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"I used to be with 'it,' but then they changed what 'it' was."

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  • #32
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,872 ✭✭✭Skid


    The King of Moo wrote: »


    I don't mind people dressing up generally,

    That's good.
    but I think buying these costumes in Penney's combines a lack of originality (not bothering to go to a specialist store) with being an attention whore.

    You don't want to spend a fortune on a joke outfit for a festival. Penneys is the place to go.

    Nobody has a veto on what people want to wear.

    Let's have more people dressing up as tigger. The World would be a better place.


  • #33
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Skid wrote: »
    That's good.



    You don't want to spend a fortune on a joke outfit for a festival. Penneys is the place to go.

    Nobody has a veto on what people want to wear.

    Let's have more people dressing up as tigger. The World would be a better place.

    This is what I don't understand. Why wear a joke outfit to a festival? I've tried to think of why it would make the experience better, but I just can't.

    When I was a teenager, people went to festivals and concerts in normal, casual clothes.

    I guess I'm just old-fashioned.

    *goes back to cup of tea and nice book*


  • #34
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,872 ✭✭✭Skid


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    This is what I don't understand. Why wear a joke outfit to a festival? I've tried to think of why it would make the experience better, but I just can't.

    Girls love cuddling up to tigger. That's why ;)


  • #35
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Skid wrote: »
    Girls love cuddling up to tigger. That's why ;)

    I'm all for cuddling, but if I were being cuddled while wearing a onesie I'd be nagged by the thought that the girl was only cuddling me because I was triggering her maternal instincts!


  • #36
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    Damn Furies.


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  • #37
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    It's a whole generation of people raised on Calvin And Hobbes!

    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pYc6lCjEOhI/T32GLVUgurI/AAAAAAAAMpM/c8Lx0zJo7xQ/s1600/calvin+and+hobbes.jpg

    "I'm a simple man, Hobbes."

    "You?? Yesterday you wanted a nuclear powered car that could turn into a jet with laser-guided heat-seeking missiles!"

    "I'm a simple man with complex tastes."


  • #38
    Tigger99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,247 ✭✭✭Tigger99


    All the cool people wanna be tigers* don't ya know?

    *But bounce like Tigger.


  • #39
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Hell no!

    I'm not a paedo!!


  • #40
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    While in Penney's recently to lurk outside the fitting rooms, I stumbled across what seemed to be children's pyjamas on sale, only adult-sized. One was a bear costume, like this, and the other was a tiger costume, not exactly like this.

    I'd understand seeing such costumes in a fancy-dress shop and being worn at Hallowe'en.

    But these were on prominent display in Penney's, suggesting they're now fairly standard items of clothing. Then today, I saw a child (at least it was a child) walking through Galway city centre in a miniature bear suit and no-one batted an eyelid. At least it was a child, but he didn't seem to be going to a party, just wearing this thing like it was a normal piece of clothing?

    Also, they had a tag attached with "Perfect for festivals!" written on it.
    Huh?
    How are they perfect for festivals? Why would you go to listen to some music, and also dress like what Daily Mail writers imagine paedophiles dress up as everyday?

    Am I just old and boring (I am boring, but I'm still in my twenties)? Or is there something seriously wrong with young people nowadays if dressing up in a giant child's pyjamas for a rock music festival is considered a not entirely ridiculous thing to do?

    Would you wear these things to a festival?

    Are there any other things that people close to your age do that seems to be considered normal that you don't understand?

    None of this is true. :cool:


  • #41
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Immaculate Pasta wrote: »
    None of this is true. :cool:

    Ok fine, I was there to sniff shoes and figure out if the costumes would make good disguises.


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  • #42
    southcentralts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭southcentralts


    Damn this thread just reminded my of that scene in the shinning with the guy in the bear suit, WTF.

    ...ok thank you google, what has been searched for, can never be un-searched...for...


  • #43
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Used to wear'em back in the day, when I was a toddler. Haven't really appealed to me since. Think the whole thing is a bit mad. Can't wait to see what the youngsters will throw their money at next.

    Sure Pennys are selling fake hipster glasses as well. Fúcking nuts man.


  • #44
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    Lyaiera wrote: »
    More people should dress up more of the time. Going to a rock gig? Dress up in leather. Going to a punk gig? Dress up in tartan and leather. Going to a fancy dinner? Formal wear. Going to a wedding? White dress. :P

    I think people dressing up is great. Let people have fun.

    All of this!
    I do admit it's a little weird when people dress up just for attention though. Trying to out-weird the world. But people dressing up so they can be bear for the day? Great, maybe they're expressing the fact they're feeling a little bit grizzly.

    Doing it purely for the attention, I'll admit it a bit meh, but otherwise, I really don't see why not. My flatmate saw the pacman ones in Penney's a couple of years ago, and fell in love instantly, the novelty and uniqueness of it were mostly the appeal and he wanted to wear it on stage while performing. Couldn't find one in his size, and the camoflage alternative just lacked the novelty that pacman had provided. Fast forward a year and a half and 13,000 miles and I ask him what he wants for Christmas, and the bastard says he still regrets not just gettin one of those onesies! got him a Homer Simpson one for Christmas that he's just about destroyed from wear-and-tear. He doesn't wear it out to town or that, but will occasionally show up to the bottle shop or local cornershop wearing it. Apparently it's really really comfortable and he wants a new one for next Christmas (and some of his friends have put in orders too).
    The King of Moo wrote: »
    But why would any self-respecting adult wear baby clothes in public and outdoors?

    A person can respect themselves without needing the respect of other members of the public they encounter ;)

    If these costumes came with a fully-operational bouncy tail, I'd understand, and would already have bought my own.

    Surely, this must already have been invented? /hopeful


  • #45
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I suppose if Mud were playing at a festival the tiger costume would make sense.


  • #46
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    HUNK wrote: »
    Sometimes I cover myself in vaseline and pretend to be a slug.

    Get a grip.


  • #47
    celtictiger32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭celtictiger32


    Tigger wrote: »
    People want to be tigers

    Makes sense

    you got me...............


  • #48
    girlonfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭girlonfire


    Onesies scare the bejaysus out of me. Onesies for adults that is.
    Why any self-respecting adult would purchase a pair is beyond me:eek:

    Wanting to be a tiger...now that's something I can identify with!


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