“Why yes, my overpriced fake leather nostolgiabait shoes that have nothing in it, dont come in wide, and gives people pla tar fasciitis is muxh better than the other overpriced fake leather hipsterbait shoe!!!”
And then kids will literally screech in the damn store if they dont get their shitty nike shoe, becayse its about the NAME of the BRAND!!!
FUCK OFF SNEAKERHEADS YOU ALL SUCK!!!
Counterfeits are so good these days that you can post them on r/sneakers and they’ll all compliment it or say it’s legit. Then as soon as you reveal it’s fake or they find out you post in fashionreps they’ll perma ban you lol. There’s no reason to buy “real” sneakers when 80% of the time the fake ones are made right next door and sold for 10% of the price
IIRC the rep sneakers sub is pretty big. There’s also a similar sub for fake watches that’s pretty active.
Yeah repsneakers and fashionreps. Reptime is a kinda funny sub though because it’s a bunch of seemingly rich guys buying fake stuff. I mean I would definitely do that if I were rich, but it’s just odd seeing people whose lifestyle is appropriate enough to convince people they own a $20,000 watch
Huh I was thinking of chinatime. Didn’t know about reptime, but yeah that’s a good point.
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your hobby being “consumption” is cringe.
This is kinda how I’m starting to feel about me collecting vinyl records. I love them, and love my collection, but sometimes I sit and I’m like ‘what’s the point?’ but then that feeling expands outward to life in general, and I’m like… whatever, I’m gonna keep collecting my big inefficient music.
But at least you’ll have music when the furries turn the internet off on us.
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People are going to absolutely hate me but I collect hermes scarves lol. I dont have a ton but i have access to a shitton of them secondhand for (relatively) cheap through work. I enjoy a lot of the designs and collect them and resell them for waaaaaaaay more money.
My work gives me access to a lot of extremely nice clothing I would never be able to afford otherwise and I take advantage of it.
Extremely controversial for hexbear im sure lol. At least its all secondhand.
If you’re not hoarding them for “investments” I don’t really care. My main gripe with collectors is that they make things more expensive for everyone by reselling at absurd values
Well i guess a big difference with the streetwear/sneaker reselling is that its on contemporary releases.
A lot of these scarves i have are 20-40 years old. Their release window is well up and whats out there is out there. Prices can still get pretty astronomical based on how limited/rare it is, and if its a popular scarf artist, and ehat condition it is. Which doesnt really make it took different than normal antique sales.
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You probably know all of the reasons that I’m not a fan of resellers, but like fancy brand name scarves are not so much a necessity for poor folks as jeans and shirts and shoes. Although thrift stores aren’t really thrift stores anymore and more like boutiques so I guess the point is moot. sighs
I just looked em up and some of those hermes scarves are really cool! I love Pashmina ones, they are so cozy for fall
I had a really sick pashmina I would wear to shows in winter and its been lost to time sadly. Very comfy! Also kept me warm during some film stuff lol
Hermes has thousands of designs they have done and while a ton are comically bourgious scenes (I actually find it very funny) some are out of control sick. Highly recommend “Dies et Hore” and “Ceres” by Francoise Faconnet, and “Mysterious Rider” for a modern one.
They are extremely nice and light and are easy to wear anytime and i get compliments all the time. Its fun albeit expensive hobby. And i have never once set foot in an actual Hermes store lmao.
Nah, get that bag. Rather a comrade enjoy it than that surplus value just get horded
Seems fine to me honestly
I like fake rolexes. I feel like it is a power move to tell people your watch is fake. I try not to pay more than 10$ for them. But I have bad luck breaking watches at work
as someone moderately into fashion, sneaker heads always have the worst fits
I just want shoes that don’t fall apart if I walk a lot in them. It seems like most of the popular brands have garbage quality, they start falling apart after just a few months of regular use.
Last pair of Etnies I bought was like 7 years ago and managed to hold up to 4 of those 7 years being used as “work shoes” while I was working a receiving dock at a grocery store for 4 of my 8 hours a day.
The soles are starting to wear a bit but the stitching is still solid and the uppers haven’t cracked/split/torn. Its going to be a sad day when I finally need to buy a new pair but for the 75$ US that I spent they have been the most amazingly resilient sneakers I’ve ever worn.
Just another thing that would be solved if we could somehow ban displays of wealth
Nationalize Nike and make Air Force 1s free for all workers.
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It’s just Funko pops for a different demographic, maybe worse because shoes have a use and are destined to sit on a shelf as a speculative asset.
Just get into magic the gathering and use the cards in a tournament smh
A collectible sneaker game.
Draws a shoebox from the pile
ties two blue shoelaces together
”I cast Air Jordan 1 on your Air Balance 990, it goes straight to the scuffed pile”!
At least the 990s are functional shoes
I have no clue, I had to google a list of sneakers to fill in the nouns for the joke lol.
Sneakerculture is when you grow tennis shoes in a farm.
The poorest kid in our neighborhood ended up craziest shoe collection I’ve ever seen. He didn’t spend a dime. In fact he got paid.
His dad worked at a tire shop and got talking to a customer who was an exec with the Clippers (this when they played at the sports arena. Worst team in the league). Instead of paying for 4 new tires he got his kid a job as a ball boy. After every game he came home with a player’s shoes, usually autographed. He also had access to free tickets, which made him very popular.
His name? Albert Einstein.
Fucking hate hate hate hate sneakerheads.
Sorry I grew up with a single mother and we could only afford Payless shoes and then getting teased by idiots throughout my school years for wearing no-name shoe brands.
I can count on one or two fingers the amount of times I’ve looked at someone’s shoes and cared about the style or brand.
Fuck Phil Knight and Michael Jordan.
“Republicans buy shoes too” a quote from Jordan.
I don’t care what he did on the basketball court, he’s lucky he won between the competitive 80s and dodged the big centers of the 90s. Give me Kareem or LeBron as GOATs in the basketball conversation for not being total knobs.
When I went to school some kid tried to diss me by saying “I bet you got them at a discount” and I didn’t understand, because I did and that meant we could also afford a winter coat from the surplus store.
“LOL you paid less money for the same product” really sums up my entire problem with the obsession.
It’s one of the most disttilled forms of consumerism.
These shoes made out of the exact same materials costs three times as much because of the name on them and the color combo, unless enough people don’t agree they’re cool and don’t buy enough of them then the value plummets even though its literally the same product.
It’s the same argument people had during the PS3/360 days. If you had a PS3 you were considered poor because you got to play online for free, while 360 users had to pay… for the exact same feature.
I always make sure to voluntarily pay twice as much for all my clothing items because that makes them better somehow.
he’s lucky he won between the competitive 80s and dodged the big centers of the 90s.
???
Bird and Magic ruled the 80’s. In the 90’s Mutumbo, Hakeem, Robinson, Barkley, Malone, Kemp, and other bigs played in the Western conference while the East had Ewing, Mourning and young Shaq.
How did he dodge them when he won 6 championships in the early and late 90s and had a winning record against teams with dominant centers with Bill Cartwright then Luc Longley as a starters.
MJ averaged 28 / 6 / 4 against Seattle in '96, which had far more to do with Gary Payton’s defense than Shawn Kemp.
MJ dropped four 40+ games in a row against Barkley, including getting 55 in game 4.
MJ averaged 33 pts against the Jazz in the '97 and '98 finals and dropped 45 in his final game 6 in '98.
MJ averaged 31 / 5 / 4 against Mutumbo. Mutumbo average just over 10 points against MJ.
MJ averaged 31 / 5 / 4 against Olajuwon dating back to 1984 and going through the wizards era (where he dropped 21 / 4 / 3 on Hakeem). Hakeem, for his part, averaged 22 / 11 / 3 blocks against MJ teams.
Also dismissing “young Shaq” is wild. The Bulls championships well into Shaq’s career.
Like MJ is a piece of shit no doubt but this is just silly
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Listen, it doesn’t hurt to avoid ableist language. You can absolutely still insult someone without it. “Dumbass” does not have to be a load bearing part of your vocabulary.
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Skill issue
There’s a difference between being rude and being ableist. Why do chuds suck? It isn’t because they’re not smart, which wouldn’t exactly be in their power to change were that the problem.
It’s because they’re hateful, closed-minded, unwilling to listen, immature, reactionry, cause tangible harm to our comrades, and stand in the way of any progress or revolution. They choose to do these things and can choose to do different things.
Isn’t “harmless insult” like an oxymoron or something
It might be if you’re 4 and someone called you a poopy head
No.
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“Dumb” actually can be argued to be ableist in its etymology since it comes from people who couldn’t speak (similar to “Lame”). If anything dumb is worse than stupid is.
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There’s a history of bigotry behind every word in the English language. It’s a language made by and for bigots. A language forged in the fire of colonial world domination and liberal rationalism that justified it. I’m sorry but you will never escape using words that have a history of bigotry behind them if you speak English and live in the west. If you keep cutting out words you will just be left stunted and unable to communicate without sounding like a total dork and still be speaking the language of colonizers anyway, just speaking oddly.
To be clear, this isn’t a carte blanche to just drop whatever slurs you want. You obviously still should be mindful to not be insulting and offensive and gross. However, where are the massive populations of people who actually, really think that “stupid” is akin to the n-word or something and a slur? Nobody actually thinks that.
It is probably better in the long run if we develop ways of expressing ourselves without insults tbh
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Well, I appreciate the sentiment even if others don’t and they do raise concerns which need to be addressed. In linguistics you can do a “linguistic corpus analysis” which is sorta seeing historically how language was used. If it’s unambiguously used towards say disenfranchised individuals, or towards a group of people who are the ire at the time (think muslims or anyone from south asia or the middle east post 9/11, if there’s a huge spike in usage with sentences including the word ‘muslim’ or ‘terrorist’, etc.) I think there’s a good argument to be made. Otherwise it seems difficult to convince others it’s a good idea.
This is the opposite of a genius idea.
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There’s thoughtlessly using a minor ableist term, and then there’s doubling down and defending it’s use when asked not to.
We need another purge. Federation has been a disaster for our site culture.
Grimble is a 3 year user. I’m a 6-month user. Again, you are confused and you say stupid here:
https://hexbear.net/comment/3420829
The issue seems to be the rejection of your control. You demand people obey your hypocritical unrealistic rule that you don’t even obey, then when they have any issue with you it’s “doubling down” and “reactionary”. Maybe people just don’t like your inconsistent policing of them with these unrealistic demands for things that aren’t reactionary and everyone here does constantly.
Sneakrrs are all silly billy gooses
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“Don’t be ableist”
We kind of already had a struggle session about it here and most people agreed that kind of language does not cross the line
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What are your thoughts on calling people ‘Einstein’
I have a tangential bone to pick with people who worship brands like Nike and get their magnifying glass out if they suspect something is a “knockoff” or whatever.
If you have to inspect it that closely, count the stitches or whatever the fuck. It just is literally the same shoe my guy.
I don’t care who made it it’s a gucci nike whatever.If you argue with me about this you’re admitting that there’s literally nothing special about (brand) products. It’s so blatantly classist that at no point it occurs to them that if it takes that level of investigation to figure it out, they’re the same shoe in any meaningful way.
Me with MTG proxies. At this point the way to spot a fake foil card is because it is higher quality lol
Lol, remember that guy who got caught cheating because he intentionally wore down his desired draws which were the only foils in his deck?
QC is so bad now that cheaters are taking advantage of it.
I had not heard of that, that’s really funny! Yeah QC is shit now fuck Hasbro and WOTC. They’re also just releasing so much slop. I don’t want a LOTR or Fortnite MTG or Star Wars or whateverthefuck block. I didn’t really give a shit about their avengers assemble block either. I miss when it was just “yo here’s this dope setting, here’s some characters, here’s some game mechanics”. Everything has to be a weird gimmick now, and it all gets evergreened.
Agreed. The constant crossovers are annoying because I was quite into the lore. The Urza saga ruled, for example.
It used to be at the start of arena a bit of grinding could finish a collection before it rotated out, but then they started adding so much in minisets that can’t be pulled.
Commander with proxies is where it’s at these days.
I do like Nikes because they have some cool looking shoes. Don’t care much for AJ1s or their Jordan lineup in general, but they have more experimental techwear stuff which is cool. But outdoor wear companies like North Face and Arcteryx are also making them now. Expensive as hell, but as long as they look cool
It’s just another consumer identity, of course it sucks.
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Did they ever miss?
Slightly transphobic line in the song that’s a list of all the reasons for past breakups
Oh yeah! I remember that! Sucks :( Seems like that whole concords team is much better now though.
