Um...What?

[Thenomain]

Recently I discovered that people collect sneakers to the point where this is a thing that people take pretty seriously.

Um...so...yeah.

[Kanye Qwest]

@thenomain what world do you live in??

[Auspice]

@kanye-qwest said in Um...What?:

@thenomain what world do you live in??

Isn't he in Ohio?
I hear they're about twenty years behind everyone else and Sneaker collecting did begin to rise in the mid-80s...

[Ganymede]

@auspice said in Um...What?:

Isn't he in Ohio?
I hear they're about twenty years behind everyone else and Sneaker collecting did begin to rise in the mid-80s...

In Ohio, you can not win a game and be thought to have saved a season.

[Thenomain]

It just never occurred to me that the Air Jordans craze created a movement where people treat sweat-shop shoes as art. It's just not part of the world I live in.

[surreality]

@thenomain What's unnerving to me here is that there are so many stranger things that people collect. You have a good brain, and I'm scared for it now.

[Coin]

@auspice said in Um...What?:

@kanye-qwest said in Um...What?:

@thenomain what world do you live in??

Isn't he in Ohio?
I hear they're about twenty years behind everyone else and Sneaker collecting did begin to rise in the mid-80s...

Honey, I hate to tell you this but the eighties were thirty years ago. >.>

[Insomnia]

@coin

[Thenomain]

@surreality said in Um...What?:

@thenomain What's unnerving to me here is that there are so many stranger things that people collect.

It's not that it's strange, it's that it's something that could be used instead of collected. It's like collecting toys instead of playing with them, it's like sealing comics away before reading them, it's like making children make shoes instead of educating them.

I had someone point out a pair of sneakers that someone else was wearing that were, I kid you not, $500, because they were collectable. Maybe this is how much Nike would demand sweat-shop shoes would be if they paid a fair wage, but it was still something that made me go "um...what?"

[Doozer]

Uh.. sometimes you just HAVE to match your shoes with your purse with your outfit and your headband.

Coordinating is important.

[Auspice]

[Thenomain]

@shincashay said in Um...What?:

Uh.. sometimes you just HAVE to match your shoes with your purse with your outfit and your headband.

Sure. If you're WEARING them. But if you're buying them just to say you have them?

Otherwise, be as fabulous as you can be.

[Auspice]

@thenomain said in Um...What?:

@shincashay said in Um...What?:

Uh.. sometimes you just HAVE to match your shoes with your purse with your outfit and your headband.

Sure. If you're WEARING them. But if you're buying them just to say you have them?

Otherwise, be as fabulous as you can be.

What about people who collect purses?!

[Thenomain]

@auspice

What about people who collect underwear?

[mietze]

What about the people who buy/sell/trade unwashed used underwear.

[Thenomain]

@mietze said in Um...What?:

What about the people who buy/sell/trade unwashed used underwear.

What about people who go to strip clubs?

[Tinuviel]

[TiredEwok]

@thenomain said in Um...What?:

It's like collecting toys instead of playing with them,

looks sheepishly at the Funko Pops that are on her desk and thinks of the others in a closet, clears her throat

I have no idea what you mean when you use this as an example.

[Auspice]

@tiredewok said in Um...What?:

@thenomain said in Um...What?:

It's like collecting toys instead of playing with them,

looks sheepishly at the Funko Pops that are on her desk and thinks of the others in a closet, clears her throat

I have no idea what you mean when you use this as an example.

Are they on your desk... IN THEIR BOXES?!

[TiredEwok]

@auspice

They are but only because it makes it easier to stack them right now. Once I can get the space to set up some shelves I might display them out of their box. I haven't fully made up my mind one way or another, just yet.