I Can't Believe

"TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut" (twincharged) 09/27/2014 at 00:26 • Filed to: Ugh people

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I used to be friends with a homophobic moron with whom I used to share some of my closest secrets. Oh, and he likes to pop his collar - a sign of possible douchebro-ness?

[[aggressively uses this Toyota 2000GT to cleanse my mind]]

Steve in Manhattan > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/27/2014 at 00:27

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Or self-hating gay guy ... it happens.

Kat Callahan > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/27/2014 at 00:28

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I'm a collar-popper. I don't want to stop just because of homophobes.

Ravey Mayvey Slurpee Surprise > Kat Callahan 09/27/2014 at 00:30

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To be fair, collars were originally made to be popped. We need to take the functional back from the bros!

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/27/2014 at 00:30

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I sometimes pop my collar and pin my pants. Is there a problem with that?

lone_liberal > Kat Callahan 09/27/2014 at 00:33

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C'mon Kat. You know the popped collar is a warning sign that a prep school LAX bro is near.

Rainbow > Steve in Manhattan 09/27/2014 at 00:35

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The worst homophobes are the gay ones. Forcing their own insecurities on other people, and believing that it's a choice based on how they're "choosing" to be straight instead.

TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut > Vince-The Roadside Mechanic 09/27/2014 at 00:36

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It's just his attitude, always walking with a knack for objectifying women and being a general ass.

PanchoVilleneuve ST > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/27/2014 at 00:39

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I'm a big enough nerd to wonder how the popped polo shirt collar wound up being a mark of douchebroness.

The polo shirt, as we know it today, was designed by a professional tennis player who was sick and tired of getting sunburn on the back of his neck while playing. He designed a shirt with a collar that could, as the Wu-Tang Clan would later urge us all to do, protect his neck. For some reason wearing the collar folded down became the standard way of wearing it and wearing the shirt as originally designed became something that only the date rapeyest of us would consider doing.

Also, on the subject of fast Toyotas of the era, let's take a minute to appreciate the fuck yeah super awesome rad of the Sports 800.

Toyota took the car they designed for the downtrodden people of postwar Japan, the Publica, bored out the flat-twin engine to 800cc, added a second carburetor bringing horsepower up to 45 and, most significantly, had Tatsuo Hasegawa, who had designed fighter aircraft during the war, style an aluminum body that was aerodynamic enough to give the car a top speed of over 100 miles per hour.

Think about how amazing that is. A car with 45 horsepower and a top speed of over 100 miles per hour. In 1965.

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/27/2014 at 00:41

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I try not to be an ass but some people just ask for it. But objectifying women is not cool.

Steve in Manhattan > Rainbow 09/27/2014 at 00:43

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All of my gay friends are straight up gay (pardon the language) - no haters.

Kat Callahan > lone_liberal 09/27/2014 at 00:44

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>______> I'm a prep. SORRY, NOT SORRY.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/27/2014 at 00:47

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Popped collar can only equal two things: Horribly drunk or douchebro.

lone_liberal > Kat Callahan 09/27/2014 at 00:50

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At least you give a warning. ;)

Kat Callahan > lone_liberal 09/27/2014 at 00:55

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I'm also queer and a socialist. So not your typical preppy.

feather-throttle-not-hair > Kat Callahan 09/27/2014 at 01:09

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Yeah, but you don't pop your collar in a....you know.... homophobic way.

Xyl0c41n3 > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/27/2014 at 02:19

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I've had a couple of friends whose sudden view changes have made me do this face: O.O

It's always shocking and saddening when someone who once seemed to be cool turns out not to be. I don't know what it is, but something about crossing that quarter-life bridge makes the inner bigot of a person take its final form.

Jonathan Harper > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/27/2014 at 09:04

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sounds like a dingle

TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut > PanchoVilleneuve ST 09/27/2014 at 09:09

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45 hp only? That's amazing!

Sally O'Broder > Kat Callahan 09/27/2014 at 10:00

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You are in Japan!

lone_liberal > Kat Callahan 09/27/2014 at 12:23

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Oh, I read your stuff on Jez, and GT, all the time so I know you're not some sort of latter day William Zabka character.