The image macro thread

Teiman · 2013-09-02T05:34:51.000Z

Is that hat made of straw?

Gus_Smedstad1 · 2013-09-02T14:38:33.000Z

Teiman:

Is that hat made of straw?

Heh.

Actually, most of those seem to fit our resident Men’s Rights Activism troll fairly well. There’s one on there that annoys me though - the “Why being an Atheist is Heroic” is a nasty slam at a lot of people who don’t remotely resemble the sort of twit they’re mocking. And while it isn’t “heroic,” it can get you in heaps of trouble in some parts of the world, and treated like a pariah in some parts of the US.

Funkula · 2013-09-02T15:17:50.000Z

Yeah, but obnoxious atheism activism is part of the fedora asshole stereotype, and Reddit is full of many examples in the wild.

RichVR · 2013-09-02T16:08:46.000Z

As an obnoxious atheist I would like to say that I have NEVER worn a Fedora.

TimElhajj · 2013-09-02T16:51:05.000Z

I’m a God fearing wearer of fedoras. So there’s that.

Gus_Smedstad1 · 2013-09-02T16:56:54.000Z

RichVR:

As an obnoxious atheist I would like to say that I have NEVER worn a Fedora.

I have. I’ve got a couple of leather hats that I picked up in India because they looked vaguely like Indiana Jones’s hat, which I gather is a fedora. Why two? I paid about $20 US for the first one, and then found a second one elsewhere in the same market priced at $5. Which I bought because that somehow partially undid being taken on the first hat.

I don’t wear 'em, though. They don’t breathe, they’re uncomfortably sweaty when I’m out in the sun. Instead I wear a touristy hat to protect my easily sunburned scalp.

Calelari · 2013-09-03T16:08:08.000Z

Yes, it is a Fedora. Snap brim. I think that cover slanders fedoras, but then I don’t get out much (other than around the university campus as job duties require), what do I know?

The_Bitter_Cynic · 2013-09-03T17:24:48.000Z

RichVR · 2013-09-03T17:51:14.000Z

Gus_Smedstad:

I have. I’ve got a couple of leather hats that I picked up in India because they looked vaguely like Indiana Jones’s hat, which I gather is a fedora. Why two? I paid about $20 US for the first one, and then found a second one elsewhere in the same market priced at $5. Which I bought because that somehow partially undid being taken on the first hat.

I don’t wear 'em, though. They don’t breathe, they’re uncomfortably sweaty when I’m out in the sun. Instead I wear a touristy hat to protect my easily sunburned scalp.

Actually my favorite hat is a true Italian Borsalino that I purchased in Manhattan for $200. And now that I consider it it is a Fedora. So I stand corrected. This hat is amazing. You can actually roll it up and stick it in a cardboard tube for whatever reason. It is waterproof. It is stylish. I love it dearly.

I sometimes think of Fedora as a bad word, but done right a Fedora is a lovely thing.

Funny story. I went to watch the Greenwich Village Halloween parade a few years back. It was a bit chilly. So I wore this hat, a leather trench coat and had a cane because my left knee was acting up. Everywhere I went people called me Indy or Indiana Jones. But I was just wearing my damn normal clothing! I was not in a damn costume.

It’s a little beat up but a good haberdasher could steam it and clean it up real nice:

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RichVR · 2013-09-03T18:36:41.000Z

Scotch_Lufkin · 2013-09-03T19:44:33.000Z

The Bitter Cynic:

I don’t follow what’s happening in that center panel. Is Aquaman like… slamming a dark blue black against a light blue statue or… what?

The_Bitter_Cynic · 2013-09-03T20:18:45.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

I don’t follow what’s happening in that center panel. Is Aquaman like… slamming a dark blue black against a light blue statue or… what?

He’s hitting the T-rex she became in the face with something big and hard, while swimming in a room full of water.

It’s a poke at the Wonder Twins, Zak and Jayna. But it’s not Them. It’s a pair that has similar abilities (Names are Downpour and Shifter I believe).

Also, what kind of day are you having if Aquaman bitch slaps you?

divedivedive · 2013-09-03T20:57:32.000Z

To be fair, the Aquaman in the Justice League cartoons is pretty badass.

tomchick · 2013-09-03T22:02:32.000Z

The Bitter Cynic:

Also, what kind of day are you having if Aquaman bitch slaps you?

I call that “playing Injustice: Gods Among Us”.

-Tom

slikster · 2013-09-05T11:00:49.000Z

Tit for tat

Gus_Smedstad1 · 2013-09-05T11:12:59.000Z

slikster:

Tit for tat

Man, that makes the guys who wrote that joke look even more like assholes than the Fedora magazine did.

fire · 2013-09-10T12:15:32.000Z

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Cold_Blooded · 2013-09-12T13:15:15.000Z

Alan_Dunkin · 2013-09-12T18:25:54.000Z

— Alan

Enidigm · 2013-09-12T18:28:08.000Z

Is that a frog?