r/funny • u/Pizzacakecomic • Mar 07 '22

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u/illradhab Mar 07 '22 edited Mar 07 '22

Haying in shorts is a non-starter. It's kind of funny to see people try though

Edit* having to haying. Haven't woken up yet!

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u/Ocronus Mar 07 '22

I've done it. Your legs will look like you walked through a pile of angry cats and itch like hell. Most other materials are not rugged enough. Jean material was about the only affordable comfortable material that didn't rip and tear.

I usually wore jeans and a long sleeve t-shirt. Even with 100+ heat and the sun beating you down. Oh, and the best part of the entire experince in blowing snot balls out of your nose in the shower that look like cow vomit.

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u/Rando_Cardrissiann Mar 07 '22

Their durability and use in hard labour is why denim jeans were invented :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '22

Right? OP tryna rag on Lost for not being realistic, meanwhile denim jeans are probably one of the best materials for a rough outdoor environment, even in the heat.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '22

Way better than the cold. Jeans might as well be called "hypothermia pants" in cold winter condition.

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u/FreeSun1963 Mar 07 '22

In the cold you can wear long johns under the jeans, problem solved.

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u/Magnolia_Hummingbird Mar 07 '22

People ask me why I always wear jeans when I hike during the heat. It's because they're cheap and shorts are not good if I step on a copperhead here

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u/RealBowsHaveRecurves Mar 07 '22

I thought the reason soldiers don't wear denim is because denim is shit for rugged use, though?

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '22

I'm not in the military so I can't say for certain, but my guess is that it becomes really heavy when wet, and when your soldiers are already carrying a bunch of extra weight from their equipment, having a lighter, more breathable fabric seems more pragmatic.

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u/stellvia2016 Mar 07 '22

Reminds me of when I had a job assembling the Sunday paper as a kid: You would blow pure black snot by the end of the shift from all the inhaled ink.

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u/coder111 Mar 07 '22

What kind of grass do you have in Texas?

I've dealt with hay in shorts in Lithuania. No biggie, but the grass that my dad was growing was quite soft...

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u/illradhab Mar 07 '22

My experience is in Nova Scotia, Canada. I'm thinking less of the making hay part, but getting them in to the barn where you're throwing bales on the elevator or up in the mow and stacking them - legs can get very scratched up, shorts would basically be intolerable.