Drunken people's irrational attraction to hats

MrJoeSoap · 07-02-2008 02:59PM

Loving this thread. Its so true, I've an irrational attraction to hats when scooped as well. Have stolen hats on three occasions since the start of December alone!

Gang of Gin · 07-02-2008 02:59PM

Snake Nose wrote: »

Some people are just bellends. At our X-mas work party, we ended up in Rí Rá, and some douche kept flicking my colleagues hat off. The 'flicker' thought it was gas, like he couldn't believe he'd made such a hilarious discovery, but he was just a typical fat middle-aged boozehound with other fathead mates who thought it was gas. It was so lame, it wasn't even worth getting in conflict over. We were just more baffled (i.e. shaking our heads with a confused "why bother doing that" look) than annoyed.

Well put. I empathize.

Cardinal · 07-02-2008 03:04PM

Gang of Gin wrote: »

Not gone on the shemagh scarf, probably because of ubiquity.

What's the deal with these anyway? Are we showing our support for Arabs everywhere or what?

Adam · 07-02-2008 03:13PM

Gang of Gin wrote: »

That's my hat! You stole it off me on a night out. I want it back. And look at you posing, showing it off to all your friends. Not gone on the shemagh scarf, probably because of ubiquity.

lol, I agree completely! I bought it while I was away for a month and when I came back everyone was wearing them... mind you I couldn't care less, it's comfortable and actually the only thing I've ever found comfortable as a scarf, I hate the regular woolen ones with a passion. They make my neck itchy.

echosound · 07-02-2008 03:17PM

I for one would like to see a return to everyday hat-wearing becoming commonplace. Would add a bit of style to most outfits, imagine walking into your office or wherever with a big stetson or a nice fedora to top off your suit. Although being a laydee I guess it'd have to be a pillbox or a bonnet for me

Adam · 07-02-2008 03:19PM

echosound wrote: »

I for one would like to see a return to everyday hat-wearing becoming commonplace. Would add a bit of style to most outfits, imagine walking into your office or wherever with a big stetson or a nice fedora to top off your suit. Although being a laydee I guess it'd have to be a pillbox or a bonnet for me

Despite my earlier post, hat's don't really work for me, I find I get terrible hat hair very easily... anybody else with this problem?

echosound · 07-02-2008 03:24PM

Mirror wrote: »

Despite my earlier post, hat's don't really work for me, I find I get terrible hat hair very easily... anybody else with this problem?

Yes, having long hair and wearing hats leads to a nice tangled bird's nest effect at the crown for me upon removing hat. Solution? not many, other than never remove hat.

OctavarIan · 07-02-2008 03:29PM

When my hair was long I would wear a beanie, although not into clubs or anything. Santa hats etc would get taken, although not for long... I also find the glasses thing, I wore a pair of hippy glasses out on xmas last year, and they got handed around a lot.

However I am guilty of the same crimes in a way, came home one night with this, although it was given to me so it's not the same as stealing

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/292/dsc01527vg7.jpg

Ross_Mahon · 07-02-2008 03:30PM

Yes i had the same problem at a fancy dress, people are annoying taking your hat!

Snake Nose · 07-02-2008 03:42PM

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

I've an irrational attraction to hats when scooped as well. Have stolen hats on three occasions since the start of December alone!

So you're admitting you're a spa?

monkeyfudge · 07-02-2008 03:57PM

OctavarIan wrote: »

However I am guilty of the same crimes in a way, came home one night with this, although it was given to me so it's not the same as stealing

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/292/dsc01527vg7.jpg

Who gave it to you? Boy George or Dipsy the Tellytubby?

Gang of Gin · 07-02-2008 07:04PM

Mirror wrote: »

lol, I agree completely! I bought it while I was away for a month and when I came back everyone was wearing them... mind you I couldn't care less, it's comfortable and actually the only thing I've ever found comfortable as a scarf, I hate the regular woolen ones with a passion. They make my neck itchy.

Fair enough. You wear it away, fella.

Gang of Gin · 07-02-2008 07:06PM

echosound wrote: »

I for one would like to see a return to everyday hat-wearing becoming commonplace. Would add a bit of style to most outfits, imagine walking into your office or wherever with a big stetson or a nice fedora to top off your suit. Although being a laydee I guess it'd have to be a pillbox or a bonnet for me

I'm quite enamoured with such thinking.

Gang of Gin · 07-02-2008 07:08PM

OctavarIan wrote: »

When my hair was long I would wear a beanie, although not into clubs or anything. Santa hats etc would get taken, although not for long... I also find the glasses thing, I wore a pair of hippy glasses out on xmas last year, and they got handed around a lot.

However I am guilty of the same crimes in a way, came home one night with this, although it was given to me so it's not the same as stealing

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/292/dsc01527vg7.jpg

What a hat. Very Noel Fielding/Vince Noir.

Melion · 07-02-2008 07:14PM

Why the fúck are you wearing a hat in a pub or a club anyway? Stinks of pretentiousness to be honest

Cardinal · 07-02-2008 07:26PM

Bring back the homburg I say, and a cloche hat for the ladyfolk.

Gang of Gin · 07-02-2008 07:30PM

Melion wrote: »

Why the fúck are you wearing a hat in a pub or a club anyway? Stinks of pretentiousness to be honest

Thanks for the honesty. For you to assume that it makes one come across pretentious is in your own head, and as bad, if not worse than the lout who would physically impinge on the wearer. Except you're resenting the person in silence. And for what, a bloody hat? It's as irrational as, we'll say, disliking someone because they're fat. Christ.

Aoife9 · 07-02-2008 07:30PM

I had a couple of drunken clowns try to steal my wig at Halloween I think drunks have a thing for wigs too in the end I was wearing the clowns wig on top of my own

Gang of Gin · 07-02-2008 07:31PM

Cardinal wrote: »

Bring back the homburg I say, and a cloche hat for the ladyfolk.

And the bowler. Very hard day's night. The cloche hat image never came up.

Melion · 07-02-2008 07:32PM

Gang of Gin wrote: »

Thanks for the honesty. For you to assume that it makes one come across pretentious is in your own head, and as bad, if not worse than the lout who would physically impinge on the wearer. Except you're resenting the person in silence. And for what, a bloody hat? It's as irrational as, we'll say, disliking someone because they're fat. Christ.

Please explain the point of wearing a hat indoors

Cardinal · 07-02-2008 07:43PM

Melion wrote: »

Please explain the point of wearing a hat indoors

Appearance.

Melion · 07-02-2008 07:46PM

Pointless so

Mr. CooL ICE · 07-02-2008 07:46PM

Melion wrote: »

Please explain the point of wearing a hat indoors

Attracting drunken fat chicks

Cardinal · 07-02-2008 07:48PM

No. Appearance is not pointless. I assume you wear trousers and a shirt of some sort even on hot days when they are not necessary. I assume you also select the clothes you wear when you could have selected others. When you do so you do so in order to appear a certain way, to give others an impression of who you are. Appearance is communication.

I'm not a hat wearer myself. But that's on the grounds that I don't like their appearance, not that appearance is pointless.

monkeyfudge · 07-02-2008 07:52PM

Melion wrote: »

Pointless so

Do you consider all fashion pointless or just hats?

Perhaps you think we should all wear plain white boiler suits and have shaved heads ala THX 1138.

Gang of Gin · 07-02-2008 07:55PM

Melion wrote: »

Please explain the point of wearing a hat indoors

Wearing a hat indoors is neither here nor there. The kernel of the point is the mentality of people who see it as their right to flake a hat or glasses or (wig?!) off one's head or steal it or both just because it's that it's sitting there as some kind of target. Regardless of pretentions and indoor wearing it's essentially a moronic act. And there's nothing wrong with wearing a hat indoors. Many pubs can be cold. They're functional as well as an accessory. The next time yer in a pub go over to the nearest auld sod and ask him to remove it as he's being terribly pretentious. Fair enough, I agree that comparison can't really be made tween an old man and a teenager what with trends etc, but I don't think it should be seen one bit pretentious. And what's the point of carrying the hat around in your hand, it may as well be left on. Probably lose it if you did.

Melion · 07-02-2008 07:55PM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Do you consider all fashion pointless or just hats?

Perhaps you think we should all wear plain white boiler suits and have shaved heads ala THX 1138.

Pretty much all things in fashion are horrible these days anyway. Those hats and scarves seen in the OP's picture along with skinny jeans are absolutely hilarious. These people wear them thinking they are original but also trying to be like Pete Doherty, Noel Fielding etc when in fact they just end up looking ridiculous.

MrJoeSoap · 07-02-2008 07:57PM

Snake Nose wrote: »

So you're admitting you're a spa?

On each occasion I got on brilliantly with the people I took them from, so yeah, I'm a spa.

People who use the word "spa" are generally spa's.

Cardinal · 07-02-2008 07:57PM

Melion wrote: »

Pretty much all things in fashion are horrible these days anyway. Those hats and scarves seen in the OP's picture along with skinny jeans are absolutely hilarious. These people wear them thinking they are original but also trying to be like Pete Doherty, Noel Fielding etc when in fact they just end up looking ridiculous.

The real point emerges. You just don't like them.

Melion · 07-02-2008 08:00PM

Gang of Gin wrote: »

Wearing a hat indoors is neither here nor there. The kernel of the point is the mentality of people who see it as their right to flake a hat or glasses or (wig?!) off one's head or steal it or both just because it's that it's sitting there as some kind of target. Regardless of pretentions and indoor wearing it's essentially a moronic act. And there's nothing wrong with wearing a hat indoors. Many pubs can be cold. They're functional as well as an accessory. The next time yer in a pub go over to the nearest auld sod and ask him to remove it as he's being terribly pretentious. Fair enough, I agree that comparison can't really be made tween an old man and a teenager what with trends etc, but I don't think it should be seen one bit pretentious. And what's the point of carrying the hat around in your hand, it may as well be left on. Probably lose it if you did.

I totally agree with you on people who see it as a right to take a hat off someones head, i work on the door in a club and if i see someone doing it ill tell them once to give it back, if they have to be told again they are out. I just cant see the point in wearing it in a club, there are cloakrooms in every night club in the land, leave it in there.

Drunken people's irrational attraction to hats

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