Is your Bathrobe Ratty? The ultimate INTP "wounded social outcast" icon.

[David Carolina]

Think about it. If you ever want to infuriate someone (wife, parent, judgemental corporate whore) get an old ratty bathrobe at the goodwill and wear it when they want you to "get serious". If you REALLY want to stir the Pot wear it out in public wilst affecting a pronounced limp.

By way of being politically correct, it might be advisable to tell the person you are "ill " from some undefinable and undiagnosed (you're too lazy to seek medical help) malady .

Remember, that being "hateful" is worse than being a murderer in the USA, so even if you are only "depressed" it would be hateful for anyone to tell you to take it off~!

A bathrobe is the anti thesis of the American Dream. I suspect most INTP's have one and that they use it as a psychological weapon.

It practically screams "Im Wounded. Leave me alone"

Consider the words of American Songwriter Stephen Bishop:

My Clarinet

I should've stayed playing my clarinet
I coulda made it
I coulda made it
Playing big halls in an all Negro-band

I should've gone to college
Instead of watching T.V.
All day in my BATHROBE
I could've made it
Playing my clarinet

I never should've left the town
That I knew so well
San Diego, can't you tell?
I could've made it
Playing my clarinet

I hang around people I used to gawk at
In magazines
I was fifteen
And it all seemed so far away

I'd get my kicks
From singing "Money" in an old garage
On Saranac Street
I'm tired and I'm scared
And I want to go home again

You probably think I'm kidding
And you're probably right
I feel like the "Z" in xylophone tonight
And I keep looking for an answer
But I can't put up a fight
It all seems so long ago
When I...

I should've stayed playing my clarinet
I coulda made it
I coulda made it
Playing big halls in an all Negro band

I should've gone to college
Instead of watching T.V.
All day in my BATHROBE
I could've made it
Playing my clarinet

I should've made it
Playing my clarinet...

[booyalab]

i hardly ever wear a bathrobe.

[PiccoloNamek]

I always dry off and get dressed before I leave the bathroom.

[attila_the_hunny]

I don't own a bathrobe.
I could live in my scrub pajamas, though. Had 'em for years.

[eyebyte_atWork]

Sweats and a T Shirt

(I need to learn to use the spell checker - fuck)

[waxwing]

I've never owned a bathrobe, but I like those bath sheets. If I were able, I would wear one all day.

When I was younger, I was known for getting out of the shower without drying off, and thus, making puddles in the bathroom. I think I broke that habit, or at least I dry the floor now.

[nottaprettygal]

When I was younger, I was known for getting out of the shower without drying off, and thus, making puddles in the bathroom. I think I broke that habit, or at least I dry the floor now.

I still do this. Also, I like getting dressed when I'm still really wet.

[Nighthawk]

I only wear a bathrobe in the winter. Its a fluffy maroon Nautica robe that my wife bought me. I also have a thinner, ratty old maroon robe that I've had for about 25 years.

[eyebyte_atWork]

I still do this. Also, I like getting dressed when I'm still really wet.

Freak

[meshou]

Mine's got leopard spots on it.

[indie]

Bathrobes are for narcissists.

[meshou]

Bathrobes are for narcissists.You're absolutely right.

Humble people go naked. Everywhere.

[indie]

You're absolutely right.

Humble people go naked. Everywhere.

Very true. When you live alone, it's nice to be able to go naked everywhere. It's not exactly the best idea if you have roommates, though.

[Sackanaka]

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/ghandi.JPG

Bathrobes seem too much of a bothersome intermediate step between nakedness and regular clothing for me to try it.

[meshou]

Very true. When you live alone, it's nice to be able to go naked everywhere. It's not exactly the best idea if you have roommates, though.I see your true colors, pridemonger.

[Helios]

I never have had a bathrobe, it would strike my as akward to wear one, I believe. I'll have to confess I march around naked 'till I dry off, lest people are around then I do the towl thing.

[indie]

I see your true colors, pridemonger.

I'm sorry, meshou. I looked up "pridemonger" in the dictionary and found no definition of such word.

Game over. Please try again later.

[meshou]

I'm sorry, meshou. I looked up "pridemonger" in the dictionary and found no definition of such word.

Game over. Please try again later. But fishmonger is!

Fishmonger! I bet you even gut.... trout! :thelook:

I'm going to assume you didn't actually think I was doing anything but playing. Because if you thought I was serious, and in addition feel that sticking to the dictionary is a good thing, I weep for humanity.

[indie]

But fishmonger is!

:rofl:

meshou, I <3 you.

[LuridLemur]

I think bathrobes are as useless as earmuffs.

[MacGuffin]

On another board I frequent, there is a wide range of people posting, esp. middle-aged women. Quite a few of them have posted that they should have known the marriage was over when their husbands started moping around the house in a ratty bathrobe.

The bathrobe has even become an icon. When someone posts about marriage problems, someone usually makes a joke that they hope a bathrobe isn't involved. Cause if it is... there is no hope.

[eyebyte_atWork]

On another board I frequent, there is a wide range of people posting, esp. middle-aged women. Quite a few of them have posted that they should have known the marriage was over when their husbands started moping around the house in a ratty bathrobe.

The bathrobe has even become an icon. When someone posts about marriage problems, someone usually makes a joke that they hope a bathrobe isn't involved. Cause if it is... there is no hope.

Your avatar is wearing a bathrobe.

[MacGuffin]

Your avatar is wearing a bathrobe.Cape!

[force chokes]

[iponjs]

This thread reminds me of Michael Douglas in "The Wonder Boys"...

[panda]

This thread reminds me of Michael Douglas in "The Wonder Boys"...
Great movie.

[Winterpark]

I have a bathrobe and I like it. I like to dance with it in front of the mirror when I'm alone.

[C.J.Woolf]

I wear a polarfleece bathrobe in the winter 'cause my house is poorly insulated.

It is not ratty, nor is my marriage in trouble thankyouverymuch.

[God]

HAHAHAHAHHA!

I had a green and black striped, ratty bathrobe I'd wear out sometimes a few years back.

I chased the mail lady in it once. I had a road cone in my hand, shouting through it.

I got a "please trim around mailbox" card the previous day.

I probably wouldn't have done it if friends weren't around.

[rufio]

I have a ratty bathrobe that I keep around because I'm sure I'll need it sometime, and it's cheaper than buying a new one. I actually can't remember the last time I wore it.

[cloakable]

But fishmonger is!

Fishmonger! I bet you even gut.... trout! :thelook:

I'm going to assume you didn't actually think I was doing anything but playing. Because if you thought I was serious, and in addition feel that sticking to the dictionary is a good thing, I weep for humanity.
That's right. Weep for humanity. Incidentally, emos suck. Guess what that makes you? :P

Your avatar is wearing a bathrobe.

Cape!

[force chokes]
Is your marrige over, Darth? Cause I agree with eyebyte on this issue.

Your avatar IS wearing a bathrobrobe. And body armour. Darth is weird.

[Amaris]

I like your avatar, cloakable. (I like the bath robe in your avatar, MacGuffin.)

Oh, and I don't have a bathrobe. But if I did, I'd get rid of it. Especially if it were ratty.

[MacGuffin]

IT'S NOT A BATHROBE!!!!!!!

[rufio]

You know, now that I look at it, it does look like a bathrobe. I can just see the bottom being ratty too. It's Ghetto!Vader.

[Madrigal]

I don't like bathrobes, I've never had one. But I like robes, the kind you put over a nightgown. Mostly so I don't have to get all dressed up while I'm at home. Most of my clothes is somewhat formal, and a bit uncomfortable (for style reasons :P ). I don't own any clothes that I can just wear around the house. Everything I own is "office clothes" or "saturday night".

[indie]

This thread reminds me of Michael Douglas in "The Wonder Boys"...

I loved that movie. Hmm. . . maybe bathrobes aren't that bad.

[kuranes]

I had a ratty old bathrobe once that I used to wear when I was walking around at my parents' place, just after graduating from college - I moved out a few months later. I would wear it until about 1 PM if it was not a work day, using it while I cooked breakfast, watched TV, looked at the paper etc.. Because I generally put more thought into my meals than the others ( omelettes vs. sunny side up, 6 ingredient salads with special cheeses and olives of my choosing etc. ) I was nicknamed "the Prince" and criticized. ( As in "Look who's up and about - it's the Prince!" Getting up late was also a sign of decadence. ) My brother told me later that the others were always worried that the waist sash would come loose. I continued wearing it to spite them, and became even more meticulous about my meals. Nowadays I substitute drawstring pants or nakedness, and live alone.

[Clara]

My brother told me later that the others were always worried that the waist sash would come loose. I continued wearing it to spite them, and became even more meticulous about my meals. Nowadays I substitute drawstring pants or nakedness, and live alone.

Um, yeah... that's the detail that makes all the difference. :D And having to be available to interacting with others, in between getting out of the bath and whatever time it takes to be dressed etc. Both my robes have zippers... and neither is ratty. :)

[kuranes]

Good for you.

LOL.

[MacGuffin]

The "Bathrobe of Bad Karma" got discussed again today on that other site:


I have had so much experience with this -- it really was the genesis of the famous Bathrobe of Death conversation on the SYA site, yonks ago. Just a general lack of passion for ANYTHING -- for sex, yes, but also for closeness, work, art, music, weather...anything. This syndrome reaches its apotheosis in total passivity -- slumped on the couch in the limp, grubby bathrobe, eating Cheerios out of the box, and watching whatever is on the station the TV was last tuned to.

[rufio]

This reminded me - I knew a guy in high school who wore a bathrobe to school once, and made a joke that it was so comfortable he was going to keep doing it for the rest of the year. Someone made a bet with him that he wouldn't.... and then he did. For the entire rest of the year. He wore pants under it though.

[C.J.Woolf]

This reminded me - I knew a guy in high school who wore a bathrobe to school once, and made a joke that it was so comfortable he was going to keep doing it for the rest of the year. Someone made a bet with him that he wouldn't.... and then he did. For the entire rest of the year. He wore pants under it though.
Heh. So even the bathrobe-wearing can't resist a challenge.

[Irish Wolf]

I really ought to get a ratty bathrobe. That way, if I'm ever rescued by a friend who turns out to be an alien just as the Earth is about to be destroyed, I'll have something to wear around the galaxy.

[placid_panic]

i have a pair of dirty bath slippers that i wear up to the ave sometimes to buy beer, cigarettes and green onions.