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Partscaster wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 7:36 am
Could be an internet thing, too. We all are now so used to cherry picking our "sources", and then sounding off on a select platform while only having to open a web page from home. After years, we are all experts in our own biased minds. Used to be you'ld have to have real work experience and then be interviewed, or write a paper, or go to the park soapbox, or run for office, to broadcast one's opinion. Now, even I can try to pose as some sort of sociologist, on the fly. Plus, we don't have to look anyone in the eye, so we can be more crass or rude.
So true. A concise description of what drives much of the uninformed bias people hold today. The sad thing is, that same technology that allows people to promote their bias du jour, also makes it possible, for those who every try, to find the other side of things, or as I like to say, "the rest of the story" (to coin a phrase from Paul Harvey).
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I don't like pizza or beer
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Even great harmonica players suck half the time! :roll:
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While we're at it: FEDORA hats... let's be honest, NOBODY looks good in them :mrgreen:
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Gear_Junky wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 11:21 am While we're at it: FEDORA hats... let's be honest, NOBODY looks good in them :mrgreen:
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Exhibit A, no further questions, the defense rests :lol:
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Hmm... what about the wider-rim, Humphrey Bogart, or Indian Jones styles?
(written with the help of Wikipedia!)


- says the guy getting into hats lately, sourced out of estate sales or thrift shops.
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Also the famous line:

Judge, to Curly : "Drop the vernacular..."
The other farm cats didn’t super love him but the chickens thought he was alright so he became a chicken.
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PoodlesAgain wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:00 pm Hmm... what about the wider-rim, Humphrey Bogart, or Indian Jones styles?
(written with the help of Wikipedia!)


- says the guy getting into hats lately, sourced out of estate sales or thrift shops.
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Also the famous line:

Judge, to Curly : "Drop the vernacular..."
I am not familiar with Indian Jones (is that something out of Bollywood?) :mrgreen: but yes, Indiana Jones hat is cool in my book. I've always kind of regretted the abandonment of proper dress up hats as part of suit and tie, because they look great. But probably hard to pull off these days.

Speaking of hats, did you ever notice how in the old Westerns there were different types of hats? There's a definite "good guy hat", there's a silly comic relief (not a villain but not a hero) hat (usually it's a bowler, although sometimes a ruffian might wear one). And MANY different kinds of "bad guy hat" - there's mean rough cowboy bad guy hat. The most dangerous are the bad guys in a "padre" style hat - there's nothing funny about them :lol:
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Good guy hat:
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a less dangerous villain hat:
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the comic relief hat:
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the 100% western villain hat (sorry, couldn't find a better pic)
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and the most dangerous hat - looks a bit like a "padre" hat :D
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Anybody wondering if they are the asshole or not?

Here's a legit scientific test

https://qst.darkfactor.org/
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I did not take the test.
I am already sure I am the A.H., yeah thats it , just call me A.H.
At least in the case of many of my interactions with other human(oid)s.

I'm down with that.

Oh, and can someone translate this for me?:

"Drip
When your bling is iced out but that sh*t melting from all your hot bars, you got the drip."

is this my doctor telling me I have gonorrhea?
Old AGF since Feb. 2015; refugee of the Great MOMO Purge of May 2020.
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Speaking of opinions, anyone seen [mention]PsychoCid[/mention] lately? Looks like he checked out after his last post in this thread about a month ago and hasn't been back since.
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Well the test shows I'm spiteful ,greedy and maceavelian with an ego excuse the spelling.
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I like the Greg Gutfeld show.

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