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Nerds and Fedoras
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lol that was an amazing episode
oh and on the topic..let people wear what the fuck they want (and no I don't wear a fedora or any hats for that matter).
it's just as 'stupid' as 59/50s, snapbacks, skinny jeans, baggy jeans, oversized sunglassses, wearing shirts that you stole from you're little sister, wearing polos that you borrowed from uncle phil and what have we.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Like the hat?
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just want to say AoM is one of my favorite websites.
radios shipping overview
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Did Breaking Bad make the porkpie a thing in nerd fashion yet? Because the joke is that it doesn't go with the rest of WW's dorky look at all.
Ken Masters
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For everyone here dissing nerds... I thought we were all nerds
Gully State
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Bullet fedora just oozes masculinity...
I've always wanted to sport a fedora but every time I try one on, it just never looks right since I have a wide face. This also applies to pretty much any pair of sunglasses I've ever tried. I wish I could properly rock either...
Nerds never think of themselves as nerds(and if they do they're they cool ones). That's why most of GAF hates Big Bang Theory.
You're not even doing it right, it's supposed to be a huge hat and a blow horn.
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I'm a huge nerd, but I try not to be lazy or inattentive about my appearance.
desertdroog
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AoM is helping generations who never had interactions with anyone older than Baby Boomers as authority figures/role models.
Not all nerds are nerdy on the outside. But I prefer geek, thank you.
Discotheque
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lol holy shit it's Matthew McConaughey pre-workout mode.
Ken Masters
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I suppose geek is the new chic version of nerd
Well played. Great confidence.
"GAF" has some of the highest horses I have ever seen. We are the "cool" people, every one else is a nerd, dudebro, or hipster. I don't even wear a fedora ,but most of these post are nauseating.
The Fedora
Fedoras were once considered de rigueur for men going out in public and a necessary accessory to formal and business attire.
That right there is the problem nerds are encountering. A fedora is formal attire. All of those pics where it looks good are overwhelmingly guys in suits and dress shoes.
Nerds fuck up this look because they don't have the discipline to go the whole way and dress properly from tip to toes. They pair their fedora with t-shirts and jeans and call it a day. It's lazy fashion. It's the easiest thing to do, requiring no effort at all. That's why they're mocked about it, because the veneer is so thin that anyone can see it.
Kangol, trilby, porkpie and even baseball hats have working class origins and look much better when paired with casual clothes. These nerds would look better, more natural if they adopted one of the above. Instead they ignorantly shoot for iconic status, fail miserably, and then are rightly mocked for it. They would be mocked in the fifties too.
Fedoras were once considered de rigueur for men going out in public and a necessary accessory to formal and business attire.
That right there is the problem nerds are encountering. A fedora is formal attire. All of those pics where it looks good are overwhelmingly guys in suits and dress shoes.
Nerds fuck up this look because they don't have the discipline to go the whole way and dress properly from tip to toes. They pair their fedora with t-shirts and jeans and call it a day. It's lazy fashion. It's the easiest thing to do, requiring no effort at all. That's why they're mocked about it, because the veneer is so thin that anyone can see it.
Kangol, trilby, porkpie and even baseball hats have working class origins and look much better when paired with casual clothes. These nerds would look better, more natural if they adopted one of the above. Instead they ignorantly shoot for iconic status, fail miserably, and then are rightly mocked for it. They would be mocked in the fifties too.
Damn I wish, his accent melts my heart!
I thought I was the only one!
Jon Hamm is the shit, but yeah, I never thought he pulled off the Fedora well.
Anyway, this topic. Damn. I don't wear hats, so I can't comment much, and I do think people wearing Fedora's look pretentious, but hey, if they like what they're wearing, and like how they look, that's cool beans to me. I don't get hung up on what other people are doing when it comes to clothes, but then again, I'm a T-Shirt and Jeans kind of guy. Wear what you're comfortable wearing, and don't try to hard to impress other people, especially strangers.
As for suits, I've yet to get a good suit. I wore a nice one for my wedding, which had some minor adjustments done, but I'd love to go all out some day and get a sweet custom suit. Why? Because I think I'd look pretty damn nice in a suit.
My work doesn't require me to look like a boss, so I wouldn't have much occasion to wear suits regularly. Hell, my millionaire boss walks around the office like she just came from the gym (shorts and t-shirt, mostly). Lol.
People get too obsessed with other people. It makes for fun threads to read on a slow work day, but I always feel bad seeing people getting made fun of for how they look.
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Can't believe no one posted this guy yet.
Let's face it, if you're already an attractive looking person to begin with, you can pretty much wear anything and look good..
Ken Masters
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Don't forget that GAF posters are all male models
Conciliator
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I try not to judge, but there is a certain kind of person...to borrow the cliches - neckbeard, fedora, unfortunate probably-too-long hairdo. You can see a person like that and make lot of remarkably specific assumptions really accurately(sorry). I don't think, however, that you can make assumptions about how they see women, how their sexual frustration manifests(everyone who's sexual at all has a little frustration), etc., even if at times there is a correlation.
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Alright, because I'm morbidly curious:
This is me in a hat, sans glasses.
What say you, GAF?
I gotta say, you almost kind of pull this off, despite this picture being a summation of all the nerd-fashionable things that make me roll my eyes(could you at least un-botton the top button of your straight-black button up)?
Almost everyone I encounter seems to think this way. ( IRL, online, whatever)
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Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
What he's saying is, you look like a nerd.
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That is not at all how it works. Being an 'attractive person' is 90% in your control. If you took the guy in the pic, added 50 pounds, unkempt facial hair, a bowl cut, a grubby t-shirt and too-big cargo pants and took away the subtle confidence that picture suggests, you would have a typically 'unattractive' person.
Wolfe
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Yeah damn straight brother, fuck any of these knuckle heads that doesn't know specific celebrity from specific time period!
OpinionatedCyborg
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I always unbutton the top button when not wearing a tie, I have no idea why I didn't on this occasion...
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Of course!
dragonelite
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Nah looks bad if people wear them indoor just like sunglasses.
Somebody shop a hat on my avy pic, I was told I look good in them.
I only have a white almost-fedora shaped hat that is made of weird, knitted looking fabric. It's a sun hat, but I had it on ironically for Wacken Open Air with a Manowar patch stuck to the front. Meeeetaaaaa(l).
I only have a white almost-fedora shaped hat that is made of weird, knitted looking fabric. It's a sun hat, but I had it on ironically for Wacken Open Air with a Manowar patch stuck to the front. Meeeetaaaaa(l).
Nope. Bone structure, facial symmetry (in Neal's case) eye color, height, etc. etc. Dude would be attractive even if he let himself go a bit.
Bam Bam Baklava
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End this thread on that. Attractive people do things and it looks good and then ugly people do it and it looks bad.
Nope. Bone structure, facial symmetry (in Neal's case) eye color, height, etc. etc. Dude would be attractive even if he let himself go a bit.
Yeah he's got all that at the age of 34 so he's aging remarkably as well. If anything a majority of it is just your genetics and then the minority of it is how you take care of yourself.
Neato_Jinkins
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hate to break it to you all, but i'm responsible for patriotpony1986. i made it after my first (and, in my opinion, funnier) troll account was deleted. every week or so some dumb net community or another "discovers" the account and i get to enjoy interactions like this:
Message:
Your profile is a hot topic on tumblr right now. Just curious, can you clarify several things for me? Specifically:
a. What is the "war on men's rights"?
b. Why Ayn Rand, who's Objectivist philosophy was rejected by academia during her own lifetime for lack of rigor and limited understanding of philosophical subject matter?
c. Who is your ideal candidate, and why?
Thanks for your time. I'm genuinely looking for some insight into your personal philosophy, not trying to be a dick.
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a.) For instance, this morning I was creep-shamed out of my hiding spot behind the fern near the women's restroom at the Orange Julius by some self-righteous feminists. What is the world coming to when I can't take tasteful photos of people's feet without being harangued by lunatics?
b.) I think you'll find that "academia" is prone to knee-jerk denouncements of anything they don't fully understand. I do my own research; I don't need intellectual elites to tell me how to live. This is why I drink unpasteurized milk, ingest colloidal silver, and only evacuate my bowels once a month.
c.) Dr. Congressman Ron Paul, MD. OB/GYN.
Message:
Your profile is a hot topic on tumblr right now. Just curious, can you clarify several things for me? Specifically:
a. What is the "war on men's rights"?
b. Why Ayn Rand, who's Objectivist philosophy was rejected by academia during her own lifetime for lack of rigor and limited understanding of philosophical subject matter?
c. Who is your ideal candidate, and why?
Thanks for your time. I'm genuinely looking for some insight into your personal philosophy, not trying to be a dick.
Reply:
a.) For instance, this morning I was creep-shamed out of my hiding spot behind the fern near the women's restroom at the Orange Julius by some self-righteous feminists. What is the world coming to when I can't take tasteful photos of people's feet without being harangued by lunatics?
b.) I think you'll find that "academia" is prone to knee-jerk denouncements of anything they don't fully understand. I do my own research; I don't need intellectual elites to tell me how to live. This is why I drink unpasteurized milk, ingest colloidal silver, and only evacuate my bowels once a month.
c.) Dr. Congressman Ron Paul, MD. OB/GYN.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Are you really 26 is what I would ask.
Neato_Jinkins
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of all the possible questions that could spring to your mind when you happen upon an insane cognitive dissonance monster with a dick disease, you choose "but how old is he, really?"
The only correct response.
freenudemacusers
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It's pretty easy to spot the difference between a nerd fedora vs a stylish one. Outfit, and shoes. Mostly the shoes. There is no pulling off Payless orthopedic shoes and a fedora.
Also there is a works of difference between a $10 fedora and a $300 one
Fuck, here's my Simpsons fanclub membership card, I'm not worthy!
Patriotpony Jenkins, you are one funny dude!
Gully State
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That's not what I mean. If you're naturally attractive looking, you can wear all sorts of things that most other people can't wear and still look good wearing it whereas an unattractive person has a limited amount of styles to rock in order to look attractive.
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