In space, no one can hear you nagging

[MadImmortalMan]

You know this thread has inspired me, I'm one of the worst dressed people I know, therefore I should become a scientist, can't be much more to it than that can it?   

Might be easier to buy a suit and some new shoes.

[mongers]

I don't think anyone at my workplace would object if someone came in wearing that shirt. But then I wear a T-shirt with a kitten in an army helmet and shades and wielding a hand grenade.

You regularly walk around a dingy, crowded office wearing sunglasses and carrying live explosives? 

[crazy canuck]

I don't think anyone at my workplace would object if someone came in wearing that shirt. But then I wear a T-shirt with a kitten in an army helmet and shades and wielding a hand grenade.

I have yet to see you wearing that T-shirt in any of your videos 

[Sheilbh]

Some of us are puritans and proud

[mongers]

I don't think anyone at my workplace would object if someone came in wearing that shirt. But then I wear a T-shirt with a kitten in an army helmet and shades and wielding a hand grenade.

I have yet to see you wearing that T-shirt in any of your videos 

Damn, I nearly commented on this, but realised it could easily be misconstrued as being sexist.   

[Eddie Teach]

Or properly construed as being sexist.

[grumbler]

Some of us are puritans and proud

Nothing wrong with being a puritan, so long as one is honest about it.  It's as intellectually honest a belief as Fascism or whatever Raz calls his brand of craziness.

[Malthus]

Some of us are puritans and proud

Nothing wrong with being a puritan, so long as one is honest about it.  It's as intellectually honest a belief as Fascism or whatever Raz calls his brand of craziness.

Plus, you get to wear that funny hat with a buckle on it. 

http://www.amazon.com/Unknown-Puritan-Hat-Qual-XL/dp/B008CG7OSK

[mongers]

Anyone know where I can buy a white lab coat and some blue pens/pencils, see I have a real itch to become a scientist.

[Barrister]

Well if you go on TV dressed like that representing your team, then the only thing you care about is show how awesome you are (in your own head at least), pissing in the general direction of showing respect to your team. Ergo: an asshole. But I am not emotionally invested in this, if that was your impression.

  Projection much?

One of the things I love about this forum is the number of puritans who will absolutely deny that they are puritans, while defending their own right to make stupid black-and-white snap judgements about just about anyone on just about any topic. BB&T are at least reliably hilarious when it comes to things like these.  Thanks for showing your ass, T.

So according to grumbles,

Forget the pattern - why the hell is the man wearing a bowling shirt to go on tv?

Man up and wear a shirt and tie.

Makes one a puritan.

Let's put this assertion to the test, shall we?

Puritan
[pyoo r-i-tn]  Spell  Syllables
Word Origin
noun
1. a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
2. (lowercase) a person who is strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so.
adjective
3. of or pertaining to the Puritans.
4. (lowercase) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a moral puritan; puritanical.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/puritan

Well grumbles didn't use a capital P (and we know how sensitive he is to proper capitalization) he appears to be arguing that I am strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so.

I don't recally making any moral commentary, and certainly didn't say anything religious.

My only commentary was sartorial - that a man going for an interview on tv ought to wear a shirt and tie (or something roughly equivalent).  That doesn't strike me as being a particularly high or onerous bar.  It's simply a standard look for a man trying to present a base level of professional competence.

[The Brain]

But the guy had used his mental bandwidth for sciency stuff. I can relate to that. All my mental bandwidth is spent on advanced geniusy stuff, so I routinely thrash around naked in my own stool on the floor. Pure chance that I've never done a TV interview in that state.

[Razgovory]

Some of us are puritans and proud

Nothing wrong with being a puritan, so long as one is honest about it.  It's as intellectually honest a belief as Fascism or whatever Raz calls his brand of craziness.

Democracy.

[Legbiter]

An idiot wants to make sure everyone knows he is an idiot and makes a fool out of himself on telly. How this has become a 16 pages thread?

[Brazen]

I don't think anyone at my workplace would object if someone came in wearing that shirt. But then I wear a T-shirt with a kitten in an army helmet and shades and wielding a hand grenade.

I have yet to see you wearing that T-shirt in any of your videos 

I disguise myself as a fat, middle-aged frump for my public face.

I dress up for any public-facing events when I'm representing my company. Doesn't everyone?

I have been dared to wear the t-shirt. I can't resist a dare...

Oh wait, no shades, just cold, dead eyes.

[grumbler]

Puritan
[pyoo r-i-tn]  Spell  Syllables
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noun
1. anyone obsessed by the fear that someone, somewhere, somehow, is having fun.

http://dicktionary.reference.com/browse/puritan

My only commentary was sartorial - that a man going for an interview on tv ought to wear a shirt and tie (or something roughly equivalent).  That doesn't strike me as being a particularly high or onerous bar.  It's simply a standard look for a man trying to present a base level of professional competence.

The guy was having fun, and was celebrating by wearing a shirt made for the occasion by a friend of his.  You have a problem with this, because his dress sense doesn't match yours (Berkut and Tamas have the same problem).  I'm totally okay with that, as long as you guys are honest enough to admit that your preference for being buttoned down rather than fun is just a preference.  Tamas insisting that the guy is an asshole for disagreeing with Tamas's dress sense is a much more extreme position than your or Berkut's, and I don't associate you two guys with that laughable argument.