BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Stanron
Date: 23 Jun 17 - 04:44 PM

What are crocs?

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 02:21 AM

They're a sort of ugly, rubbery, stubby shoe, shaped a bit like a clog, riddled with lots of holes in the upper, usually produced in a range of awful colours. You wouldn't wear them to the pub.

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 04:09 AM

My husband's attire of choice is any Premier League football top and some rather figure-hugging knee-length Lycra-type shorts. He always looks as if he's just come off the training pitch at Old Trafford, Anfield or whichever top he's wearing at the time. He wears the appropriate baseball cap type thing, and a cheap, flashy bling-bling watch.

Yesterday an old geezer in Tesco hugged him fiercely and cried, "Up the Gunners!" (Arsenal top that day) He little guessed that it could have been any old team. It was Man U on Thursday for example. Luckily my husband knows all the players' names of every team that ever existed, and can discuss the events of recent matches with ease. He's a bit of a fraud really!

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 04:55 AM

"Ugh, I absolutely hate denim."

I found the jeans practical and hard wearing. A long standing ulcerous sore on my lower back has persuaded me to wear trousers with elasticated tops for comfort but I'd probably still choose jeans for casual wear if it wasn't for that.

My other usual dress choices these days are a light pair of trainers (with socks), a t shirt and depending on the weather and my desire for pockets, a jumper and/or a fleecy jacket over that.

Coming back to jeans, I could be amused on the annual stock take weekend at a factory I worked in. The usual dress code (say trousers, collar and tie) for staff was dropped for that occasion. Rather than having old jeans, some members of staff appeared to buy new ones specially for the event and they sort of stood out and at times looked uncomfortable.

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Teribus
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 05:51 AM

Crocs, lycra and baseball caps - the absolute end - anyone actually wanting to wander around looking like a sack of shit gathered in at the middle should save themselves a great deal of expense and just get themselves an old Fisons sack.

On baseball caps - nobody, but nobody looks good in one - not even baseball players.

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 06:37 AM

My husband certainly doesn't look like a crock of shit Teribus. He's slim, muscular and has an athletic body. He looks about twenty (most unfair when compared to me!) I think he looks absolutely gorgeous. In fact, when he was in Africa for his father's funeral, one of the checkout ladies in Tesco asked me where he was, and admitted that all the female assistants fancied him, and the sight of him in his tight Lycra and muscular arms made their day!!
I would never say anybody looks like a crock of shit.

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 06:38 AM

Or even a sack of shit. (Sorry, haven't got my specs on)

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 08:02 AM

Astonishingly, I agree with Teribus about baseball caps. And if you wear one back to front you are a total twat and a half.

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 08:50 AM

It's 37C here and the humidity is high. The dress code is stark naked with deodorant.

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 08:54 AM

THe only thing to be said in favour of crocs is they are made of a synthetic material that is really comfortable.
After a lifetime of walking round the house barefoot
about 2 years ago the pain started to come from nowhere and get worse,
so I took a chance on a pair of Amazon lightning sale crocs,
and the pain mostly disapeared.
Since being diagnosed with fallen arches and arthritis,
the NHS specialist told me many of his patients adopt crocs as slippers,
which he approves of.

Apparently they are worn by many hospital staff,
and I saw a documentary on a trawler where the skipper was wearing them.

Crocs look like complete twat shoes, and are a health and safety hazard
because the soft material expands by up to a couple of shoe sizes,
so they are forever slipping about and catching and knocking on things,
and likely to cause trips and falls.
They have been linked to a spate of serious accidents on shopping mall escalaters...

But they are soooo comfortable...
Mine are black btw..
I do admit to having a pair that haven't stetched yet that are handy for nipping out to the corner shop for fizzy pop....

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 08:58 AM

And I rode a bike for years until me poor knees let me down. I rode 6000 miles in 1990. For the life of me I can't understand why anyone wears Lycra when they're out and about on their bikes supposedly having fun. I only ever wore baggy shorts, padded admittedly, with ordinary clothes above. A man in Lycra off his bike is as stupid-looking as it's possible for a man to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 09:00 AM

At all other times outdoors, my footwear is black steel toecapped leather safety boots.
My specialist was impressed by my current pair
[ Hundred quid Italian boots knocked down to £30 in a sale - bought 4 pairs ]
which he made up orthapaedic insoles for.

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 09:15 AM

As a lifelong serious cyclist until more recent feet & knee problems,
I agree..
I dispair of this new breed of conspicuous consumption fashion lycra and helmet clad bicycle bellends...

In my 20s my favourite cycle gear was baggy cotton trousers and cycle clips, leather boots,
and my dad's early 1950s grey demob trench coat.
With a permanent stain from where he used to wear it cycling home with a family sized fish and chip dinner stashed inside under his armpit.

Plus my army surplus rucksack...

Proper many cycling garb.

In my early 50s, I could outpace many lycra bikers on local roads while still wearing variants of that gentleman's clothing style...

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 09:17 AM

Merrell Kahuna III sandals (vibram soles) or Teva Toachi sandals, bombproof. No socks.

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 09:17 AM

If I ever get back on a bike
the only concession I'll make is wearing yellow Hi Viv
in appropriatre weather, lighting, road conditions...

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 09:20 AM

Btw.. as is obvious, the spell check has stopped working on my Chrome browser....

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 06:23 PM

I still use that on the owld Vista laptop that refuses to die. Don't tell the friggin' hackers...

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 09:51 PM

Before we leave the crocs question,

in the U.S. as well,
crocs are often spotted as part of a work uniform or outfit.
An earlier post pointed out hospitals.
Anyplace where the uniform is a more casual sort of uniform like scrubs,
and where the floors are often mopped and may be damp underfoot.

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 12:49 PM

Back to the subject.
There were many reports of the "permission to remove jackets", but my favourite response was in the Telegraph's Alex cartoon June 23rd

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 01:30 PM

"They're not 'jackets,' they're 'coats' " -- that IS funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 01:40 PM

I've always thought ties must be an abomination to have to wear, and hard collars on shirts. One's whole neck must feel so constricted and chafed.

I used to wear a tie as part of our school uniform. It was like being strangled continually. I often had a red mark where the shirt collar rubbed my neck.

The whole idea of 'smart' 'not smart' is absurd. Who has the right to decide this and proscribe comfy clothing as a matter of conformity?

My 'sack of shit' husband was out and about in Norwich again today, offending everybody in his abhorrent Lycra long shorts and this time, a Liverpool football strip. It's a wonder people weren't being sick on the pavement as he passed, but I didn't notice any. :(

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 04:04 PM

Kilts! Who mentioned kilts?

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 04:22 PM

I have always loved the Jarod Kintz quote ...

"We all wear uniforms, even if we're conforming to nonconformity".

Subject: RE: BS: Royal Ascot: permission to remove
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 04:45 PM

foot and knee problems while biking do not matter if you electrify your bike with a kit or get a finished electric bike. 36 volt is fine and 48 v is good for steep hills. The lithium battery is worth the cost.

I don't care if you bike naked or dress your bike frame in Lycra. The next 'as seen on TV' product might be marketing Lycra as stainless plastic wear for the departed. -ETERNALWEAR!- guaranteed forever.
But wait there's more... you will not be billed until you ride the wooden Buick, cast off forever, take a dirt nap or kick the bucket AND THATS NOT ALL - get your second one size fits all Lycra eternal wear FREE, just pay for separate shipping and handling for eternity

...Lycra and sports fashion is pretentious bull shit.



Senofou, you have an excellent grasp of B.S. the way you call it the way you see it.