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   Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 15:48:33 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

   I'm getting on a plane to go and visit my family in England tomorrow, which is nice :)

   But I had to go clothes shopping, boooooo

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 15:48:31 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     My idea: CLOTHES SHOP FOR DADS

     You roll up at the facility, drive over to the JEANS hut. Dinnerlady-type in her wee hole says "What size luv," you go "thirrehfourthirrehtwoluv" while making a mental note to go easy on the pies so you can get back to 32/32, she goes "Right you are luv, tenner alright?" and chucks you a bin bag full of dead blokes' jeans that aren't too far gone and you give her a tenner and you're done, move on. T-shirts next.

     T-shirts are more complicated, your jeans were the simple one to ease you into it. Pull round to a bloke eating a pasty. He asks "Size," you go "Medium or large depending y'know," he nods, "You wanting colour, drab, black or mixup?" you think about it a moment and go aye, go on then, "Mix it up mate, colours and drab," he goes "Plain or wi' shite on, plain's two quid extra," you're sure as hell not gonna advertise some bugger else's T-shirt business on your body, so you give him twelve quid and he hands you Bin Bag 2.

     There's a pub on-premises that'll do you some chips or a pasty and you can watch the JCB sorting out the clothes while you drink your pint and furtle through your bags to see what you've bought.

     It'd be brilliant. Buying clothes would have nae stress at all, plus if you ended up wearing shite and looking a bit of a muppet you could just go "Aye well it were in the bag weren't it" and everybody'd nod and go aye, fair do's

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 15:48:32 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     Some people buy clothes for fun. I buy clothes when I look at myself and go "Gah shite, me bloody clothes have all worn out ffs" and tbh buying more clothes is seldom, like, an exciting or interesting affair

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     Kat, the dog one :glassesdog: (koosli@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 18:23:21 JST Kat, the dog one :glassesdog:

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     @ifixcoinops This toot sure is getting a lot of traction with dads

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 18:23:24 JST Rocketman

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     @ifixcoinops Same energy as old Steve Jobs, who found a turtleneck he liked and then just bought 200 of it, so they’d last him the rest of his life.

     Either way, count me in.

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     Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 18:23:30 JST Jens Finkhäuser

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     • Rocketman

     @slothrop Kind of what I did. Some ten years ago, I bought near-weekly t-shirts on teefury.com, back when they still had nifty mashups instead of fan art.

     I now have them on *rotation*, because otherwise picking t-shirts is too high a mental load.

     But it means I wear each of them maybe 2-3 times a year, so they're mostly still as good as new.

     @ifixcoinops

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 18:23:35 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     Well that resonated with the Dads of the Fediverse

     The fedimums meanwhile seem to be torn between "If my feller goes there I swear I'll kill him" and "There'd bloody well better be one for mums and all"

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