# You're an WANKER if you buy a $150 BURBERRY DOG SWEATER **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 14, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422 "2005-03-14T05:26:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/21 "2005-03-14T10:50:20Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Large, hairless primates spend thousands upon thousands of dollars for tiny pressed carbon minerals that other primates can wear on their fingers. Which purchase is more foolish on the practical level of everday utility? At least the coat can keep a short haired dog warm. True, but the tiny pressed carbon minerals have been shown to produce an aphrodesiac effect in large, hairless female primates. Given the choice of keeping a short-haired dog warm or securing for oneself a fairly reliable source of blowjobs, which purchase \*is \*more foolish? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/22 "2005-03-14T11:01:39Z")
If you dress your dog PERIOD you’re a wanker!! Money has got nothing to do with it. :rolleyes: times infinity to anyone who does that. Jeesh… ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/23 "2005-03-14T11:08:49Z")
That is the chavviest thing I’ve seen this year. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/24 "2005-03-14T11:09:04Z")
Awwwww, but my widdle pwecious wooks so cyuuuuuute all dwessed up! _Who’s my widdle angel? Who’s my widdle angel? You are! Yes, you are! Yes, you are!_ ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/25 "2005-03-14T11:16:10Z")
Chav dogs 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Legolamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@Legolamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legolamb)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/26 "2005-03-14T12:18:53Z")
America has chavs too? Who knew? Although no bids yet, so maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/27 "2005-03-14T12:38:01Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > If you dress your dog PERIOD you’re a wanker!! My dog wears a coat or a sweater outside in the winter. (Not a $150 Burberry sweater, mind you, but something warm and practical.) He’s 9 pounds. He’s got short fur. This is the north. It gets cold here. (It’s 25 degrees here right now.) If he doesn’t wear a coat or sweater, he gets cold and his joints get stiff and he doesn’t want to go outside, then he gets all agitated. I don’t need an old, agitated little dog on my hands, so, the dog gets dressed. He also has boots, because urban ice and ice-melting chemicals aren’t good for dog paws. ---
**Author:** ![InvidiousCourgette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@InvidiousCourgette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InvidiousCourgette)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/28 "2005-03-14T12:41:18Z")
> [@Merl Minnozza](#): > > Ever heard of a silent W? Jeez! Can wanker be pronounced with a silent “w”? I am curious. I have not heard this variant. Or am I being whooshed? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/29 "2005-03-14T12:52:21Z")
> [@Legolamb](#): > > America has chavs too? Who knew? > Although no bids yet, so maybe not. Florida is full of people fitting the chav description, but nobody actually calls them that here. I only learned about “chav culture” through a Pit thread a couple months back, and a website called Chav Scum. But they’re definitely here too! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/30 "2005-03-14T12:56:57Z")
By and large, I think people who start threads like this one are primarily pissed because no one is spending $150 on sweaters for _them_. Feeling unloved? (chucks **Merl** under the chin) Yes we are! Yes we are! ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/31 "2005-03-14T13:24:39Z")
> [@Merl Minnozza](#): > > Not random. This would BE random capitalization, DO YOU see? No, that would be Chandler capitalization. Can you BE any more obtuse? ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/32 "2005-03-14T13:41:28Z")
> [@TeaElle](#): > > My dog wears a coat or a sweater outside in the winter. (…He also has boots, because urban ice and ice-melting chemicals aren’t good for dog paws. ::points at TeaElle’s dog and laughs:: ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/33 "2005-03-14T13:46:20Z")
> [@InvidiousCourgette](#): > > Can wanker be pronounced with a silent “w”? I am curious. I have not heard this variant. Or am I being whooshed? Don’t be such a anchor. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/34 "2005-03-14T14:12:00Z")
I bet you’re beeing ooshed. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/35 "2005-03-14T14:32:23Z")
Wear ANYTHING in Burberry in Britain and you will be sticking a big sign on yourself advertising your bad taste. Quite right too. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/36 "2005-03-14T14:33:15Z")
Darn. And here I was all excited because I thought Burberry was selling doghair sweaters for only $150. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/37 "2005-03-14T19:18:41Z")
Wanker has a hard w. Anyone who says 'anker is doing it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/38 "2005-03-14T19:23:28Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Wanker has a hard w. Anyone who says 'anker is doing it wrong. 'rong you mean? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/39 "2005-03-14T19:36:42Z")
As a Bleeding Heart Liberal I, at first, felt bad about having a job that involves satisfying every whim of the super-rich. I have felt much better since realizing that, as a Bleeding Heart Liberal, it is my solemn duty to separate them from as much of their money as I can while ensuring their happiness (I would not feel right hurting them after they have been so nice as to give me their money) and getting that money back into circulation (after being filtered through my pockets since I’m a BHL with a mortgage). Therefore, I would be pleased to sell them an overpriced dog sweater. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422/40 "2005-03-14T19:41:58Z")
Hey, can I be a wanker _without_ buying the sweater? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-wanker-if-you-buy-a-150-burberry-dog-sweater/294422.md?page=3)