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DirkGently

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50. People get invested in the weirdest things.

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 02:20 PM

Jun 2015

I've been around long enough to remember all kinds of men's shorts, because I live in Florida, and I've worn all of them (not at once, mind you.)

Jogging shorts, cord shorts, jean shorts. They go up and down, and everyone acts like the previous version was obscenely short or ridiculously long, until the next trend emerges.

The worst are the tools that make with the "Grown men don't wear short pants hermherm." Popular point of view in cold locations, maybe, but try surviving a summer in the South in your fashionable skinny jeans and you will die. As you should.

Men wear shorts.

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Do my short-shorts make you feel weird about your masculinity? Good, I'm glad [View all] Liberal_in_LA Jun 2015 OP

I just think it makes them look stupid. Travis_0004 Jun 2015 #1

. Liberal_in_LA Jun 2015 #3

I realize shorts were once common like that but its not fashionable anymore. Travis_0004 Jun 2015 #8

tennis also JI7 Jun 2015 #9

Unfortunately, they don't wear those anymore frazzled Jun 2015 #10

Ah how I remember those days! AndreaCG Jun 2015 #54

I have gotten daring as a Kendoka. I am now going with Short Shorts Katashi_itto Jun 2015 #57

No. But I do reserve the right to laugh at them. Comrade Grumpy Jun 2015 #2

I can never insult people for what they wear Skittles Jun 2015 #4

I buy my clothes at Home Depot olddots Jun 2015 #5

Do they carry Dickies? I used to get those at OSH for my husband because he loved them. Hekate Jun 2015 #18

Those make a lot more sense in hot weather than long shorts. DavidDvorkin Jun 2015 #6

guys use to wear short shorts, why don't they anymore ? JI7 Jun 2015 #7

Who wears short shorts? Fumesucker Jun 2015 #11

The only 1 of those to qualify as short shorts is the middle one. These are Short shorts... uppityperson Jun 2015 #12

Okay, the guy in your top photo looks bizarre to me. The business jacket is weird and the shorts.... Hekate Jun 2015 #17

Nice, Sleepaway Camp reference there. Kalidurga Jun 2015 #28

Whoa, Rick Castle wearing jorts? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jun 2015 #49

Ha, I grew up in the 80's! Those aren't short shorts!!! nt Bonobo Jun 2015 #13

Yeah....I was having falshback to shorts for gym class! Behind the Aegis Jun 2015 #21

I have some photos that are cringeworthy. Bonobo Jun 2015 #22

I forgot the damn tube socks! Behind the Aegis Jun 2015 #23

Oh yeah, that's it. We were wearing tidy whites! nt Bonobo Jun 2015 #25

That was also my immediate thought. LOL gollygee Jun 2015 #32

It was 96 here today I'm sitting here in a pair of shorts right now tularetom Jun 2015 #14

Nice beach community attire. Since I've lived my whole life near the ocean, those guys don't look... Hekate Jun 2015 #15

Hmmm. Nobody wants to see a testicular wardrobe malfunction (nt) Nye Bevan Jun 2015 #16

Speak for yourself! Behind the Aegis Jun 2015 #20

! TexasTowelie Jun 2015 #27

Well in THAT case.... Nye Bevan Jun 2015 #35

Back in the 70's Texasgal Jun 2015 #58

Wear what you like and to hell with whomever doesn't like it! ReallyIAmAnOptimist Jun 2015 #19

Yes, because men are too good to be looking feminine... AZ Progressive Jun 2015 #24

This has never happened to me, but I've heard similar stories. DemocraticWing Jun 2015 #26

Isn't it hard to breathe "down there" in those? nt Jamaal510 Jun 2015 #29

Ugh MFrohike Jun 2015 #30

Sometimes it's safer to say nothing ... JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 2015 #31

Or, in this case, just demand they remove the silly things. closeupready Jun 2015 #48

Meh. As in so many things, Bob was just ahead of his time. Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #33

I was hoping someone would post a Bobby! cyberswede Jun 2015 #38

His documentary is on Netflix, now, BTW. Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #56

My legs madokie Jun 2015 #34

I would never wear those bigwillq Jun 2015 #36

When I was a youngster..... NCTraveler Jun 2015 #37

I'd also like to induct George Michael into the Shorty Shorts Hall of Fame Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #39

That's something you don't see everyday in today's fashion. Calista241 Jun 2015 #44

His body, his choice. closeupready Jun 2015 #40

they don't look comfortable, but wevs nt geek tragedy Jun 2015 #41

the one size fits none bagy crap started with shipping containers olddots Jun 2015 #43

lol @ short shorts Go Vols Jun 2015 #45

Annie Lebowitz is feeling weird about her masculinity? MisterP Jun 2015 #46

Never allow religious or television created culture define how you act, what you wear, Zorra Jun 2015 #47

People get invested in the weirdest things. DirkGently Jun 2015 #50

If I squint and lean real close to the screen, I can see the eiffel tower in the first guy's outfit Scootaloo Jun 2015 #51

Who invented pants was smart. Who invented hemlines was a GENIUS. immoderate Jun 2015 #52

Shorts, black socks, and what look like combat boots or oxfords... malthaussen Jun 2015 #53

In the 70s and 80s UglyGreed Jun 2015 #55