Shorts are for children bar holidays
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I wouldnât worry about it.
In the words of Billy Connolly:
âAccept old age but keep loving your music, keep loving your poetry, keep loving Dylan, keep loving The Beatles.
âDonât go for the old baggy-arse trousers and the f****** beige shirt. And donât go for this dressing the same as your wife.â
The comedian, who has five children and two grandchildren, says he refused to grow old gracefully.
He said: âWaking up and getting out of bed is quite a painful thing sometimes. But you mustnât give in, you mustnât act your age.
âYouâll notice that growing up is always advised by other people. Nobody ever says, âI think Iâll grow up,â but you hear plenty of, âItâs time you did some growing up, lad.ââ
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I wear shorts unless itâs too cold. And I rarely feel cold.
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The point being is that itâs autumn/winter and it is cold. Anything over 18C yes, thatâs a pleasant day, and if itâs after Easter knock yourself out. But Halloween is next week, itâs nearly winter, cop on ta fuck!
*yes it was 16C yesterday but still, donât do it.
Is it acceptable for a 43-year old to wear tracksuit pants? Asking for flattyâs palâs pal.
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Its not cold. We measure coldness by the temperature, not the time of the year.
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You can spot the insecure lads here that have a problem with people wearing shorts.
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Yes.
But Iâll pass that on.
I rarely feel cold. I never need a big coat unless itâs extremely harsh outside. Cold really doesnât bother me and, if it does, its usually a hoody Iâd reach for, before long pants.
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Now I know itâs bothering lads Iâll redouble my efforts
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In the summer of 1990 I wore shorts. Colourful Bermuda shorts nearly down to me knees. They were very comfortable. I continued to wear these shorts in the Autumn of 1990, and into the winter of 1990. I continued to wear Bermuda shorts playing football on the street when other lads were wearing coats. By November people were remarking quite frequently on this. âWhy are you wearing Bermuda shorts? Itâs fuckinâ freezinâ.â Perhaps I was conditioned by my house being the only one in the neighbourhood not to have a chimney, so Mary Harneyâs ban on smokey coal made zero difference to me.
Then there was the neighbourhood childrenâs Christmas party down at the Granih. Saturday December 8th, 1990. All the kids from the estate were going. Lots of Coke and 7Up and chocolate and crisps and whatever. I walked in with Ryaner and Doyler and Oggy and Kylie, them wearing their coats and trousers and me in my Liverpool tracksuit top and Bermuda shorts.
There was a big screen playing the âReturn Of The Technodromeâ Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles episode.
Some of the bigger, nastier boys from up the estate like Lenny and Lambo decided theyâd use their time to make fun of me wearing shorts. This needle went on for quite a while, half an hour Iâd say. Then I fucking lamped Lambo in the face in the middle of the function room in the Granih and Lambo went flying back into the tables, knocking plastic cups of Club Orange everywhere. That was the last time Lenny and Lambo made fun of me wearing Bermuda shorts in December. It was also the last time I wore Bermuda shorts in December.
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I was the second last boy in my class in school to be still in short pants. I was glad to finally make it to long pants and Iâve stayed in them more or less the whole time since.
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Iâm wearing shorts as we speak on my downtime on a Liverpool work trip with a sensible Lacoste polo to top it off. 16 degrees in the sun. Left my quarter zip back in the apartment.
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LOL
Depends if heâs a fat bastard or not.
Just revisiting this as I see the hate bill went through the dail and recognizing genders/sexes other than male or female will become lawâŚ. I also see a load of low IQ guys liked the post â it seems half the forum cant discern between the difference in discussing the reality of claims like â being born in the wrong body - versus treating people with gender dysphoria with decency.
Theyâre not one and the same â in fact encouraging terms like â being born in the wrong body â or that you can be whatever sex you want - are far more damaging to people who suffer from gender dysphoria.
I cant believe I have to type these words (again) but you can not be born in the wrong body despite what @carryharry or @briantinnion will argue. You can feel like you are â but thatâs been driven by dysphoria, a medical condition, and the feeling is a symptom, not a diagnosis in itself. And people who suffer from dysphoria nearly always have an accompanying disorder â autism, adhd.
Encouraging the symptoms leads to all kinds of damage in the long runâ the US and UK/Europe all went through this 5 years ago and have recognized that you donât take the approach of treating the symptoms â you treat the cause. You treat the dysphoria and in 90% of cases sufferers of dysphoria go on to accept their body â the other 10% wont and should be allowed live as they want â that percentage of people would be about 100 people in Ireland â itâs quite bizarre that we have to suspend reality and engage in make belief for such a small percentage of people who suffer from a condition that distorts their reality⌠but as the attacks on me showed here â most people are extremely uneducated and ignorant on the topic and instead of holding adult conversations they just attack.
There are now a huge amount of people speaking up in the US/UK/Europe â with regret about transitioning and are re-transitioning as they have largely beat their dysphoria or didnât even suffer from it in the first place but were coerced into it. In the height of their dysphoria gender affirming language like we are passing in to law pushed them towards treating their symptoms rather then the cause.
Itâs a very slippery slope but thankfully the experts are now taking back control of the topic rather than far left agitators â we should get there in Ireland in another 5/6 years.
You should read the work of Stella OMalley , an Irish psychotherapist who suffered from gender dysphoria growing up. She has written extensively, both from a professional and personal point of view, on the dangers of using terms like - born in the wrong body.
Itâs not attacking the trans community to engage in any of this.
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