Protecting the dropouts

Getting a fucking life is the only thing that will work.

Christ, next week, it'll be "my tyres are dirty"

Singspeed, don't listen to these benders, their position is flawed, aesthetics, sensory or sensori-emotional values are, to this day, that one facet of the human condition that is as quickly dismissed as it is casually misunderstood. People like things to look good, it has evolutionary foundations (and practical value) as deep, perhaps deeper, than those other things we might give a free, unthinking, pass to, this worry about other's worrying about insignificant visual detail is an expression of machismo (which in itself is similarly valuable).

Every time someone takes the time to worry about the detail of another man's life and his interests (and to further take the time to complain about the interests of another man) you can pretty much take it as certain that these action carry more about him than you.

I think the main confusion is to mix up the idea that someone could obsess about how something looks with a sense of vanity - ie: it's common for people to struggle to escape the idea that: "I want my bike/car/trousers/house to look good" means anything other than "I want myself to 'look' good.