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Dog-faced pony soldier
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: A Rock Surrounded by a Whole lot of Water
Posts: 34,187
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Good lord you guys are missing the point entirely. I'll say it again:
"Most people can tell the difference between a respectable person who just happens to have some dirt on them from working in the yard or wrenching on the car, and someone who doesn't care about themselves, is uneducated and slovenly by nature."
Above, you freely ADMITTED to making a game out of deliberately looking like a "vagrant" (your words) and then getting into your nice shiny car. I don't think having some dirt or sweat or grease on one makes them look like a "vagrant". It's a package of appearance choices which is far worse than just looking like you've been out working hard.
"Vagrant" and "hard working guy who's a little dirty" are antonyms. Here's the definition courtesy of dictionary.com:
vagrant–noun
1. a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp.
2. Law. an idle person without visible means of support, as a tramp or beggar.
3. a person who wanders from place to place; wanderer; rover.
4. wandering idly without a permanent home or employment; living in vagabondage: vagrant beggars.
5. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a vagrant: the vagrant life.
–adjective
6. wandering or roaming from place to place; nomadic.
7. (of plants) straggling in growth.
8. not fixed or settled, esp. in course; moving hither and thither: a vagrant leaf blown by the wind.
In other words, a bum.
Say what you want, I'd much rather come off as a snob than a bum. Any day.
There's nothing wrong with looking hard working or dirty from an honest day's work. There's everything wrong with making the deliberate choice to look like a bum - even worse when the person ISN'T a bum.
Geez guys... Reading comprehension. Try it.
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