No, but since we have a casual dress code now in my office - clean sneakers with dark jeans and a polo is common.
So? Times change. There is no way to prove they wouldn’t play video games had they existed in their day.
My grandfather fought the Japanese, built homes for a living and gave ridiculous sums of money to a faith healer.
If only he could have gotten into a good Paradox grand strategy game instead…
I’m already enjoying the change of pace in PWI. People are engaged and the old zecarlo is back, presumably ready to insist that defunding the police isn’t a real policy of Democrats, that the world’s wealthiest man is stupid and that republicans do stuff that’s just as bad as importing new voters and bribing them with public resources.
Further evidence of the decline in masculine standards.
Wait, but MAGA is built upon fighting change. It’s based on nostalgia.
During the 1960’s there were lines waiting to play the best pinball machines.
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More bait. I don’t defend myself against lies because liars aren’t worth my time.
I believe pinball was banned at one point. But I don’t see John Wayne playing it.
How is this evidence of anything? Why is wearing stupidly uncomfortable, non-functioning clothes “masculine”? Masculinity would be bucking tradition and inventing things that are functional and comfortable.
Ridiculous dress comes from European aristocracy where the wealthy could afford ridiculous amounts of time fussing over powdering wigs and ruining their feet by cramming their toes into pointed shoes.
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It’s sad how played out Jordans are now.
They used to mean something.
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True - those are ugly shoes.
So was “Louie Louie” by The Kingsman for a short period in the 1960’s
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George Washington didn’t wear sneakers.
Here’s the thing, we can whine about the decline in standards in this country. Plenty of people on this forum have whined about the assault on masculinity and how men are no as manly as in the past. If we believe this to be true, then it is all connected. The idea that a grown man wants to dress like a teenager in a professional setting says as much as a woman wanting to dress like she is going out to a club in the same setting. Where I work there are people wearing sweat pants or worse, yoga pants. Some come in shorts. This is against the dress code we have but people ignore it. But a formal dress code shouldn’t be necessary for people to dress like adults in a workplace.
And the real problem is the trickle down (or maybe it’s really a trickle up) to kids in school. Kids wear pajamas and bedroom slippers to school. Some girls dress like whores.
They always meant $$$$.
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Yeah!
And now that I have enough money to buy some, so does every other douche.
I saved my pandemic-era employer about $70,000.00 per year by re-negotiating a supply agreement in my underwear one morning.
The guy responsible for designing the dehydration environment on Lockheed’s Helios laser collects Pokemon cards.
Suits are not necessary most of the time.
No one said they were. But taking some pride in your appearance and projecting an image of maturity in an appropriate way given the circumstances matters. Isn’t that one thing most of us here have in common? We don’t workout to look like boys.
I prefer to look presentable wherever I go. And yes, I do agree with you that there are men, some in their 50’s, presenting themselves like teenagers or as if they awoke from a nap on a park bench. There is fashionable and comfortable activewear available now for grown men who don’t want to wear uncomfortable business clothing or appear sloppy while running errands on a Saturday afternoon.
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John Wayne’s hobby was drinking and he probably would have struggled with the dexterity and hand/eye coordination needed for pinball.
John Wayne’s hobby was being John Wayne.
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I agree with that. But there is an epidemic of men who would wear sweat pants everywhere if they could. I wonder how much the decline in church attendance has influenced this. It used to be that all men, and women and kids, dressed up at least one day a week. I remember being in elementary school and seeing a kid my age wearing jeans in church. I couldn’t believe he was allowed to do that.
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For more short-sighted Democrat policy examples, earlier this year Maine entered into the National Popular Vote Compact.
It hasn’t taken effect yet because not enough states have adopted it, but if it was in effect this year, Trump would have gotten nearly every electoral vote in the USA. Talk about a policy backfire.