• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 hours ago

    The only vest I am going to wear on my motorcycle is an airbag vest. Which one is better, the Dainese or Helite Turtle 2?

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    4 hours ago

    Libraries are great, and skeletons reading books are fun, but biker vests are just goofy. There’s nothing “hard” about them.

    Oooooh, look at me. I mean it, please, look at me! I want your attention desperately. Look at my vest. I’m wearing leather (which is actually good protection against road rash when riding a motorcycle), but I’m leaving my arms bare, so that when inevitably I fall off my bike, my arms will get absolutely shredded by the asphalt, but my chest and back area will be less damaged. I want to wear some protective gear, but not actually effective protective gear. I’m in a club, with other boys, and I want everyone to know about my club! I’m a manly man!

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    57
    ·
    21 hours ago

    Old white guy with a red hat, with white text? Oh no…

    waits

    Guys! It’s ok! His hat just says “Ass”.

    • zephorah@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      19 hours ago

      There’s a lot of that with hats. Corner of the eye visual blends with MAGA, while reading reading the hat shows the opposite.

      My other half has one that looks like a camou hunting cap, closer inspection shows he supports gay rights, but you have to look for it.

      • melisdrawing@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        4 hours ago

        Hell, I switched my red scarf for a pink one because someone asked me if it was red for Trump. I responded with, “they own red now?!” But I still got a new scarf.

        • zephorah@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 hours ago

          Reclaim it. For starters, we the people should be a call to all working class vs the corporate elite.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        14 hours ago

        I have a Lake Erie Monsters hat from 2007. They are a hockey team in the AHL.

        Now renamed the Cleveland Monsters.

        Its a red hat, with white text.

        Nope. Love the Monsters. As a white guy in his 40s, I can never wear that hat now.

        • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          5 hours ago

          My wife has an old red shirt with the name of a camp she attended as a kid printed in white text, in a non-English language. When the MAGA thing got going some guy accosted her in the street furiously shouting “WHAT DOES THAT SAY?!” and I think that was the last time she left the house wearing it.

    • stoicmaverick@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      15 hours ago

      No. This is a common misconception. Vests actually evolved separately from shirts in an example of convergent evolution. Their nearest common ancestor was the jumpsuit, which also spawned the lineage of what are now pants. Interesting, a subgroup of proto-vests became isolated in the southern region, and eventually evolved into chaps.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        4 hours ago

        I know this is a joke, but there’s no way a full body suit predates vests as a clothing item. You can make a rough vest without sewing, not the case for a whole connected outside with tubes for arms and legs.

        • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          4 hours ago

          The real story is that westerners were inspired by persian style waistcoats, then modified to fit more common clothing to their area, making the vest