So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Turnip]

Sometimes Hessen.
Stuttgart, Koblenz, Dahn in 1999. Koblenz, wonderful real italian Salami Pizza for 13,50 DM...

Yes, that‘s what i assumed...

 

[GHT]

I do have several prominent work-related scars on my arms. I've been told they "aren't very attractive," and I have expressed the view that I'll be happy to cover them up to be more attractive when all the men my age that I see stumbling around with two inches of exposed flab between the hems of their T-shirts and the top of their shorts and Dunkies' crumbs falling out of their beards do something to be more attractive.

If only that was all that was on show.

 

[Turnip]

Isn‘t that the coin slot to make the plumber move?

 

[Trenchfriend]

But yes, that's the thing, I was always wondering about!

I think, that must have been anywhere in the 90s, when men and women stopped to wear classic undershirts?? I can't temember, seeing people with bare lower back on any weather in my childhood.
With the 2000s, the low-waist jeans and the whale tail suddenly appeared here in old Germany and after 2005, the people succeeded without thong, but still with bare back.

 

[Woodtroll]

I don't have any tattoos myself, nor am I interested in getting any -- but I do have several prominent work-related scars on my arms. I've been told they "aren't very attractive,"

To paraphrase at least one country song, “there’s a whole world of difference between tattoos and scars”.

 

[tonyb]

...
I think, that must have been anywhere in the 90s, when men and women stopped to wear classic undershirts?? I can't temember, seeing people with bare lower back on any weather in my childhood.
With the 2000s, the low-waist jeans and the whale tail suddenly appeared here in old Germany and after 2005, the people succeeded without thong, but still with bare back.

If I were to hazard a guess, it would be that a large majority of Americans rarely if ever wear undershirts these days.

 

[Turnip]

If you mean those classic wifebeaters, the last time i could remember having seen some as part of daily dress has been in my school gym‘s locker room in 1980 or 81.

Later they became fashion for hardcore bollos again, early 2000s if i remember right.

In Germany’s conservative business uniforms they never came out of fashion and are still a fix part of the wardrobe.

 

[tonyb]

I can see how plain white undershirts were almost necessary back when we were less disposed toward the disposable. These days most of us have much less invested in our clothing, in time and adjusted dollars, than we did in generations past. So whatever protection such an undergarment might have offered an outer garment isn’t such a consideration anymore.

I’m of perhaps the last generation to have routinely worn homemade and home-repaired clothing. But even so, most of my and my brothers’ clothes were store-bought. But Mom made most of my sister’s dresses. This was when girls were not allowed to wear pants to school. And dresses were a heckuva lot easier for the home seamstress to make than pants and shirts.

But my dear old ma repaired our store-bought duds, as did most of the moms in our neighborhood. We wore patched clothing and hand-me-downs. I recall Mom detaching frayed shirt collars and turning them around and sewing them back on. She took in other people’s clothing for repairs and alterations. Her Singer sewing machine was, and is, a prized possession. (I recall maybe 50 years ago her ripping into a salesman at a sewing machine shop, where she brought her machine for servicing, who wanted her to trade it in on what was in her view a decidedly inferior machine.)

I suppose it’s this history that has me shaking my head at “distressed” anything, but clothing especially. New clothes were special in my world, and we wore them until they were good and worn out, and then we turned what was left of them into patches and rags. Paying good money for new clothes with maybe half a useful lifespan? Really? Can’t you just wear your existing jeans until they get naturally “distressed”?

 

[tonyb]

And I find equally silly the practice of buying super high-end blue jeans and never getting them dirty and rarely laundering them, as is the habit among a small subset of denim aficionados.

 

[LizzieMaine]

One of the most valuable things my grandmother taught me, when I was seven years old, was how to mend my own clothes. I've never lived in a world where this wasn't an essential survival skill.

 

[Touchofevil]

The boneheads who throw their COVID-19 masks on the ground instead of in the garbage.

 

[Zombie_61]

The boneheads who throw their COVID-19 masks on the ground instead of in the garbage.

The boneheads who throw anything on the ground instead of in the garbage. But, yeah, the masks are particularly reprehensible.

 

[Trenchfriend]

The boneheads who throw their COVID-19 masks on the ground instead of in the garbage.

Every hundred meters, here.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Just for interest:

Anyone here got experience with the classic "ear-embracing" headphones? Are there big quality differences in sound? Should good headphones sound crystal clear or not so much?

I got actually old no name ear-embracing headphones with a wonderful long cable and volume controls. They sound ok, but more or less "dull".

 

[Rmccamey]

That's fine as long as they also don't get "offended" when I look at them trying to figure out if all the lines and patterns and squiggles might actually have some discernible meaning or even form words. No offense to anyone, I've just run into too many people who have used their body as a canvas but are offended when someone looks at the picture.

I know quite a few young women who go in heavily for tattoos, and they don't do it to be "attractive." They do it to please themselves and express their own aesthetic, regardless of whether anyone else finds it "attractive" or not. Which is, as I strongly believe, exactly as it should be. I don't have any tattoos myself, nor am I interested in getting any -- but I do have several prominent work-related scars on my arms. I've been told they "aren't very attractive," and I have expressed the view that I'll be happy to cover them up to be more attractive when all the men my age that I see stumbling around with two inches of exposed flab between the hems of their T-shirts and the top of their shorts and Dunkies' crumbs falling out of their beards do something to be more attractive.

As far as Aldi's goes, we don't have them here yet, thankfully. I still miss my neighborhood IGA.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Just for interest:

Anyone here got experience with the classic "ear-embracing" headphones? Are there big quality differences in sound? Should good headphones sound crystal clear or not so much?

I got actually old no name ear-embracing headphones with a wonderful long cable and volume controls. They sound ok, but more or less "dull".

It could be that there's been some deterioration in the rubber parts where the sound elements are mounted in the ear cups. That can cause issues with sound quality. Of course, be warned -- if you're accustomed to listening to music thru any kind of headphones or earphones at a high volume level, you'll soon find that the high end of your hearing starts rolling off rather abruptly. Every professional sound tech I've ever known has experienced this problem to a greater or lesser extent, especially those nearing/over the age of forty.

That's a big part of the reason why I never, and have never, listened to anything thru headphones at high volume, and I can still hear the horizontal oscillator in an old TV set.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I hate to be the one to tell you, but you've actually done the most wrong thing--by contacting them you've informed them that the name and street/mailing address they had on file are valid and correct, and now you'll most likely get bombarded with similar mail regardless of what they've promised you because they're going to sell your information to every advertiser who will pay for it. Oh, you can send them your objection under Art. 21 DS-GVO, and they won't even respond to it because they h.ave a list of legal loopholes that still allows them to do whatever they want with your information. The best thing to do is to throw that junk mail in the trash and get on with your day.

Now, the confirmation from the marketing company in Munich came in. My adress is now locked there, too.

So, things went fine.
You see, how MUCH business is going on here just because of bureauCRAZY!

Paper wars...

 

[WonkyBloke]

It's polling day here in the UK, and I'd forgotten how much I dislike the period between voting, and finding out whether I've won, or whether the world thinks I'm an idiot

 

[Harp]

It's polling day here in the UK, and I'd forgotten how much I dislike the period between voting, and finding out whether I've won, or whether the world thinks I'm an idiot

Even if your candidate(s); party fail to win, voting is in-and-of-itself a noble act.
And how can such singular noble action be regarded as idiotic?

British Pound chart shows a third Elliot wave lifted after a normal Fibonacci retracement; though some pressure against
sterling attribute election.

 

[WonkyBloke]

Even if your candidate(s); party fail to win, voting is in-and-of-itself a noble act.
And how can such singular noble action be regarded as idiotic?

I had hoped that the smiley might have lent a clue that I was jesting somewhat. To say it clearer, I dislike the period between me voting, and knowing whether the majority voted with me, or voted otherwise. Eitherway, I still trust in the system, and respect the outcome. I just don't like the delay of the counting period before knowing.

For the record, the polling today is largely on local issues; police and crime commissioners, local councils, and some directly elected mayors. There are also Welsh and Scottish national elections, and at least one by-election for Member of Parliament. It's been a mixed bag of stuff that was already scheduled for this year, plus electoral matters postponed from 2020 due to the pandemic. Not something I'd expect to significantly influence financial markets.