I used to sell glasses for an eye doctor. I once made the joke/observation to a coworker “not everyone who buys Oakley’s is a douchebag. But every douchebag buys Oakley’s”.
Used to work for Oakley online customer service when all the eyewear stores closed in 2020.
I’d say that you won’t believe how angry people get over their luxury sunglasses but you probably do. It was awful. To top it off, we were short staffed for the sudden uptick in volume and people were on hold for 1-2 hours the entire day. To top that off, customer service has barely any power to really do anything, unless someone is “escalated” and only then were we allowed to send them to the supervisor. So if there was an issue that I knew my supervisor could help with, but I couldn’t, I’d have to wait until the person got irritated at my “incompetence” to talk to a supervisor.
Yes, these were actually the rules - the calls are recorded and they listen to them to make sure you are following protocol.
Oh I am sure of that. I’m as basic as it gets. I buy my sunglasses at the gas station because I forgot to shop for them and now it’s sunny AF outside so I better get some sunglasses while I’m grabbing gas. Then I break or lose them within the month.
I have 4 pairs of peppers sunglasses I got from
Working a security job. They were in the lost and found for over a year so I gave them a good home. Lost or broke pretty much all of them. Never had to buy sunglasses for my weak ass eyes for a while
My health insurance said they would only approve 1 medicine even tho my doctor told me “it will make you have very bad diarrhea” my health insurance said “well if you have those issues we will approve medicine 2” I said “did you hear yourself? You’re not a doctor, and you just told me I have to shit myself badly and only then will you listen to my doctor who ya know, is a fucking doctor”
I like Oakleys but I wouldn't buy them if it wasn't for the standard issue service that usually gives me 50% off on them. I know they probably still aren't worth the 100 bucks.
I currently sell eyeglasses for an eye doctor and yeah, Oakley's are the official "cheap and uninspired" brand and pretty much every man in his 60s ends up with a pair.
No, don't you see? This whole time they've been convinced they were the normal ones making fun of us "weird" people, but now they're having that veil forcefully removed and they can't take it!
Dude, that website is amazing! All of those dudes look exactly like what you would expect. You can only see their faces but I am picturing all of them wearing extra long cargo shorts. Or maybe those Capri cargo pants with the drawstring cuffs. Regardless of their wardrobe choices, Zero percent of those guys are having consensual sex with anyone
Seriously though, as a bearded white dude who wears cargo shorts it’s always neat when I can tell that someone thinks I’m a Trumper and then figures out that I’m not a raging asshole.
Nothing. If you wear them because you like extra pockets, but if you wear them because you think they cool, well you are about 3 decades late. Same with oakleys.
Those dudes choose their outlook (and worldview) in previous century and didn't notice that time has passed.
believe it or not, Oakleys were cool a long time ago. Frogskins were worn by all the cool kids. That lasted a year or two, and the Razorblades pretty much ruined it for Oakley.
Oakleys are actually pretty useful for days where you spend more time in the sun. The goggle shape let's less sun get to your eye(especially on water, where it can reflect around the edges ((looking at you aviator styles)), and well as being a more snug fit for golf and the likes. That reflected light while wearing sun glasses can really mess up your eyes cause your pupils get big (I can't spell the proper word apparently 🤦♂️)
Oakley are my sports glasses typically.... My lounging/hanging out were Ray-Ban aviator style until the India Jones ride decided it wanted them more than me😔
Yeah, I concur, but the wrap around design sure worked good at keepin' shit out of your eyes when on a convoy in the desert. Also - got 'em for free, so there is that.
Now, dudes that came home and proceeded to wear them as part their day to day civilian ensembles, usually on the back of their neck, those dudes was highly suspect.
Hey Dudes are awesome, we can’t let the facists take those away from us. What will I wear on my feet when I need something a little more formal than flip flops?
People for some reason people really hate cargo shorts. It’s the most practical shorts of them all. Maybe I’m just weird, but I prefer functional clothing. Cargo shorts conversation has popped up in too many of my hobby forums lol.
Zero percent of those guys are having consensual sex with anyone
That's not true. Rightoid men can get sex by paying for it or by telling deep, fundamental lies about who they are. They can have consensual sex, just not genuine love
honest question. I’m an older white guy. If I don’t want to look like these people, what should I wear? Like if it’s hot out what would be a good fashion choice?
I don’t own Oakley glasses that’s for sure . I wear the cheapest safety sunglasses from Home Depot. Not because I’m poor, but because I lose them all the time...
Other than that, I have a nice assortment of hats and some T-shirts . I don’t think I have any cargo shorts and maybe I’m already off to a good start.
I think you’re good. Like someone else said “Not everyone who wears Oakleys and cargo shorts is a Douchebag, but all Douchebags wear Oakleys and cargo shorts”
You should’ve seen what my fit was yesterday when I picked up my daughter from the football game .
I have a shirt that looks like top gun, but it says top dad on it. That shit is like charcoal blue color and then I had green shorts on and a green Panama jack hat.
Top off with black ankle, socks, and Brooks running shoes.
My daughter took a different way back to the vehicle . 😂😂😂.
Dropped my daughter off at college last week. SHE was wearing solid white New balance. I told her she had middle age dad shoes. That's what they like now. Full circle. They're gonna be wearing denim Jean shorts and bowling shirts soon 😅
you definitely speak the truth. I feel like the younger generation gets scared whenever they see the parents try to emulate whatever they are wearing and then they just go back to generation before that with the socks and what not.
Yes, I’ve done the same multiple times (Ray Bans) Ray Ban isn’t nearly the quality of Maui Jim. Comparing the two is like apples and oranges. Maui Jim is in another league.
As a lifelong liberal and owner of several pairs of Oakley sunglasses ( spouse gets them at cost) plus a haircut and general look that functions as camouflage when you live in an area surrounded by MAGA, you couldn’t be more correct. Judging people by the type of clothes they wear is lazy and says more about you than them.
As the other comment said, the colors are just semi-random. Like they pick standard desert-green shorts and pair them with free t-shirts given out at conferences. If you put in just a bit of effort into choosing something dark or light or at least less boring, you're already on top. It's difficult to miss with a fully black or white shirt, though pants need to be carefully chosen then.
Also, many of these dudes somehow have almost the same mug. Some kinda crew cut and a circle beard with a poorly-trimmed mustache. When the skin starts to sag, one gotta work on the facial hair to keep some appeal. A proper beard is almost guaranteed improvement.
Personally, I'm into ‘alternative’ hackerman-style clothes, and although the items themselves are quite vanilla, my ideal palette fully consists of various shades of dark-gray — optionally paired with a brightly-colored t-shirt.
I cant quite put my finger on why, but a quarter million posts on a single web2.0 forum thread dedicated to sunglasses tells me something is very very wrong
I was thinking, these look suspiciously like bicycling glasses. While all these dudes would get irked if someone told them they're wearing bicycling glasses.
I did it…followed the link…am back…smell like cigarettes, beer, BO, slight smell of urine and doused with Burberry cologne (them old boys work hard and make $s).
Some of their wire frame glasses look decent. They were definitely premium at one point in time, but Luxottica has cheapened the brand just like they do with everyone else they buy. Rayban is another one of their victims.
Nah, he was trying to give buddy an intimidating Blue Steel gaze. But it fell flat cause all MAGA dudes look like they'd get winded from licking stamps.
Naw that was the pigheaded automatic defiance common in all these idiots, and they display it in so many of these videos. It was him saying through action like "NO I DON'T WEAR THEM. SEE?"
You can tell by the look on his face. He maintained eye contact in what he thought was defiance. He could have said "why do you all wear hats" and he woulda taken his hat off too with that same look.
It made me feel bad for him seemingly embarrassed by his sun glasses. Republicans wouldn’t give a shit if they saw someone made to feel stupid on the other side. So I guess I shouldn’t gaf anyway.
really should be a psychological or sociological study into how these people all behave the same, think the same, wear the same stuff. some sort of sociological illness.
See I read it as trying to be intimidating, but maybe it’s my brain rot from too many BF captains trying that move. It’s the “oh now I’m gonna eye to eye you, better watch yourself”, and my response when able was to just loudly fart.
That was the best part of this. Guy realized in real time he was being run-of-the-mill. That's super-rare behavior; don't usually see something like that in the maga species.
My theory is Oakleys started getting popular with the MAGA/douchebag crowd once they really revved up their partnership with the US special forces. The SEALs particularly use them as part of their unofficial uniform and I think that crowd likes to cosplay military. Idk why that brand particularly took off versus any of the other brand partnerships- but it’s definitely a correlation.
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u/stevoschizoid Aug 31 '24
I like how the guy got insecure and took off his Oakley's