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#126 2012-03-30 10:15:24
- Big Tony
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Re: Street Beef
I went to the bank twice this week and both times saw a local man who is a bit of an oddity. He is tall, well over 6 feet, into his 60s, has a long beard and long bushy hair, walks with a bad lurch, but has a spark in his eyes and is really polite. He is a bit of a puzzle. The first time I saw him he was wearing a blazer and dress pants, with some new dress loafers and was obviously headed somewhere. The second time he was wearing a logging shirt and some jeans and had some tall skinny blonde floozy with high-pitched voice accompanying him. For some reason my memory tells me he's relatively wealthy. I find it fun to wonder who he really is, or what he's done in his life. The lurch and general "outsider" appearance, plus money, could indicate a former biker who injured himself riding. Or he could be some working joe who inherited, or had a big score, or had his own company. But the weird appearance coupled with his varying dress sense, choice of woman, politeness, and expensive truck are both incongruous and fascinating at the same time.
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#127 2012-03-30 10:32:42
#128 2012-03-30 13:33:11
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"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#129 2012-03-30 13:34:41
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"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#130 2012-03-30 13:43:07
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#132 2012-03-30 15:24:38
- formby
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Re: Street Beef
Floral shirts past the dandical test because I wears 'em...
...nuff said. 
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#133 2012-03-30 15:27:03
- Oo Bop Sh'bam
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''If I can't share my faith in Christ here, I'd just as soon not have to put up with people advocating drug use.''
#134 2012-03-30 15:34:53
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#136 2012-03-30 15:51:48
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#137 2012-03-30 15:56:48
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#138 2012-03-30 17:55:33
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#140 2012-03-31 06:02:38
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#141 2012-03-31 06:24:01
- fxh
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Re: Street Beef
aah ya both a pair of f*cken old hippies
#142 2012-03-31 06:27:02
- fxh
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Yesterday in CBD I saw (an american tourist) in a pair of Crocs with a brown leather vamp.
Dressy crocs????
I was reminded today going through files I had been jotting down what people are wearing in meetings on the back of agendas.
I'll make time to type them up on Whats The Beef?
#143 2012-03-31 06:59:51
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#145 2012-03-31 07:19:32
- fxh
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Related: I deliberately started to dress down some years ago, for the first time, when I moved to a regional city (popn 150,000 + 30,000 surrounding)
The city also had then its own regional TV station and nightly 30 minute news. Due to my role I was often on TV, mostly my area was highly political. I quickly understood how to derail a shoot by coughing or wiping a fly from my face to ensure another shot.
But it was one of the female reporters who asked me off camera why I was always so "dressed up". I then realised I needed to dress more appropriately for the area. (I had been coming to that point by observing reactions in everyday work from people I interacted with). Essentially I got myself a bunch of sportcoats and plain blue shirts, dialed it down a notch or two, and essentially stopped a lifetime of dandying about.
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#146 2012-03-31 07:21:41
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"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#147 2012-03-31 07:23:37
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"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#148 2012-03-31 07:25:32
#149 2012-03-31 07:28:22
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"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#150 2012-03-31 07:29:41
- fxh
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Re: Street Beef
I've just been to a neighbours birthday party - I piked early at 11.30pm. I can still hear it going.
I'm wearing black suede chukkas, dark red pants, red blue striped belt, blue shirt red guarded white stripes, dark blue cotton blouson type jacket,longer hair than most males there. Hyped up on tequila and Dos Equis.