Colombian designer Miguel Caballero has the perfect accessory this year for that yuppie with everything: a bulletproof polo shirt. The 4-pound shirt at $4000 can stop an Uzi and is being marketed as the “Armani of bulletproof clothing.” Finally, all those yuppies who wore their polo collars up can claim to be nothing short of urban (lawn) warriors.
On various websites, customers can choose from various options:
OPTION IIA: 9mm / 40 Smith and Wesson FMJ
OPTION II: 9mm / .357 Magnum / 38 Super / Mini Uzi submachine gun
OPTION IIIA: Uzi machine gun / MP5,MP9 submachine gun / 44 Magnum SJHP / Stab-proof
Some sites state the price can go as high as $12,000 to make yourself into a yuppie tank.
Frankly, the stab proof option can come in handy at those rowdy lawn parties when Bif and Muffy start talking politics.
THe company claims such clients as”Steven Seagal, King Abdullah of Jordan, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia, and Prince Felipe of Spain.” I can understand Seagal given the reaction of most people demanding their money back after seeing one of his movies. Likewise, the threat of a PETA hit on Felipe alone is enough to prompt the purchase.
However, just as you have to discern the difference between water-proof and water-resistant, the devil is in the details on bulletproof polo shirts. When pressed, a company general manager admitted “bullet-resistent” may be more accurate. It is not clear how it does on salsa stains.
Source: Smart Money
i always buy polo shirts that have pinstripes in them. they are really nice to wear and not too distracting.:
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leejcaroll,
I already know how to read. Comprehension might be a different subject.
Matt, I am never nasty here but you are an ass. read the article and the comments by all. The issue was not grandma. Maybe you need to take a course on logical reasoning and reading comprehension.
leejcaroll,
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Oh really. So he had a cancer-ridden grandmother. Do you think he might get shot anyway? Do you have anymore clicks to cite?
http://jonathanturley.org/2012/06/11/minnesota-student-ordered-to-remove-rosary-as-gang-symbol/
Obviously you know what post from your remark, Matt. If you don;t go read it and you will understand my comment. Since most are repeat readers/posters I did not think I needed to cite the click.
Boxer shorts?
leejcaroll 1, June 12, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Might be a good shirt from the kid from the other post if he decides to wear the rosary to school
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What other post? Do you want the other kid to wear a gang sign to school? Why don’t you try it?
Might be a good shirt from the kid from the other post if he decides to wear the rosary to school
CLH,
I ain’t your Pa or your Ma as Dylan would say, but as an engineer and a practicing international marketeer I would say that being a lawyer sucks. Great for Perry Mason (before your time) and others but reality sucks I believe.
The only thing that keeps them in demand and not replaced by computers is the human-human interface and the bureaucratic system factor. So much to learn and so little chance to use it or keep it up to date. Thus the extreme specialiation. Finding new niches must be the challenge. Like the new lawyer (see “Outliers”) that developed the field of takeovers and mergers for the first time. Not white shoe and he was on his own.
Talking through my hat of course. Never seen anything but a few defense attorneys offices. Smile. 😉
CLH,
Speak Farsi or Arabic, if you can. Speak electronics. I can understand that.
CLH,
Glad I finally teased you from cover. Was sure you were with the company or a contract killer or ?????.
Such are the ignorants fantisies. Charming is not a word to be used between men, I guess, but your frankness with
self-appelations like “attention whore” is very appealing in this place with folks who for the most hide themselves. I stand with Matt (he’s trying to steal you from me, hee hee hee.) that never fired a round in anger in my case. Being a project officer made that so it was. Did test lots of electronic surveillance equipment in the field.
As for combat would say you are highly qualified, fourteen missions and four wounds all by different ways. I guess the one with the knife is no longer living.
Well relate all you want is my opinion. Don’t think we have many equally qualified here. You lost me with the alphabet stuff, my service ended in 1962. Can guess TAD is temp attachment duty, like TDY but different.
BM???? SWCC??? I also opted for extra pay, but signing up for flying as tech observer with equipment to run was lots easier than learning arabic AND farsi. You must be shitting us. What’s a air electronics tech (drones?) doing gettin knifed on his umpteenth combat mission?
And arabic and farsi are widely different. Or both native speakers will insist so. Even the arabs don’t respect each others pronounciation. Morroco vs Lebanon, for ex.
And why languages?
Sounds like you don’t have PTSD, ´Hope that is right. And obviously are re-integrating well with degree from Southern Methodist U. and considering law at Univ. of Texas.
Impressive. You never mentioned rank. From your words and persona here you would do well as an officer.
But again formal qualification issues. Ridiculous.
Did anyone ask Lafayette, you know the frenchman who helped Washington, if he’d gotten a college degree? Nope.
I know the venturi effect, from the application of pulling a vacuum of 100,000 meters above sea level.
The high velocity bullet would make a tunnel so quickly that the air from outside the body woul not fill it before the suction on surrounding tissues would take effect. How far into the surrounding tissue is beyond my guessing.
I write extensively, but you seem to command both short and long modes. Hope to hear more war stories. But do it as you will. There must be personal limits there too.
BTW, we tested a radar that could detect soldiers carrying rifles at night at quarter mile range. That was in 1961. Surely all fixed perimeters must be guarded in such a fashion now, or with IR laser return rays detection. You’re a tech, but no secrets now.
CLH,
You spelled “meat” wrong. I passed the Navy SEAL fitness test when I was in boot camp, but they wouldn’t let me apply because my uncorrected vision didn’t meet the standards. I never fired a single round of government ammunition.
Idealist- Proffs are you? We’re getting closer.
Not quite tracking you there.
Yeah, I’ve bee there and done that in a lot of different ways, and I tend to try and relate every story I hear to my military experience. It can get annoying, my apologies. As I’ve done absolutely nothing with my life worth mentioning outside that, I don’t bother using it as a reference. And my attention whore status does tend to make me go a bit overboard and try and state myself as an expert on everything.
The wick effect was explained to me (and it may be better described as a venturi effect) as cloth entering the body as a result of the air pressure differential from a high velocity round. I believe they may have meant venturi effect, or perhaps the cloth pulling fluids into or out of a wound cavity. Maybe one of the nurses on here can comment.
I do generally try not to lie, as no one here knows who I am, lying would be a bit silly. I don’t actually care. I use this forum as a way to practice my abysmal writing skills, and to observe how people react to certain positions. In other words, I troll, though for a good cause. And yes, I do speak Arabic at a professional level. I don’t read it very well. I studied Arabic and Farsi to get the bump in pay. I started my military career in August 1997. From Jan. 01 to Sep 07 I was deployed in a combat zone a total of four years, three months. I started out as AT (Aircraft Electronics Tech), cross rated to BM from there so go SWCC in 2000, tried for SEAL but didn’t meat medical requirements. I have engaged in actual combat fourteen times. I have been wounded four times, once by a knife, once by an IED, once by a bullet, and once by a fall (the fall ended my career). I have been assigned TAD to various units as a specialist in field repairs of aircraft and drones. I graduated from SMU with a degree in Mechanical Engineering this year. I took the LSAT last year, and I’ve been accepted to SMU and UT law schools- I was going to SMU, now I’m doing UT (much, much cheaper thanks to the Hazelwood Act) and may end up dropping it altogether. The job market ain’t pretty for lawyers. I’m not exactly rolling in the money now, but it beats all heck out of being unemployed. I’ve been doing factory work for the last two years.
Now you have my bio of note. Not trying for the hero avatar, I promise, I’m just a bit mono-sourced.