Stuff you just bought thread V2
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Express BLAKE series Boot Cut Jeans - Ultra Blast
KINGSTON BOOT CUT JEAN - OVERCAST
REROCK BOOT CUT JEAN - DARK DESTROY
COTTON ZIP UP HOODIE
I also got it in white...
Payraise and I got a bonus stipend from work, plus I cashed in a few vacation hours... I'm budgeting 20% of it for clothes (as you see above)
The next thing on my list is another 24" widescreen ASUS monitor that projects at 1920 x 1200. I'm not liking 1280 x 1024 (17 inches) or 1680 x 1050 (22") that much.
KINGSTON BOOT CUT JEAN - OVERCAST
REROCK BOOT CUT JEAN - DARK DESTROY
COTTON ZIP UP HOODIE
I also got it in white...
Payraise and I got a bonus stipend from work, plus I cashed in a few vacation hours... I'm budgeting 20% of it for clothes (as you see above)
The next thing on my list is another 24" widescreen ASUS monitor that projects at 1920 x 1200. I'm not liking 1280 x 1024 (17 inches) or 1680 x 1050 (22") that much.
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Nice jeans there, Neil. I'd go for a pair if I wasn't such a ****ing fatass at the moment - two months of careful eating and I'm still in 40s. 
Nice jeans there, Neil. I'd go for a pair if I wasn't such a ****ing fatass at the moment - two months of careful eating and I'm still in 40s.
You'll get there! I'm actually trying to get fat(ter). I'm 99 pounds (44.9 kg) and 68 inches (173 cm). All the tops at Express fit me nicely at Extra Small size, but the jeans are a belt-nightmare for me.... Their smallest size is 29 W 30 L, and that means I have to get FOUR holes punched in any belt that I get from any designer clothes store.
Do you shop at Guess or any other stores?
First CD I've bought in a while. It was long enough that I forgot that I had my Amazon account set to ship to my old apartment when I use the "1-Click" thing of theirs to immediately place an order.
Since I also use Amazon Prime (free two-day shipping!) the order was shipped by the time I realized it was headed to the wrong place, so I couldn't alter or cancel it. Thus, after work today I had to head over to my old place and ask some random woman if an errant package had arrived.
Hooray. Worth it, though.
Are you an anorexic woman? D:
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First CD I've bought in a while. It was long enough that I forgot that I had my Amazon account set to ship to my old apartment when I use the "1-Click" thing of theirs to immediately place an order.
Since I also use Amazon Prime (free two-day shipping!) the order was shipped by the time I realized it was headed to the wrong place, so I couldn't alter or cancel it. Thus, after work today I had to head over to my old place and ask some random woman if an errant package had arrived.
Hooray. Worth it, though.
Are you an anorexic woman? D:
Hahaha... No, truthfully, it's just my genes.
Metabolism is uber-fast.
oh my god.
waste of money.
I don't know.... Maybe having a save $40 for every pair of jeans you buy coupon AND a Save $15 for every $60 you spend coupon is making want to buy those jeans....
EDIT: And I'm a metrosexual, so.. cheap clothing is not my thing. And problems with fading, breaking in the washer, material falling apart and more stop me from buying at cheap clothing stores. I concede that some designer stores also have similar problems (American Eagle, Abercrombie, Hollister for example) but Express has never failed on me. I've bought cut jeans from American Eagle and by the 5th wash the cuts have all torn themselves in the washer.... Express cut jeans have lasted me almost a YEAR! And counting. So it's not just a style thing for me is what I'm saying.
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if you have a bunch of coupons that make it cheaper, that's cool.
but 80 bucks for a pair of jeans with holes in them? that's a waste of money by any standard.
also, it's pretty funny that you would try to justify your spending based on the notion that you're metrosexual (a completely ridiculous concept, in and of itself). first you claim that being metrosexual means you have to buy expensive clothes. your only reasoning is that this is because the "cheap" clothes fall apart in the wash. but your only means of comparison are other overpriced namebrands (AB, Hollister, AE).
you then almost contradict everything you said by claiming that your shopping habits are not "just" about style. you get excited by the fact that your Express jeans lasted you "almost" a year?
I shop for my jeans at Dillards.
they're like 30 bucks, sometimes up to 50. but no more than that. and they've lasted my SEVERAL years. they've developed their own holes and tears through USE, not because some designer thought it was cool to cut them up before putting them on the shelf. they're still durable and fit great.
metrosexual lol...
what a joke.
but 80 bucks for a pair of jeans with holes in them? that's a waste of money by any standard.
also, it's pretty funny that you would try to justify your spending based on the notion that you're metrosexual (a completely ridiculous concept, in and of itself). first you claim that being metrosexual means you have to buy expensive clothes. your only reasoning is that this is because the "cheap" clothes fall apart in the wash. but your only means of comparison are other overpriced namebrands (AB, Hollister, AE).
you then almost contradict everything you said by claiming that your shopping habits are not "just" about style. you get excited by the fact that your Express jeans lasted you "almost" a year?
I shop for my jeans at Dillards.
they're like 30 bucks, sometimes up to 50. but no more than that. and they've lasted my SEVERAL years. they've developed their own holes and tears through USE, not because some designer thought it was cool to cut them up before putting them on the shelf. they're still durable and fit great.
metrosexual lol...
what a joke.
Excuse me? Metrosexualism isn't a joke. Go wikipedia or google it.
I decided not to list cheaper clothing stores so I wouldn't come off as ETHNOCENTRIC. Naming cheaper clothing stores like Marshall's and TJ Maxx is ethnocentric because those stores are only available in the United States. Granted, Express is based in the United States as well but you can find them in other countries. Same goes with American Eagle and the other designer stores I listed. So no, I don't take it lightly that you are painting me in a bad light. I had good intentions. Your intention is just trying to pin me as a wrongdoing metrosexual. F*ck you.
And read what I said more carefully next time. "Express cut jeans have lasted me almost a YEAR! And counting." That means I've had the jeans since last September or so... And they're still going strong.
The things you have proven so far is your ethnocentrism and using a passive-aggressive approach in portraying me as some bad individual while passively promoting yourself as some better person because you get get clothes at Dilliards. That's fine, I have no problem with that, but at least I don't FLAUNT myself in a way that makes it seem like I might be better than someone else. People around me wear designer clothes. People around me also wear cheaper-end clothes. Again, F*CK YOU.
EDIT: So having coupons automatically makes it "cool"? WTF, that's being money-centric now. Some people don't place frugality against everything else... Now I have even less respect for you.
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I'm sorry, but in this case, you're playing the fool.
because I have google'd it.
wanna' know what I found?
metrosexual IS a joke.
the person who actually coined the term (the guy who invented the idea) used it as a mockery of consumerism. he was identifying a type of person who parts with their hard earned money very easily.
it's a joke that has been perpetuated into popular culture because it SELLS OVERPRICED CLOTHES and other crappy "beauty" products that you don't need.
Narcissism, according to Simpson, plays a crucial role in the metrosexual concept. As Simpson writes in "Narcissus goes shopping" (Male Impersonators, 1994), consumerism and narcissism are closely related.
so again, I'm sorry Neil, but the jokes on you.
"For some time now, old-fashioned (re)productive, repressed, unmoisturized heterosexuality has been given the pink slip by consumer capitalism. The stoic, self-denying, modest straight male didn't shop enough and so he had to be replaced by a new kind of man, one less certain of his identity and much more interested in his image – that's to say, one who was much more interested in being looked at (because that's the only way you can be certain you actually exist). A man, in other words, who is an advertiser's walking wet dream."[25]
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I love how you conveniently ignore everything else in my post.
Yet again you're trying to paint me with bad intentions. Metrosexualism isn't a joke, as you just pointed out (and cited) there's definitions for it as well as subcultures and cocultures within it. What you've shown me is that you're prejudiced against metrosexualism by calling it a joke when in fact, it's not. Yes, it's consumer based. Yes, clothes can be pricey. No, that doesn't make a joke.
I am really not following your logic that expensive clothing (or biased with your own words "overpriced clothing") makes the culture concept a joke.
Next I bet you'll be attacking American consumerist cultures... To which I would say that's the same in Taiwan, China, Japan, England... whereever you go that's not a third world country, you'll find the same concept in place with its consumers. It's not a joke. It's reality.
And no, I'm not saying metrosexualism is the ONLY reality, I'm saying it's one of the many (and possibly countless) possibilities in culture out there.
I can't understand how me calling myself a metrosexualism is spawning your passive aggressive desires. Just because I'm different from you doesn't necessarily make me WORSE than you or you BETTER than me. Or anyone in any given conversation.
aggressive desires?
I'm just calling it like I see it.
I never said anything about "worse" or "better."
I'm just calling it like I see it.
I never said anything about "worse" or "better."
Can you please enlighten us to the cultural values/relevance of metrosexualism that make it its own culture? All I've read thusfar (scanning several pages of different definitions on online dictionaries, wikipedia etc.) indicate that it indicates consumerist behaviour in generally urban heterosexual men with a strong appeal to/sense of fashion. I don't see how that can be called a culture unto itself.
Damn! That Ninja 250 must be like a liter bike with you on it!
And to stay on topic just bought tires for my Dad's car, Michelin Primacy MXV4.
Damn! That Ninja 250 must be like a liter bike with you on it!
And to stay on topic just bought tires for my Dad's car, Michelin Primacy MXV4.
Hey not bad, Michelin tires work out well.
It's not. Dressing nice and knowing how to cook does not a culture make. metrosexualism is a word used by douches. I drink good wine, read literature, dress nicely and am a badass cook, but you won't see my calling myself metrosexual and you know why? I'm not a douche who feels the need to attach a label to everything.
By the way, it's been a while since I've seen a thread where Neil just goes ape**** over some silly slight. It brings back memories.
Oh, on topic. I recently bought:
I'm creating a syllabus for a class on adaptation from books to movies to videogames, looking at how they use structure and form to advance the narrative. I'm also using some movies (a Inferno movie, a norse myth movie, a batman animated movie, The Great Escape) and games (Batman: Arkham Asylum) which I already have as well as the upcoming Dante's Inferno game not listed here. Oh, also lots of theory stuff. With any luck, it'll be a pretty cool class.
~Jason
Finally got my japanese learning book "kanji kana". About time. And an issue of "eos" (scientific monthly magazine) and national geographic (combined with traveler).
And bread.
And bread.
