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Why is plaid flannel considered cool when it really isn't?

chronoaug

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Damn. Now i feel like i have to wear my flannel and look like a lumberjack tomorrow. Hopefully, i still have batteries in my camera.

Also, andrewryanwallace. Your avatar fits well with your location. Sucks you live in boca raton. My condolances (unless old people really get you off, and then enjoy!)
 

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^Yeah, I made every effort to get the **** out of there which is why I go to school in Maryland. I am going home for Thanksgiving on Wednesday, but only for a few days. Can't wait to drive alongside all the fogies again! I do thoroughly enjoy Christopher Walken, however.
 

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actually i was wearing a red flannel one day and one of my girl friends told me that she really digs guys that dress like the whole outdoorsy, macho americano type.
 

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Originally Posted by Baints2
I really hope you're joking right now LOL!

I'm still waiting for B1FF to post a WAYWT from his older brother's VIC-20.
 

MortyGras

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Originally Posted by AndrewRyanWallace
Come on, someone try to defend him!

Sure. I think most, see: all, plaid shirts looks like ****. FH, SC, whatever.
I can understand the people that wear them loose, but the whole fittet plaid look gives me the heebie jeebies.
 

B1FF

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Originally Posted by tagutcow
I'm still waiting for B1FF to post a WAYWT from his older brother's VIC-20.

My good track pants are still in the clothes dryer.
 

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I was just about to comment on how more and more of my wardrobe looks like it was stolen from a lumberjack. I saw all the kids in SuFu in their buffalo plaid so I thought it was cool. I guess I was wrong. I wish I had found this thread last week.
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Electricity

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Originally Posted by whodini
If only this "trend" had been around twenty years ago, then we'd be able to say you don't have a clue what the **** you're talking about...

Oh wait:
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I actually could barely tell who that was was in the pic till' I read the above line about the plaid trend. that is a pretty weird photo of them...
 

Joe E Taleo

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Originally Posted by B1FF
One random photo of one obscure guy wearing plaid twenty years ago doesn't disprove his point.

This is a brilliant response whether he's joking or not.
 

bluemax

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I've always found plaid to be pretty ugly and dorky looking as well. I guess I don't "get it."
 

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Originally Posted by PolePosition
So I've noticed that for the past year...

Then you haven't been paying attention
 

wiru

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plaid sux big time. and wtf is up with stripes?!!@?
 

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come on, on a cold winter day when you are just chillin, what else would you want to be wearing?
 

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