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Since this simply won't go away, I guess I'll have to fess up. From 1986:

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Yes, that's me, and no I'm not proud of myself.

Kudos to you for posting the picture. The only reason I don't have a similar photo is I always knew I couldn't pull cool off - and would only highlight that point by trying - so I never did. But if I could have, I would have.
 
Kudos to you for posting the picture. The only reason I don't have a similar photo is I always knew I couldn't pull cool off - and would only highlight that point by trying - so I never did. But if I could have, I would have.


My self awareness was obviously lacking. Thanks for the brutal honesty. Lol

I've found other photos of my more traditional style from the period. I didn't dress like that regularly, and I don't recall why I thought it was a good idea that time. Wait til you see the shorts I wore...
 

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Almost two. It wasn't owned by Bean, it was contracted to make their logo-printed shirts. I was the youngest person on the floor when I started, but that didn't last long. The horror stories I could share could fill a book -- speedups, toxic waste, disconnected safety guards, gruesome injuries to workers, you name it. I walked out before I could be fired for insubordination, if you couldn't guess.

My other manufacturing job was in a meat-processing place, and that was actually far more tolerable, if you didn't mind smelling like blood all the time.
 
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Almost two. It wasn't owned by Bean, it was contracted to make their logo-printed shirts. I was the youngest person on the floor when I started, but that didn't last long. The horror stories I could share could fill a book -- speedups, toxic waste, disconnected safety guards, gruesome injuries to workers, you name it.

My other manufacturing job was in a meat-processing place, and that was actually far more tolerable, if you didn't mind smelling like blood all the time.

Never worked in a factory, but I worked on loading docks and in warehouses; however, oddly, the grossest and most dangerous job I had was bartending in a relatively upscale pub in Manhattan where the basement was a war zone of filth, loose wires, puddles of water, crazy crawl spaces and this incredibly antiquated and complex system of pumps, hoses and containers for the soda, some mixes (like Bloody Marys) and tap beer.

The bartenders had to maintain the system and it was a nasty and sincerely dangerous job (I thought I'd get electrocuted for sure down there or, at least, Tetanus) that - combined with a complete tool of a manager - had me quit pretty quickly as I was able to line up another job. I always chuckle as my loading dock and warehouse jobs had reasonably good safety procedures for the times (wouldn't cut it today), but the bar tending job truly was a real injury waiting to happen.
 
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Almost two. It wasn't owned by Bean, it was contracted to make their logo-printed shirts. I was the youngest person on the floor when I started, but that didn't last long. The horror stories I could share could fill a book -- speedups, toxic waste, disconnected safety guards, gruesome injuries to workers, you name it. I walked out before I could be fired for insubordination, if you couldn't guess.

My other manufacturing job was in a meat-processing place, and that was actually far more tolerable, if you didn't mind smelling like blood all the time.

I worked one factory job (assembly of electric motors) job in my life. Only 3 months, over a summer. But the mind- numbing drudgery was a great object lesson as to Marx's concept of dehumanizing an individual into a mere means of production. Compared to those who work such jobs for a lifetime, it was merely a taste from the spoon... and I know that I got off easy.
 
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...I've found other photos of my more traditional style from the period. I didn't dress like that regularly, and I don't recall why I thought it was a good idea that time. Wait til you see the shorts I wore...
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:D
 
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Do we want to ask what that means???:confused:
I'm guessing it pretty much means what we all think it means.

With regards to those Dolfin shorts, back around 1980 my wife and I witnessed a personal best in the "What was he thinking?" category. We were at a local mall, and saw a young man who looked not too dissimilar to the model on the right in the photo I posted above. His hair was much curlier and longer in the back (a mullet), he was tanned, and had what I'd call a swimmer's physique; good looking guy. But he was wearing a pair of those blue-and-white striped shorts, beach sandals, a lightweight light gray sports coat with the sleeves pushed up (not rolled up) to his elbows, and no shirt. o_O
 
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"Hygiene" was widely used in the Era as a synonym for chemical forms of birth control.

Yep. The old-fashion term "Ehe-Hygiene"/marital-hygienics was kind of a main-term for the part of hygienics, that has to do with sexuality and birth-control on a married couple, but also with psychologic things on a marriage.

But today, this sound so old, as it would represent only Nazi-Germany. ;)
 
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