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Hoody on a 31 year-old

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Hahahaha....heeheheh....snort cough by Phage (2.00 / 0) #1 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 01:26:31 AM EST

Bluewater...a better class of consumer...Words fail me. I was there last Sunday (at the Cheaper M&S end) and it was amazing how the smell of McChowder fats eddied around the building and even to the car park. But it was the sheer press of humanity that got to me in the end. Having got we came for, (30% discount on a new bed) we left before the urge to bite the heads off passers-by became intolerable.

It's like magic realism, but not shit. - Scrymarch.

: Yeah, but have you ever been to Lakeside? by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #2 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 01:30:25 AM EST

Jesus, it's awful. Bluewater is definitely a cut above.
I don't mind crowds at all, actually quite like them this time of year because it makes me feel all Christmassy. Wandered round the West End for a bit last night after work happy as larry.
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OMFG - That's bloody hilarious by idiot boy (4.00 / 1) #3 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 01:30:59 AM EST

Nice one mate.

They may have been more scared of the car mind.

Have you heard it by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #4 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 01:33:51 AM EST

when you turn the engine off and the Hairdryer from Hell starts up? People stop in the street and walk over to it.

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Well if that doesn't strike the fear of god by idiot boy (2.00 / 0) #6 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 01:35:02 AM EST

The driving will. Ahem.

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She's going to read this by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #7 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 01:37:23 AM EST

EDITOR! SAVE HIM!

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: Hmmm by idiot boy (2.00 / 0) #8 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 01:38:52 AM EST

Yeah. I might just be in for it....
Redact redact redact!
Someone please break out the black marker.

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Thought by Herring

(4.00 / 7) #5 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 01:34:51 AM EST

They may not have hassled you because you're 7'6".

: Heh by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #9 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 01:39:17 AM EST

The number of times I've been tempted to pat a policeman on the head when I've been pissed...
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: He's certainly not Welsh. by ammoniacal (4.00 / 1) #20 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 03:32:36 AM EST

It was an unholy union of text and pulped wood that the Ancients used to distribute their blogs.
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WIPO by komet

(2.00 / 0) #10 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 02:13:52 AM EST

Both - being down with the kids is a mark of sad bastardism...

I applaud your self-sacrifice in the name of research, but where is your control group?

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Bad science by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #11 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 02:15:46 AM EST

Didn't think of that. What would a control group entail?

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: Japanese school girls in uniform by komet (4.00 / 2) #12 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 02:23:53 AM EST

obviously.

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Alternative WIPO by Dr H0ffm4n (2.00 / 0) #16 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 03:05:29 AM EST

Meh. It's just a practical piece of clothing. Style or street cred has nothing to do with it.

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: Well said by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #21 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 03:34:54 AM EST

Was the reason I bought it anyway. That and it only being a fiver.
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Absolute genius. by Alice Pulley (4.00 / 1) #13 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 02:42:50 AM EST

I salute you.

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+1 FP, Science Friday (nt) by tps12 (4.00 / 2) #14 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 02:50:14 AM EST

Good lord. by blixco (4.00 / 2) #15 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 02:56:06 AM EST

Throwing yourself at the mercy of the public (and a possible beating by the notoriously tough UKian Mall Cops) for us?

If this doesn't make front page, I'll...I'll shoot my dog.
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I remember when by jump the ladder (2.00 / 0) #17 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 03:18:37 AM EST

McDonalds was actually exotic and a treat when I was growing up. The prices have stayed around about the same since the mid 80s so it was relatively expensive then.

Avoiding chavs, shop on Chiswick High Road. The only problem is you can only buy million pound houses, Bang And Olfusen stereos, antiques and overpriced snow boarding gear. No River Island or Top shop = chav free zone.

Too far west for me by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #18 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 03:26:12 AM EST

I'd get a nosebleed.

I remember being treated at Macdonalds every now and again when I was a kid as well, didn't happen often and it mostly friends parents who did the treating.

I was thinking the other day about how definitions of what's healthy and what isn't have changed so much: I remember Macdonalds and Kentucky not being seen as that bad, potatoes, pizza and pasta being healthy and Pepperami sticks (when they came out) being infinitely preferable to crisps. The only things that were really bad were sweets, and in moderation those aren't seen as that bad now. Odd.

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Chiswick High Road by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #22 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 03:46:44 AM EST

Of course, you'd have got swamped by bloody carol singers if you'd been there last Saturday evening.

For some reason, despite the fact that I was singing, people seemed to be pleased to see us.

Oh, and I must apologise to Dr T for failing to invite him. 'twas rude not to at least email him and say I wasn't asking him along because he's too disreputable to meet my friends and cop off with the impressionable girls.

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: I was down there by jump the ladder (2.00 / 0) #24 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 03:52:21 AM EST

Last saturday. Didn't notice any carol singers...

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Narnia Overlord by idiot boy (4.00 / 1) #19 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 03:30:20 AM EST

I wonder how the white witch feels about the great Narnia Overlord looking down on her from above.

Is she Aslan's real boss I wonder?

Man, if this isn't FP'd by noon today, by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #23 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 03:49:16 AM EST

I swear I will do it myself with dupe accounts.

Also, I might suggest adding a BDU jacket on top of the hoodie in further experiments. I wore one yesterday to the mall, and I'll be damned if I didn't get a little extra special treatment.

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I thought the USian version of the hoodie by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #25 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 04:05:30 AM EST

was the trench coat full of suspicious bulges a la Colombine, or is that too goth?

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The trench coat has a small market cap here by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #27 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 04:39:08 AM EST

It's limited to the post-goth/post-industrial/metalhead-stoner crowd. The more urbane hoodlums go with the hoodie.

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True that goths aren't urbane by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #28 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 04:45:36 AM EST

Though the fact that some of yours go packed makes them considerably cooler than ours.

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: We keeps it real by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #30 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 05:49:21 AM EST

Though packed goths wouldn't last 10 minutes in more urbane settings here. Well, unless they were just dropping by to buy crack, and travelled in packs of 2 or 3.

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I prefer "hoodie". by calla (4.00 / 1) #26 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 04:09:29 AM EST

Maybe that's an American thing.

+1FP - great article with swell pics.

"However, for this current diary to be genuine would have obliged her to read my Sam's Teach Yourself Unix Adminstration in 24 Hours, which is both disturbing and super erotic." Rogerborg

The best thing about bluewater by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #29 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 05:46:01 AM EST

is that it's in a sunken gravel pit (refurbished, of course) And it has street-lamps with purple glass covers.

Imagine waking up, late at night, heinously herbalized, whilst still above the level of the lamp-tops.

Yes: It is possible to convince yourself that you've hallucinated your way into a nursery-rhyme realm with twenty-foot-tall magical glowing foxgloves. I blame Miyamoto.

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Jesus by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #32 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 06:32:48 AM EST

That sounds like some story. How the fuck did you end up out there?

Further Bluewater fact: a mate worked as an admin assistant for the firm that built the place, and I have an original commemorative Bluewater mug at home from the grand opening night!

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I can't honestly remember by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #35 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 06:52:06 AM EST

I used to live in the sarf, not a hundred miles from there, actually, and I was going down to visit people. Some combination of circumstance had left me without a car and getting a lift to Bluewater. I can't remember whether I was going to get picked up there, or get a bus from there the rest of the way.

Anyway - long story short - Fragments: The people giving me a lift were mullered. When we got there it had shut. I had to kill an hour or so (IIRC) and went to grab forty winks up on the ridge near the main road (or maybe I went up there to spot my lift turning up because I didn't want them to miss me - I cannae remember). Either way, I fell asleep. When I woke up, the combination of doziness, perspective trickery and gear gave me the disney version, until I got below the level of the lamp-covers / bulbs and that immediately corrected the perspective and everything coallesced into normal, sleepy Kent.

Part of remembers all that quite fondly, and wishes life weren't quite so normalized now, although I suspect that if I had to do it again today, I'd find it less of an adventure and more irritating-as-hell.

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Hallucinating is a young man's game [nt] by nebbish (4.00 / 2) #36 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 06:55:58 AM EST

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Hey, by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #38 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 08:26:05 AM EST

I said that 3 weeks ago.

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: Sorry to bite your style by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #43 Mon Dec 19, 2005 at 12:34:53 AM EST

I didn't know! (or if I did i've ripped you off subconsciously)
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I can look pretty dodgy when I want to by wiredog

(2.00 / 0) #31 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 06:17:17 AM EST

IAWTP, <AOL>Me too</AOL>, etc.

Here in USia, at the posh Tyson's Corner mall, a hoodie would be unremarkable. So, for that matter, would BDU's over the hoodie, weird purple hair, etc.

But then, looking dodgy requires more than the clothes. You need the furtive attitude, and the fuck-the-man attitude, which you probably weren't projecting.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}

: I'm not a very good actor by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #34 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 06:37:20 AM EST

and being neither furtive nor wanting to fuck the man, I think you're probably right.
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: Piercings. by DeepOmega (2.00 / 0) #37 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 06:59:26 AM EST

That's how you rile up the Tyson's Corner people. I'm talking a jungle-gym-hanging-from-your-eyelid piercings.
Or alternatively, just act poor. I mean, Tyson's Corner. Come in with a bindlestick and you're gold.

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I used to by alprazolam (4.00 / 1) #33 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 06:33:33 AM EST

love going to the Galleria in Dallas, wearing dirty jeans/shorts and a wrinkled t-shirt. I figure since the first store you saw when you came in was Tiffany's, I'd ruffle some feathers. I never really got harassed or anything though, just glared at.

But it was nothing compared to when I used to roam around at night in St. Louis with a full beard, muttering to myself. At the grocery store, people would get in line behind me and either stay 5 feet back or just plain think better of it and get in another line.

cute girl by 256 (4.00 / 2) #39 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 01:28:05 PM EST

nt
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: Yeah by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #42 Sun Dec 18, 2005 at 11:51:03 PM EST

and that's not a flattering photo either.
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I have a friend who lives in Sloan Square by ambrosen (4.00 / 1) #40 Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 03:29:36 PM EST

who goes around dressed like that. I think it takes some bravery to do that.

You missed one important point. by Tonatiuh (4.00 / 1) #41 Sun Dec 18, 2005 at 03:27:18 AM EST

You were on your own.

You alone look cute, almost cuddly.

4 or 5 guys dressed like you, roaming around with no purpose is a different matter.

Specially if they are in their late teens. People fears them , they know it, and as any primate would do, they take advantage of it.

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