Inventory

[D. Scarlatti]

So I'm doing some massive housecleaning, including several loads of laundry, and I decided to start counting my clothes, for some obscure reason.

And I have 67 pairs of underwear. Is that a lot? Unusual? Just about right? Not enough?

[livius drusus]

Daaaamn, dude. That's hella undies you've got there. Are they all wearable?

[Ensign Steve]

I would have stopped counting after about 20.

[D. Scarlatti]

Wearable? I believe so. However, I accept that this is debatable. I'm a man, and it's true that men don't throw out their underwear, at least until it completely disintegrates and wafts away in a stiff breeze.

For example, I have two pairs (from a pack of three; the third has disappeared somewhere) that I bought at Marks & Spencer in London in 1996, and they are still going strong. However, the elastic is completely shot, and if I'm wearing them with dress pants, they often wind up around my knees.

Next, I'll be counting socks, and provide a breakdown, by white and black, so stay tuned. I suppose I should have mentioned that of the 67 pairs of underwear, roughly 15 are boxer shorts.

[Dingfod]

I have less than a dozen.

[Naruto]

Damn, I have like ~15 pairs.

The real question, Scarlatti, is boxers or briefs?

[Petra]

I think you need to dispose of some of your old undies and you should totally let us help you choose which ones to keep and which ones to throw out. Perhaps we could set up a special gallery-cum-poll, where we all vote as if we were doing smilies?

[livius drusus]

Hey, I'm not partipating in Scarlatti's cum poll, no way, no how. :hellno:

[D. Scarlatti]

Yeah, that was ... I'm not putting that stuff on my scanner glass.

[Petra]

You have dirty minds, people! I meant "cum" as in "cum louder"!. :glare:

It's an academic pole.

[D. Scarlatti]

I have less than a dozen.

How the hell often do you change them?

Or, how the hell often do you do laundry?

[Dingfod]

I have less than a dozen.

How the hell often do you change them?Daily, at least.

Or, how the hell often do you do laundry?About once a week, sometimes a little longer. I know its time to do the laundry when I'm out of undershorts.

[Ensign Steve]

Do you really go 12 days without doing laundry, D? Or do you compulsively change your underwear four times a day?

[D. Scarlatti]

12 days? I can do 12 days standing on my head.

I don't know why I have 67 pairs of underwear, I just do.

How many shirts do people have? I have a lot. I am gonna count them now.

54 shirts. And that's just long sleeved. And I culled them recently, gave about a dozen to the Goodwill.

I must be a clothes horse or summat. Never used to be.

[Dingfod]

I probably have two dozen shirts that I wear on any kind of a regular basis, but I might have another two dozen shirts in my closet that I never wear because they don't fit or they make me, the human furnace, too hot.

[Dingfod]

Do you really go 12 days without doing laundry, D? Or do you compulsively change your underwear four times a day?Sometimes I go that long, but most of the time it's right around a week. I don't have any sort of routine, it's just when I have time or when I run out of undershorts.

[wei yau]

Good god, man. Just how much closet space do you have?

Does your underwear collection completely fill up a drawer? Or do you just keep your clothes in Hefty bags throughout your bedroom?

[Dingfod]

They're all wadded up under his bed. The only reason he encountered them is he moved his bed out from the wall to find a nickel he dropped. When he saw how many there were he counted them as he threw them back under the bed.

[D. Scarlatti]

Underwear pretty much fills a drawer, yeah. Socks fill another.

Really, so that's a lot. So I can tell my mother to stop giving me gotchies for Christmas, ya think?

I have LOTS of closet space. Don't make me start counting "outerwear."

Okay, Dingfod has 48 shirts. I don't feel like such a freak now.

[ms_ann_thrope]

That is a lot of underwear, Scarlatti. Do you have mad quantities of socks as well?

I bet it has some deep psychological meaning.

[fragment]

Or, how the hell often do you do laundry?About once a week, sometimes a little longer. I know its time to do the laundry when I'm out of undershorts.
:nod:

And fer cryin' out loud, Scarlatti, throw out the shot elastic ones, right now! Those things are a nightmare.

[D. Scarlatti]

I'm guessing roughly 60-70 pairs of socks. White or black only.

throw out the shot elastic ones, right now!

I love those ones!

[wei yau]

I'd Google "gotchies", but I'm too afraid of what I'd find.

Does Scarlatti's mom still buy his underwear?

[wildernesse]

It is taking ALL I HAVE not to go count my underwear. First it was toilet paper squares, now it is underwear! Have mercy on the compulsive counters, people!

:voncount:

[Dingfod]

Okay, Dingfod has 48 shirts. I don't feel like such a freak now.I was including t-shirts. But, really, I should give about half of them to Goodwill.

Now ask me how many pairs of pants I have.

I have 3 for work, 2 pair of jeans, and 1 striped denim overalls that I wear regularly. I have probably twice that many more that I can't wear anymore which also should be given to Goodwill.

Shorts?

2

Shoes

6, mostly for different purposes

[Ensign Steve]

wildy, what are you counting there in your signature?

[fragment]

throw out the shot elastic ones, right now!

I love those ones!

You like having them round your knees?

I guess it takes all sorts...

[wildernesse]

wildy, what are you counting there in your signature?

I'm counting adventures (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/blog.php?b=49)! Or at least the ones I've completed. Since liv uploaded the udder one, I figured I could make good use of it.

[Ensign Steve]

You went out and milked a cow specifically so you could use that smiley? That's some serious dedication.

ETA: Oh wait. I just read the comment. Neat!

[D. Scarlatti]

Please stay on topic.

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

i have none. :flasher:

[wildernesse]

* wildernesse is wearing 7 items of clothing, plus shoes.

Ha. Ha. Ha.:voncount:

[Petra]

Please stay on topic.

Floppelastic Fascist.


http://www.startrip.tv/images/skinnyjared.jpg

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

hey- that's jared leto. my wife has met him a bunch of times, through her work and his band, which she is a fan of. she's even been in a video. sorry...back on topic...

(here they are in a picture taken just before zeke was born)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/michael1111/mejaredinta.jpg

[D. Scarlatti]

Ye gods. Spoiler tags please!

[Petra]

lol

[viscousmemories]

I'd be surprised if I have 20 pair, but I'm not gonna count.

[D. Scarlatti]

By the way, the ones with the shot elastic? One time I was standing somewhere, talking to this guy I know, serious conversation about something. I got those underwear at Marks & Sparks and he is from England, so I know he understands, and I said, apropos of nothing, "Hey man, you know what? My fucking underwear are around my knees." He just cracked the hell up and said, "They must be from M&S." You had to be there.

By the way, did you hear about the dyslexic pervert? He went to the S&M shop and came home with a nice cardigan.

[godfry n. glad]

I'm still somewhat perturbed about that "stiff breeze" in your shorts.

[D. Scarlatti]

Then my work here is done.

[maddog]

I get 6 new pair of underwear every year. The new ones are for work. Last year's become the ones for non-work wear. Last year's non-work ones go into the travel bin. When I go traveling, I use the ones from the travel bin, and throw them away as I use them. Less to carry back and forth, less laundry.

Same with socks, except I get 12 pairs. They are all identical so you don't have to match pairs.
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[D. Scarlatti]

"One of these days I'm going to get organizized." - Travis Bickle

[Ensign Steve]

When I go traveling, I use the ones from the travel bin, and throw them away as I use them. Less to carry back and forth, less laundry.

That is fucking genius.

[biochemgirl]

Wow, that is a lot of underwear. I think I maybe have 20 or so that is regular every day underwear. And then there's the girly stuff that hasn't seen the light of day since shortly after my hubby got home :chuckle:

I don't really have a huge selection of clothes either. Or at least not a huge selection in regular rotation. I usually stick with what's comfy and wear it until it falls apart.

As for shoes...I probably have 6 pairs maybe? The husband on the other hand probably has at least double that, and at least 8 of which are combat boots. Why he needs that many I have no idea but I'm getting sick of constantly tripping over them.

[wei yau]

It's like Scarlatti is the Imelda Marcos of manly unmentionables :unundies:

[viscousmemories]

Okay I broke down and counted ... or at least counted enough to get a close approximation.

I have about 15 pairs of colored boxer briefs for regular wear, a few pairs of white boxer briefs for backup, and about 15 pairs of the old tighty-whities left over from when I used to wear them - in case of some kind of emergency.

[Ensign Steve]

Jesus christ you people have a lot of underwear.

[D. Scarlatti]

See, it's not so strange after all. Haters.

By the way, you can't wear boxers with jeans, people. I only wear them with "dress pants."

(lol@that seagull. What are those, Doritos?)

[viscousmemories]

Jesus, you're just now noticing that? We've had the original videos posted around here and everything.

iLeHgabGqHY

[Kevlar]

What are you, Scar? Some kind of fancy (under)pants lawyer?

There are few reasons a real man would have that many pair of men's underwear (I'm assuming they're men's). Maybe if he was using the extra for replacing missing gas caps, or using as a warning flag on the overhanging lumber in the back of his pickup. Other valid uses would be buffing cars, staining furniture, or mopping floors. If you are a revolutionary, they could also be used as wicks for molotov cockatils. Other than that, they will just take up valuable space on the floor, where he keeps his clean clothes.

[D. Scarlatti]

Shoes:

5 pr Chuck Taylor: White, Black, Red, Gold, Lime Green (I rarely wear the latter - for St. Paddy's Day)
2 pr Doc Martens boots
1 pr Brown suede "desert boots" (Allen Edmonds - nice)
5 pr Black leather "dress shoes"
1 pr Greb Kodiak steel toe construction boots
1 pr Nike Tiger Woods golf shoes, white with brown

Can't have too many shoes. I need more.

[viscousmemories]

I'm starting to think the "all men's underwear" assumption is unfounded.

[D. Scarlatti]

replacing missing gas caps, or using as a warning flag on the overhanging lumber in the back of his pickup. Other valid uses would be buffing cars, staining furniture, or mopping floors. If you are a revolutionary, they could also be used as wicks for molotov cocktails.

Haha.

[Ensign Steve]

Shoes:

5 pr Chuck Taylor: White, Black, Red, Gold, Lime Green (I rarely wear the latter - for St. Paddy's Day)
2 pr Doc Martens boots
1 pr Brown suede "desert boots" (Allen Edmonds - nice)
5 pr Black leather "dress shoes"
1 pr Greb Kodiak steel toe construction boots
1 pr Nike Tiger Woods golf shoes, white with brown

Can't have too many shoes. I need more.

Is the forum going through another gay phase?

[D. Scarlatti]

There are no gay type shoes in there. Those are all manly footwears, tyvm.

Okay maybe the lime green Chucks but they were like six dollars. Gimme a break.

[viscousmemories]

I got the gay joke in first, dammit. READ MY POSTS!

[D. Scarlatti]

Okay, I just got this now:

I'm starting to think the "all men's underwear" assumption is unfounded.

:glare:

[viscousmemories]

:giggle:

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

When I go traveling, I use the ones from the travel bin, and throw them away as I use them. Less to carry back and forth, less laundry.

That is fucking genius.

but not very environmentally friendly.

perhaps i will count my clothing later and out-gay you all!

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

btw...going kind of off topic, but as a kind gesture to ds, i offer up this site to check out:

Virtual Clothes Horse (www.virtualclotheshorse.com)

it's mostly men's clothes. they are all fancy boutique labels, from smaller trend setting designers. the prices still aren't cheap, but you can get some awesome duds at a really good deal.

i love clothes and fashion. each year i give away a garbage bag full of designer fashions to the needy, just to make room for this year's gear. i like the art of clothing and am not one of those fashion snobs. i don't care what others wear...i care what i wear.

anyhow, if you know your sizes (a good rule for ordering online- clubby clothes tend to fit small, while those fit for the office usually run true), this is a great store to shop at. i found it through ebay and have never had a problem.

[D. Scarlatti]

$920.00 for a shirt (http://www.virtualclotheshorse.com/index.php?page=shop/flypage&product_id=377565)? Is that some kind of joke?

I think I'll stick with T.J. Maxx.

[Dingfod]

I doubt seriously if I ever spent more than $25 on a shirt or more than $60 on a pair of pants. Half of my t-shirts were $5 ones from the 'marts.

[D. Scarlatti]

I bought a couple of $90 Claiborne linen numbers about ten years ago. I think that's the most I ever paid for a shirt.

Clothes are cheap in the good ol' USA.

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

$920.00 for a shirt (http://www.virtualclotheshorse.com/index.php?page=shop/flypage&product_id=377565)? Is that some kind of joke?

I think I'll stick with T.J. Maxx.

some of it is outrageous still, but you can also get some really good deals...like cool tshirts for 25 dollars that originally sold for over a 100...

well...i tried. thought somebody might like it as much as i do and figured this might be a good place to plug the site (of which i am not affiliated in any way)...

[Dingfod]

I bought five dress shirts from J.C. Penney's for about that same $90 a few years ago.

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

to add: i never buy clothes for the name. most of the labels i wear, nobody has ever heard of. i buy them for the tailoring and the art. i also like buying clothes made in italy or the usa because i know people are being paid well to make them.

maybe i should just go count my shirts or something and just shut up...

[Dingfod]

What about "Made in Canada"?

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

$920.00 for a shirt (http://www.virtualclotheshorse.com/index.php?page=shop/flypage&product_id=377565)? Is that some kind of joke?

I think I'll stick with T.J. Maxx.

oh...and that shirt actually sells for 400 (not that that's bettter) and you picked Kiton, an expensive label that somebody like donald trump would wear...actually...he'd probably wear Marol because he's so gauche.

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

What about "Made in Canada"?

i have clothes made in Canada, but i'm not all that into hockey jerseys :)

[Smilin]

* Smilin can't wait to get home to count his underwear now....

dammm you people! lol

[D. Scarlatti]

well...i tried. thought somebody might like it as much as i do ... maybe i should just go count my shirts or something and just shut up...

Oh for christ's sake. Thank you for the link.

But do we really need the persecution complex in a fucking thread about underwear?

[Dingfod]

Canadian-made clothing. (http://www.canadianmade.com/retail_clothing.shtml)

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

well...i tried. thought somebody might like it as much as i do ... maybe i should just go count my shirts or something and just shut up...

Oh for christ's sake. Thank you for the link.

But do we really need the persecution complex in a fucking thread about underwear?

lol...you need to chill. i wasn't being serious, but your thanks has left me feeling all warm and fuzzy :)

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

Canadian-made clothing. (http://www.canadianmade.com/retail_clothing.shtml)

i have bought clothes at Harry Rosen, under the Harry Rosen label...it was made in Italy.

those are clothing stores, not makers...but thanks anyhow! :)

[maddog]

When I go traveling, I use the ones from the travel bin, and throw them away as I use them. Less to carry back and forth, less laundry.

That is fucking genius.

but not very environmentally friendly.



Oh, I don't know. biodegradable 100% cotton, no use of water or detergent for laundering. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, maybe.

#1479

[wei yau]

to add: i never buy clothes for the name. most of the labels i wear, nobody has ever heard of. i buy them for the tailoring and the art. i also like buying clothes made in italy or the usa because i know people are being paid well to make them.


I buy clothes simply based on need and price. Unfortunately, my idea of good pricing is based on whatever prices I paid when I first started to buy my own clothes.

I'm told that things have changed over the last couple of years.

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

When I go traveling, I use the ones from the travel bin, and throw them away as I use them. Less to carry back and forth, less laundry.

That is fucking genius.

but not very environmentally friendly.



Oh, I don't know. biodegradable 100% cotton, no use of water or detergent for laundering. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, maybe.

#1479

i swear to you that it was a joke...i forget to add an emoticon. it comes off much more serious without it. it was more a gag about hygiene than it was the environment...and a joke. :)

[maddog]

Ah, got it now! ;)

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[wei yau]

OMG! maddog has toxic underwear!!!!111!!

[maddog]

So THAT's how weapons of mass destruction are proliferated!

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[wildernesse]

27--are you people happy now!!

I see we've moved on to shoes! :hairpull:

[Smilin]

How many tops and pants do you have now wilde? :)

[ceptimus]

How do you discard your throw-away travel underwear? Do you just leave it in the hotel room waste paper basket? Or maybe you have to wrap it in a carrier bag and dump it in a street waste bin when no one is watching?

[maddog]

Hmm, if I told you, I'd be giving away state secrets, and then I'd have to kill you.

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[Chris Porter]

Wearable? I believe so. However, I accept that this is debatable. I'm a man, and it's true that men don't throw out their underwear, at least until it completely disintegrates and wafts away in a stiff breeze.

For example, I have two pairs (from a pack of three; the third has disappeared somewhere) that I bought at Marks & Spencer in London in 1996, and they are still going strong. However, the elastic is completely shot, and if I'm wearing them with dress pants, they often wind up around my knees.What the hell kind of dress pants do you wear? Do you dress in MC Hammer pants?

Next, I'll be counting socks, and provide a breakdown, by white and black, so stay tuned. I suppose I should have mentioned that of the 67 pairs of underwear, roughly 15 are boxer shorts.

Yes, I think it's a lot of undies, frankly. And did you know there was a soft-core porn artist that specialized in painting women who's undies had accidentally fallen down?

[D. Scarlatti]

Do you dress in MC Hammer pants?

Ha. Well I guess the middle of the underwear is laying across the inside crotch of the pants, and then each end of the underwear is down a leg of the pants to my knees. I mean the waist of the underwear in situ at M&S was probably size 30, now it's about a 48. Since you asked. And I know nothing of porn. Ask vm that one.

[Chris Porter]

Okay I broke down and counted ... or at least counted enough to get a close approximation.

I have about 15 pairs of colored boxer briefs for regular wear, a few pairs of white boxer briefs for backup, and about 15 pairs of the old tighty-whities left over from when I used to wear them - in case of some kind of emergency.

:roflmao:
What kind of emergency were you contemplating?

[Crumb]

IBS?

[lisarea]

Yes, I think it's a lot of undies, frankly. And did you know there was a soft-core porn artist that specialized in painting women who's undies had accidentally fallen down?

Art Frahm was not a pornographer.

[Chris Porter]

Yes, I think it's a lot of undies, frankly. And did you know there was a soft-core porn artist that specialized in painting women who's undies had accidentally fallen down?

Art Frahm was not a pornographer.

Ah, thank you. I was starting to type a search into Google, when I stopped and said, "I don't really want to see the results."

I do consider it a type of porn. In that having looked at them, the only conclusion I could draw was that it was a sexual fetish.

[godfry n. glad]

I do consider it a type of porn. In that having looked at them, the only conclusion I could draw was that it was a sexual fetish.

Couldn't the same be said of ballet?

[viscousmemories]

:roflmao:
What kind of emergency were you contemplating?
I don't know! Car needing cleaning? Revolution? ...

:glare:

[Chris Porter]

I do consider it a type of porn. In that having looked at them, the only conclusion I could draw was that it was a sexual fetish.

Couldn't the same be said of ballet?

In what way? Dancing has a hell of a long history, longer even than underwear.

[lisarea]

I do consider it a type of porn. In that having looked at them, the only conclusion I could draw was that it was a sexual fetish.

Why? Just because they're paintings of helpless women in distressing and humiliating positions being leered at by fat old men trying to catch a glimpse of their hoo-hahs?

If you don't like that series, though, Frahm also did at least a couple of paintings of women looking shocked as animals lifted up their skirts.

[D. Scarlatti]

I was gonna say Please stay on topic but hoo-hahs is a good topic too.

[Kevlar]

Hoo-hahs are naturally tangent to underwear.

[Chris Porter]

I do consider it a type of porn. In that having looked at them, the only conclusion I could draw was that it was a sexual fetish.

Why? Just because they're paintings of helpless women in distressing and humiliating positions being leered at by fat old men trying to catch a glimpse of their hoo-hahs?

If you don't like that series, though, Frahm also did at least a couple of paintings of women looking shocked as animals lifted up their skirts.

My like or dislike has nothing to do with my assessment. Paintings take time and effort. Putting time and effort into depicting women in this fashion fails to generate links in my memory to things that also use somewhat similar paintings-like advertisement, education, propaganda, etc. The prolific nature of the series led me to the conclusion it is wank material. I'm not dissing it because it's porn, I'm saying it's porn because I don't see what other role such effort would accommodate.

[Ensign Steve]

When I go traveling, I use the ones from the travel bin, and throw them away as I use them. Less to carry back and forth, less laundry.

That is fucking genius.

but not very environmentally friendly.



Oh, I don't know. biodegradable 100% cotton, no use of water or detergent for laundering. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, maybe.

#1479
Seriously, dude. I mean especially if they were only their way out anyway. What's the difference if they go in home garbage or travel garbage? It's not like the goodwill wants them.

[Ensign Steve]

Oops, I get the joke now, too. Note to self: read all pages of thread before posting reply.

[Ymir's blood]

Goodwill in Lenoir has a rack of underwear. :shudder:

[Dingfod]

Canadian-made clothing. (http://www.canadianmade.com/retail_clothing.shtml)

i have bought clothes at Harry Rosen, under the Harry Rosen label...it was made in Italy.

those are clothing stores, not makers...but thanks anyhow! :)Oops. Wrong link.

Corrected link. (http://www.canadianmade.com/clothing.htm)

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

thanks...actually, there are a couple of kids stores on trendy Queen West in Toronto that make their own clothes, which we shop at for our son.

i really do try to buy from makers that pay their employees a fair wage.

[D. Scarlatti]

Ties: 46.

People wear ties? I wear 'em every chance I get.

I like them Cocktail Colors / Cocktail Collection ones, but I can't find 'em anymore.

Some J. Garcia too. Not many though.

[Ensign Steve]

Any christmas ties?

[godfry n. glad]

Ties?

Leashes, in my lexicon. Or nooses. A distinct indicator of servility.

I'll bet you wear coats indoors, too.

[D. Scarlatti]

Matter of fact, no. But I do have one or two with silly cartoon children, which were for charity or something, and another with drum sets on it, which I accidentally stole.

Christmas tie ... I'll be on the lookout.

What's wrong with ties? I like 'em, if they're cool. Hard to find cools ones, granted.

And coats indoors? I don't get it. Suit jacket like? Sometimes.

[Dingfod]

Ties: 46.I wear a tie perhaps twice a year on average. I have about 15 of them, 5 are Xmas ties.

[viscousmemories]

I probably have about 15 of them too, but I can't remember the last time I wore one.

[D. Scarlatti]

J. Garcia (http://www.tieguys.com/Jerry_Garcia_Ties/?c=4&kw=garcia%20ties).

Some cool ones.

[viscousmemories]

I have two J. Garcias.

[D. Scarlatti]

Me too. I get compliments on them all the time. Best work he ever did, the ties.

Those and Friend Of The Devil.

[Dingfod]

I don't have any of those, but they are nice.

[D. Scarlatti]

TJ Maxx ... 12 bucks.
:psst:

[fragment]

So did anyone else find themselves going clothes-shopping after reading this thread?

[Qingdai]

Ties, don't wear one in a bar fight or a protest. There are reasons cops wear clip ons you know.

[Ensign Steve]

Yeah, cops and security guards wear clip-ons for that reason. The smart ones, anyway.

[Dingfod]

Most of the cops around here don't wear ties.

Tulsa PD:

http://www.tulsapolice.org/images/CrimeComm/swalton.jpg

My town's police officer and stealth Charger:

http://tpdblog.typepad.com/tpdblog/images/blog_shot.jpg

[Ensign Steve]

Pretty clever.