What's wrong with spending $400 on a pair of jeans?

[Oblivion]

Personally, I wouldn't spend more than $200 on anything that's not rent or perhaps a computer. So seeing you buy fucking clothing for 400 dead presidents makes me wretch.

Course, I am a filthy poor, afterall.

so you don't have a wii

Nope. My friend does, though so I just go there. It's cheaper that way!

[demi]

Personally, I wouldn't spend more than $200 on anything that's not rent or perhaps a computer. So seeing you buy fucking clothing for 400 dead presidents makes me retch.

Course, I am a filthy poor, afterall.

I'll give you 400 if you let me fuck you

[futami]

Personally, I wouldn't spend more than $200 on anything that's not rent or perhaps a computer. So seeing you buy fucking clothing for 400 dead presidents makes me retch.

Course, I am a filthy poor, afterall.

while i'm not, i'm certainly not wealthy -- speaking of myself, not my family.

i just don't spend my money on much else but clothes, as it's an addiction of mine.

i like looking like a million dollars.

*shrug*

[tiesto]

If that's your hobby and what you choose to spend the money on, that's fine... but when people get egos about it "oh look at me, I own all these designer $400+ jeans!" and condescend on people who would prefer to spend their money elsewhere, that's when it gets bothersome.   

[Oblivion]

Personally, I wouldn't spend more than $200 on anything that's not rent or perhaps a computer. So seeing you buy fucking clothing for 400 dead presidents makes me retch.

Course, I am a filthy poor, afterall.

while i'm not, i'm certainly not wealthy -- speaking of myself, not my family.

i just don't spend my money on much else but clothes, as it's an addiction of mine.

i like looking like a million dollars.

*shrug*

Well, I guess as long as you feel it's worth it, I guess I have no business to criticize.

I buy my jeans from a grocery store, so what do I know?

[The Fake Shemp]

I think the REAL nugget of awesomeness contained in this here thread is that futami is going to publish poetry!

[The Fake Shemp]

SNEAK PEAK AT FUTAMI'S BOOK OF POEMS

ROSES ARE RED
VIOLETS ARE BLUE
MY JEANS ARE $400
EAT SHIT U DIRTY JEW

[Howard Alan Treesong]

i like looking like a million dollars.

At last, a way to quantify your delusion!

If we take the ratio of your actual appearance ($400) to your perceived self-image ($1,000,000), we can determine that your sense of self-worth is inflated over reality by a whopping 250,000%.

Seek help!

[Mondain]

No one noticed that my jeans cost 13$ CDN and were purchased at Wal-Mart.

[The Fake Shemp]

That's because you never leave your house, you hermit

[demi]

YOU CANT PIRATE JEANS

[Flannel Boy]

That's because you never leave your house, you hermit

YOU CANT PIRATE JEANS

[Candyflip]

Futami you sound like some fucking preppy ass kid from Laguna Beach.

[Mondain]

at the end of the day, no matter their retail pricing, these things are just pieces of denim assembled by fourteen years-old Indonesian girls paid 19 cents an hour in a sweat shop

so is it worth it to pay more than 20-30 dollars when you can get away with it? how will anyone spot the difference, it all seems like a bunch of placebo

[Van Cruncheon]

people pay large sums for crap all the time. $600 for a ps3 is no more ludicrous than $400 for pants, and at least the latter might get you tail from a certain type of chick although you might miss out on all those blu-ray classics. i myself buy my jeans at costco for $25-$45 a pair, but if i wasn't married to a woman who continues to love me despite her complaints about my fashion sense, i could see myself bustin' out the bucks for a pair of overpriced trousers. hey, we do what we can to compensate, right futami?

[etiolate]

Because much like the ps3, $400 jeans is not getting your money's worth.  YOu can get similiar or better for much less. The main quote here is::

looked no different than anything I've ever worn.

If I am supporting child labor, I'll do it in small $20 yearly purchases and not $400 overpricings.  You do realize you are being overcharged right?  Stores that sell you 400 dollar jeans are also selling the same novelty t-shirts target has at double the price.  Don't think that practice stops at the shirts.  You really can not tell the difference between most clothes until you look at the tag.  You can only tell different styles, and looking stylish has nothing to do with how much you pay. I get compliments on my clothes more than anything else physically about me.  I don't overpay for designer jeans though. I just use my head and sense of art.

Overpaying for any goods is what people do when they have no sense of taste, but want to look like they do.  It's the logic of "well if its expensive it must be good then right?"  It's like the overpriced restaurant the yups go to because of the prices, when theres a better and not as expensive place around the block that the people in the know go to. 

[dsn2k]

when it comes to personal items may it be computer games or Cloths, I see it this way.... things are worth as much as you are willing to pay for it so if you can justify spending $400 on jeans fair enough.

[Mondain]

how is the PS3 not worth 600$? it's basically the most advanced CE device ever made available to customers yet! HD games, Blu-Ray playback, media center functions, advanced CELL processing, PS1 and PS2 1080p upscaling, DVD playback and upconversion that gives the best DVD playback quality ever, beating Denon DVD players that cost thousands of dollars... the list goes on and on

regardlessly of the mandated price points needed to break into the game market, it really is probably too cheap

[Fresh Prince]

People talking about 'worth'. *smh*
You are paying for the exclusivity, not the actual product.

$400 brand name jeans are a billboard saying, 'I'm rich, young and black, woman fuck me, men envy me'.
Sure you can get similar designed jeans for much cheaper but then you're basically like everybody 'else'.

[Ichirou]

i was once a po'bucker sysadmin/programmer making $24K/yr in oklahoma. not sayin' yer take on white man's history is incorrect (although i know him well enough to say that you're being quite disingenuous), but: time passes. people change. in 1994, i was a total cigarillo for any animu shit, and i thought ff4 was a great game. now? not so much!

I wish someone would invent a time machine so I could go back to 1994.

[Ichirou]

I wish someone would invent a time machine so I could go back to 1994.

but azumanga didn't come out until 1999... what would you jack off to for 5 years ?

dcharlie, I know you're really desperate to turn this whole Azumanga thing into a meme, but it's not working.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I wish someone would invent a time machine so I could go back to 1994.

but azumanga didn't come out until 1999... what would you jack off to for 5 years ?

azumanga is awesome and not porno at all! it's a sweet and innocent look at high school life! why are you such a pervert!

[Van Cruncheon]

yeah, even i think azumanga is pretty innocent and funny, and i can't stand anything that even hints of TEH PAEDO. my wife loves it!

[Howard Alan Treesong]

also, look at yotsuba&

do you really think the guy who made yotsuba& is a paedo?! I mean really.

DCHARLIE WHY CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS

[Howard Alan Treesong]

dcharlie grew up in the uk so he has no frame of reference for children that aren't miserable
also he's totally without context for the episodes where they leave the building to go "outside"
finally he's confused as to why the whips aren't beating the underclassmen

[BlackMage]

all anime is shit. end of discussion.

[futami]

If that's your hobby and what you choose to spend the money on, that's fine... but when people get egos about it "oh look at me, I own all these designer $400+ jeans!" and condescend on people who would prefer to spend their money elsewhere, that's when it gets bothersome.   

i don't think i was condescending towards those who choose to spend their money elsewhere.

i took umbrage with those attempting to make a specious distinction between "wasting" money on videogames as opposed to spending exorbitant amounts of money on clothes.

[futami]

i like looking like a million dollars.

At last, a way to quantify your delusion!

If we take the ratio of your actual appearance ($400) to your perceived self-image ($1,000,000), we can determine that your sense of self-worth is inflated over reality by a whopping 250,000%.

Seek help!

it's a form of expression.

[futami]

at the end of the day, no matter their retail pricing, these things are just pieces of denim assembled by fourteen years-old Indonesian girls paid 19 cents an hour in a sweat shop

so is it worth it to pay more than 20-30 dollars when you can get away with it? how will anyone spot the difference, it all seems like a bunch of placebo

the jeans i purchase are hand sewn by american designers.

no no shoddy, sweatshop quality here.

[futami]

people pay large sums for crap all the time. $600 for a ps3 is no more ludicrous than $400 for pants, and at least the latter might get you tail from a certain type of chick although you might miss out on all those blu-ray classics. i myself buy my jeans at costco for $25-$45 a pair, but if i wasn't married to a woman who continues to love me despite her complaints about my fashion sense, i could see myself bustin' out the bucks for a pair of overpriced trousers. hey, we do what we can to compensate, right futami?

exactly. i don't have the luxury of being married, or even in a committed relationship with a loving woman.

in order for me to elicit the interest of those females i'm attracted to, it helps to look well-groomed, which includes a certain style that is an admitted drain on the finances.

you're right, in that it's no worse than spending $600 on a ps3.

[futami]

Because much like the ps3, $400 jeans is not getting your money's worth.  YOu can get similiar or better for much less. The main quote here is::

looked no different than anything I've ever worn.

If I am supporting child labor, I'll do it in small $20 yearly purchases and not $400 overpricings.  You do realize you are being overcharged right?  Stores that sell you 400 dollar jeans are also selling the same novelty t-shirts target has at double the price.  Don't think that practice stops at the shirts.  You really can not tell the difference between most clothes until you look at the tag.  You can only tell different styles, and looking stylish has nothing to do with how much you pay. I get compliments on my clothes more than anything else physically about me.  I don't overpay for designer jeans though. I just use my head and sense of art.

Overpaying for any goods is what people do when they have no sense of taste, but want to look like they do.  It's the logic of "well if its expensive it must be good then right?"  It's like the overpriced restaurant the yups go to because of the prices, when theres a better and not as expensive place around the block that the people in the know go to. 

i can definitely tell the difference between true religions and jeans i'd buy at target, gap, american eagle, etc.

until you actually wear them, you can't add anything of worth to the discussion.

[futami]

$500 jeans?

jesus Futami do you and your parents live in a trash dump or something?

dcharlie doesn't wear anything other than $1000 jeans. Infact my new pair are made of crushed PS3 and baby seal pelt.

FUCKING LOADSAMONNNEEEEEEY!

WHOP MY WAD ON THE COUNTAAAAAAAA!

"at least the latter might get you tail from a certain type of chick"

I got to ask Futami, as someone who hasn't lived with their parents since they were 17 i need to know the logistics : what happens when you bring tail home ?

well, i tell them i live at home, they laugh, we have sex, and they leave.

it's not really that big of a deal.

the digs are nice, and there's no real chance of them even running into my parents.

my parents are cool also, and don't particularly mind.

but i usually try to convince them to take me to their place.

when they ask my why i live at home, i tell them that my apartment had a fire, due to an idiot roomie, and that it's just temporary.

[Madrun Badrun]

I think dcharlie will like azuma once he starts getting the subtext.

Hey there  ...? 

[futami]

in order for me to elicit the interest of those females i'm attracted to, it helps to look well-groomed, which includes a certain style that is an admitted drain on the finances.

If you want a woman who is interested in money, rather than a woman who is interested in you, keep up the good work.

well, unfortunately, most attractive women between the ages of 25-32 are interested in men with money.

if you know of any truly beautiful women who aren't, who don't care if you work at mcdonalds, point them out.

of course, we may be operating from two entirely different concepts of beauty.

[Van Cruncheon]

sometimes you gotta hook 'em with the superficial before you hook 'em with the real deal. platitudes taken from women

in order for me to elicit the interest of those females i'm attracted to, it helps to look well-groomed, which includes a certain style that is an admitted drain on the finances.

If you want a woman who is interested in money, rather than a woman who is interested in you, keep up the good work.

sometimes you gotta hook 'em with the superficial before you hook 'em with the real deal. romantic platitudes taken from reader's digest ain't gonna score you that dirty dirty poon-tizang, am i rite?

[Fresh Prince]

when they ask my why i live at home, i tell them that my apartment had a fire, due to an idiot roomie, and that it's just temporary.

Obviously you're going with the pretty, dumb types.

[futami]

Why not just spend $400 on a beautiful whore (whatever your concept of beauty is, of course) and cut out all the extra effort?

there's no difference.

if a man wants pussy, whether it's from a "whore" or a female he meets at the library, he's going to have to spend money.

[Lonestar]

futami convinced me to go the highend route on jeans and i'll never be the same

the quality and fit are simply amazing.  i don't think i'll ever shop at GAP or AF or BR ever again. 

[futami]

futami convinced me to go the highend route on jeans and i'll never be the same

the quality and fit are simply amazing.  i don't think i'll ever shop at GAP or AF or BR ever again. 

i still shop at BR, but not for jeans.

they still have nice shirts and jackets, the things i go there for.

i still haven't found any jeans superior to true religions, and i've tried.

[Van Cruncheon]

it's a bit femme to talk about "quality" and "fit"

it's one thing to talk about attracting women with your denim-styled bling

it's another to talk like a chick about how they fit, jesus

do you try 'em on in a dressing room, too, and bitch if they make your ass look too fat

real talk

no homo

[Lonestar]

it's a bit femme to talk about "quality" and "fit"

it's one thing to talk about attracting women with your denim-styled bling

it's another to talk like a chick about how they fit, jesus

do you try 'em on in a dressing room, too, and bitch if they make your ass look too fat

real talk

no homo

well lose some pounds and maybe you'd start to appreciate a nice fitting pair of jeans that is also comfortable and nicely designed.  and don't most people try on their clothes before buying them, or is that considered elitist and female now? 

[Van Cruncheon]

my jeans fit fine, and as a dude, why would i care about the "design" for any other reason than scoring

real talk, dude

i'm cool with the homo, if you like gussyin' up and feelin' like a princess, hey, who am i to hate

i bet capri pants are pretty comfortable, too, you got any recommendations

no homo

[futami]

well, that's the reason i wear them.

it's not about the designer bling, though they do look great, too.

it's about how they fit, the way they look with the sneakers/shoes i wear.

[Van Cruncheon]

do you put shania twain on the ipod when you pose in front of the mirror, maybe make a sassy face

real talk

[Madrun Badrun]

    drinky 

[MrAngryFace]

I work hard, I buy what I want. I spent a good 2/3rds of my life without money or at low income jobs. I figure if I work hard I should do with my money what I want. I pay my taxes and tip well. Fuck off spending haters. Dont impose your hobo-lifestyle on me. My freedom of fiscal choice is what makes me american.

[The Fake Shemp]

do you put shania twain on the ipod when you pose in front of the mirror, maybe make a sassy face

real talk

 

[$till LegendaryU2K]

 People spend more then that in hollywood, try 800 dollars. People is wasting money, simple as that.

[futami]

that's what it's here for.

[MrAngryFace]

People talk about people wasting money on the internet but always neglect to mention all the shit they waste THEIR money on.

Where's my money going anyway? Its useless after I die, and I could die at any moment. Long as bills are paid and there's some put aside for a rainy day why the fuck NOT spend it.

[bluemax]

Can women tell from a distance, that your pants cost $400?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess no.

I'm sure your winning personality doesn't keep them around long enough for you to tell them how much you blow on stupid accoutrements either.

[Flannel Boy]

If you want to impress a woman with your pants make sure to stuff a sock up in the front.

[pollo]

Whats wrong with living at home

Id prefer to see my little brother and sister each day.

I think it has no base on someones maturity...it is just a cultural thing.

Living on your own is lonely.

Id prefer to be surrounded by family.

[tiesto]

my jeans fit fine, and as a dude, why would i care about the "design" for any other reason than scoring

real talk, dude

i'm cool with the homo, if you like gussyin' up and feelin' like a princess, hey, who am i to hate

i bet capri pants are pretty comfortable, too, you got any recommendations

no homo

Men's capri pants ARE in style, in certain crowds 

[futami]

Can women tell from a distance, that your pants cost $400?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess no.

I'm sure your winning personality doesn't keep them around long enough for you to tell them how much you blow on stupid accoutrements either.

i don't buy my jeans so people can "tell" that they're $400.

i buy them because they fit my sneakers better than anything else does.

[Saint Cornelius]

I can't think of anything more wasteful than Lonestar spending mad dough on jeans.

[futami]

you wouldn't understand.

your idea of flirting is rubbing your unkempt beard against the face of a female while sticking your tongue out like a saint bernard.

[Saint Cornelius]

your idea of flirting is rubbing your unkempt beard against the face of a female while sticking your tongue out like a saint bernard.

what, you're the black-ish Ichirou now? step up your humor game, fam.

[Ecrofirt]

If you need to dress in clothes that expensive just to get a girl to look at you, it says a lot.

[futami]

If you need to dress in clothes that expensive just to get a girl to look at you, it says a lot.

not just any girl.

a girl that makes me stiffen.

if you know what i mean.

females are different now, liberated by mtv and other pop culture agents of quasi-feminist empowerment.