Should Middle-Aged Men Wear Shorts? Designer Shunsuke Ishikawa Makes the Case from Fashion History
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Tokyo's suggestion that shorts might be acceptable summer office wear set off a public argument in Japan, and much of it turned into a referendum on whether anyone wants to see middle-aged men's bare legs. In this episode, fashion designer Shunsuke Ishikawa, who runs MARKAWARE, and host Eddie try to take the debate back from sociology and treat it as a clothing question. Ishikawa's position is that shorts were originally a gentleman's garment and that Tokyo's heat gives men every reason to wear them. He then gives practical rules and three sample outfits, and ends by admitting that his own legs are a problem.
A debate that looked unwinnable
Eddie opens by saying the reaction to the proposal, associated with Governor Koike, was "frustrating." In their view middle-aged men were losing the argument badly. They had recently bought a pair of MARKAWARE shorts to wear this year and now felt they would have to throw them out unworn. Ishikawa talks them out of it: discarding the shorts and buying long trousers would mean paying twice.
Ishikawa frames the stakes jokingly. He puts the number of middle-aged men in Japan at 35.5 million and says that if the video could answer their worries, it could in theory reach that many views. The joke gives the episode its title.
Two separate questions
Ishikawa says he hasn't followed the deeper discussion closely. From what he has seen, though, the conversation has drifted toward something like sexism or lookism, with an attitude that discriminating against middle-aged men is fine because they are supposedly the socially powerful. He disputes that and insists middle-aged men are "totally the socially weak." He then sets that argument aside to focus on fashion.
He sees two issues. The first is whether shorts count as acceptable office casual. He says this comes down to each company's rules, and practice already varies. He notes that the governor originally spoke loosely, more in the spirit of "wouldn't it be fine?" than announcing a rule, and he thinks keeping that relaxed tone and letting the practice settle in naturally is a good approach. By his account Tokyo has already moved ahead of national standards by allowing T-shirts and sneakers, and shorts fit into that same direction. He describes the governor as someone who seems to care about fashion. The second issue is the "we don't want to see middle-aged men's legs" objection, and that is the one his styling advice addresses.
Shorts started as upper-class dress
Ishikawa's historical argument begins in the 17th and 18th centuries. He asks Eddie to picture a prince in an illustration: pumpkin breeches or close-fitting culottes worn with tights. According to Ishikawa, knee breeches worn with silk tights were the standard dress of the bourgeoisie and the gentleman's look. People of standing wore short trousers.
In his telling, long trousers came from the French Revolution. The sans-culottes were literally "those without culottes," and their long trousers were workwear. He compares this to jeans, which began as miners' clothing and later became a symbol of youthful rebellion. As the upper classes adopted long trousers too, the culture shifted to them. He names George Bryan "Beau" Brummell as a key figure in England. Ishikawa says Brummell wasn't especially upper-class by origin and was what we'd now call a party person, and that he established the fashion for long trousers and dark black evening dress. Ishikawa adds that Brummell's statue on London's Jermyn Street, known for its shoe shops, looked defaced around the eyes when he visited last year.
How shorts came back
Ishikawa traces the return of shorts through three routes.
The first is military. Around World War I, in the early 20th century, British troops stationed in Bermuda adopted shorts as part of their uniform because of the heat, and he says this is why shorts are still called "Bermudas." Later, around World War II, even banks there adopted shorts as uniforms, and the practice then spread to other hot regions.
The second is sport. Golf, hunting, and horse riding used three-quarter-length trousers worn with socks. Tennis at Wimbledon was originally played in long trousers. Ishikawa says a player first appeared in shorts in the early 1930s, around 1933, and drew criticism that men shouldn't show their legs and that it looked childish, which he points out is the same criticism heard today. By his account, by the 1940s every Wimbledon winner wore shorts. Sport, he says, was where shorts first became accepted.
The third, and in his view the biggest, is 1950s Ivy style. East Coast Ivy League students wore Bermuda shorts because they looked good, the style spread to Europe, and Japan was strongly influenced by it as well.
He then makes the point the argument has been building to. He looked up Bermuda's temperature and found that the maximum is only a little over 30°C, while Tokyo summers approach 40°C. If shorts made sense in Bermuda, he asks, why not in Japan?
The "sans-pantalon" revolution
From there Ishikawa leans into the joke. Since the revolutionaries of 1789 were sans-culottes, today's middle-aged men should become sans-pantalon, without long trousers, and demand the right to wear shorts. He also calls it a "shin-hair revolution." Eddie says they don't want to join that demonstration. Ishikawa nominates Eddie to lead the 35.5 million anyway: wear shorts and T-shirts to work, live in shorts all summer, and declare "it's hot!"
Rules: length and footwear
Before the outfits, Ishikawa sets out a few rules he recommends following.
Length. The traditional rule for proper shorts is knee-length to 5 cm above the knee. Longer shorts that fall below the knee toward the shin are common, but he suggests leaving them to skaters and young, slim men. Mode-brand shorts, which he says he loves, should be left to fashion enthusiasts, because they only look good on certain people. Middle-aged men should avoid both.
Footwear for business. Wear socks. Shorts with flip-flops may be acceptable at IT firms and at his own fashion company, but he doesn't think society is ready for employees in shorts and flip-flops. The priority is to win the right to shorts first. For now he recommends socks with leather sandals, leather shoes, or clean-looking sneakers.
Three outfits
Staff member Yamada, who is in his forties, models the looks. Ishikawa calls him a "comrade in the revolution" and says he would model himself if not for a problem he explains later.
1. Office-ready hemp shorts. MARKAWARE hemp shorts with a white shirt give a clean look that Ishikawa thinks could work in an office. He adds white socks and either loafers or Gurkha sandals, a sandal close to a shoe.
2. Gurkha shorts in black and brown. Ishikawa says you can't talk about men's shorts without Gurkha shorts, and he uses a brown herringbone pair from Nomàt. He tucks the top in and revisits the black-and-brown combination the channel once called "forbidden," using only those two colors. His key tip is to match the socks to the shorts, here with brown socks, which he calls chic. He also adds a caveat: however much they are warriors of the revolution, men should still show some freshness and consideration for the people around them.
3. Sporty Patagonia Baggies. For a sportier option he picks the classic Patagonia Men's Baggies in the 5-inch length, which he prefers because it stays above the knee. Since they are casual, he pairs them with a ramie knit instead of a T-shirt and drapes a cardigan over it. The result keeps its sporty feel but looks more refined. Where casual dress is allowed, Birkenstock-type sandals or clean sneakers work.
He explains the idea behind all three. The recent debate carried a sense that middle-aged men in shorts look grubby, so the outfits are designed not to read as resortwear and to remove that impression. Men can also mix in items they already use for business casual. For errands or outings with children, anything relaxed is fine, but he thinks going too outdoorsy in town looks a little off at the moment.
Ishikawa's personal problem
Eddie points out that Ishikawa wears shorts constantly at home and on convenience-store runs. Ishikawa confirms it. He owns about four pairs of Baggies, including a limited-edition yellow pair, and treats them as swim trunks you can wear around town.
Some years ago, though, a very famous senior figure in the industry saw an Instagram photo of him in shorts and told him not to wear them. Ishikawa took it as an industry-level ban and agreed. Two years ago the channel filmed a shorts episode that never aired, because publication would have slipped to September, which was too late in the season. Since the senior's complaint was essentially that his shin hair was unsightly, Ishikawa's response was laser hair removal, starting with his legs. That is the origin of the hair removal he has mentioned in other videos. Even so, he says he is still torn about whether to wear shorts.
Then he reveals that he is wearing shorts today and stands up, his first shorts look on YouTube. The shin hair is gone, but his legs are very pale, like a child's legs. He worries he could now be criticized for having gross white legs instead, so he wore socks. He adds that he has gained a little weight and that he has some pigmentation from years of wearing skinny denim every day during Hedi Slimane's heyday. For these reasons he says he can't carry the revolution's flag himself and asks Eddie to do it.
When Eddie suggests a tanning salon, Ishikawa refuses to start another cycle. He describes the one he has just escaped: he was getting laser hair removal while taking medication for hair loss after long COVID, and the medication kept fine hair growing back. A colleague, Hayao, named it the "Demon Slayer: Hair-Removal Infinite Hell Arc." Ishikawa has stopped the medication, and the leg hair has stopped returning, though he now worries about losing volume on his head. He doesn't want to add a new loop of tanning and spot removal.
Where it ends
Eddie admits they have lost the thread. Until Ishikawa stood up, they thought the revolution was already won. The episode closes with a slogan instead of a firm verdict: liberty for middle-aged men, a shin-hair revolution, sans-pantalon. Eddie also brings up the channel's earlier "middle-aged-man hoodie problem." Ishikawa insists he solved it the moment he heard about it and offers to explain his solution in a future video if viewers ask for it in the comments.
Today — yes — it's the 'Save the Nation's 35 Million Middle-Aged Men' Great Problem-Solving Special. What's going on, Eddie-san? You've brought staff along as allies or something, haven't you? Today, let's reach a verdict. The middle-aged-man shorts debate — let's go. — It feels like we're coming out swinging pretty hard. — Sorry — 'let's reach a verdict' — well, I do have various thoughts about it, so let's just give it our best shot. — Right away — Ishikawa-san, wait, aren't we forgetting one thing? — Yes, one thing. Let me do this one.
Ready? — Please. — Here we go. Hello everyone, I'm fashion designer Shunsuke Ishikawa. And with Eddie-san hosting for the first time — let's go. — You're fired up. — Yeah. This goes back a little while,
but there was that news that made quite a stir — the pros and cons of Tokyo's recommendation of shorts. — There was. — The one Governor Koike said, right? — Yes. Did you see it? — Lightly, and then afterward I saw bits and pieces of it coming up online. — Yeah. It was frustrating. — Frustrating? Why was it frustrating? — Because no matter how you look at it, the middle-aged man's defeat looks all but certain. I've actually been firing back, but I can't quite see a path to victory. — Eddie-san, you'd been feeling defeated? — I had, at that point, and honestly I'd recently bought a pair of MARKAWARE shorts, meaning to wear them this year,
but no, I have to throw these out without ever wearing them. — No, no, no, don't throw them out. If you throw them out you'd be paying double, triple — buying long trousers on top of it, that direction. — That's paying twice, isn't it? — What a pain, that sloshing feeling. — So I wanted to ask Ishikawa-san and maybe find some hope for the middle-aged man — whether we can't change this current — I wanted to hear your view. — How to change the current... Does my rhetoric have that much power? In words — as I said even in the title, if you look nationwide, middle-aged men number thirty-five and a half million. — Seriously? In Japan. — And I'm counted in that too, right? — You're counted too. Not in the elderly category, right? — The worries of 35.5 million middle-aged men — if, hypothetically, we could answer them, then this video's view count might reach about that number. — It'd go there? 35 million? Seriously? — The potential is there. 35.5 million views. — Then let's really give it our all — let's put our hearts into it today. — Really? Fired up, we'll do it. — You'll rack up those 35.5 million views for us, right, Eddie-san? — It's not that I'll rack them up — the middle-aged men will rack them up, won't they? — Seriously? Then let's do it. — Framing it as that kind of video really got me fired up just now. — Well, on that note — I haven't really followed the deeper discussion afterward, so I don't really understand this debate on that front, but if anything, it's gone in a kind of sexism direction, or rather lookism — how to put it — hasn't it gone that way? And so, I think there are broadly two points of contention. One is whether shorts are okay as office casual or not, in the first place. The other is the 'we don't want to see middle-aged men's bare legs' argument, I suppose. From a fashion standpoint, there may be things we can actually talk about, is where this seems to go — because rather than a clothing debate, it's kind of turned into a sociological discussion, hasn't it? — plus the whole 'it's fine to discriminate against middle-aged men,' the 'you lot are the socially powerful, right?' kind of vibe. — That's not true, is it? Middle-aged men are — that's not true at all, they're totally the socially weak — I very much want people to understand that,
but let's set that aside a bit and think about what to do with this shorts issue from a fashion standpoint — how to make sense of the shorts debate, the middle-aged-man shorts debate — that's what I'd like to consider. First, the matter of whether you may wear shorts at the office or not — this comes down to each company's rules, so I don't know either;
there's plenty of 'this company's OK, that company's not.' Taking the lead there, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government pushed it forward — though Koike-san originally spoke about it pretty loosely, not as 'we'll make it a rule' but more like 'wouldn't it be fine?' So keeping that 'wouldn't it be fine?' mood and just letting it slide into place naturally seems good, I think. There seem to be various things about Tokyo's versus the national standards, and going by that, Tokyo's given the OK on T-shirts too, and sneakers are OK as well — Tokyo's moving ahead pretty loosely. Shorts get included in that, which is Governor Koike's thinking, I suppose. Governor Koike originally seems to be someone with various hang-ups about fashion, so it feels like she's pushing that along. And well,
I think it's rather nice for it to proceed loosely like that. But if I may talk through a few things on my end, first — what is the very nature of shorts in fashion to begin with — I'd like to start from there. Going back to the very origin, if you go back to the 17th and 18th centuries, the so-called bourgeoisie basically wore short trousers. Picture, in an illustration, a prince — what's he wearing? Pumpkin breeches, right? Culottes worn snug, with tights, that sort of look, isn't it? That was originally the bourgeoisie's attire. So people of a proper social class — it was an era when they weren't wearing short trousers... rather, on the coverage question, everyone wore tights back then, silk tights and such. They're called knee breeches — those culotte-like things — that was originally the gentleman's look. — So they wore them. — Right, they wore shorts.
So, why did everyone move to long trousers? People came to wear long trousers in the French Revolution era — it's a famous story — there's a movement called the sans-culottes. What is that — 'sans' is a negation, so it's like 'the folks who don't wear culottes' emerging. Originally long trousers were workwear — like jeans today. That's why jeans, long ago, carried a meaning like a symbol of youth rebellion, right? Originally coal miners wore them — the same thing happened long ago. In the French Revolution era they wore long trousers, and so it shifted to long trousers, and as people of various higher social classes came to adopt them too, it changed into the long-trouser culture. And one of the key figures in this, in England — have you heard of Beau Brummell? George Bryan 'Beau' Brummell — has he come up in a video? Has he come up once in a video? By origin he apparently wasn't very upper-class, but he was what we'd now call a party person. He's the one who created the fashion current of wearing today's long trousers in England, dressing in black, dark black attire at night,
and so on. And Beau Brummell — if you like London or you like shoes, there's a famous London street called Jermyn Street lined with shoe shops, and many of you probably know there's a statue of Beau Brummell standing there, but just recently — when I went last year — it was in a rather sorry state, with something done to its eyes like this — it looked thoroughly messed with. So then, where and how did shorts — resortwear included — make their comeback? In the flow of Western clothing, one thing that plays a big role — they're still called this even now — is Bermuda shorts. Bermuda, Bermuda, as we say. This — around World War I, really the early 20th century — in Bermuda, the British Army was stationed here, and because it was so hot, the British Army adopted shorts as part of the uniform. — Yeah. — And that we still call shorts 'Bermudas' today comes from that. And with this same Bermuda, a bit later in time, around World War II, even banks and the like moved toward shorts as uniforms, and seeing that, a current of adopting this sort of thing then spread in hot regions afterward. And at the same time, in sports people came to wear quite short ones.
Going by that — golf, hunting, and horse-riding — they wore three-quarter lengths, right? With socks, of course. And originally tennis was played in long trousers too, at Wimbledon and such. That was around 1933 — in the early 1930s a player wearing shorts appeared at Wimbledon, and then — just like now — there was criticism like 'men shouldn't show their legs' and 'it's childish.' But from there it apparently took until the 1940s, and by then — late as it was — every player who won Wimbledon came to be in shorts, that's the flow. So first, in the world of sports, shorts came to be accepted, that's the idea. Then, how did they actually come to be adopted as fashion — the biggest trigger was, after all, 1950s Ivy. Japan was strongly influenced by it too, and the Ivy League students, the East Coast American students, called them Bermudas, Bermudas, and wore shorts, and from a 'that's cool as fashion' place, Bermuda shorts spread, and that current carried over to Europe as well, is how it went. Going by that — Bermuda came up, right?
So I looked up what the temperature in Bermuda actually is. The maximum is 30 degrees? — 30, 30 degrees. A touch over 30 — and they wore shorts in that. So why can't Japan wear shorts? — that's the point. — That may really be true. — Right? Japan too — Tokyo's summers hit 40 degrees, don't they? — They do. — This is something everyone has to get angry about, we should — Eddie-san, we should claim our rights. Taking the stance that we are the weak, this becomes a liberation movement we have to carry out. Going by that — in the French Revolution it was the sans-culottes wearing long trousers, right? For us it's sans-pantalon — pantalon meaning long trousers — a sans-pantalon movement we must wage: 'Let us wear shorts!' We have to start a revolution here.
— I see. — A shin-hair revolution works too — 'Let middle-aged men bare their shin hair!' — I don't want to join that demo. — Yeah, that demo — no, no, no. Take the lead — I'll take responsibility, lead the front of these 35.5 million middle-aged men — Eddie-san, you go. Wear shorts, bare your shin hair, 'it's hot!' Let us wear T-shirts at work too, let us live in shorts through the summer — wouldn't it be fine to go at it like that? That's the present day, I suppose. I'd like to tie the middle-aged-man shorts debate to a middle-aged men's sans-pantalon style revolution — I'd like to tie it to a shin-hair revolution, is what I'm thinking. — No no, we're building momentum. — Building momentum? And around here, then, maybe it's a good time to introduce some coordinates — how to actually wear them.
— I want to hear that. — There are a few important points I think you're better off observing. Going by that: generally, shorts follow the rule of knee-length to 5 cm above the knee. That's the original rule for proper shorts. And ones that go down to below the knee, around the shin — quite a lot of people wear those, right? Those, let's leave to the skater kids and the young slim-and-fit types. And another — mode-style brands, I love those, so leave that to the fashionistas. It's not something middle-aged men should wear — that only looks very, very stylish on the right people, so let's steer clear of that. If I add one more — when wearing them for business, you might be better off at least pairing socks with them, I feel. Because shorts with flip-flops, in a business setting — well, these days IT firms and such, even that's OK, and our company, being fashion-related, is totally OK with it — even so, at some point, having an employee in shorts and flip-flops is — we can't quite go that far yet, I think.
First, let's win the right to shorts. So for now, pair them with socks, and that can be leather sandals, or pair them with leather shoes or clean-looking sneakers — going about that far is good for now, I think.
And so, I'd like to show you the coordinates. As for the first coordinate proposal, we've paired our hemp shorts here — these are cool. Pair something like this with a white shirt, and it's a clean look — fine for the office, wouldn't you say? And with that, pair white socks, and for example loafers work here, or you could pair Gurkha sandals or something shoe-like — a sandal close to a shoe — and doing that sort of thing, maybe even the office is workable? — that kind of feel, I think. — Yeah. — So around here, shall we go with baring the shin hair as we go — that's the first one, I suppose. And this time — Yamada-kun — Katsura-kun — he's still a bit young to call middle-aged. — True. — So — as a middle-aged man in his forties — Yamada-kun is still youthful-looking, but Yamada-kun is doing the modeling for us. — So he's a comrade, then. — A comrade, a comrade, yes, a comrade in the revolution. By rights I should be the one doing it, but I have a bit of a problem, which I'll talk about later — it's fine. Second — when it comes to men's shorts, you can't leave out Gurkha shorts, so this is a Gurkha from a brand called Nomàt — a brown-toned Gurkha — isn't it cool? — It's cool. — And tuck this in properly, and that forbidden black-and-brown coordinate we did before — recreating that here and refining it now — this is the point: matching the color of the shorts and the socks is cute. Here, coordinate with just black and brown, pairing brown socks — that sort of thing looks chic, I think. Doing it like this makes for a slightly refined shorts style, and it'll come to be accepted that way, I think.
So you do have to work in some freshness. However much we're warriors of the revolution, let's not forget some consideration for the other person. If you want to go a bit more sporty, there's a classic: the Patagonia Men's Baggies. I like the 5-inch, so the 5-inch — considering the above-the-knee point, the 5-inch is the better choice, and since it's a bit casual — not a T-shirt, but something knit-like, shall we pair? — pairing a ramie knit, and lightly throwing a cardigan over it as an ensemble — going that way, you don't lose the sporty side, but you can wear it in a slightly refined way. And at this point, since it's quite sporty, Birkenstocks or that sort of sandal — where casual is allowed — you could pair those, or pairing clean-looking sneakers with something like this is good too, I think. So, about three coordinates — how's that? Delicately not letting it look like resortwear, and refined — somewhat refined — because when you listen to the opinions in the recent debate, there's a 'middle-aged men in shorts look grubby' sense, so how much you can strip that out is worth a little consideration — that's the spirit of these coordinates.
— Seeing the coordinates, I feel like I can somehow see what I can do right now. — Right. Something like that — if you try putting together various coordinates with that in mind, the items you've used for business casual so far you can of course work in too, I think. And for wearing around town, or heading to the neighborhood with your kids, any free-and-easy outfit is fine, I think, but going too outdoorsy in town right now feels a bit off, too, so in that sense, going with coordinates around here is a good idea, I feel.
— Something caught my attention earlier: Ishikawa-san, just when I thought you were a comrade of the revolution, you're apparently carrying a bit of a problem. — Actually, Ishikawa-san, you wear shorts a ton around the house or on convenience-store runs, mainly Patagonia, don't you? — I do, tons. I own about four pairs of Baggies — I've even got them in yellow, a limited-edition yellow — I wear them without even putting on underwear, that kind of feel, so I wear them thinking of them as swim trunks — or rather, it's better to think of them as swim trunks you can wear around town, so I wear them that way, but — the timing being what it is — some years ago, a great senior figure in the industry, a very, very famous senior, got in touch after seeing an Instagram photo I'd posted of myself in shorts: 'Ishikawa,'
"You're not to wear shorts," I was told. A ban — suddenly a ban was issued. You'd best regard it as a ban within the industry, that level — so I said "Yes, understood" at the time. But we started YouTube, right? And two years ago — that shorts episode — Eddie, you probably remember this clearly too — a shorts episode that ended up as a phantom, a shoot that never aired. — That's right, there was one. — We said let's do it, but publishing it would slip to September, and "that's too late," so it got scrapped — that shorts episode. What did I do for that? Essentially, that senior said "your shin hair is gross, so don't wear shorts," so if I'm going to have to not wear shorts, the first thing to do is hair removal — the first thing to do is hair removal — which connects to the hair removal I keep mentioning here and there,
right? First I did my legs. And once I'd done the hair removal, it became a bit of a "well, how about this now" situation — a conflict over whether to even wear shorts continues to this day — so truly, as a warrior of the revolution I'd like to fight alongside you, but whether I can fight I don't know — that's the situation I've ended up in. So I'm rather in a position where it might be better for me to peek out from the shadows — and yet, in fact, today I am wearing shorts. So — shall I stand up and show you? — Is that okay?
It's a first for YouTube, right — my shorts look. — A first. — Yes, here we go, up we get. — Yes, yes. What's the problem — the shin hair is smoothly gone. However — too pale, the legs are white — this is bad, isn't it? A middle-aged man's shin hair is gross, but "a middle-aged man's white legs are gross" is a thing I could get told, so I'm properly wearing socks with them too — the styling's great. — The legs are too white. — There's a problem, right? The legs are white, they've gone all like a child's legs, and I've gotten a bit plump lately, and on top of that — in Hedi Slimane's heyday we were all wearing skinny pants like crazy, so — skinny denim, when I wore it, this area got pigmented, all rubbed by the denim — I wore skinny every single day, so various pants-related things happened — so in this state, I can't very well take the lead carrying the revolution's flag and marching, can I? I'm sorry about having no shin hair, but I'd really like Eddie-san to take the lead, carry the flag — carry the sans-pantalon flag and march forth — is what I'm thinking. — No, truly, thank you. — Having exposed such an embarrassing
sight. — The legs are too white — I hadn't quite pictured that. — And now, going to a tanning salon would be a drag, right? — Right. "Getting age spots removed while going to a tanning salon" — it becomes exactly the same as that story, doesn't it? "Getting hair removal done while taking medication for the hair loss from long COVID" — an utterly nonsensical loop I'm stuck in — getting zapped by lasers bam-bam-bam-bam, and yet thanks to that, more and more — because I'm taking the medication, more and more fine hair grows back — I entered that infinite-hell problem, the one Hayao-kun named — what was it — "Demon Slayer: Hair-Removal Infinite Hell Arc" — I entered that. Now I've stopped the medication, and sure enough it doesn't grow back — though in exchange I worry my hair volume keeps dropping, so I'm a bit worried — but I've cut off that infinite hell for now, so please don't make me add another infinite hell of tanning and spot removal on top of it, okay? — A one-man revolution keeps breaking out all over the place. Really. So, have we reached a conclusion? — No, I've kind of lost the thread now. Because the pale legs — until you stood up, I thought the revolution was already accomplished. — Seriously? You thought we'd put a full stop to this debate? —
Because a pale middle-aged man was fidgeting. — What am I supposed to go searching for, then? This YouTube — if we could hit 100,000 with this and call ourselves YouTubers, that'd be nice, but I'm still an apprentice, so I have to keep working, huh, still. — I see. — First I'll work on that — on that rather than the revolution.
— But I saw your soul. — You saw my soul? — I saw your soul. Today's summary: liberty for middle-aged men — let's start a shin-hair revolution. Summary — it's the best revolution yet, so — since we need a slogan — sans-pantalon, let's go with sans-pantalon.
Truly, middle-aged men tend to get bashed. — Yeah. — They've become such pitiable creatures, haven't they. — Oh, right, on that middle-aged-man note — earlier there was the "middle-aged-man hoodie problem." — There was, there was. — That got a ton of attention, right? — Yes. And that one — Ishikawa-san, you said you'd solved it, but not at all. — No, no, it's solved. In my mind, the moment I heard it, it was solved. — It's solved? — "What are these people on about" — that's where it's solved, it is. If anyone's interested in the solution to the middle-aged-man hoodie problem — talking about it here would drag on again, so if anyone's interested, I'll talk about it anytime. —
Seriously? — If in the comments — the solution to the middle-aged-man hoodie problem, on which I've reached a conclusion — the middle-aged-man hoodie problem — you mean hearing the report? — The report, right, right, right. Everyone, please subscribe, like, comment, and the bell and Hype, thank you kindly. We'd like to keep cutting sharply into problems like this going forward, so please subscribe. Whether we cut sharply today, I'm not sure, but we'll cut sharply going forward, so please subscribe.
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