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Why do we wear clothes?

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  • #52
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Pockets


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    wil wrote: »
    Pockets
    unless you're a kangaroo


  • #54
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    Somewhat of an opportune climate to pose such. Why at all, or why now

    or why, am I even asking having checked who the op is :confused:


  • #55
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    No we started shedding hair before we wore clothes. We lost hair because it was too hot in Africa where humans first evolved.
    Not so much because it was too hot but because we could cool down faster without hair.

    This meant we could chase down prey in the heat of the sun. Humans were super persistent predictors

    in our hunter-gatherer days, our favored tactic seems to have been following an animal at a jog until it simply dropped of exhaustion and heatstroke and either died there or had its head bashed in with a rock.


  • #56
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Why did we start wearing clothes in the first place? And why have no other animals followed suit?

    Fur :confused:

    Also nice pun :D


  • #57
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    We would look good now walking and jogging around with an erection now wouldn't we. Imagine walking naked to the shop and you got one and then you would have the whole place going lol look at your man with an erection :pac:

    Clothes are to make us look majoritally the same so people don't see this and get all exited, if you know what i mean.


  • #58
    Brendog
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4HGfagANiQ


  • #59
    The Backwards Man
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I think that elephants, hippopotamuses and pigs are examples of animals who don't have any hair, they have a thick layer of fat to keep them warm and live in warm places.

    Humans decided to co where it cot cold and need to get skins from other animals to keep warm followed by clothes (made from animal by-products)
    I thunk pigs are only hairless through selective breeding, in the wild they are as hairy as a . . hairy thing.

    If we stopped wearing clothes would our hair start growing back?


  • #60
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    If you were one of those first caveman, we'd be probably down to the bare bones by now


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  • #61
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    So as not to give the ladies an inferiority complex?

    Gets coat rather sharpishly


  • #62
    Capt'n Midnight
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    If we stopped wearing clothes would our hair start growing back?
    Of course it would

    just like it did for all those natives that wear hardly any clothes :rolleyes:

    In 3 generations 30% of African elephants have lost their tusks, in 50,000 years humans haven't regrown hair.

    There is a genetic component as evidenced by the Turkish? family that have hair everywhere.


  • #63
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If Humans stopped wearing clothes, our skin would probably just thicken up like the skin of a pig or elephant. think about the skin on your hands and face, in most temperate temperatures you don't feel cold or hot, it's only in extreme temperature that your face & hands get cold.


  • #64
    YellowFeather
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    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    So as not to give the ladies an inferiority complex?

    Gets coat rather sharpishly

    Pffffff - clothes-wearer!!


  • #65
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,035 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    That Gok Won lad has poisoned your mind!


  • #66
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    So as not to give the ladies an inferiority complex?

    Gets coat rather sharpishly
    Freud was full of sh1t. The sight of a huge penis does not fill me with envy, it fills me with... admiration. :pac:


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  • #67
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,530 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Just a reminder

    Dress for the body you have, not the body you want.


    [ needs brain bleach after hearing the phrase bingo wings ]


  • #68
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    We wear clothes so we don't scare the horses. Lets be honest folks, there's a lot of flesh on show with the hot weather and a lot of that flesh would be best kept concealed. I'm not the most toned person in the world so I only expose my jiggly bits in the privacy of my own home. I hate seeing rolls of sweaty flab and lobster coloured beer guts every time I leave the house. Jesus, with the number of lobster coloured people I've seen I'm beginning to wonder if people are just basting themselves with fat before leaving the house:D


  • #69
    Black Leather
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 203 ✭✭Black Leather


    Totally agree, there should be more opportunities for people to shed their clothing and in so doing, people would have less hang ups about their bodies.


  • #70
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,354 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Why did we start wearing clothes in the first place? And why have no other animals followed suit?
    'Followed suit'!

    Nice one!

    Its because primitive man needed somewhere to carry his phone and keys while out hunting mastodon. He was supplied with a bag, but no instructions on how to open it. Primitive woman didn't get a bag, which explains why modern woman is obsessed with buying bags. At some level, she still feels hard done by. Modern man has pockets.


  • #71
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Black Leather wrote: »
    Totally agree, there should be more opportunities for people to shed their clothing and in so doing, people would have less hang ups about their bodies.
    I prefer nice clothes ta.


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