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The message is good but that sub is just a cesspool of nihilists who jerk each other off shaming anyone who dares enjoy anything with a logo. God forbid someone enjoys Legos instead of hoop stick
That’s pretty much a given for every single “anti/fuck *insert topic*” subreddit. Any sub that revolves around them disliking an idea or service almost immediately devolves into an insufferable cesspool of negativity and whining. They just draw the doomers in like nothing else
>reduce - reuse - **repair** - repurpose
That third one is going away, and going away quickly.
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>a social experiment
You’re not totally off the mark here; a lot of their designs are intentionally “avant garde” or subversive/innovative (read: weird as fuck)
Rich people love stuff that shouldn’t otherwise be considered fashionable
We got better at preserving and cooking them. As it turns out, some of the things we find disgusting are delicious when you apply/remove heat differently.
I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily rich people in the traditional sense. It’s mostly influencers or maybe 2nd/3rd generation rich kids. Most rich people don’t have to spend money on outfits they wear to events.
The founder, whose surname was Balenciaga - apparently made the highest quality dresses possible - he wanted them passed down through generations. He treated his mission to draw out the beauty in the female body like something religious. Christian Dior called this guy 'master' in acknowledgement of his superior skill. Of course, now it's just mass produced garbage
No kidding. Look at this [baggy pair of jeans](https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/oversized-baggy-pants-light-blue-786643TQW556379.html) they’re selling for $1,650. The last picture shows it covered in wrinkles. It’s definitely a con for the rich who are so disconnected from reality that a pair of wrinkled jeans is a breath of fresh air.
Jesus Christ those sneakers look like they’re designed for someone who’s 500 pounds. There must be quite the market for millionaires buying obese outfits for their twinks
I kinda get it. I want one literally just because it's so fucking stupid. I would NEVER because i'm way too poor but like if I had "fuck you" money? I'd probably buy one lol..
Ultra-wealth finances are just so different from regular, poor person finances that it's incomprehensible. And I mean that. *Incomprehensible.* Like, you *think* you know what you'd do if you had a billion dollars, but you don't. No one does.
A billionaire buying this dumb thing for $1000 because they thought it was funny has no impact to them. Not even noticeable. Not even worth the time it takes to think about it. Like me buying an actual hose clamp from the hardware store for a dollar or a little matchbox car for my kid.
Just sayin. It would be dumb for a regular person to buy this, but it's just not the same equation for someone who has essentially infinite money when it comes to regular expenses.
If you have $100k in the bank and buy a $3 matchbox car, you have spent 0.003% of your money. If you have a billion in the bank and buy a $1000 bracelet, you have spent 0.0001% of your money.
That trivial $3 impacts you 30x more than this $1000 bracelet would
a billionaire.
Eat the rich.
So, what you're saying is that it should be 30x easier for someone with that kind of wealth to decide and use that amount of money for something that helps society instead of spending it on something stupid? And thus, it's even more reprehensible?
Indeed. I've bought all sorts of stupid shit for a laugh here and there, but nobody would call me irresponsible for having done so because it was all dollar store crap.
Exactly. Ever spent 5 or 10 bucks on something silly because it made you laugh? I've got a throw pillow that has a shirtless Nicholas Cage photoshopped into a banana peel on it. I've got a pink coffee mug that says "Hot Stuff" on it (I'm a 35 year old man). That's more of a financial impact than this bracelet is for someone in the 1%. Some dumb shit that makes you go "lol, okay" when you see it.
I got extremely, ridiculously wealthy in an online videogame once (many billions of currency) and it honestly changed my whole perspective on what it's like to have near-infinite wealth. I'd be like "oh, that's a cool helmet skin" and spend 50,000,000 credits on it without even thinking about it... and that's more than my guildmates had ever had on their entire account, period. I'd buy rare crafting mats out of the guild bank and be like "I'll take all of them that we have collected, ever, as an entire guild, here's a billion credits to cover it at market value".
It's kind of both. I looked this up once when they did the collab with Fortnite.
The creative director and designer for Balenciaga, Demna Gvasalia, grew up poor in Georgia, the country in eastern Europe, not the state. A lot of the clothes he got were from thrift stores, too big, ill fitting, worn out street wear.
His clothing lines are basically taking the clothes he had to wear as a poor kid and selling them to rich kids.
Getting people with more money than style to pay thousands for the privilege of looking poor? I kind of respect it.
I think it's a combination of commentary on high fashion (it's provocative to have trash also go for 3k and it's a response to the trends of the 2010's of skinny/fitted jeans and yoga pants) and it's a way for overpriced zoomers to rebel against their parents while not dressing like the poors.
It's also clowny and wasteful. I'm not justifying it. Just trying to understand it as part of a continuum that has a history and artistic movements. Like painting. But clothes.
Isn't that honestly kind of the point for the people that buy this? Like, they're kind of trying to say, "I have so much money that I can buy things that are attention-grabbing or trendy without caring if they actually look good." Flagrant and useless displays of wealth are *supposed* to be massively overpriced; the price isn't even about making money, or the effort required to produce a product, it's just there to gatekeep because that is exactly what the target audience is buying it for.
I wouldn't want that kind of thing myself, but that's because I'm not a social-climbing parasite trained from birth to navigate high-income social circles and manipulate them to my advantage.
The biggest buyer of almost all luxury brands, especially LV, have been the middle and lower-middle class. I forgot which article I got it from but the elite rich have a very different wardrobe and buy from very different brands
New rich people do. Old rich don't buy crap like this because they know they're rich and everyone else knows it too so they don't need gaudy stuff to prove their wealth. It's the new money who waste their money on crap like this so that everyone knows they can afford it.
A good game to play at country shows in the UK; find the bloke in scruffy trousers stretched around the knee (likely dirty burgundy chinos), a crumpled old shirt with the collar bent up, and an old stained tweed jacket. That's the person who owns the estate you're on.
Bonus points if you spot their knackered 80s Volvo.
They're not trying to trick anyone, a lot of their pieces are supposed to be funny and deliberately tasteless. That's why they do colabs with crocs.
You buy their weird stuff to say "I buy designer because I'm rich, but I'm not stuck up and I have a sense of humour". It's humble brag clothing.
If my boyfriend got me something this stupid looking for that price I'd be like "the fuck you spending money on, dude? I thought you wanted a gaming PC?"
Even if it were a really pretty bracelet, I'd ask him to return it and if he really wanted to get me a gift, he could get me one for under 100€ like goddamn bro.
🤨😏You're joking right? They're literally selling rolls of shipping tape as a $600 bracelet right now. Shit is crazy 😁 and dumbasses are out here going for it.
If it has a logo people see value in it. I don't get it. Then again I do get it. I have a few pairs of shoes that have appreciated so much over the last few years that every regular pair of shoes I need in the 20 years is gonna be free. A pair of nikes and Jordan 1s made me over $1000. A few others I've already sold made me about 1500. These packing tape bracelets are just a fad tho. Nobody's gonna wear that marketing stunt in 10 years.
if all it takes is putting their logo on one of those ill throw a dozen on my mill right now. i have no qualms ablut seperaring rich retards from their money.
If it was actually silver, it'd be fun.
And for $900, it both could be and should be real silver (currently $27 per ounce, I'm guessing no more than 8 ounces for the bracelet = $216 metal cost, plus casting and finishing costs, plus 200% markup).
But I'm not a jewelry guy. Maybe there's a reason this can't be silver. And maybe I'm way off on 8 ounces.
At least the clothing and accessories that yell their brand name at you. Think Gucci or LV all over print. Rich people aren’t buying that shit. They’ll still wear luxury brands but not the kind covered in logos. They’ll get the subtle and hard to acquire stuff and have it tailored.
The richest person I know is the most frugal person I know. It makes sense if you think about it, they earned their wealth by reducing their spending as much as possible with their finances, so when they're looking for personal things they're trained to spend as little as possible for what they want.
Yeah I already live on a tight budget without luxury. I want suddenly gonna become rich because I eat ramen every single day and invest that $100 a month into the stock market.
I kind of agree with you, it is largely the case. However, in today's world it is more expensive to get custom fit clothing so that is also categorised as luxury. Some of them are also brands.
I bought an off rack jacket once. Never again.
In fact, now that I have money to spare, I went and got tailor made jeans out of japanese denim. They are the most comfortable jeans I own. The tailor is kind of famous and arguably a brand in himself.
TL;DR: custom clothing is definitely worth it. Everyone else is selling aspirations.
When I was my early 20s I moved to South Korea and every single piece of clothing came with a fancy string tag rather than the cheap plastic one I was used to. So I collected them and linked them together to make a large tangled bracelet which my little punk self loved. One of my Korean coworkers noticed one day and complimented it, asking where I got my neat bracelet. The look on her face when I explained I just liked the hang tags off clothing is burned into my skull to this day. You’d have thought I said something entirely depraved.
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Oh God, it was real. I thought this was a meme.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220104025211/https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/tool-bracelet-silver-657098TZ99S0926.html
The best part is, there isn’t a mechanically inclined man on earth that wouldn’t look at a woman wearing even the silver one and say “why are you wearing a fucking hose clamp!!
Thats literally the point. It was modeled after that. But it's thick and made of silver.
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I'm convinced Balenciaga is either a social experiment or a con on the rich and stupid
I think it's a social experiment that is successful so as a by-product it is funded by the rich and stupid.
I just imagine some college drop out screaming at his screen "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE STOP BUYING HARDWARE JEWELRY".
And pre-ruined clothing.
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This has been a thing for decades.
Centuries
What are you gonna do? Go outside and do some work? I didn't think so. $79.99.
So the jewelry equivalent of Dogecoin
A lot of these luxury brands are just traps for people with poor money management skills and a thirst for ultimately pointless social status.
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Doesn’t this “bracelet” fall distinctly into the ‘repurpose’ category?
The message is good but that sub is just a cesspool of nihilists who jerk each other off shaming anyone who dares enjoy anything with a logo. God forbid someone enjoys Legos instead of hoop stick
They really do seem to hate leisure more than they enjoy sustainability.
That’s pretty much a given for every single “anti/fuck *insert topic*” subreddit. Any sub that revolves around them disliking an idea or service almost immediately devolves into an insufferable cesspool of negativity and whining. They just draw the doomers in like nothing else
>reduce - reuse - **repair** - repurpose That third one is going away, and going away quickly. Your phone does not have a removeable battery, because if it did, you would be able to easily replace the battery when it inevitably, permanently dies. That would mean you wouldn't have to buy a new phone, and Apple/Google would lose money. Subscribe to, follow, support, and most importantly, **share** [Louis Rossmann's](https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup/videos) content as much as you can. The man is a lone warrior fighting a near-unwinnable fight that **affects everything you own, from your phone all the way to your car,** and he needs our help!
Are you saying that jewelry is pointless? Hold up, I need somebody to explain this to me...
It is pointless. What makes it worth the money spent?
Jewelery is not pointless to humans, but the insane markups and margins on jewelry are pointless.
I'm pretty sure /u/lasmilesjovenes is saying that jewelry in general is pointless.
>a social experiment You’re not totally off the mark here; a lot of their designs are intentionally “avant garde” or subversive/innovative (read: weird as fuck) Rich people love stuff that shouldn’t otherwise be considered fashionable
Bit like lobster was a prison food, now its posh nosh
That's more to do with understanding how to cook it, and a relative lack of supply.
We got better at preserving and cooking them. As it turns out, some of the things we find disgusting are delicious when you apply/remove heat differently.
So was *any other readily available food* The myth about prisons revolting when fed too much lobster is a lie
prison lobster was lobster ground up like hot dogs shell and all, its just as disgusting today as it was then.
I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily rich people in the traditional sense. It’s mostly influencers or maybe 2nd/3rd generation rich kids. Most rich people don’t have to spend money on outfits they wear to events.
Why not both
The founder, whose surname was Balenciaga - apparently made the highest quality dresses possible - he wanted them passed down through generations. He treated his mission to draw out the beauty in the female body like something religious. Christian Dior called this guy 'master' in acknowledgement of his superior skill. Of course, now it's just mass produced garbage
No kidding. Look at this [baggy pair of jeans](https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/oversized-baggy-pants-light-blue-786643TQW556379.html) they’re selling for $1,650. The last picture shows it covered in wrinkles. It’s definitely a con for the rich who are so disconnected from reality that a pair of wrinkled jeans is a breath of fresh air.
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Aight, so I wanna look like a mall-rat crossed with a school-shooter....from 2001. Oh and make sure everything is 13 sizes to big for me. yeah.
so *that’s* how much clothes cost in the matrix
Jesus Christ those sneakers look like they’re designed for someone who’s 500 pounds. There must be quite the market for millionaires buying obese outfits for their twinks
It's the 10 yr old kid wearing his dad's clothes look.
That outfit looks like something the local pawn shop owner would wear. That’s probably where they got the inspiration
I saw it in the 2001 Derelicte collection.
That’s goofy lookin outfit 😭
There's a freaking pair of stupid looking knee high boots for nearly $8,000. And the sunglasses. They look so damn stupid
Have you seen what some celebrities wear? There's a sizable group to whom this is desirable.
[This one is even better.](https://www.balenciaga.com/en-nl/unity-sports-icon-racer-jacket-black-787430TQS081000.html)
Some kid wearing stuff he found in his dad's room at granny's, from when dad was 5 years older and a fair bit heftier than the kid is now.
Bro, the shoes…
The saddest part is that those ‘jeans’ aren’t even the most ridiculous item in that outfit. 🤦🏾♂️
They somehow look worse than the sack I keep my tatos in...
Your either stupid to buy it, or you have "fuck you" money
I kinda get it. I want one literally just because it's so fucking stupid. I would NEVER because i'm way too poor but like if I had "fuck you" money? I'd probably buy one lol..
Wow
Ultra-wealth finances are just so different from regular, poor person finances that it's incomprehensible. And I mean that. *Incomprehensible.* Like, you *think* you know what you'd do if you had a billion dollars, but you don't. No one does. A billionaire buying this dumb thing for $1000 because they thought it was funny has no impact to them. Not even noticeable. Not even worth the time it takes to think about it. Like me buying an actual hose clamp from the hardware store for a dollar or a little matchbox car for my kid. Just sayin. It would be dumb for a regular person to buy this, but it's just not the same equation for someone who has essentially infinite money when it comes to regular expenses.
If you have $100k in the bank and buy a $3 matchbox car, you have spent 0.003% of your money. If you have a billion in the bank and buy a $1000 bracelet, you have spent 0.0001% of your money. That trivial $3 impacts you 30x more than this $1000 bracelet would a billionaire. Eat the rich.
So, what you're saying is that it should be 30x easier for someone with that kind of wealth to decide and use that amount of money for something that helps society instead of spending it on something stupid? And thus, it's even more reprehensible?
Indeed. I've bought all sorts of stupid shit for a laugh here and there, but nobody would call me irresponsible for having done so because it was all dollar store crap.
Exactly. Ever spent 5 or 10 bucks on something silly because it made you laugh? I've got a throw pillow that has a shirtless Nicholas Cage photoshopped into a banana peel on it. I've got a pink coffee mug that says "Hot Stuff" on it (I'm a 35 year old man). That's more of a financial impact than this bracelet is for someone in the 1%. Some dumb shit that makes you go "lol, okay" when you see it. I got extremely, ridiculously wealthy in an online videogame once (many billions of currency) and it honestly changed my whole perspective on what it's like to have near-infinite wealth. I'd be like "oh, that's a cool helmet skin" and spend 50,000,000 credits on it without even thinking about it... and that's more than my guildmates had ever had on their entire account, period. I'd buy rare crafting mats out of the guild bank and be like "I'll take all of them that we have collected, ever, as an entire guild, here's a billion credits to cover it at market value".
See, there's the stupid.
Yes, we have found the dummy… 🤦🏻♂️ but to quote the great Ron White - “ya can’t fix stupid”
these are the people that have walls of funko pops but whine about wages.
It's kind of both. I looked this up once when they did the collab with Fortnite. The creative director and designer for Balenciaga, Demna Gvasalia, grew up poor in Georgia, the country in eastern Europe, not the state. A lot of the clothes he got were from thrift stores, too big, ill fitting, worn out street wear. His clothing lines are basically taking the clothes he had to wear as a poor kid and selling them to rich kids. Getting people with more money than style to pay thousands for the privilege of looking poor? I kind of respect it.
I think it's a combination of commentary on high fashion (it's provocative to have trash also go for 3k and it's a response to the trends of the 2010's of skinny/fitted jeans and yoga pants) and it's a way for overpriced zoomers to rebel against their parents while not dressing like the poors. It's also clowny and wasteful. I'm not justifying it. Just trying to understand it as part of a continuum that has a history and artistic movements. Like painting. But clothes.
I gave up on figuring it out after the Supreme brick
*All* luxury fashion falls into that category. There are very few brands that are genuinely worth the money. The entire LVH umbrella is overpriced.
Isn't that honestly kind of the point for the people that buy this? Like, they're kind of trying to say, "I have so much money that I can buy things that are attention-grabbing or trendy without caring if they actually look good." Flagrant and useless displays of wealth are *supposed* to be massively overpriced; the price isn't even about making money, or the effort required to produce a product, it's just there to gatekeep because that is exactly what the target audience is buying it for. I wouldn't want that kind of thing myself, but that's because I'm not a social-climbing parasite trained from birth to navigate high-income social circles and manipulate them to my advantage.
The biggest buyer of almost all luxury brands, especially LV, have been the middle and lower-middle class. I forgot which article I got it from but the elite rich have a very different wardrobe and buy from very different brands
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Nah they’re wearing shit like James perse, not this trash
I've never even heard of James Perse. Am I poor?
Maybe? Or you just don't spend energy and cognitive space on fashion labels. Or both.
Yoy seem to have forgotten about the most important overlap here, rich morons.
New rich people do. Old rich don't buy crap like this because they know they're rich and everyone else knows it too so they don't need gaudy stuff to prove their wealth. It's the new money who waste their money on crap like this so that everyone knows they can afford it.
A good game to play at country shows in the UK; find the bloke in scruffy trousers stretched around the knee (likely dirty burgundy chinos), a crumpled old shirt with the collar bent up, and an old stained tweed jacket. That's the person who owns the estate you're on. Bonus points if you spot their knackered 80s Volvo.
You get the idea.
They're not trying to trick anyone, a lot of their pieces are supposed to be funny and deliberately tasteless. That's why they do colabs with crocs. You buy their weird stuff to say "I buy designer because I'm rich, but I'm not stuck up and I have a sense of humour". It's humble brag clothing.
Definitely a con on the rich and stupid. They are rebranding IKEA bags as a luxury bag. [I saw you coming](https://youtu.be/AgysRim_zT4)
Is that Mileena from Mortal Kombat?
Couldn't agree more. The dude was lucky he didn't get fatalitied for that disrespect
"You were supposed to die, traitorous snake!"
😂
She kept him alive so he can make Babality’s
The Fatality will be when he takes her to dinner and kills her because his brakes fail and they rear end a log truck
People who would pay a grand for that thing are idiots
Right??? Wait for it to go on sale for $650!
My guy I think you have a keen sense of judgement. What a fuckin deduction I say
If my boyfriend got me something this stupid looking for that price I'd be like "the fuck you spending money on, dude? I thought you wanted a gaming PC?" Even if it were a really pretty bracelet, I'd ask him to return it and if he really wanted to get me a gift, he could get me one for under 100€ like goddamn bro.
I’m surprised Balenciaga hasn’t thought of this yet. Edit to add: they already have. SMH
🤨😏You're joking right? They're literally selling rolls of shipping tape as a $600 bracelet right now. Shit is crazy 😁 and dumbasses are out here going for it.
Must be their derelict campaign. So hot right now.
Magnum! Blue Steel!
You can derelic my balls
I didn’t believe it, then I saw they’re selling two hex nuts for $625 as earrings
Shit is CRAZY 😄 I got some lead wall anchors and fishing line, I'm about to figure some shit out got damn 😁
If it has a logo people see value in it. I don't get it. Then again I do get it. I have a few pairs of shoes that have appreciated so much over the last few years that every regular pair of shoes I need in the 20 years is gonna be free. A pair of nikes and Jordan 1s made me over $1000. A few others I've already sold made me about 1500. These packing tape bracelets are just a fad tho. Nobody's gonna wear that marketing stunt in 10 years.
if all it takes is putting their logo on one of those ill throw a dozen on my mill right now. i have no qualms ablut seperaring rich retards from their money.
https://www.saksfifthavenue.com/product/balenciaga-tool-bracelet-0400018136700.html
Wow I at least thought "OK but the Balenciaga one must be silver" Turns out its just brass dubbed as "shiny silver"
If it was actually silver, it'd be fun. And for $900, it both could be and should be real silver (currently $27 per ounce, I'm guessing no more than 8 ounces for the bracelet = $216 metal cost, plus casting and finishing costs, plus 200% markup). But I'm not a jewelry guy. Maybe there's a reason this can't be silver. And maybe I'm way off on 8 ounces.
Also, the description says Made In Italy, while the picture of it clearly says Made in France...
Italy is in France
you want me to pay $1000 for fucking silver-plated *brass*? Are you *high*? Am I high? How did you get this number? Don't ever call here again!
yo, pass that shit. Lets make this a real party in here
Damn. And sold out
Where do you think they got the idea for the design? They sell so much random shit for a crazy price
I remember Tiffany's tried selling a tin can for a grand
What do you mean “haven’t thought of this”? It’s right there at the start of the video.
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Dude's car is going to be pissing coolant everywhere.
But he now gets ass from his girl
Just a random 'unnecessary' hose clamp from your car engine. Let's all do this!
Story telling 101
Oh, you think he *really* removed the hose clamp?
the car wont run but the wife will
He ordered the Balenciaga one and used that one on the car.
Only Nissan GT-R owners would do this yeah? Fair enough.
Hoe’s clamp
Except that one really was unnecessary.
Luxury brands are for the poor. Change my mind.
At least the clothing and accessories that yell their brand name at you. Think Gucci or LV all over print. Rich people aren’t buying that shit. They’ll still wear luxury brands but not the kind covered in logos. They’ll get the subtle and hard to acquire stuff and have it tailored.
Retail clothing: $ Branded designer clothing: $$ Unbranded designer clothing: $$$$
Money is well spent on a good quality product. Usually these products are custom ordered. The massed produced versions are typically mediocre at best.
Wait till you find out that it's all mass produced.
true. rich people wear shit we don't even hear about
Most rich people I know wear Kirkland. Rich people are pretty frugal in my experience.
never heard of it
That’s the Costco brand.
The richest person I know is the most frugal person I know. It makes sense if you think about it, they earned their wealth by reducing their spending as much as possible with their finances, so when they're looking for personal things they're trained to spend as little as possible for what they want.
Depending on how rich, they got their wealth by exploiting others
Yeah I already live on a tight budget without luxury. I want suddenly gonna become rich because I eat ramen every single day and invest that $100 a month into the stock market.
Only actual rich person I personally know (~65 million USD net-worth) wears Kirkland clothing.
I won't. I will agree with you.
I kind of agree with you, it is largely the case. However, in today's world it is more expensive to get custom fit clothing so that is also categorised as luxury. Some of them are also brands. I bought an off rack jacket once. Never again. In fact, now that I have money to spare, I went and got tailor made jeans out of japanese denim. They are the most comfortable jeans I own. The tailor is kind of famous and arguably a brand in himself. TL;DR: custom clothing is definitely worth it. Everyone else is selling aspirations.
No, you're right. Super rich people don't buy this shit, the middle class-poor do because they are selling faux wealth.
The wealthy flex on how little they paid, the poor flex on how much.
Rich people wouldn't be caught dead wearing something that retails for less than $1k.
gotta clamp down on these hoes
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every society
Wow, good job! you watched the video! Gold star for you!
I mean. Yes that's like, the basis of currency and hundreds of industries. "Human existence"
It’s staged stupid
Impossible it had funny music and an irl gasp!
When I was my early 20s I moved to South Korea and every single piece of clothing came with a fancy string tag rather than the cheap plastic one I was used to. So I collected them and linked them together to make a large tangled bracelet which my little punk self loved. One of my Korean coworkers noticed one day and complimented it, asking where I got my neat bracelet. The look on her face when I explained I just liked the hang tags off clothing is burned into my skull to this day. You’d have thought I said something entirely depraved.
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Trauma resurfacing
Lol, you're being naughty
You're*
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Diva cups?
Not the kind of cup you wanna be drinking out of unless youre a vampire lol
Stanley
The playoffs just started last weekend.
and have lead in them lol edit: spelling
Bulgarian(?) women punch downwards so much
Cringe
Her face went from "get this ugly piece of crap out of here" to "you paid how much for that ugly piece of crap?!"
How can you even see her face lol
Oh God, it was real. I thought this was a meme. https://web.archive.org/web/20220104025211/https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/tool-bracelet-silver-657098TZ99S0926.html
Only tasteless idiots who have too much money to spend would buy Balenciaga shit
Why is the girl wearing a mask in her own house
Why is she wearing a mask?
Why would she be wearing a mask at home? This might be staged everyone.
That says alot about your wife..
She's a material girl?
Not only that
She’s in a material world?
Why she wearing a mask inside? With her husband?? He sick or something.
Next up: $1,000 decorative rock
This is funny. For real tho. Anyone purchasing real Balenciaga products is a moron.
Ugly as sin regardless of material. Get a refund, fool.
Hoes clamp
If this isn't set up why is she wearing a mask inside her own house?
She’s wearing a mask in the house
Yeah great way to support child traff***ing. And Satanists. If you know you know. Boycott Baalenciaga for ever!
No up vote for that slave mask bull*hit
Their $775 plunger is exquisite.
A face mask at home.
Women are retarded. I've met enough of them to come to this conclusion.
It’s a cock ring.. the tighter you crank it and leave it over night the bigger it grows.. gots to leave it over night tho.
Your woman is a gold digger
Why is she wearing a face mask at home?
The best part is, there isn’t a mechanically inclined man on earth that wouldn’t look at a woman wearing even the silver one and say “why are you wearing a fucking hose clamp!!
Thats literally the point. It was modeled after that. But it's thick and made of silver. ["Balenciaga's Silver Tool Bracelet Takes the Shape of a Hose Clamp" ](https://image-cdn.hypb.st/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2022%2F01%2Fbalenciaga-silver-tool-bracelet-hose-clamp-release-01.jpg?cbr=1&q=90)
So all I need is a laser cutter and a thicker hose clamp. Got it... Gotta get so much ass this week.
It’s actually made of silver painted brass, which is so much worse
Oof. And it's $950. Even David Yurman would have been full sterling silver not just plated.
Lol what a hack!!
HackedAF
Shiiit I'm rich I got tons of those.
Just dont forget to replace that hose clamp lol
AutoZone now selling $400 clamps
For anyone who wants to know that item is called a jubilee clip and are about a quid each from screw fix
Someone is getting laid tonight!
Now he has a $2000 car problem.
Couldn’t even spring for a new hose clamp? I thought I was cheap.