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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/funny

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My favorite story about Charlie Watts:

"One anecdote relates that in the mid-1980s, an intoxicated Jagger phoned Watts's hotel room in the middle of the night, asking, "Where's my drummer?" Watts reportedly got up, shaved, dressed in a suit, put on a tie and freshly shined shoes, descended the stairs, and punched Jagger in the face, saying: "Never call me your drummer again. You're my fucking singer!"[44][45] He expressed regret for the incident in 2003, attributing his behaviour to alcohol.[20]"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

I love this every time I read it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I regret my actions that night, I shouldn't have sworn.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 7 months ago (4 children)

70 year olds should dress however they want. not trying to get promoted or laid or whatever. what would you dress like if nobody was watching?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

See now I see what you're saying, but apart from certain designated places, most people don't tend to like it when you walk the streets completely naked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Depends how confident you are about it. I've known a few people over the years who could pull it off. They would leave everyone else wondering if they are overdressed!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

pubes as white as the driven snow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

G I L F

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exactly the way I already dress.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The only exception is I wear slightly nicer clothes to work. Like, an actually clean shirt and pants.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think the advice "Dress for yourself" is mostly intended for people who like to look good

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 7 months ago

Probably. I honestly don't care what I look like, so I don't take that advice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

You probably don't want to know

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but uncomfortably tight leather pants that one woman told me was sexy 40 years ago probably ain't it

[+] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Wilt Chamberlain was putting numbers up too but he wasn't wearing his 70s shorts and a headband to attract to women into the '90s.

Do you really think Mick Jagger can't get laid unless he's dressed like it's Halloween and he's going as himself? This is about reliving their youth and not being willing to accept the passage of time. I think you open yourself up to satire if you're a public figure who has such glaring insecurities

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

he's dressed like it's Halloween and he's going as himself

I don't have an opinion on this either way but this description made me cackle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

maybe not on your legs but as bunny ears?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He’s also dead. There’s a message in that somewhere.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 28 points 7 months ago

Message is money and success can buy you a good makeup artist and embalmer I guess. Guy looks great for being dead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Good point.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm 51. My dress code preference stopped aging around 1991.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Im 39. I wear the same pants socks and shoes every day and rotate tshirts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You... mean multiple pairs of socks and pants you go through, right? Right!?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Clean socks daily, pants last all week sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just a week?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wash my jeans once a year whether they need it or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Does the username represent the smell of your jeans? 🤧

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 7 months ago

You can actually get away with the same exact pair of socks a few times if you get good merino wool. My cotton sucks smell the moment I put them on, but my wool socks don't start smelling until day three or four.

So that's what I do, I rotate through a few pair of wool socks so I don't have to fold them as often. Works pretty well, and it makes for light packing if I go hiking or something.

[–] peteypete420 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You mean multiple pairs of the same socks?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Almost 40. You can then graduate to wearing the same sandals every day.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 7 months ago

Same shirt different day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Damn, they're still rolling? A play on a rolling stone gathers no moss was an apt name choice

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

HEY! CARL! GOOD TO SEE YOU!

[–] Imgonnatrythis 3 points 7 months ago

Sleeper cell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sure, but which one? Most contemporary 70 y/os are eccentric as fuck.

I suppose it's meant to point out the guy to the right, who is wearing the millennial retro dork suit. This is the same as what Mr. beast wears right?

The other 3 are wearing 1970s, 1980s and 1990s retro suits in that order.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What in the fuck is a “retro suit”? The guy on the right is wearing a button down shirt with a wind breaker. No one in this pic is wearing anything resembling a suit in any way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

[–] ElderWendigo 1 points 7 months ago

Exactly. Three of them are dressed like Grandma out shopping for fused glass jewelry and shawls that look like they were knitted by a crow at the local outdoor art market. The other one looks like Grandpa.