Anyone else here hate "Cowboys"

[HEyHEY]

Not the REAL ones, hey if you make your living taking care of cows, fine. I mean the losers who DRESS like cowboys. I mean, seriously, I wanted to be a cowboy when I was 8 but I GREW UP.
Nothing sadder than seeing a 35-year-old accountant with a cowboy hat and boots drinking his budwieser at some phony country western bar in the middle of the city.

What say you? Are these people delusional?

[hfojvt]

1. I thought you were talking about those who

dress up in silver and blue with stars on their helmets. I cannot stand them.

[HEyHEY]

2. That was a perfect example

[WCGreen]

3. A song I am writin'''

I was born yesterday
In a Houston Honkey Tonk
With the Music Twangin so loudly in my ear
I saw those ladies two steppin on the dance floor
And all them Good Ol Boys swiggin down the beer

And I don't wanna die
In a Houston Honky
I'm headed out that door
For the Ceyanne Rodeo
Cause I'm livin' a lie
In a Houston Honky Tonk
The open space is where this ol boy be.

[Jamastiene]

4. Depends on their political presuasion. If they are uber-repugs, hell yeah,

I hate 'em, but if they are not repugs, nah, don't hate 'em. Sounds like the simplest answer I've ever given.

[WCGreen]

5. That's cool.....

Saw a couple wearing the hats at the show I went ot last night.....

No problems

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. I'll take a little offense. MrG has worn cowboy boots and belt buckles

with his shirts tucked in since he was a tot. They look good on him, it's part of who he is, and he's never wrangled a steer. He was just raised up dressing the part.

He's a 35 year old machinist who prefers MGD. And I love him.

[tuvor]

7. It's just clothing.

OTOH, I secretly laugh my ass of at the goth kiddies on Granville Street. "That is SO your dad's generation, kids! Where's the rebellion?"

And now I have a 12-year old nephew who loves Deep Purple. :eyes:

Can ya tell I don't have a clue? About a lot of things?

[Chovexani]

50. Yes.

:eyes:

[baldguy]

8. Anyone wearing a cowboy hat north of the Mason-Dixon line,

and east of the Mississippi shout be hog tied.

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. That's kind of plain mean. MrG has worn them forever North of the line and

East of the Mississippi, and it has nothing to do with Macho-ism or false bravado...or even style. He's worn them since they were in...and out.

[obxhead]

10. .

:toast:

[BikeWriter]

14. Hell, I wore my western hats and boots in VietNam and Alaska.

[magnetism]

49. Hog tied just for wearing a cowboy hat?

Seriously?

:crazy:

[BikeWriter]

11. I laugh sometimes at the dudes who push that sort of thing...

I've owned horses most of my life. I've trained horses and mules and raised cattle. I'm not bashful at all about saying my ass fits a saddle. My ex was a professional horse trainer and as she described my riding "It ain't pretty, but he don't fall off much."

[sendero]

12. I used to..

.... but then I decided it was hypocritical to dis them for that and not do the same for every goth teen or t-shirted hippie wannabee or whatever.

For me, everyone is pretty much living one fantasy or another. Pick your poison :)

[bertha katzenengel]

13. Nope.

I wear baseball hats practically all the time when I'm not at work or asleep, and I'm a 42 year old woman. I don't feel the need to "grow up" -- I AM grown up, and god dammit, I like to wear baseball hats. If folks want to judge me because of that, then fuck 'em. That's their problem.

No animosity, HEyHEY. That's who I am. You asked. :hi:

[Left Is Write]

15. You mean drugstore cowboys?

No, I don't hate them.

I don't want to join them, but I don't hate them.

[GOPisEvil]

20. You're just a coca-cola cowboy

with your Eastwood smile
and Robert Redford hair...

Good ol' Mel Tillis. :)

[Left Is Write]

26. I should qualify what I said...

When I said "I don't want to join them", I meant in their style of dress. I wouldn't mind joining them for a beer, as long as it's NOT Budweiser.

:)

[GOPisEvil]

29. I'm not much for the style of dress either.

But I do like some of the music. Of course you know this, because we share Derailers love. :D

[Left Is Write]

48. Oh, yes! The Derailers' music is the real thing!

[Left Is Write]

51. Because of this conversation, I pulled out Reverb Deluxe for the drive

to my son's preschool.

"I'm sorry I'm not sorry about those tears in your eyes..."

I loved the Reverb Deluxe lineup.

[JVS]

16. Not quite as much as I hate the Dallas Cowboys, but enough

[Tom Kitten]

17. I don't mind cowboys

Especially if I am in cowboy country, which is just about any point east of here...But the folks I really like are Mounties...are there any Mountie bars up there?

[RoyGBiv]

18. Depends ...

Cowboy hats have a purpose, as do the boots, and if the person wearing them actually knows what it is and actually needs it for that purpose, my Critical Meter shuts off. They don't necessarily have to be wearing them for that purpose at the time, and it really has nothing to do with "raising cows" as you put it. There is a "dress" version that even those who use the non-dress version will wear.

Cowboy hats have saved my neck and ears from severe sunburn and my whole body from heat exhaustion on multiple occasions.

The rest of the so-called cowboy getup you tend to see in public is just fashion. Who cares.

Now, that said, anyone who wears chaps to a bar and isn't gay needs his ass thoroughly kicked.

[BikeWriter]

21. Listen here now, I've worn chaps into bars quite often...

When I'd ride one of my horses, a mule, or my Harley there. :shrug:

[RoyGBiv]

22. I stand corrected ...

If you actually ride a horse or a Harley into a bar, you can damn well wear whatever you want to wear. :-)

:toast:

[BikeWriter]

25. ROFLOL! Yep, we've surprised a few folks that way, for sure. :-)

[Left Is Write]

23. I thought of that too. My FIL wears chaps into bars often too.

He drives a Harley.

[BikeWriter]

28. Yes'm, I've rode them many thousands of miles...

Those chaps have saved my hide before, too. :)

[RoyGBiv]

30. I forgot about the Harley people ...

That counts.

I had in mind this guy I saw -- a couple weeks ago actually -- who was wearing blue suede chaps in a bar where I was. I'm fairly certain he arrived in a yellow GEO and is a food critic for the local paper.

No Clue. :crazy:

[Patiod]

47. Grew an appreciated for their real purpose

I'm a total tenderfoot who two weeks ago spent a week riding through the Medicine Bow Mountains west of Laramie. More off-trail than on, so the cowboy hat protected me from sun and branches, and sturdy cowboy boots protecting my feet from getting crushed (also glad for study jeans and a long-sleeved denim shirt).

I know I'll look like a poseur wearing the boots in Philadelphia (no way I'd wear the hat), but I really fell in love with them. They're much enhanced by a stain on the horse side of each boot where the stirrup rubbed.

[ellie]

19. That reminds me of a funny story:

DH and I stopped in Dodge City on our way back east to see the old town display. When we were getting back into the car, we saw a cowboy wearing spurs amblin' over to his Dodge 4x4. I swear we laughed until St. Louis.

[Redstone]

24. Best smile when you say that.

Redstone

[HEyHEY]

40. You're wearing a blazer

I'm talking about the tools that were the full gear.

[Ilsa]

27. This weekend at my high school reunion, there were "cowboys"

who now live in Houston and still wear cowboy hats, but only to hide their bald spots. When they lived back home, they did real cowboy work.

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. Yep - I think the cowboy poseurs are the worst sort of poseur trash

Like those country singing assholes from West Virginia who dress like cowboys. What the fucking fuck????!!!!

And the assholes who go to those concerts, the assholes who drive semi trucks, the assholes who dress like cowboys between moves of their meth labs, the assholes who dress like cowboys for a night on the town...

Of all the kinds of asshole ways that assholes dress in this country, the fake cowboy is the one that pisses me off the most. I think it's VERY insulting to real cowboys, and it's just wrong. Not only is it an ugly, tacky, shitbrained way to dress that just announces to the world "My social IQ is negligable", it's also, um....well, it's all that, for sure. And, as I said, insulting to the real cowboys.

Walking around in fake cowboy gitup is no different than walking around with a lab coat and a stethoscope if you aren't a doctore, or a policeman's uniform if you aren't a policeman, etc. etc. etc.

I would love to pass legislation that makes it perfectly legal - maybe even a legal requirement - for real cowboys to take a 2x12 to the head of anyone wearing cowboy gitup who ain't a real cowboy.

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. Well...then I'd have to shoot them.

I wouldn't have MrG any other way...and no one's touching his head.

[tarkus]

32. Yeah, I find the whole thing kind of odd.

I mean if they wear like... the whole thing with the blanket around the neck and everything and are really hardcore than it is cool. But no one does that. And I'm not really a fan.

[tjdee]

34. Bwahahaha! The blanket!

That just made me laugh really hard. Thanks.
:hi:

[BikeWriter]

36. You're talking about a Clint Eastwood type poncho?

I don't think you'll see many working horsemen wear one. It could cause you a broken neck if it caught onto a tree.

[tjdee]

35. "Look at me, I'm so rugged and tough..." Righto.

Tim McGraw is one hot man, but even *he* can't save those hats. Obviously they serve a purpose if one is a *real* cowboy, but so few of these guys are.

And I've had the misfortune to meet a few of the posers who wear these hats, and it's a way of coolifying themselves, like "I'm so rugged".... :eyes:

I'm sure there are men who were raised in those hats and it's a part of their life and past and whatever...and that's cool...but I personally haven't met them. And those hats still hide your face and look like big boats. I'm just sayin'.

[mitchum]

37. Well, I own several pairs of boots, but would never wear them with...

any other cowboy drag.
I also own several shirts, but never wear them with the boots. Just snake or lizard loafers.
You couldn't pay me to wear one of those hats or belts, though.

[progmom]

38. naw.

:shrug:

I'll concede that Bush pisses me off with his cowboy boots, but that's because it's so transparently disingenuous.

[Lethe]

39. there's cowboys in Canada?

shocking!

[HEyHEY]

41. fake ones - ALbertans

[u4ic]

42. Surely you don't mean this one...

[HEyHEY]

43. I seriously thought that was a photo shop the first time I saw it

I don't know what's worse..that getup or stockwell day's sea-do stunt

[u4ic]

45. Day will always be a dork

but at least he had the body for that wetsuit.

[enigmatic]

44. hahaha

Smilin' Stevie Harper!:rofl:

[NaturalHigh]

46. I'm a Sooner fan.

As such, I hate the Oklahoma State University (animal husbandry college) Cowboys.