design (but the 360 design is better). It made use of the X logo. As far as the weight, it was the only console at the time to come with a hard drive. And you’re supposed to add it to your entertainment center, not play volleyball with it. So, I only noticed the weight for about ten seconds. Then it stayed put until it became outdated.
[QUOTE=Roadfood]
No one has yet mentioned the incredibly ugly Zune? After all the cool, sleek iPods, this is what Microsoft thought would compete?
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The only problem I have with the Zune’s appearance is it’s color: brown. Brown as mud. Brown as feces. We can’t totally blame Microsoft for that, however. I’ve been out shopping with my fiancé, and apparently someone decided that chocolate brown is the hot, trendy color these days. You see it in clothes, bed sheets, upholstered furniture, everywhere. And not a single one of those items looks good.
Obviously, the fashion guru who made this decision is of unsound mind, and needs to be locked up immediately, for the chromatic safety of the American public.
Oh, I don’t know. Chocolate brown satin sheets look pretty nice. Not that I’d actually use satin sheets, but they look pretty. I was actually considering painting a couple of walls in my dining room chocolate brown. It seems to go nicely with either pale blue or a soft lime green. I have placemats with those colors and I like.
[QUOTE=NDP]
No. In his book Culture of Complaint, art critic Robert Hughes spent a couple pages discussing the mascot’s unfortunate resemblance.
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I think he compared it to a fetus. A sperm on its way up in the world!
[QUOTE=Brown Eyed Girl]
[nitpick]Correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t that be children**'s**?
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Yes. Good eye.
[QUOTE=shy guy]
Also, while it was before my time, I’ve always been taken aback by how hideous the Atari 2600 was.
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What?!?!
I don’t think there’s anything ugly about that whatsoever. It looks downright classy. Simple, basic, and yet accented by the little wood panel. I love designs like that. I really wish they made more stuff like that nowadays instead of everything being all curved, swooped, and x-treemed out.
[QUOTE=Baldwin]
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.
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What about the logo for the Olympics in London in 2012? (Although I did like the bit that Graham Norton did on the logo on his chat show. I tried unsuccessfully to find a YouTube video of it.)