What's your latest [non-technology] purchase?

Looking sloppy is also a style. There are stores that cater to it.
 
Sounds like someone wasn't allowed to wear shorts to church as a little boy. Not saying that's the case, but I have family that have the same mentality. Counterpoint: My dad's luggage: paper grocery bags. He hunts, has been a factory welder for nearly 40 years and worked in a foundry before that, fireman and EMT, fisherman, used to raise bison, owned/ran/solely operated a saw sharpening business out of our basement, kept his '88 F150 running until the block cracked in '09. Saved dozens of lives in fires, car crashes, pulled bodies out of frozen lakes as a rescue diver. Still uses original Old Spice and the brown Listerine. Drinks brandy old-fashioned sours...on purpose...and it's the only thing he ever drinks, and only a couple times a year, save for one or two beers in summer...usually after landscaping or picking vegetables in the yard.

He owns two suits, three pairs of dress shoes, and irons his dress shirts when we go out to nice dinner, fireman events, weddings, and funerals. You can tell he likes the way he looks in a suit. He doesn't get to wear them often, but when he does it's always a production (in a good way).
 
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'Looking sloppy' : the metrosexuals biggest fear everybody....


I swear to God you limp-wristed office monkey faggots would not now how to act like a man if your life depended on it.

Can we not use that word please? I know it's been discussed on this board before, but slurs are no bueno. Also you may want to look up the idea of "toxic masculinity". There is no one way to "be a man" - if you identify as a man, you're a man and therefore "act like a man". Easy.
 
What word?
 
F****t. The only slur in that post that I quoted.
 
Most of the ones I know.....and believe me I tried looking for the other kind...


This world is doomed I tell ya, but at least we will all die nice and safe, and above all, PC.
 
This world is doomed I tell ya

Fuck it, I'll survive. I've survived Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama and all of the events that came along in those periods of time. I'll survive Trump and whoever comes after. I don't have the time nor effort to sweat the dumb shit; I got shit to do.
 
Gosh, you're old.
 
Probably. :D

Latest non tech purchase? Portillo's combo and cheese fries.
 
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Bought this wall flag to celebrate doing well on a exam. Good thing I didn't hold off - it's no longer available for sale.

I know I Prevail is seen as generic and mediocre but they didn't make a bad first album + the art is really cool.
 
Bunch of stuff to make my life hipster better.

A leather 1970s Pan Am first class toiletry satchel:


With a PanAm-branded single-use shaver in it:

The shaver seems used, but it's a standard Gilette model so I can simply replace it.

A PanAm-branded single-use toothbrush:



Luckily, this one's mint.

And a PanAm-branded comb:


Having everything in it PanAm-branded would be over the top, right?

So there's Herm?s-branded EdC.

A "Number Five, the friendly robot" model Polaroid camera:

Gotta drop over to the Impossible store and get some film tomorrow.

Who's Next:


And finally, a more than slightly bent piece of not-so-stainless steel:

Which, ironically, was by far the most expensive item in the bunch.

Fighting public for the title of FG's biggest hipster?

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This is a new Documentary from the BBC.

Peter York's Hipster Handbook - BBC iPlayer

BBC iPlayer said:
Peter York's Hipster Handbook

Eminent social commentator Peter York seeks to understand what he sees as the modern obsession with 'The Authentic'. He speaks to crafts people and expert commentators on his journey to understand the current cultural moment. He also examines where the label of the 'hipster' has its roots and whether it is too general a term for such a broad movement. He demonstrates through his years of marketing and advertising experience that subcultures have always been absorbed and repackaged by the mainstream.

Contributors include Times deputy fashion editor Harriet Walters, the Guardian architecture critic Oliver Wainwright, and Sir John Hegarty. Peter also travels to America to look at parallels between the UK and America.

It is interesting to watch and shows a bit of the history from New York 20 years ago, but mainly focuses its attention on the newly "fashionable" areas of East London. (Cost is ?2.50 from the BBC Worldwide Store.)

PS I do not have a beard & man-bun, ride a fixed-wheel bike or drink "specialist" coffee. :p
 
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5,3 kg of Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt, 0,2 kg of Crystal 100 Malt, Danstar BRY-97 ale yeast and two fermenting buckets. Clearing out my collection of hops when brewing this one so it will be a rather bitter one.
 
What's your latest [non-technology] purchase?

Some DeWalt cobalt drill bits to make that broken bolt on the Bronco go away. :/
 
More stuff from Peak Design for my DSLR:

"Clutch" hand strap:


Anchor links for my Nikon strap:
 

Wohoo, it seems I'm lucky when it comes to shipping dates, because this thing just shipped a month ahead of schedule. And that with a kickstarter campaign that are more usually than not plagued by delays and everything... damn, can't wait :)
 
I'm starting to feel it's inevitable that I will buy that backpack (30l version) somewhere down the line.
 
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