Contractor VS Merc.

[Jefe]

I've always wanted to infiltrate a birdwatching group and as they focus in on some species with their binos, slip out a rifle and shoot the bird, walk over and spread its wings before stuffing it into the rucksack and saying: "A fine specimen...."

then again, I've always wondered what Toucans and such birds would taste like.

[marie-angelique]

[Kurt]

I have a pair exactly like that. I lost one of the "legs" somehow and I keep the other one around in the hope that I will find it.

[rickshaw92]

Zipper pants are gay. End of.

[friendlyskies]

I have a pair exactly like that. I lost one of the "legs" somehow and I keep the other one around in the hope that I will find it.

I stole the other leg to save you the further humiliation of being caught wearing them. You're welcome.

Oh, and toucans taste like Fruit Loops, duh. What did you think they were made of?

[marie-angelique]

I stole the other leg to save you the further humiliation of being caught wearing them. You're welcome.

yay for friendlyskies, saving the world from fugly zipperpants, one pants leg at a time :)

[Kurt]

Zipper pants are gay. End of.

I found a use for them actually. When I was a truck driver I would wear all that techno quick dry stuff when I went to Houston and New Orleans during the summer. Anything cotton became a towel while re-packing a truck down there and the I would zip the pants legs off when I got back into the truck for added cooling with the AC blasting. Then when I got to the hotel (we didn't have sleeper cabs) I would wash my clothes in the shower and they would be dry in the morning.

I have not had a reason to wear them since then except around the apartment as shorts. They also were not too bad for running around Port Au Prince during the summer but yah, I looked like a dork.

[Sri Lanky]

I hope that you were at least wearing your bowtie. You know,I used to make fun of guys who wore bowties as people who reasoned that,"Hey I don't get laid,so I might as well wear this stupid tie". Then I saw that picture of you with a bowtie and I must say...it suits you but not in a dorky way. I think it's that confident yet ever so slightly smarmy smile of yours. So,I bet as long as you have that slightly smarmy smile then you evade a certain degree of dorkiness no matter what you wear.

Clothes don't make the man...the man makes the man.

[nowonmai]

Clothes don't make the man...The Man makes the man.

Fixed that to make it BFC compliant.

[JITW]

Gay



~JITW

[ktrout]

Gay

To me that word in this context implies extravagance with lack of function. I'll stick with shorts and a separate pair of quick drying pants, but it seems as if they work for other people.

[Bouncer]

What can I say? I like zipperpants.

In fact, I have two or three sets of the REI Sahara nylon type, they're light, great for desert environments, provide UPF 50+ UV protection and dry very quickly.

Granted, they'll melt right to me if I'm on fire, but if I'm on fire, again, I have more pressing issues.

I also like sporks. I like functional things. I can't help it.

Regards,
-Bouncer-

[Ultra Swain]

Bouncer, do you smoke, or sit next to a fire, or cook your own meals?

Those fucking pants are a Eugenics wet dream. They burn like mad, are gay as hell, and ruin all the cool photos anyone takes of you while you are wearing them.

[Bouncer]

Bouncer, do you smoke, or sit next to a fire, or cook your own meals?

Those fucking pants are a Eugenics wet dream. They burn like mad, are gay as hell, and ruin all the cool photos anyone takes of you while you are wearing them.

Yes, yes and yes. Hell I already burned a nice couple holes in them from cigarette ashes... but to me, the risk is worth the reward. The reward being not having ball soup every single day in Iraq. And I have fancy cargo pants for when the photo-ops happen!

To be fair, I rotated home to the US in late December and probably am not going back to the sandbox anytime soon, soooo.. yeah. They stay in the gorilla box along with the technical shirts and all the other gay unit-logo'd clothing. And the spork.

Regards,
-Bouncer-

[Mikethehack]

They aren't gay. In fact, they are incredibly useful for all sorts of situations. I have ripped them off to use them as bandages, to plug leaking things, and to pop in a puddle and wash my face with, or even use as a towel. I have never worn them very much but when I have or someone else has, then they made a big difference. And I agree with Kurt and Bouncer about having my testicles cooked in their own juices.

And for the last time can we stop calling them pants because I keep getting images of people running around in war zones wearing their Y-fronts and nothing else. It's trousers, dammit!
The last thing we need is to give RYP another excuse to dig into his collection of photographs of men in thongs.