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Cant trust em Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 03:21 PM
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Why are button-fly pants useful?
Can someone explain this to me?

Honestly, if people are worried about things getting stuck in a zipper then maybe they should put down that bottle of whiskey for a few minutes.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 05:49 PM
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1. I've always found them to be rather cumbersome, awkward and useless myself.
Unless I need them for some kind of historical recreation from a time before they had zippers. :shrug:
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 05:53 PM
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2. I love my button fly jeans.
I've never caught my beans & franks in a zipper, but the button fly jeans "fit" me better than other jeans for some reason.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:22 PM
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13. FrankS?
Your name Stacy Brown? :shrug:



Have you hard about Stacy Brown?
He got every chick in town
He got looks, he got class
Do anything to get a little lass
And everybody shout at him as he walks his girlies past:

"Everybody got one
"Everybody got one
"Everybody got one
"But Stacy Brown got two"

Do you know the reason for his success?
They say that he is double blessed
They say that Stacy Brown was born
Just a little bit deformed
But still his girlfriends wake up smilin' every morn

Everybody got one
Everybody got one
Everybody got one
But Stacy Brown got two

Why they climbing up the wall?
Young ones run and old ones crawl
He got two and that's a fact
But no one knows where the other one's at
On his elbow, on his knee or underneath his hat?

Everybody got one
Everybody got one
Everybody got one
But Stacy Brown got two



—Shel Silverstein
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 05:56 PM
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3. I've never owned a pair. Can't understand why anyone would.
Redstone
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boilerbabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-18-08 04:13 AM
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36. Because they fit better and are more fun to disentangle...n/t
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:02 PM
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4. This has epic Lounge flamewar written all over it.
I've never liked the button-fly jeans. No particular reason, I don't think. Just took longer to put on and take off.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:07 PM
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5. If it doesn't devolve into an epic flamewar I will be very disappointed.
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boilerbabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-18-08 04:17 AM
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38. I guess i don't miss being on DU day and night.l..
because aren't there more urgent things to be freaking out about?
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boilerbabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-18-08 04:15 AM
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37. Really?
I found that you can rip those 401s off pretty fast...gotta get your technique down!! Putting them back on is another story...next day...just do the top button and git.
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boilerbabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-18-08 04:26 AM
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41.  Why would that be a stimulus to flame?
My brother told me that this site was getting really stupid-- was he right? :Please tell me he wasn't...like that people get freaked out about shit that doesn't make a difference? Prove him wrong, ok?

We can "flame" about stuff that really matters, like what color my fingernail polish is...

Okeedokee?
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:08 PM
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6. You can undo them one-handed
much easier than with a zipper fly. Very handy in emergencies. Or other situations.
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boilerbabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-18-08 04:23 AM
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40. Nobody else seems to get this...l
That is just exactly what i said or more or less!! I miss the 401s! Apparently the people that are posting here are too young or too something to actually try this? It's easy! Just rrrrip! and the rest is history. Putting them back on may be a chore, but isn't that true of all clothing on the day after? Just aim for "right side up"and go home!!!!
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:09 PM
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7. two words: Quick Release!
:evilgrin:

I love my button fly jeans.
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boilerbabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-18-08 04:28 AM
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42. Yes, Hunny! You got it!! n/t
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:09 PM
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8. Because the sound of them being pulled open
by your soon-to-be lover: pop. pop. pop. pop. pop.

is SO much better than that stupid zipper sound.

I used to ONLY wear 501 button fly jeans in black.

Of course, I was also a 28" waist back then...

:hi:

RL
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:11 PM
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9. Zippers are hard to undo with your teeth
x(
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:22 PM
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12. Damn, you beat me to it!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:23 PM
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14. C'mere
Let's talk.

:D
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 08:24 PM
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24. You just need more practice.
:P
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:14 PM
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10. zippers weren't around until the 30's. why wear them now, i don't know?
i have one pair of jeans with a button fly and i hardly ever wear them.
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Tektonik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:20 PM
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11. If I see a pair of pants I like that have a button-fly, I put them back on the rack
:(
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:29 PM
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15. They might have saved a couple of political careers.
An extra few seconds for the big brain to consider consequences might have made a crucial difference.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:38 PM
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17. If you are at the undoing the fly stage, it is too late
can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 07:09 PM
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20. Well, if you can't open the tube, the moment could be lost.
I bought button-fly jeans by mistake several years ago, and have had purely practical reasons to regret that mistake.
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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:35 PM
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16. No broken zippers to worry about?
Or worse, zippers that fall down all by themselves. They do.

Buttons don't misbehave that way. They either fall off and disappear, or they cooperate. You know where you stand with buttons.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:47 PM
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18. They are....never mind.
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cloudbase Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:56 PM
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19. It's because
sheep can hear a zipper from a mile away.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 08:25 PM
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25. That's what kilts are for.
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 07:15 PM
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21. What Retro said...
Edited on Mon Mar-17-08 07:19 PM by lizziegrace
O8)
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 07:16 PM
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22. Nobody ever caught their scrotum in a button fly
Yeeeeeeouch!
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Greyskye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 07:52 PM
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23. The damn button holes wear out

The button holes wear out faster then a zipper. I gave up on them years ago.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 08:31 PM
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26. Button fly pants never have zipper slippage. Plus button flys rock.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 08:54 PM
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27. Scrotums & zippers don't play well together
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boilerbabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-18-08 04:29 AM
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43. This might be useful to convince those who don't know...n/t
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 09:34 PM
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28. 501 Button Fly-- the only jeans I wear. Zippers are for pinheads
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 09:42 PM
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29. button-fly jeans are for luddites
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 09:49 PM
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30. Army BDU (Battle Dress Uniform) trousers have a button-fly.
It was a trade-off for clothing that might have to stand up to rugged use. The buttons were more cumbersome than a zipper out in the field when you had to take a quick piss. But by the same token, if a button popped off, you could sew it back on pretty quickly. (And a lot of Army guys know how to sew. It's a good survival skill. B-) ) If they used zippers, and the zipper breaks, you're done. I've never heard of DIY on-site repair techniques for broken zippers.

British DU-ers, for "zipper", read "zip". Thank you. B-)
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 10:01 PM
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31. yes, I can explain it to you
button-fly pants are the only way to go. I have a few pair of "dress" pants that get worn on average once a year which have zippers, but that doesn't count.

1. Don't YOU tell me to put the whiskey down. I'll quit when I want to quit.

2 safety

3. classic style and engineering - the last place I want new-fangled gadgetry is my pants.

4. makes embarrassing open fly events a thing of the past

5. If you're used to it, they're just as fast and easy to open and close.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 10:22 PM
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32. safer in electrical storms
:evilgrin:
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quakerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 10:31 PM
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33. I thought they were cool
back in the 3rd grade, when my (cool pre drunkard)uncle had some, and I had never had any but wanted to be like him.

not any more though. now... I like spandex. Muhahaha.
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Recovered Repug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-18-08 03:46 AM
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34. Watch the first few minutes
of "Something About Mary". No other explanation is needed.
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boilerbabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-18-08 04:10 AM
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35. Button-Fly pants
give you a coordination test! Besides, those pants seem to fit better than any other kind...
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Indi Guy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-18-08 04:22 AM
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39. Yeah, like sober people never prematurely close the door...
;)
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-18-08 07:33 AM
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44. They're not... but they're better than one other type of pants (that they'll never make for men)
pants w/ a side zipper.

They'll also never make pants for men w/o pockets.



And men are smart enough to not buy these things. That's why the fashion industry will never market them to men.
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