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I have drawers full of T shirts.
Old favourites that don't fit or aren't quite perfect, freebies, unwearable presents, misspelt knock-off band tatt bought outside gigs whilst pissed etc etc.......
But I only tend to wear 3.
The Che Guevara, The Half Man Half Biscuit and the Marvel.
They must go.
Banished to gardening.
Apparantly, crusty armpits & pinhole burns just don't cut it in Burnley.
Who knew?
She was very nice about it and has offered to buy replacements, but I've hidden them in the garage 'till the new ones arrive, just in case.
I'm trialling Bananman, Pele/Moore and Grumpy (the dwaff) as replacements.
First the cat died, now this 😐
Ha I feel your sorrow. I had this chat 3 wks ago
I love purging my wardrobe and giving stuff to charity shops, find it very therapeutic. The wife, on the other hand, is a professional hoarder!
Is it Burnley Fashion Week already?
It comes around quicker every year.
First the cat died, now this.
Three quarter length trousers this season?
Don't stand for it. I'm still wearing the old skool BT one I got as a freebie back in 98 and it will take a lot to part me from the 2000 JT one I won at a paintball competition.
Is she replacing like for like?
My son's teacher got very excited about the tatty star-wars t-shirt I was wearing this morning. Something about men not growing up... 😕 😀
Holes in the armpits are my threshold for consigning them to bike rags. Until then - fine to wear anywhere.
the chat comes from within for me.. a couple are getting consigned to bike washing / trainer duties. my first 10 Under the Ben t-shirt from 2007 (I think I went in 2006 too but didn't get a T). and my SSWC 2007 looks to be about done too 🙁
Crikey, me too. My collection is under scrutiny at present. Mind you 10 Triumph t shirts is probably a bit over the top .....
ahh yes..
I know this chat
i managed to salvage a few by saying that I bought them to commemorate the kid's birthdays and suchlike
Yeah, she's replacing like with like.
She actually bought me the Che one, £2.50 from Affleck's.
Can't complain really.
I still miss the Danger Mouse T shirt I wore throughout most of the 90's.
I became reacquainted with people who'd married and had kids since we first met because of that shirt.
All things must pass...
I've still got the Haircut 100 t shirt I bought in 1981
But I only tend to wear 3.
Really? Just 3 d different tees out of all that choice?
Is that weird, or just me?
I keep getting "the chat" about all my shit that clogs up the entire house. Then point out it's the masses of large toys she's insisted on buying for the kids, and her stuff that she never uses, and none of my stuff is in the places which are stuffed full of crap. Always goes down well.
Don't throw them. I've used lots of old t-shirts and ill fitting pants too come to think of it, as rags for cleaning bikes and other messy things with.
I tend to do this with poorly designed/crap fabric race t-shirts from when I was running.
Really? Just 3 d different tees out of all that choice?
*feels ashamed*
*puts hand up*
I do that too... 😳
Well, I've got a nice embroidered Fonzy number I wear for weddings and funerals.
Some of the presents get an airing depending on which niece/stepdaughter/in law is imminent.
It's only T shirts.
Currently have 8 pairs of Vans on the go and about half a dozen pairs of shorts,, so I'm OK with choice.
Glad I'm not alone.
🙂
I've still got the Haircut 100 t shirt I bought in 1981
I've still got Nick Heywood locked in a box under the stairs. Not had a response to the ransom note and the ****er is costing me a fortune in biscuits and fruit shoots.
Don't do it!! I cleared out a ton of t-shirts several years ago & now regret it.....
Have got quite a few that I still wear and most importantly still fit
Notable mentions to 80s Tangerine Dream Tour, quite a few Karrimor (when they were Karrimor), Bob Heath Visors and Champion
She'll go before they do 
I've still got Nick Heywood locked in a box under the stairs
Not having such a fantastic day today, are you Nick?
He's having a great time stuffing his face with biscuits.
I'm currently wearing a tee from the Newnham 90 8 years ago. It's lasted well, not quite as bright as it once was..
Point her to the recent police stuff on controlling behaviour 😀
Apparantly, crusty armpits & pinhole burns just don't cut it in Burnley.
Do you live in a different Burnley to me? I can do you a nice line in vintage Rox t-shirt. 😳
I don't like tshirts with logos, branding, pictures or designs on. Nice tshirts without these things are really difficult to find
I still have my challenger space shuttle t shirt from '83 when it landed at stansted . Minivader wore it for a while and I'm sure minimissvader will also wear it. Mrsvader does on occasion have that chat with me too....
Have 'they' received a memo or something. I had the very same conversation on Monday. The words vagrant and armpits featured a number of times. Although I'm quite excited about being given authority to raid the wedding fund to replenish my wardrobe.
I've had this conversation so many times. Apparently crusty t shirt armpits aren't sexy. Still the early 90's Metallica tee lives on though 😈
I love Burnley, it's ace.
But I'm the only bloke in a ten mile radius who doesn't spend his entire life, from birth to death in a Burnley shirt.
I'm convinced that locals are tattood with the current first team strip at birth, it's the only explanation.
🙂
Seriously, they have to go, they're even starting to offend me.
Even here, time moves slowly on.
Approximately 1967 now, when I last checked.
Have 'they' received a memo or something.
This. I've been under pressure to tackle a perceived t-shirt glut too.
Consign them to your winter t-shirt pile (as it's summer now which is why 'they' are scrutinising your wardrobe) then you can still wear them under a jumper.
Yes ours died recently so commiserations 😥First the cat died,
Harry_the_Spider - Member
He's having a great time stuffing his face with biscuits.
Bet he'd not get all prima Donna over a few fat meme pics
I stayed at a friend’s house not that long ago unexpectedly and he gave me a Monsters of Rock t-shirt to wear from 1988.
Mind you, he does still have a Commodore 64 on top of his wardrobe so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised at his tshirts.
Rachel
My wife usually has a lower threshold to the state of my clothes than I do and will usually make sure my rag pile for the garage is healthy but apparently sentiment also is a part of these decisions. When presented with what I think is a pretty past it, Nirve BMX T-shirt (freebie from working in a shop 13 years ago), she insisted I keep it as a gardening or diy T-shirt. Apparently I used to wear it a lot when we got together and she doesn't want to see it go.
That's the Christmas present sorted then - get it framed and we can stick the damn thing on the wall!
Commiserations my friend.
The next step will be the underpants draw mate, I know from bitter experience...
Once the sacred resting place of so many pairs of trusted old stalwarts, underpants that had been amassed over the years, old, faded, worn, elastic showing, holes in some, but oh so comfortable and still perfectly serviceable albeit nearing the end of their natural lives. Until one day there was an enforced clear out, brand new and 'fashionable' replacements bought...you'll look far nicer in these, etc.
And the cycle of underpant life begins again...
Bet he'd not get all prima Donna over a few fat meme pics
Not if I put cling film over the air holes in his box.
I've still got Nick Heywood locked in a box under the stairs
It was nice of you to let him phone in to Radio2 this morning.
The Che Guevara, The Half Man Half Biscuit and the Marvel.
😯
Most people still wearing their HMHB tees these days basically represent the band name without any need for the shirt.
I'm still mourning my old Ramones shirt. My missus actually nicked that one to wear in bed, and trashed it completely.
I have a carhartt one with a lovely abstract design on ,my missus like s to remind me it's 20 year old!
frame them 🙂
i've got a few kept back for that.
also, still bitter about my mum binning some without consent when i was much younger.
edit: any other ex-skateboarders might understand more too.
Not if I put cling film over the air holes in his box.
mrsfry? Is that you?
Just remembered!
I have a box full of unused 2008 vintage Hit The North T-shirts somewhere.
Grey and pink things. Bloody awful.
£20 each including postage.
It was nice of you to let him phone in to Radio2 this morning.
Shit! He's escaped!
I have a box full of unused 2008 vintage Hit The North T-shirts somewhere.Grey and pink things. Bloody awful.
£20 each including postage.
£20 for 2008 t shirts ain't that bad
That's a lot of dusters. I'll get a picture of Heywood wearing one. I know where he hides when he gets out.
They must go.
Banished to gardening.
Apparantly, crusty armpits & pinhole burns just don't cut it in Burnley.
Who knew?
That actually sounds a bit like a Nige lyric.
Replacing a HMHB T-shirt with a Pele / Moore one...Your optimism strikes me like junk mail addressed to the dead
T-Shirt?
Burnley?
I know just the thing..
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You'll be quite the nob in one of them.
I've still got Nick Heywood locked in a box under the stairs. Not had a response to the ransom note
You might have had more luck with the ransom if you'd kidnapped Nick Heyward instead?
I'd suggest you've wasted perfectly good biscuits there.
You don't have Chesney Hobbes as well do you?
or Mick Kershaw 😉
Good point. The one I have looks like a Chinese basketball player.
The cloud base is indeed low over these dark Pennine hills, my friend.
On the upside, I've just found an almost unworn 1989 Hawkwind 'Stonehenge or Bust' T shirt that nearly fits.
I'd forgotten about that.
Bonus.
You've changed, Pete. Quite literally - you used to always wear the SLF one!
Still got that one.
😀
Perfect apart from the creosote holes, years of life left yet.
The perfect technical, yet stylish mid layer.
The Che Guevara, The Half Man Half Biscuit and the Marvel.
I hope you are under 30, and wearing them as some sort of cool retro look you've got going on.
If you are over 30, it might be time to throw away all your 'cool' t-shirts and embrace being an adult. 😉
Why?
🙂
I'm on a 'one in, one out' rule, which covers t-shirts/clothing, bikes, and just about anything really. My wife has literally torn the shirt from my back before now (to be honest, it was more hole than shirt, and only required a gentle tug to finally render it useless as a garment). She does like a well-worn/washed soft cotton t-shirt for me to wear in bed so she can cuddle up to me though. Such a garment takes quite a while to get to such condition. Not all materials are capable of reaching that state.
I don't fully comply to the aforementioned rule, and live in constant fear of one of her Stalinist purges, which involve quite a bit of arguing, sometimes shouting and stamping of feet, and occasionally lying on the floor kicking and screaming. I'm still sore about that circa 1996 BHS t-shirt she threw away last year. That had plenty of life left in it. 😥
I'm so glad I'm not alone.
Told my wife I'd have a cull after a discussion
Got rid of 3.
Still recovering from loosing a faithful ROX T shirt from the 90's.
molgrips - Member
I don't like tshirts with logos, branding, pictures or designs on. Nice tshirts without these things are really difficult to find
Many others do, who'd a thunk it.
Fortunately I have nobody to get all Stalinista over my choice of tee shirts, of which I have a great many, most of which are still perfectly wearable, just because I have lots to choose from, and I've mostly worn ones to work that don't matter too much if they get damaged.
I recently wore one of my original Lush tees to the first gig they've played in twenty years, and I have Curve, Metallica and many others dating back to the mid-nineties.
But then, I recently dug out a couple of pairs of old Levis 501's from around '83 that I can still wear...
cbmotorsport - Member
The Che Guevara, The Half Man Half Biscuit and the Marvel.
I hope you are under 30, and wearing them as some sort of cool retro look you've got going on.If you are over 30, it might be time to throw away all your 'cool' t-shirts and embrace being an adult.
Well, I recently bought a new HMHB tee at one of their gigs, and you're running a very, [i]very[/i] real risk of coming across like an article from the [i]Daily Mail[/i], which has a tendency to push the idea that anyone over 30 should start wearing slacks and cardigans, listen to jazz, and give up wearing jeans, tees, and listening to rock music.
Last night I was watching Television play a gig at Bristol Uni, wearing shorts and my pinkshineyultrablast tee shirt, and I'm 62 next month...
And if you don't like it, you can suck my socks.
Most of my favourite t shirts are at least 10 years old and still worn. My favourite is about 15 years old and mrsP thinks she threw it out.... I retrieved it from the bin. Hehehehe
I have quite a lot o f t shirts but I mostly wear 3 or 4 on rotation. Not because I like them better - they come out of the washer and sit on the floor and rewearing them is easier than putting them away 😳
I've lost count of the number of t-shirts that have magically disappeared over the years. I'm sure it's just a coincidence but it ever seems to happen when I'm single
welding underneath cars every day meant all my clothes were full of burn holes, I always got given T shirts and it wasn't something that ever bother me.
But I had a T shirt from When the Norton Hogslayer came to santa Pod, I was very pissed when I realised it had been cut up and a consigned to the rags.
I had a load of T shirts printed in 2003, I sold some but had about 30 left over,
So that was me sorted for T shirts for some years.
Apparantly, crusty armpits & pinhole burns just don't cut it in Burnley.
What? That counts as the pinnacle of sartorial elegance in Bonleh.