Denim Blunders, Reflections and General Nonsense.

[tg76]

surely youre all investing in thigh gear?

https://www.tripmachinecompany.com/products/thigh-bag?variant=41062746947681

[Maynard Friedman]

Tomb Raider chic

[youngofthesoonest]

I usually have a folded up bandana in my back pocket in case a bathroom doesn't have towels or the dryer looks really gross (which a lot of times they do) and I've been putting my phone in the same back pocket with the bandana basically acting like a liner. it's helped avoid the back pocket phone fade. 

[Broark]

17 hours ago, youngofthesoonest said:

I usually have a folded up bandana in my back pocket

I don't know why but in my head I read this as "a folded up banana" and it took me a second. 

[Dr_Heech]

35 minutes ago, Broark said:

I don't know why but in my head I read this as "a folded up banana" and it took me a second. 

That's having kids for ya. Your head turns to mashed banana for the first year or two (or three) 😄

[julian-wolf]

Putting out the bat signal!!

Does anyone know of a shop that might still have the Colimbo Broad-Land Belted Game Jacket (ZX-0134) in stock in XXL? Either color would be a big win. A classic case of: I went back and forth on it for too long, and now that I’ve decided I badly need it, it’s OOS at the usual spots

[Maynard Friedman]

I just remembered it’s @Double 0 Soul’s birthday around this time of year, not sure whether it’s already gone or coming up but happy birthday to my favourite professional South Yorkshireman! 🎂

[Double 0 Soul]

Thanks Martin.. it's next Thursday, you was a week late last year and a week early this.. 

It's not great having a birthday in the most depressing month of the year but i'll take the day off nonetheless .. i've never been to work on my birthday, i'm not starting now.. 

In spite of the January shitness.. we're going to Akentannos on Sharrowvale Road for birthday meal which i'm quite looking forward to.. Saturday, I'm taking the boy to JH Mann our local fishmonger, with Sarah being allergic to white fish, the only chance we get to gorge ourselves on seafood is when we go on holiday.. he's desperate to go to one of those seafood boils you see on Man Vs Food  .. the fishmongers also have a restaurant at Kelham Island, the chef cooks at the kitchen behind the fishmongers on Saturday afternoons.. you can grab wine or beers from StarmoreBoss next door.. choose some fish or shellfish and they cook it for you..

Sunday we're meeting our old nextdoor neighbours at Hackney House Cafe .. having not seen them for a few years, we hooked'up with them there between Christmas and New Year.. having driven out to Barlow in the snow and ice on some of the most treacherous country roads known to man.. it was closed  we didn't know where else to go so be we bagged it till my birthday weekend and went back home..

[CSL]

In my recent site-browsing of the usual group of our type of clothing retailers I've noticed that the term 'Relaxed Fit' has now morphed into 'Relax Fit'.

Why?...      Does removing the 'ed' from the end of 'Relax' make life so much easier? Streamlined? Sleeker? 

I could understand if it were businesses in non-English speaking locations but I'm seeing it on US sites too. 

Now I start self-analyzing. Why do I find this so intensely irritating? Am I a horrible old grammar snob? 

Quite possibly...Yet my grasp of grammar is not great. I have Mrs. CSL proof-read anything I've written and every time she has to correct a bunch of things.

Werdz is hard...

PS. Don't get me started on people who call records 'vinyls'. 

...And then it occurs to me that quite likely back in the day there were folks saying "It's recordings. Records is not a proper word". 

 

 

 

Edited January 24 by CSL

[Double 0 Soul]

I always relate to vinyl as records in the singular (never vinyls) but vinyl as a collection..

I think this stems from time spent in record shops where recordings are classified by their format Vinyl, Tape  or CD for their appropriate department.. no point in assigning them the title ‘records or recordings’ because they’re all recordings.

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

11 hours ago, CSL said:

Why?...      Does removing the 'ed' from the end of 'Relax' make life so much easier? Streamlined? Sleeker? 

Maybe it’s to indicate that wearer would relax while wearing rather than the pants themselves being relaxed 😅. Perhaps even relax(!) fit. 
 

joking aside - as a non - English speaker, I didn’t even notice the change until you mentioned it. Maybe it’s because the leading terminology for our niche comes from Japan, very much like the term ‘one wash’ is used a lot while obviously not the correct grammatical way. 

Edited January 24 by Hopethisoneisnttaken

[julian-wolf]

8 hours ago, CSL said:

Don't get me started on people who call records 'vinyls'.

Exactly how I feel when I see folks refer to jeans as “denims”

(Although, like 00, I think both “vinyl” and “denim” feel like perfectly appropriate ways to refer to a collection in aggregate)

[CSL]

Just to clarify, I have no problem with records being called vinyl, but there's no such word as 'vinyls'. The singular and plural of the word are both 'vinyl'. Of course I'll include the disclaimer that it'd be perfectly understandable/forgivable for non-English speakers to make that mistake but I'm pretty sure it's crept into the US / UK kids vernacular, hasn't it?

Going back to Relax vs Relaxed I thought it'd funny to post a pic of a Frankie Says Relax T-shirt but checking internet images now I see it's now become Frankie Say Relax. It wasn't that way at the time was it? It would appear the grammar battle is eternal...

And by the way, this is coming from a working class child of the 70s whose parents were not particularly eloquent or erudite. I've never felt particularly satisfied with my secondary school education but apparently they did impart some knowledge to me.

Edited January 24 by CSL

[tg76]

CSL say RELAXED with your vinyls 

(I don’t wanna AI, so bad photoshops for life) 

Edited January 24 by tg76
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[CSL]

Haha! Nice one tg76!

And way more charm than an AI image would have had.

Edited January 24 by CSL

[Maynard Friedman]

^ I’m sure you’re wearing denims too in a relax fit 

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

I was today years old (and about 8 years since I started purchasing via proxy services from Japan) when I realized it mercari and not mer-i-cari. 🤦‍♂️

am I the only one?

[Double 0 Soul]

Yep!

I noticed last week in another thread that you had misspelled Mercari.. Im slightly dyslexic but i can workaround because i know if words don't look quite right compared to how they looked previously.. fk knows, that's the best explanation i can offer but  your spelling 'mericari' sent if haywire!

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

@Double 0 Soul

well, looks like I’m going to be that idiot that everybody remembered spelled mercari wrong for 8 years. It cannot be helped. 

[Double 0 Soul]

Worry not.. it's all the other words in the dictionary i struggle with 👍

[reallypeacedoff]

John Elliott with a "reverse" denim. Kinda cool!

[Maynard Friedman]

@Double 0 Soul - Ben Fogle interview in The Guardian. Is this your local vintage shop? They even have your trainers in the window!

[Double 0 Soul]

Yep.. it's at the the other side of Endcliffe Park to us

Those trainers look like Waffles and that orange box will date them from 78-83

What did the Fogle interview say?

Him and his business partner have just bought Buffalo Systems a Sheffield outdoor brand.

Made in Sheff since 79

When i went up to my mums at Christmas, she saved me one of those free magazines you get shoved through the letterbox with a good 4pg article about the acquisition, fabrics and such.. i read it on Christmas day and left it at her house.

[Maynard Friedman]

Here you go - Fogle’s shopping habits

[Double 0 Soul]

He sounds like the quentessential Guardian reader, Marvis toothpaste..ffs!

[CSL]

But...but...I use Marvis toothpaste🥺

[ATWM]

I met my wife doing a job for the Guardian a good decade plus ago. I can't knock them nor their readers 😃 

[Double 0 Soul]

7 hours ago, CSL said:

But...but...I use Marvis toothpaste🥺

After you’ve taken them out of the glass on the bedside cabinet?

[Double 0 Soul]

This is the brands owner, founder and ethos..

..now they've got Fogle coming in to gentrify it with his portable espresso machine, his .. "My favourite is our local farm shop, where Tamsin makes amazing fresh bread and sells the best fresh locally grown fruit and veg" .. and his bloody Marvis toothpaste. 

[Mtvare]

Fair enough on the espresso machine and the Marvis toothpaste - but all the same, the guy did row across the Atlantic...