Too many topics - not going to spam Lounge with separate threads!1

[UTUSN]

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TOPIC 1: Ricky GERVAIS has been making the rounds of the talk shows, promoting something or other. Today on The View he's wearing the same black T-shirt. First of all, he's great, best at the Golden Globes M/C. (Absolute best is Graham NORTON.) Anyway, so what is the deal with Brit dudes wearing T-shirts everywhere - COWELL, Ricky, etc., ?

TOPIC 2: Cindy DRUMMOND commercials. Watching the "therapy" commercial for DirecTV a brazillian times, so good. The one where the self-involved therapist diagnoses the patient as "classic narcissist," I did the Google thing and it turns out this woman does tons of great commercials, the other one about the mother calling her son the Spy while he's being attacked by helicopters and asks, " ( the noise) Are you in a zumba class?"
https://www.ispot.tv/topic/actor-actress/eV/cindy-drummond

TOPIC 3: Coca Cola commercial. The Chantays, "Move It" - punctuated with woman screaming. Like Robin THICKE/Mylie CYRUS. But this Chantay outfit dates back to 1963!!! Is this before the Beach Boys? Plus "Pipeline" - I'd never heard of this group, *had* heard Pipeline but was never curious to look it up. This group seems to be the precursor of the later, famous groups?

[Dr Hobbitstein]

1. What's wrong with Tshirts?

Pretty much all i wear.

[UTUSN]

2. Hah, I never know who/when my random posts will offend!1

Not attacking here:

I didn't say there was something "wrong". But, granted, I didn't provide context, which is that the usual attire on the talk shows is suits or casual stuff with shirts. So it's the *contrast* of the usual conformity vs the T-shirts, plus that the two dudes named are Brits that led me to the question. It wasn't personal towards you, Dr Hobbitstein, unless you are Brit and are on t.v. wearing T-shirts on talk shows!1 By the bye, I like that there is no period after your "Dr" - which is the rule I abide by, that for abbreviations with letters missing in the middle no period, as in "Mr" - while a period is used when the abbreviated letters are contiguous.

I just wondered, is the T-shirt thing a Brit thing? But as for me, I stopped wearing T-shirts as soon as I got out of the Navy, where they were part of the uniforms, because T-shirts give me claustrophobia with the closed-up arrangement.

So, hip hip, no foul, haha!1

[Dr Hobbitstein]

3. I wasn't offended, just wondered what your issue with tshirts are?

It’s a generational thing. Gen X/Y/Z have pretty much established jeans and a tshirt as their normal, everyday attire.

[UTUSN]

4. Not to argue but COWELL was born in 1959, GERVAIS in 1961 - are they "X" or "Y" surely not "Z"?!1

My original question was whether this was a Brit thing.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

5. X-ish, I suppose... But they're on the cusp.

Regardless, I support wearing whatever is comfortable. For many of us, it's a tshirt. I'll get off your lawn now.

[UTUSN]

6. I support posting whatever is comfortable.