Here at The Blazing Center we like to talk about Manpoints. Today I would like to pose a very important manpoints question:
Can you help me out here? I need to buy some new jeans and I need the wisdom of those around me. And I don’t want to lose manpoints.
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New jeans are just that – NEW. New jeans that are artificially made to look worn were probably made so by a teenage girl in Jakarta or Bangladesh – definitely NOT man-point worthy.
If you want to make jeans look worn, but don’t want to actually wear them in order to do so, then try a couple of these suggesions:
1. Have a big dog that slobbers a lot? Rub raw hamburger all your new jeans, and then throw them in the yard for a couple of days with the dog. Only have a small dog? That will work, I suppose, but it might take a long time. Oh, and that small dog can’t be a poodle – you get negative manpoints if it’s a poodle.
2. Tie a rope around the belt loops, and then the the other end of the rope to some type of vehicle – a bike will do, a car (better), or a Ford F-150 (best). Then drag the jeans around behind the vehicle for a day or so. Moped or Vespa? Subtract 714 manpoints.
3. Can you get your hands on a cement mixer? Just a small one? If so, a cement mixer with a bunch of rocks in it should do the trick.
Thanks for letting me contribute – if you use one of my suggestions, I get extra manpoints.
The whole point of jeans is that you break them in your. I am currently wearing a pair that I got three months ago; just regular blue denim. Today that look worn, faded, and man worthy. Brother, I say buy normal jeans and wear them til they look the way you want them. By the way, they will last longer if you DIY.
Aww, Vespas are cool…
I’d say that buying pre-ripped jeans is a rip-off (no pun intended). If you really want a pair of pre-beat jeans, go to the thrift store- they’re like 3 bucks a pair.
But why get ripped jeans? What purpose would that serve? If they rip in the course of “battle” with a tree or something cool like that, +100 manpoints. Add an additional 200 points if there’s blood around the whole. If you lose a leg, automatic gain of 1000.
I’m with Martin on this one–buy regular jeans and wear them until they look like those overpriced, willfully deceiving imitation of manly jeans.
Hm. I feel the weightof this question after going through a jean situation recently myself…:
For approximately 8 months, i only owned one pair of jeans. Purchased at Rugged Wearhouse for $7…. Positive manpoints.
Unfortunately, I busted a knee out, and the back pocket was going as well… negative manpoints…
A trip to Rugged Wearhouse fixed my dilemma for another $7… positive manpoints.
I was just in a jeans store,(just browsing, while my friends mom was really shopping,) hmm… negative manpoints.
And a polite, but determined salesperson, before i knew what had happened had convinced me to go to the fitting room with five pair of jeans…. woaa. negative manpoints.
All the jeans were over $60. and three of them looked like the jeans that i was trying to replace in the first place.
I politely told the dude that i was satisfied with my jean situation at present, and left the store…. Positive manpoints.
Hopefully another jean crisis will not come around for another six months or so. It definitely threatens manpoint stability.
I don’t know… I think if you’re worried about what kind of jeans you’re wearing, then you’ve already lost all the manpoints you could get from a pair of jeans. The key is to honestly not care what kind of jeans you’re wearing so long as they’re comfortable, high-quality, and inexpensive. (The “inexpensive” part guarantees that you don’t lose further manpoints by buying expensive jeans, which only come from over-hyped, über-trendy brands.)
I honestly wouldn’t worry about it. Just enjoy the time off from the fear of man.
to your question, I’d say definitely yes…how many you lose I believe depends on which regional authority you fall under.
as valuable a discussion this is, I do have a concern. at what point does the discussion itself start to cost contributors manpoints? after all, we are talking about buying jeans, right?
my discomfort grows…
In Canada you sure would. But we also play hockey, so we’ve already got more manpoints than you.
The jeans I’ve been putting mileage on these days were a factory 2nd pair (+). They can and have been comfortably worn for more than 1 week straight without a wash (+) to the dismay of my wife (-). they have two naturally-occurring holes in the knees (+). Last night I slept in them (+). Today I dug a ditch in them, cut down a telephone pole, gutted a garage, and hammered rebar (+ + + +) without a single thought to their safety or attractiveness.
Gentlemen. Without even piecing together a logical argument on the subject, every man with more than 1,500 man points to his credit can sense in his soul that it’s wrong to distress the jeans artificially.
Distressed jeans are a vivid picture of a culture where it’s cool to look like you work hard, but really you just walk from your dorm room to the cafeteria once a day.
I think that having a fixation with manpoints is an automatic reduction in the hundreds category in the eyes of any girl.
*ducks*
A) Idolatry. Pride.
B) No, it is stylish for some, not for others.