As it turns out, this story has nothing to do with some new quantitative net short hedge fund. Instead, it's about actual shorts, like the kind you wear. Well, not the kind you wear but the kind some people with less sense than you wear. (via Doree)
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Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 9:29AM
great post
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 9:36AM
I wear shorts... go buy-side!
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 9:38AM
yeah, i emailed that article to a couple of people and contributed to its ranking. and what of it?!
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 9:46AM
The big (and i do mean big) problem here is that people who clearly should not wear shorts o/s their homes are now wearing them to the office. Beach thongs and shorts belong at the beach not in the office.
Just saying....
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 9:51AM
And in other fiday news - IndyMac is now bankrupt and is going to be liquidated.
But IndyMac was before covered bonds. This "new" product is going to really save those 5 minutes away from becoming the next Indy.
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 9:56AM
I'm all for shorts, but those "short suits" were hideous!
If you are going to wear shorts to work, better make it more casual. And guys, NO SHAVING YOUR LEGS!
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 9:57AM
Another unfortunate encroachment of the gay, gay, gay, gay, gay homoerotic narcissist aesthetic into our lives.
There is no need for me to see the hairy ankles, bony knees or disgusting feet of another man outside of the gay bath house, EVER.
Gentlemen never dress like faggots.
The gay James Bond.
Posted by FUNdamental , Aug 01, 2008 10:04AM
I see nothing about Jorts in that article, how can we determine all the locations in which jorts are unacceptable?*
*all
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 10:21AM
Jorts, as described by the Urban Dictionary:
1) Jean shorts. Worn mostly by children and douchebags. Jorts are perhaps the easiest way to recognize people you will not like. If you wear jorts, you probably don't talk to girls. The term "jorts" does not apply to jean shorts worn by black people, as those are entirely acceptable.
read on... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jorts
yes, yes, I did not know what jorts were. I had to look it up.
Posted by Anal_yst , Aug 01, 2008 10:33AM
I believe cutoff short short jean shorts are acceptable on hot girls, and I can't put enough emphasis on the fact that is the only time they are acceptable. Oh, and maybe if you're @ a nascar race, but I digress...
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 10:39AM
shorts and flops, of course work well out here.
in LA suits are very not cool.
but this suit-short combo is so bad, it's good.
geithner/ bloomberg banning them in nyc.
-retail
Posted by finance_baller , Aug 01, 2008 10:51AM
jorts and a tanktop is the official DB uniform.
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 10:57AM
Bermuda...thats how the big reinsurance ballers roll in burmuda
in pink shorts
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 11:01AM
carney wears his pijammies and drinks hot cocoa, spellbound by ARS lawsuit filings. levin wears gasparino's wife-beater and "pink" short-shorts. the interns, carney dresses as the village people.
-retail
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 11:13AM
Problem anal_yst is that the act of judging oneself as "a hot chick" is subjective. So, the number of Cindy Crawford type girls who rock the jean shorts is dwarfed (1 million to 1)by the number of deluded chicks who think they rock the jean shorts.
I am not willingly to subject myself to the horror of 250 pound getto chicks squeezing themselves into jean shorts cuz they think they look like cindy.
Thus a general ban is really the right course of action in this situation.
Thus the best course of action is a general ban.
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 11:15AM
I've always been suspect of Avery and his "athletic calves"... After the Vogue internship, this short suit business confirms it for me.
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 11:20AM
Well, if a man can get a Seersucker suit at Sear's, those guys in the article must have been shopping at Cox's.
Posted by Anal_yst , Aug 01, 2008 11:30AM
@ 15
I realized after i had already submitted what you've pointed out, and agreed, the number of not hot:hot is at least 1,000,000:1.
The worst offenders though are undoubtedly those that shoehorn themselves into short-shorts while concurrently bursting out of spaghetti strap shirts emblazoned with sequened logos such as "hottie" and "don't you wish your gf was hot like me" and other such attrocities, blech
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 11:35AM
When life hands you jeans, make jean shorts.
~Shecky "LA" Buffet
Posted by guest , Aug 01, 2008 3:37PM
I thought that Times article was bizarre. Even the guys pictured, who are young and stylish, looked bad! I agree with 7 about distaste of the hairy ankles and bony knees of men, and would caution most women to avoid shorts if they want to continue to disguise common anatomical flaws and unless their personal grooming habits are above reproach.