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RedAggroBest, in What movie scared you shitless when you were a child?

Pan’s Lanyrinth. The Pale Man haunted 12yo -me’s nightmares for a long time.

EtnaAtsume, in What's something you'd change in men's fashion, given the chance?

More varied formalwear than “suit with some superficial variations” (tux, 2- or 3-piece, colors, tie variety). Broader range of styles.

reality_boy, in What's something you'd change in men's fashion, given the chance?

I know it is not your question but… Everyone says pockets for women’s fashion but that is not the most important. At least here in the US the most important is having proper sizes on clothes.

For the most part men’s clothes let you pick things right. You know your waist and inseam for pants, and often have a proper size for shirts and collars.

Women’s fashion often has no size other than the ambiguous s/m/l/xl indicator and teen/woman’s/plus often use the same tag to indicate wildly different sizes. On top of that, when close use a measurement it is not grounded in reality, so a 14 at one shop may be a 16 at another, and neither are a direct measure of your waist. Finally women’s pants only come in 3 lengths (petite, tall, or not specified) and it is difficult to find most combinations.

The best thing we could do for fashion in any sex is to standardize sizes globally and make them all based on a tape measure measurement. That way you could buy 32x30 pants online knowing they will fit, no matter the brand.

ElectroVagrant,

Honestly, yeah, size standardization in some form would help so, so much. It’s such a pain trying to figure out whether something will fit, even when it says it’s the same size as another garment, like you say, 14 at one shop or even in one brand and 16 in another.

Addv4,

The only issue is that different cuts and styles can affect those objectively correct measurements. When you ask a guy what size jeans they wear, they most often will also remark what brand they prefer. It's not really that they actually prefer it, but mostly that fits better than maybe another brand in the same size.

JWBananas,
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As a man I can assure you we have the same problem. I have garments with a 30" waist that fit the same as a 34" waist. And I have pants with a 29" inseam that go past my feet and 32" inseam that don't.

agressivelyPassive,

Exactly. Even sizes that represent an actual physical measurement after pretty much made up numbers.

I have 4 or 5 Levi’s 501s. All the exact same size, but the fit differs wildly. Two of them I bought at the same time, just in different colors and they’re like two different models.

Sweaters are just as bad. I’m a taller guy (1,90m), and it’s almost impossible to find a sweater (or any other upper body garment for that matter) that has proper torso length, sleeve length and width at all relevant places. If I find a sweater that’s long enough in all dimensions and doesn’t feel like a straight jacket around the chest, it’s so wide around the stomach, that I could easily hide a watermelon.

It’s like the fashion industry assumes, that humans can’t be tall and not fat.

snowe,
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Both genders have the same problem. Women get underwear in exact sizing, along with tops that usually are exact. Men get exact sizing in pants and button up shirts. Women do have the same problem with sizing of pants and dresses, but women also have a vastly larger selection. Go look at how many stores sell only to women. Then go look at the stores that sell to both but then have a women’s section that is 5-10x the size of the men’s section.

revlayle, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

"It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage."

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PaulDevonUK, in What's something you'd change in men's fashion, given the chance?
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Some form of medium sized bag that wouldn’t attract the “handbag” stigma. I use a laptop bag due to the amount of stuff I carry with me but it is a bit too big.

djsaskdja,

Briefcase

sgriff,

I have a couple slings that i really like for this

Thavron,
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The Peak Design Everyday Sling might be for you.

snowe,
@snowe@programming.dev avatar

That bag is perfect, especially if you use the capture clip.

JWBananas,
@JWBananas@kbin.social avatar

Backpack?

Prefix, in What movie scared you shitless when you were a child?

When I was little, the Gremlins movies terrified me! Not sure why since they’re super campy, but 🤷‍♂️ kids are weird.

Akasazh,
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I just rewatched gremlins, and beside some jumpscares it’s pretty camp and tame.

But then the scene comes where the Santa Claus gets stuck in the chimney, discovered due to the smell. This is not shown, just a story that gets told pretty off handed.

I realized that that was the part that made the movie scary to me when younger. And it colored the rest of the movie darker, too.

jrubal1462, in What password manager do you recommend?

After 2 years of ignoring the fact that I use a duplicate password in over 100 places, and that password has officially been in breaches, I finally came to terms with the fact that it was time to find a password manager and generate unique passwords. I didn’t do a ton of research and ended up with bitwarden. If I opened this thread to see a bunch of people ragging on bitwarden I was prepared to be VERY upset.

Muetzenman, in What replacement for each major social media do you use
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Reddit with Lemmy and WhatsApp with Signal. I still use Reddit and WhatsApp but i would miss out on to much if i cut the ties. I have LinkedIn but i’m not really using it. Does YouTube count as social media?

arthur, in What is some good things to do with a new pc/laptop/computer?

Do a fresh isn’t all of the OS. If you use windows, run Chris Titus’ debloater. Personally I would choose W10 instead of W11.

masquenox, in What movie scared you shitless when you were a child?

Aliens. Me and my brother sneakily was watching it when our parents were gone, and when that chest-burster came out of that woman, I was out of there like a bat out of hell. Never told my parents, of course - had to protect our VHS privileges and all that… It’s still one of my favorite movies - the original cinematic cut, not the overly long director’s cut (which seems to be the only one you can find these days.]

solrize, in What's something you'd change in men's fashion, given the chance?

Propeller beanies as formal and business attire.

JoeyJoJoJuniour, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

It only ever ends once, everything else is just progress.

Jacob on Lost

janNatan, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

“You must know what happened happened and couldn’t have happened any other way.” -Morpheus

birdcat, in What is some good things to do with a new pc/laptop/computer?
@birdcat@lemmy.ml avatar

Before you do anything, run The Ultimate Windows Utility

“This is a tool that has evolved over several years and achieves much more than just debloating a Windows install. I have expanded it to install the programs you select, which is a bigger selection than ninite. The classic debloat is there, but also includes a tweaks section with quality of life features. To round out everything, I have included my recommended settings for Windows update that I use in a variety of businesses. Misuse of this utility can break your install so please be careful and I do not provide any help or assistance should this happen!”"

One Command - Download and Usage

From an Elevated (Run as Administrator) PowerShell prompt

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex
</span>

And then Debloat more with O&O ShutUp10++

couragethebravedog, in What's the point of buying new phones every years?

I buy a new phone anytime a new innovation comes out. I ordered the Google pixel on day 1 and am loving it.

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