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brewens

(13,397 posts)
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 09:46 AM Jun 2020

I'm glad I read up on these "Booger Boys". I might have shown up in a Hawaiian shirt

this Saturday at our local BLM protest. I love Hawaiian shirts. I only have one that fits me now that I've lost a bunch of weight, but it will have to wait for appropriate occasions. I'll go with the DU t-shirt.

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I'm glad I read up on these "Booger Boys". I might have shown up in a Hawaiian shirt (Original Post) brewens Jun 2020 OP
I have a big collection of Aloha shirts RainCaster Jun 2020 #1
I wear them every friday to work OriginalGeek Jun 2020 #2
Ha we call it ugly shirt Friday! Got it from work site in Vegas years ago jmg257 Jun 2020 #4
UGLY!?!?! OriginalGeek Jun 2020 #6
I take it back - very dashing!!! Love the kilt! jmg257 Jun 2020 #12
Even when my gut got big OriginalGeek Jun 2020 #14
I am out of the loop here Chainfire Jun 2020 #3
Booger Boys means Boogaloo Boys Blecht Jun 2020 #7
They are a white supremacists group that dresses in Hawaiian shirts. SamKnause Jun 2020 #8
Well damn Chainfire Jun 2020 #16
I've got about twenty silk Tommy Bahama shirts I can't wear anymore because of those losers... Aristus Jun 2020 #5
All the Boogers around my area Wellstone ruled Jun 2020 #9
They all work for Trader Joe's lame54 Jun 2020 #10
This makes folks in Hawaii livid mainer Jun 2020 #11
Firefly fan here. area51 Jun 2020 #13
So does my husband.. he has worn them for 30 years.. his favorite summer shirts Peacetrain Jun 2020 #15

RainCaster

(10,683 posts)
1. I have a big collection of Aloha shirts
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 10:49 AM
Jun 2020

They will have to stay in the closet for a few years now. Makes me sad.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
2. I wear them every friday to work
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 10:57 AM
Jun 2020

Tropical Friday has been a tradition here for almost 20 years.

At various times throughout the years we've had the whole department in on it but lately it's just 3 of us old-timers and the other 2 work from home more often than not now so it's really just me but I just can't stop. I've grown to love my various Tropical Friday shirts and I do it in honor of the fella who started it who was let go years ago. He was a sweet, funny, kind man who often brought his guitar in on Tropical Friday for impromptu songs while strolling through the department but his position was downsized.

Hopefully everyone will know that's what it is and not the other thing.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
6. UGLY!?!?!
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 11:15 AM
Jun 2020

My shirts are beautiful! Here's one of them on a cruise a few years ago (I was wearing my kilt to elegant evening but in our hurry to get on board I left my dress shirts hanging in the truck - they spent 8 days just a block away from the cruise terminal). The Islander Highlander look.




Then again, I do live in Florida where it's weird when someone is NOT in a Hawaiian shirt.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
12. I take it back - very dashing!!! Love the kilt!
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 12:04 PM
Jun 2020
I wear one to the Ren Faire near here - good thing we got The legs for it!


OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
14. Even when my gut got big
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 01:16 PM
Jun 2020

my legs stayed nice - probably form the extra work holding up all that gut.

SamKnause

(13,043 posts)
8. They are a white supremacists group that dresses in Hawaiian shirts.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 11:16 AM
Jun 2020

They are known as the Boogaloo Bois.

They have been spotted at protest around the country.

Just Google Boogaloo Bois for more information.

Hope that helps.

Chainfire

(17,308 posts)
16. Well damn
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 07:39 PM
Jun 2020

My favorite Summer shirts. Maybe us Liberals should make a quick claim on the Guayabera before we have to end up wearing flannel year round.....

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
9. All the Boogers around my area
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 11:33 AM
Jun 2020

usually go full out Camo or Flag Wife beater shirts. As well as Camo Army Surplus Pocket Vests. Love it when it is 110 degrees and these suckers have their Cargo Pants tucked in their high top boots.

Can not fix stupid.

mainer

(12,013 posts)
11. This makes folks in Hawaii livid
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 11:46 AM
Jun 2020

To have their beautiful aloha wear co-opted by freaks. There’s got to be a way to reclaim it.

Peacetrain

(22,836 posts)
15. So does my husband.. he has worn them for 30 years.. his favorite summer shirts
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 01:16 PM
Jun 2020

and now some jackasses have co-opted a symbol from another culture and quite frankly color.. to take as their symbols??? God it makes me mad!!

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