• papalonian@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      My friend, you’re 44 and haven’t learned the art of not giving a fuck what people think of you? Wear that sick trench coat. Worst case scenario, someone laughs at you, and you brighten their day a bit.

      • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Upvoted and I’m technically in agreement with you, but at the end of the day most of us humans are social creatures and how we fit in is, on some level at least, important to us.

        I will say though if dressing like a neckbeard is fundamental to who someone is, they should absolutely go for it. But for me, who thinks fedoras (sans modern context) do indeed look cool, that’s not enough to overcome the stigma. It’s all about finding our personal balances, I guess.

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            6 months ago

            I’ll just say, I want to fit in as much as the next guy but if it’s something I really like, nothing gets in the way. This the one area i can safely say, “I come first”, because putting a pirate flag on my bike doesn’t hurt anyone.

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                6 months ago

                It’s all rad. It’s all cool. Its the robots waiting around for someone to be different so they can denigrate them who are fucking lame.

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                sees someone from the corner of his eye starting to hang a conferate flag

                NM I take it all back.

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      6 months ago

      I hope you just go and enjoy life how you want. Fuck other people. Wear a fedora and swing Satan’s pretending it’s a lightsaber.

      We die at the end of our lives, not the people who judge us. Be free.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Yeah I just gave up on that. I’d rather be an unpopular me than a popular someone else. The world should be different and my friends all feel the same way.

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      6 months ago

      fedoras used to be hella cool. trenches, katanas, all that shit.

      I dunno if this was ever true, but I think you’ll find more success the more you lean in, because the more you lean in, the harder it is to take you seriously. pair your trench coat with cargo shorts. wear a flea market xxl silk anime shirt with goku on it, unbuttoned, behind that, you gotta wear a mario or zelda shirt or something. a thinkgeek style of shirt. wear some crocs with the jibbits in em. maybe wear a cool casio watch, a silver one. get a fanny pack, put this in the belt loop of your trench coat. See if you can get a katana around there too. get some coke bottle glasses, some morpheus glasses that just sit on the bridge of your nose too. get some ankle high socks, get a couple cool bracelets, if you’re balding, shave the top, go for a horseshoe shape, grow out your hair, and put it in a ponytail. get your glasses to have a strap.

      do all that, and then you’ll wrap back around to being cool, and stylin’. you’ll be hip with the youths.