he looks too young for Something Awful, the home of the fedora, so i guess it's a reddit thing now

They beat yashmaks, kufis, and popehats.

For those of you that don't know, Aelric is an owner of many fedoras, and at least one Trilby.

Ehhhhh. Better something that nobody had been using for decades than, like, something that might have found a good use.

Also I guess this is a good a place as any, what happened to the "baleen and old_zircon" video? It seems to have been vanished. Did someone take that joke too serious?

It is now the me and Noam Chomsky video.

Aha, thank you. I wanted to show that to somebody.

and hang up a picture!

I wear a fedora. The key is to not ask me if you can borrow the hat for a second and then try some of the tricks this idiot kid does, which results in the hat being dropped on the floor into mud and/or a puddle.

I was Alex from A Clockwork Orange one weekend (I have a nice outfit put together, bloody eyeball cufflinks and everything all im missing are the pletchtoes).

Point is, someone who saw that hat (it's a bowler) called it a Fedora. Basically anyone who isn't wearing a beanie or trucker cap is going to run into some kind of hat related bigotry. I only wear mine on halloween, mind you, but it's the principle of the thing!

It was interesting to find out that the bowler was the most common hat in the old west, not the stereotypical cowboy hat (at least before the 1870's). The photo of Bat Masterson wearing his on Wikipedia is quite dapper.