i totally misread the scale on this and thought initially that the "Ampy" bit was 6" across. then i went back to the picture to try and discover what the hell the big thing on the left was - some sort of weird postmodern vibrator or something?
oh, it's a pen.
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L-R: Lipliner, MP3 player someone left in my bedroom, crushed-up red biro, and, behind the necklace, a keyring containing 4 screwdrivers (2 flat-ended, one phillips, one wierd pointy one) that I got in a cracker. As you can see my desk is really tidy and not at all full of random junk.
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quote:Originally posted by Fionnula the Cooler: What you have to understand is this: my unspeakably drab appearance today is a penance for the unpopular sartorial experiment I conducted last Friday. I wanted to find out if I could take something as bleakly, depressingly corporate as a tie and discover if it was possible to transform it into something casual, even stylish! So I wore a tie without a shirt, without any kind of collar, which gave the garment a choker effect. Unfortunately, the general consensus, I think, was: you look a tit. It was assumed, I think, that I had forgotten to wear a shirt, that I had, perhaps, in the darkness of the early hours, been incapable of discerning between casual- and professional-wear and had made a humiliating mistake. This Friday, therefore, I'm back to looking bleakly, depressingly (yet safely) corporate.
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I love that Onion story. I sent it to the tie-wearer in the photographs after this little indie scamp at a Les Incompetents gig looked really puzzled at his attire and asked if he had just come from the office.
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I went to one of his gigs last year, an NME affair, and every bloke looked liked him/London's friends. I felt positively radical wearing just a t-shirt and no glasses.
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: I went to one of his gigs last year, an NME affair, and every bloke looked liked him/London's friends. I felt positively radical wearing just a t-shirt and no glasses.
They probably thought you were being ironic. Perhaps you were.
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late as always: brown addidas marathon runners. (note trainers. even though i'm here in the states. not sneakers. and only "kicks" if you're banksy.) battered jeans from george (UK) which have had to be repaired and have safety pin in fly from laundromat repair service which i've left in for "cool" but is actually "gaye" white under-t-shirt blue t-shirt jumper given away at departmental event, with "VU progam in developmental biology" tastefully embroided on my left tit.
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: Just like somebody like Rick sees a teenager wearing sportswear and assumes that they are a joyrider...
Hnng. If I were to look at myself in a mirror right now I'd think I was a lapsed joyrider. Everything I am wearing is Adidas.
- white v-neck t-shirt - green 'retro' sweatshirt - navy blue jogging pants - battered trainers circa 1999
No chunky gold chain or sovereign rings though.
I didn't buy myself anything, save the new Germany football shirt I got at a decent price at Karstadt in Nuremberg which I will be wearing come summertime. Most of the nice stuff I bought was for Nightowl, including a beautiful skirt from Monsoon that she looks absolutely yummy in.
Plimsoll = rubber sole, canvas upper, such as Green Flash, Converse, school gym numbers
Trainer = rubber sole, leather upper, used for more vigorous activity or 'hanging around'.
Sneaker = unfortunate American term for either of the above.
Sorry, but they're all sneakers to me. Though it makes sense that you'd wear trainers for athletic activity, ie to train, but I'm not sure how one would plim in one's plimsolls. What's irritating to me on this side of the world is the tendency to call sneakers (a perfectly good though generic term, in my book) things like basketball shoes or running shoes or even perhaps more loathably cross-trainers, which strikes me as the sort of footwear one might have to endure on the journey between straight and Dame Edna.
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quote:Originally posted by froopyscot: What's irritating to me on this side of the world is the tendency to call sneakers (a perfectly good though generic term, in my book) things like basketball shoes or running shoes or even perhaps more loathably cross-trainers, which strikes me as the sort of footwear one might have to endure on the journey between straight and Dame Edna.
There's nothing loathesome about that - they're different types of show for different purposes. Running shoes, basketball shoes and cross training shoes are all different because the types of exercise you do in them are different. If you go running every morning in a pair of Converse All Stars you'll start to notice that your shins, knees and hips are actually made out of shards of shattered bone. So you need to know that what you're using really is a running shoe, and not something completely unsuited to the purpose.
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I don't know if anyone noticed, but Monsoon has a sale on. I went in there today, though I didn't buy anything. They had a sweater reduced from £50 to £15: I wasn't sure if buying it would be "saving"... or "spending".
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I love Monsoon. I am so skint at the moment though that I had to force myself to walk past the one in Taunton despite the huge 70% off signs in window.
My total sale shopping this year = 0
Wearing today - jeans or some non-descript, non-label variety red boots with stitching on brown cardi pink wrap over top that you have to keep a close eye on or you end up flashing your baps at people inadvertently
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