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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:12:38 AM EDT
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I was told its to allow for easy returns. That way they can always go get a new hat that matches their outfit. Makes sense in a weird FSA kinda way.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:13:31 AM EDT
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Started in Atlanta and Houston. The premise was people showing off how fresh and new their hat was.
The reality, is cheap motherfuckers would buy the shit, keep the stickers and tags on wearing it for a night, then return them as unworn. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:13:38 AM EDT
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this guy never got it either.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:13:55 AM EDT
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I'm so glad that I won't have to look at this flat-billed tool in the SB this year.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:14:02 AM EDT
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FUCK!
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:15:28 AM EDT
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Don't watch any college baseball games, you guys will lose your shit. I haven't since they replaced ash and maple with the tink, tink of aluminum. 
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:20:18 AM EDT
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1st time I noticed it was in the Little League worlds series where a team from Brooklyn or the Bronx made it close to the final. I kept looking at their hats like WTF is this? It was in the fall of 2001 when I they were on TV. I can remember starting to see them worn in other places after that but I distinctly remember that was the first time I noticed it.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:23:19 AM EDT
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I'm so glad that I won't have to look at this flat-billed tool in the SB this year. http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/04/5d/82/045d828a16b52aabfd152ce30bfb4231.jpg http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/02/01/qb012way-0a89e3077bfc35ee3bc00a6b100253616b30e2f2-s6-c30.jpg I think his hat is too big. 
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:27:43 AM EDT
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On one of the coasts where all the dumb shit comes from.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:30:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Fashion trends that need to die: 1) Flat billed baseball hats 2) Baggy pants worn down around your thighs with your boxer skivies sticking out 3) Earlobe plug earrings that stretch your earlobe out (or whatever the hell it is called that makes you look like Shaka Zula) 4) Dudes wearing those over-sized fake diamond earring studs Fashion trends that need to stay around longer: 1) hot chicks wearing skin tights leggings or yoga pants (with no shirt/sweater covering their rear end) I still want to run up behind someone and put a master lock through the big ass lobe hole, lock it and run off with the key. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:31:11 AM EDT
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The look is so hip it even works for a snowmobile racer in his mid-30s from northern Minnesota. http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/tucker-hibbert-peats-snocross/story?id=22081132 |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:34:04 AM EDT
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this guy never got it either. http://<a href=http://i1298.photobucket.com/albums/ag56/cdy11/badhat_zps3d43f9fa.jpg</a>" /> Yep. 
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:35:18 AM EDT
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My ball caps have flat bills  Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I like the flat bills. It's an easy to spot visual clue that the wearer is a fucknut and to be avoided. My ball caps have flat bills HA HA ! Identified.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:36:59 AM EDT
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As a flatbiller, I've always accepted the origin as Orange and San Bernardino counties, started by my fellow bros.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:40:45 AM EDT
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.....looks fucking stupid.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:41:15 AM EDT
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My ball caps have flat bills Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I like the flat bills. It's an easy to spot visual clue that the wearer is a fucknut and to be avoided. My ball caps have flat bills According to this thread, that makes you a douchebag.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:43:23 AM EDT
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According to this thread, that makes you a douchebag. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I like the flat bills. It's an easy to spot visual clue that the wearer is a fucknut and to be avoided. My ball caps have flat bills According to this thread, that makes you a douchebag. You're putting the cart before the horse. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:43:42 AM EDT
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.....looks fucking stupid. no u |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:45:33 AM EDT
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This. It's a chucklefuck warning much like the chin strap beard. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I like the flat bills. It's an easy to spot visual clue that the wearer is a fucknut and to be avoided. This. It's a chucklefuck warning much like the chin strap beard. Chucklefuck. LOL |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:48:30 AM EDT
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you know you've really made it when you can afford a new hat...and can prove it!
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:48:34 AM EDT
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I know it was going on in the early 90s. This. It used to be basketball teams with snap backs, leave the tag dangling. Then 59/50s. Now the snap back is back in. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:48:38 AM EDT
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inner city youts Any time something monumentally stupid becomes popular, guaranteed it started in the ghetto. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:49:32 AM EDT
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I like the flat bills. It's an easy to spot visual clue that the wearer is a fucknut and to be avoided. Same here. Like neck tattoos, flat bills are a visual indicator that I need to have nothing to do with the person. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:50:00 AM EDT
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You guys have it all wrong. Flat bills are more tactical than curved bills. It still effectively blocks the sun while still allowing a fuller field of view than a curved bill. You are allowed to see any incoming threat from all sides while still being stylish.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:50:35 AM EDT
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As a flatbiller, I've always accepted the origin as Orange and San Bernardino counties, started by my fellow bros. Rubidoux for life beyotch!!!
Part of the reason why I left that place. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:52:24 AM EDT
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I like the flat bills. It's an easy to spot visual clue that the wearer is a fucknut and to be avoided. This is has been a 100% accurate portrayal of said wearers behavior. Can spot them from a safe distance as well. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:52:59 AM EDT
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Cholos were doing it in the 80's.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:53:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryWell played, Sir! (Golf clap) 
TC |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:54:09 AM EDT
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I think I remember first seeing the doucheyness on Jesse James' Monster Garage show and then some famous skaters/xgame people. That was at least 10 years ago. Still as retarded now as it was then
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Posted: 1/28/2014 6:57:23 AM EDT
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The whole flat brim thing was spawned from people leaving stickers on their hat. The problem is, if you wanted the giant sticker on your brim.. Curving it would loosen the sticker. So naturally you have to keep the brim flat for maximum sticker adhesiveness.
I want to punch every person with flat brims and stickers in the face. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:00:47 AM EDT
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Central coast dirtbikers circa 2000.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:01:20 AM EDT
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It was so it would look like you just stole it off the rack.
And my avast just went off on this page, too... |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:02:42 AM EDT
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Central coast dirtbikers circa 2000. I saw it in the ghetto in '91. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:03:29 AM EDT
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Suicidal Tendencies has been wearing them since the 80's...
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:07:23 AM EDT
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The tightly curled "I prepped it after I bought it by wrapping the bill around a can" is every bit an much an arbitrary, pointless fashion statement as any other.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:09:08 AM EDT
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Motocross was where I first saw it also, then later with the urban utes. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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First I saw it was the motocross culture with Metal Mulisha....Mid 90's?? But around the same time I also saw it with the Ghetto culture with the FUBU crowd. /UserCreatedImages/MainDisplayImages/Front/0bf6db93-8745-4b2b-96e3-1c69e24fa283.png[/url] |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:09:18 AM EDT
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The tightly curled "I prepped it after I bought it by wrapping the bill around a can" is every bit an much an arbitrary, pointless fashion statement as any other. I'll admit, until this thread, I was unaware that people did that. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:09:57 AM EDT
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This has been talked about a few times. Basically, it's done to show it's new. "Hey look at me, I've got money for new stuff". It's the complete opposite of someone who buys a single hat and wears it while doing hard work for years in that hat. I've also read it makes it easier to swap hats at will. Walk into a store with a "brand new" hat with all the stickers and tags attached and leave it there while grabbing a new one off the shelf without paying. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The way I have seen it the sticker/flat bill thing happened at the same time. It's been going on for years. This has been talked about a few times. Basically, it's done to show it's new. "Hey look at me, I've got money for new stuff". It's the complete opposite of someone who buys a single hat and wears it while doing hard work for years in that hat. I've also read it makes it easier to swap hats at will. Walk into a store with a "brand new" hat with all the stickers and tags attached and leave it there while grabbing a new one off the shelf without paying. That last bit is what I've always assumed. That, and it emulates the look of athletes in post game interviews after winning a championship, after some staffer had just haphazardly stuck a brand new "West Div Champions 1996" cap on their heads. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:11:55 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:15:20 AM EDT
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and its completely stupid Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The way I have seen it the sticker/flat bill thing happened at the same time. It's been going on for years. 
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:16:33 AM EDT
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its a douchebag identifier
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:16:35 AM EDT
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Nevermind.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:23:04 AM EDT
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All I see is a retarded duck.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:30:12 AM EDT
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And they tuck their fucking ears up under them
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:30:32 AM EDT
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The whole flat brim thing was spawned from people leaving stickers on their hat. The problem is, if you wanted the giant sticker on your brim.. Curving it would loosen the sticker. So naturally you have to keep the brim flat for maximum sticker adhesiveness. I want to punch every person with flat brims and stickers in the face. 
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:33:32 AM EDT
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It ain't new.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:34:58 AM EDT
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Looks stupid as hell.
It's popular among communities with self imposed poverty. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:35:15 AM EDT
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Flat bills hold rainwater and snow better?
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:36:18 AM EDT
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same time they started getting ones 3 sizes too large so they can tuck their ears in to them. I just want to slap them off their heads and run. Its not like they could catch me with their pants around their ankles. That is worse than the flat bill......but then again, I have never seen someone with ears tucked into their rolled bill cap |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 7:40:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThose guys with NWA were wearing their hats normally. Those have a slight, natural curve. |
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