Words of Wisdom Wednesday
Today’s question:
Why is it socially unacceptable to wear Velcro?
Yuri: Personally I think Velcro is the greatest invention ever and I am deeply saddened that I’m not allowed, or even given the opportunity to buy more clothes/shoes with Velcro. But I think the stigma is more about the letter V, than it actually is about Velcro. People generally seem to associate the letter V with childish, scary or unacceptable behaviour. For example, video games, vanerial diseases, vasectomy, vapid, vicious, or a visit from your grandparents. So together we need to stand tall and say “I will not be associated with this v-hatred. I embrace all V words. I love Velcro. I love Video games. I love VAGINAS!
DarkJ: Velcro in standard population just makes you look dumb. If you can’t tie your shoe laces, you are more likely to buy noisy Velcro shoes. These shoes look terrible with the big flaps, and make you look even dumber. However, velcro unfortunately has become a part of society because of it’s reusable factor. It is one of the only materials that can be reattached over and over again without any additional glues or anything. Because of this fact, it has been proven useful in all sorts of applications. For instance, space travel. The standard space uniform consists of pants with velvro attached, t-shirts with velcro attached, and all manuals and foreign objects can be attached. This has been proven very useful as you can constantly reuse this material, reducing flying debris in space. Now, I’m off topic, but the reason it is socially unacceptable is because it is like having training wheels on a motorbike. In a regular world, its kids that haven’t learned to tie their shoes, or seniors that can’t tie there shoes, that buy these shoes. Beyond that, what else really has velcro anymore? The zipper is much stroner and proven to withstand the trials of life alot better, just alot heavier.
On another note, the Sweeds have developed a metal version of velcro, that can be strong enough to hold buildings together, but easy to pull apart and reusable. Is this world becoming one big jigsaw puzzle now?
Dr. Awesome: The question is dumb. People have velcro on almost every winter jacket. The only place its looked down upon is shoes and I’m sure if more high priced shoe companies made better designs with velcro fastening, it would come back in style. Can we get a ban on retarded questions?
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July 20th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
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