Boston Marathon Jackets

when I see boston jacket

or

newton shoes

i think

tool

So why did you reply to my message?

Average_Joe wrote:

BOHICA wrote:

Agree, that jacket looks like it came from a superhero costume.

To the OP, this kind of stuff that people wear for a 'status symbol' appeals most to the self-absorbed. In effect, they end up diluting the quality of the 'brand' they're wanting to publicly identify with.

I've never really felt the need to buy the jacket to publicly identify with the Boston Marathon. I just like the jackets.

It may very well be that I am self-absorbed, but in the end, I just like how they look.

BOHICA wrote:

So why did you reply to my message?

Because you quoted me.

Maybe technically, but it was really "out for a run"'s post that I quoted and whose comments that I was responding to, along with the OP's. Your response above only confirmed that my post had nothing to do with you.

That shirt is available at Marathon Sports, as well as the expo. Marathon Sports in almost right across the street from Hynes where the expo is on Boylston St.

BOHICA wrote:

Maybe technically, but it was really "out for a run"'s post that I quoted and whose comments that I was responding to, along with the OP's. Your response above only confirmed that my post had nothing to do with you.

Maybe more than technically. It had everything to do with me. Your response above classified all people with the jacket as being self absorbed and trying to identify with something. I said that I was NOT trying to publicly identify with anything.

What does my response bother you?

If someone else's jacket bothers these idiots, you shouldn't be surprised by anything they write.

Guys, guys, guys...we are all getting crazy with tapering this week :)

Great race to all!

Average_Joe wrote:

It had everything to do with me. Your response above classified all people with the jacket as being self absorbed and trying to identify with something. I said that I was NOT trying to publicly identify with anything.

What does my response bother you?

Because you are WRONG! It had NOTHING to do with you! Clear your eyes, go back and reread it more carefully, I NEVER said "all people with the jacket" are that way. Even though I don't like it when people take things I say to mean things that were clearly not intended it doesn't really bother me, I just question why you felt the need to make a response and the characterization you implied at first and now assert overtly. Sorry, but your reading ability is below average.

Wow, you really are upset. Well, you are right on one count. You never used the word "all". But when I clear my eyes and read what you wrote, I come up with this:

"this kind of stuff that people wear for a 'status symbol' appeals most to the self-absorbed. In effect, they end up diluting the quality of the 'brand' they're wanting to publicly identify with"

Looks pretty categorical to me. "People wear it for a status symbol." Period. I don't see any qualifiers there. Not "some". Not "a few". Not even "not all". Just "people". Now, being the below average reader that I am, I took that to mean all people. In the very least, most.

Your writing ability is worse. I don't want to get you any angrier than you already are but the fact remains that your words clearly convey the message as I characterized it. If you wish to restate your point so as to convey a different message, that is up to you.

Will you two retards knock it off already.

yah! your taking away from the deep thoughts on threads like like greatest movie eva, honeymoon advice, and "mac question"!!!

You don't know me, chump. I'm still not upset. You come across as being so hard-headed that you need to be hit over the head with exclamations.

Crap attempt at paraphrasing. You took it wrong, end of story. So who else would wear it besides people? Giraffes? Ptarmigans?

You still aren't able to parse how it would be different if I wrote "appeals completely" or "appeals without exception" as opposed to "appeals most"? It leaves open the option that it can appeal to other types than those it appeals "most" to. It only looks "categorical" to those who don't really understand the meaning of "appeals most" when they read it. Here is another example in your lesson. "NASCAR appeals most to southerners." That doesn't mean it appeals ONLY to southerners.

Nope, I wrote it exactly as I meant it. You inserted the meaning you wanted to see. You chose to take it that way, in effect. I could speculate why you did, but what's the point in that?

Thank you retard #1.

Let's hear it retard #2!!

Calm down, Bohica.

Average Joe is cool, you are not. Go take an ice bath or something, ahah.

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Thank you retard #1.

Let's hear it retard #2!!

Retard #2 is done. The last response lost me around the "ptarmigans".

I always buy two so I can cut the sleeves off of one of them and wear it to the weight room.

I've never run Boston and probably never will. However, I want to buy and wear one of the Boston jackets. What is the consensus on this? Is it a huge breach of etiquette? Or is it no big deal and would only tick off self-righteous and insecure delusionals?

I have run Boston for the past seven years and I liked the old Image Impact jackets. There were like the marathon itself, unique! The Adidas stuff can be bought anywhere and if you go to other Adidas sponsored marathons, the jackets are identical the only thing that changes is the 3"x3" silk screened logo. Nike has done the same thing in Chicago. Gone are the nice embroidered jackets. Everything is just the same stuff if you wandered into any store and bought it for several dollars cheaper (you just don't get the logo). There's nothing special about the Adidas jackets. With the old Image Impact jackets, some folks may have thought them ugly, but they were unique.