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I guess shoes is a bit of an exception - I tend to buy good ones. Good as in durable. My latest pair of jogging shoes is extreme - I bought them over two years ago, and only now are they starting to show signs of falling apart, after having been used practically daily since then, except a few months in the winter of 2002-2003. Spent something like $60 on them.
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Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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Right, it's a quality issue - or a quality assurance issue to be more precise. That's why it's great to buy the "overflows," they have the quality and not the price.Originally posted by Provost Harrison
It's so materialistic isn't it, you pay for a name sewed/embroidered somewhere on the thing. The fact remains the same - I think there is rarely a quality issue now as they all seem to be made in sweatshops in China.
This is not even fashion. Fashion is nastier yet.Originally posted by Provost Harrison
To me, on so many levels, the fashion industry is the pinnacle of everything that is nasty about capitalism.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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On the plus side, it's people like AS who keep the Western economies ticking.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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That's the negative side.Originally posted by Last Conformist
On the plus side, it's people like AS who keep the Western economies ticking.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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I tend to spend lots of money on dressy clothes because they last for YEARS. Plus the style stays the same so you can wear the same thing for a long time. But it's the casual stuff that is hard to pick out because the styles change so often.
That's where women come in handy cause they can help you pick out the stuff with you instead of you being all, "duhhhh what should I buy with this???"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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Shopping with women
Always more fun! 
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"Hm. I suppose I should get my waffle a santa hat." - KuciwalkerComment
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Isn't this the same log house used in Civ3 as Adam Smith's trading company?Originally posted by Albert Speer
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I probably spent 100 bucks in the span of 5 years on clothing for myself (discounting of course the inevitible gifts from the parental units). But now that I'm in the real world.
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I couldn't think of anything worse than shopping with women. They spend all day feeling and touching things, trying things on while the bloke knows that inevitably they will return to the first thing they tried on. And then that's it, another chunk of a man's life needlessly squandered...Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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That's why you pick it out together.We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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If it's lingerie, that isn't a bad thing.Originally posted by Provost Harrison
trying things on while the bloke knows that inevitably they will return to the first thing they tried on.
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For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next
But he would think of something
"Hm. I suppose I should get my waffle a santa hat." - KuciwalkerComment
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Shopping is time squandered...Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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~200-300 Euros a year
It's getting more though.
You should have done a poll, btw.Comment
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Agreed.Originally posted by Drogue
If it's lingerie, that isn't a bad thing.
(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
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This thread reminds me that I have to join the gym to justify the gym outfit I bought on the weekend.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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