I’ve seen these before. They’re sweatpants with jean-colors and fake jean designs.
So, basically it’s like camo sweatpants. Except instead of printing camp on them, they print fake jean designs. Often seen on “What Not to Wear”, ect, along with people saying, “Girl, you’re not fooling anyone. Those are so obviously pajama pants.”
Depends on what you think of them as! For girls’ jeans, they’re probably around the middle ground of expense. But for pajamas, they’re frigging expensive as crap.
After they invented jean-lookalike diapers for babies (which is, by definition, so babies) and the Snuggie, I doubted they’d have much further to go in fashion technological innovation.
Before I was moved to a different department at my job, part of my morning routine focused on folding these stupid things and putting them back in their boxes.
Yes. This was a routine thing. Every day people took these pants out of their boxes, decided NOT to buy them, even though there’s a little whole that lets you feel the fabric, and just walk away leaving me to do the work that they could have done.
On the one hand, I’d point out that being able to touch a small portion of the fabric tells you fairly little about how the fabric will drape when not confined to a box.
On the other, I used to work fashion retail as well, and the number of people who are apparently completely incapable of putting so much as a long sleeved t-shirt back on a hanger rather than throwing it in the corner of the dressing room made me want to go on a shooting spree in the food court.
We would not have sold pajama jeans even if that wardrobe atrocity had been committed back then. I never thought to be grateful for that until now.
I agree. I imagine some people want to get an idea of how stretchy they are or how long they are, etc. But they could at least TRY to put them back.
RedScharron
Exactly. It’s like how there are rules for how things that aren’t on hangers had to be folded, so I knew when someone tried one on there was a 99% chance I’d have to re-do it, but the effort to fold anything at all really was appreciated just for the fact that some respect was being implied.
Oh my god, why do I have to slice meat for this person, it’s almost closing time!
Narbodi
I see your complaint and raise you a “how DARE the lone minimum-wage meat wrapper cleaning the meat department at thirty minutes to closing because one of the cutters left five full racks at a quarter to six and didn’t offer to help finish up refuse to put together a fifteen piece machine with a scalloped saw blade capable of taking off your hand before you can say “what was that GRRNK noise” that he has never been trained to use so I can get this roast cut into steaks when there are already two dozen pre-cut packaged steaks in the case because it saves me ten cents!”
For every employee you’ve met that doesn’t want to help you, there’ve been at least twenty customers that employee has had to bend over backwards for because basic sense is in short supply. In that month alone.
Doubly so if it’s a small-town business. Infinitely so if you recognize him as the guy that was stocking Aisle 4 yesterday, chasing carts two days ago, cleaning the ten-inch-deep pool of rotten meat drippings out of the deli’s industrial smoker last week, and stocking the frozen food department while the department’s one employee (that is, the Frozen Food Manager) spends half an hour talking with a cashier after returning from a two-hour lunch while her eight-year-old runs around making a mess.
(Aye, I might still be a little bitter about that job.)
I never blamed the customer. No, no. I blamed the backwards-minded offal that ran the company into the ground with such wond’rous ideas as “let’s make our package assistants do potentially hazardous work that normally constitutes a pay raise but not actually transfer them out of package assistance under fear of punitive action if they don’t, after letting go a dozen employees across the store and not hiring anyone to fill the gaps!”
tl;dr – Sometimes an employee isn’t acting entitled so much as already dealing with a shitty job and none-too-pleased that circumstances are what they are. Also, sometimes their boss is a dick and insists that things that aren’t their job are, and you’re just the unfortunate soul that they’ve sighted in their time of impotent rage. (To my credit, customers often said I was a very nice and helpful person. Might’ve been the proximity to sharp objects, though.)
…Okay, to be honest, I should’ve thought a bit more before I said that, but you know what? I’d LOVE IT if my store’s policy would change to “do not open item up unless you’re going to buy it”. Because apparently they’re not aware that this makes their product look WORSE when other customers see the box lid open.
OR worse, it invites MORE people to open the box as well, which leads to that neverending cycle I mentioned earlier.
MarcinMN
It wouldn’t work. I’ve spent time in retail too. If such a policy existed, some people would still open them and then leave them behind. And if you had someone watching them to make sure they didn’t do that, they’d take the empty box and the pants and stuff them behind something on the far side of the store. You’d find them in a mop bucket or a cat bed or something like that. :p
The customer, however, can have the courtesy to not be an asshole and put things back where they found them.
André
Right, but who knows why they didn’t put it back. Maybe they got a text from their grandma saying she got hit by a tractor-trailer. Which is facetious. But it’s also kind of like complaining that someone had an accident when it is your job to clean bathrooms—sucks when that happens, but sometimes it just happens, and it’s what you’re paid to do. Complaining about the customer is a nice defense mechanism, but that’s pretty much all it is.
Well done review. I can’t say I agree with every point made, but then I read only a few webcomics and Mr. Willis’ is the only one I read daily.
I do have to say, though, humor is *highly* subjective and may not be a great point to rate in things… perhaps instead of rating it, compare and contrast the general humor style of the strip with other sources so that way folks who read the review will have an idea of what to expect…
171 thoughts on “Ingenuity”
Platypus
Indeed
Plasma Mongoose
Walky Approved!
Kurai Seraphim
I think Walky’s face was designed for a gravatar here.
I wonder if Walky Prime had access to such wonders and insights while Cheesing.
turkishproverb
The world may never know!
Mkvenner
What?
ALostProphet
I…. have no idea. Are they really loose denim or denim-look soft fabric?
Or is this just a mind-screw?
Mkvenner
Willis isn’t the mindf*ck kind of person.
Randy Milhound is.
Plasma Mongoose
The only thing I can think of is flannel pants designed to look like jeans.
AaronS
I’ve seen these before. They’re sweatpants with jean-colors and fake jean designs.
So, basically it’s like camo sweatpants. Except instead of printing camp on them, they print fake jean designs. Often seen on “What Not to Wear”, ect, along with people saying, “Girl, you’re not fooling anyone. Those are so obviously pajama pants.”
…What?
Jetstream
https://www.pajamajeans.com/
Google, yo.
Jetstream
… These are really goddamn expensive.
Joraiem
Depends on what you think of them as! For girls’ jeans, they’re probably around the middle ground of expense. But for pajamas, they’re frigging expensive as crap.
Sagara S.
i hate that you’re right.
iSaidCandleja-
I’m confused. It looks like Walky is the one who climaxed, but Dorothy isn’t here. Or is he just imagining her wearing those?
David Herbert
Why would Walky be watching this commercial? Does he like wearing women’s clothes?
Plasma Mongoose
Why? Don’t you? 😛
Mkvenner
It’s little Walky that’s watching the commecrial.
Rex Hondo
Depending on what channel he’s watching, these commercials are kind of hard to avoid…
David Herbert
I think he’s on his laptop. But if he’s watching blip videos then yeah, the ads would be unskippable.
Plasma Mongoose
Aint PJ jeans essentially tracksuit pants?
darcos0
humanity’s way of jumping the shark
Plasma Mongoose
Is that what they call it these days?
Larson E. Jones
Still clings to your cottage cheese ass like actual jeans!
(Enhanced self-esteem not included.)
Seerow
Is Walky climaxing at this commercial while Dorothy is still sitting on the bed next to him?
iSaidCandleja-
Maybe she left and the commercial is just what he needed to end his “frustration” afterward.
Rex Hondo
Well, that’s one way to break the ice, I suppose.
MuleyBob
Humankind’s Ingenuity is kind of a long name for one’s penis. I just call mine Pepe.
Plasma Mongoose
A long name for sure, but it is certainly impressive looking to have a name like that tattooed on your willy.
Rex Hondo
Mine is “Gargo the Pleasure Cyclops.”
Stephen Bierce
After they invented jean-lookalike diapers for babies (which is, by definition, so babies) and the Snuggie, I doubted they’d have much further to go in fashion technological innovation.
Rex Hondo
Next step, everyone gets their standard issue Star Trek:TNG civilian unitard.
NakedDumblydore
Wait, do they have denim snuggies now?
Anon
..Overalls?
A. Colunga
Pannel 1, Is Dora’s behind, without a doubt. It’s like a seventh sense.
Joraiem
OH NO THE BUTTS DISEASE IS SPREADING
Noel Schornhorst
I’m with Walky. I want ‘guy’ pajama jeans… 😛
Don’t judge me (with your faaaaaaaaaace!)
Rex Hondo
Would you rather I judge you with my penis?
It’s gotta be one thread meme or the other. CHOOSE.
Marika Oniki
I’m judging you both. For a nickel.
Rex Hondo
GAH! OUTMANEUVERED!! AND FOR WHAT YOU REFER TO AS A NICKEL!
Dr. Smart
oh hey its Sonja, nice to see another Wotch fan, even if its a very old comment
Ragnal
Before I was moved to a different department at my job, part of my morning routine focused on folding these stupid things and putting them back in their boxes.
Yes. This was a routine thing. Every day people took these pants out of their boxes, decided NOT to buy them, even though there’s a little whole that lets you feel the fabric, and just walk away leaving me to do the work that they could have done.
Bottom line, I FUCKING HATE PEOPLE.
ALostProphet
So are they denim or aren’t they? The people need to know!
Rex Hondo
According to their website, they’re a proprietary blend of cotton and spandex.
Mrelegos
THEY ARE NOT SPANDEX!!!!
Sorry, old Power Rangers RPM reflex kicking in there…
Ragnal
They don’t feel like jeans. That’s all I got.
RedScharron
On the one hand, I’d point out that being able to touch a small portion of the fabric tells you fairly little about how the fabric will drape when not confined to a box.
On the other, I used to work fashion retail as well, and the number of people who are apparently completely incapable of putting so much as a long sleeved t-shirt back on a hanger rather than throwing it in the corner of the dressing room made me want to go on a shooting spree in the food court.
We would not have sold pajama jeans even if that wardrobe atrocity had been committed back then. I never thought to be grateful for that until now.
isitsevenyet
I agree. I imagine some people want to get an idea of how stretchy they are or how long they are, etc. But they could at least TRY to put them back.
RedScharron
Exactly. It’s like how there are rules for how things that aren’t on hangers had to be folded, so I knew when someone tried one on there was a 99% chance I’d have to re-do it, but the effort to fold anything at all really was appreciated just for the fact that some respect was being implied.
NakedDumblydore
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
nothri
Your avatar makes this horrifically appropriate to say.
André
I kind of love it when people think that things that are their job are not their job, and blame their customers rather than their employers.
André
Or themselves.
SlaveBlade
Oh my god, why do I have to slice meat for this person, it’s almost closing time!
Narbodi
I see your complaint and raise you a “how DARE the lone minimum-wage meat wrapper cleaning the meat department at thirty minutes to closing because one of the cutters left five full racks at a quarter to six and didn’t offer to help finish up refuse to put together a fifteen piece machine with a scalloped saw blade capable of taking off your hand before you can say “what was that GRRNK noise” that he has never been trained to use so I can get this roast cut into steaks when there are already two dozen pre-cut packaged steaks in the case because it saves me ten cents!”
For every employee you’ve met that doesn’t want to help you, there’ve been at least twenty customers that employee has had to bend over backwards for because basic sense is in short supply. In that month alone.
Doubly so if it’s a small-town business. Infinitely so if you recognize him as the guy that was stocking Aisle 4 yesterday, chasing carts two days ago, cleaning the ten-inch-deep pool of rotten meat drippings out of the deli’s industrial smoker last week, and stocking the frozen food department while the department’s one employee (that is, the Frozen Food Manager) spends half an hour talking with a cashier after returning from a two-hour lunch while her eight-year-old runs around making a mess.
(Aye, I might still be a little bitter about that job.)
I never blamed the customer. No, no. I blamed the backwards-minded offal that ran the company into the ground with such wond’rous ideas as “let’s make our package assistants do potentially hazardous work that normally constitutes a pay raise but not actually transfer them out of package assistance under fear of punitive action if they don’t, after letting go a dozen employees across the store and not hiring anyone to fill the gaps!”
tl;dr – Sometimes an employee isn’t acting entitled so much as already dealing with a shitty job and none-too-pleased that circumstances are what they are. Also, sometimes their boss is a dick and insists that things that aren’t their job are, and you’re just the unfortunate soul that they’ve sighted in their time of impotent rage. (To my credit, customers often said I was a very nice and helpful person. Might’ve been the proximity to sharp objects, though.)
Ragnal
Yes, how dare the customer not show a shred of decency and common sense?
Ragnal
…Okay, to be honest, I should’ve thought a bit more before I said that, but you know what? I’d LOVE IT if my store’s policy would change to “do not open item up unless you’re going to buy it”. Because apparently they’re not aware that this makes their product look WORSE when other customers see the box lid open.
OR worse, it invites MORE people to open the box as well, which leads to that neverending cycle I mentioned earlier.
MarcinMN
It wouldn’t work. I’ve spent time in retail too. If such a policy existed, some people would still open them and then leave them behind. And if you had someone watching them to make sure they didn’t do that, they’d take the empty box and the pants and stuff them behind something on the far side of the store. You’d find them in a mop bucket or a cat bed or something like that. :p
Jetstream
The retail slave’s job is to clean up, yes.
The customer, however, can have the courtesy to not be an asshole and put things back where they found them.
André
Right, but who knows why they didn’t put it back. Maybe they got a text from their grandma saying she got hit by a tractor-trailer. Which is facetious. But it’s also kind of like complaining that someone had an accident when it is your job to clean bathrooms—sucks when that happens, but sometimes it just happens, and it’s what you’re paid to do. Complaining about the customer is a nice defense mechanism, but that’s pretty much all it is.
I’d rather put clothes back in boxes, personally.
TaZZerath
First jeggings, now this….
fellixe
Jeggings! Glad you remembered that. I knew what they were but prying the name out of my cold, dead brain would have taken all day.
Plasma Mongoose
These Pajama jeans wouldn’t happen to be a new line of merch you are working on by any chance Willis?
LimeTH
No, they’re a real thing.
Deckhouse5
Willis got it down to the checkboxes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFoGg_aJYkM
Noel Schornhorst
Well done review. I can’t say I agree with every point made, but then I read only a few webcomics and Mr. Willis’ is the only one I read daily.
I do have to say, though, humor is *highly* subjective and may not be a great point to rate in things… perhaps instead of rating it, compare and contrast the general humor style of the strip with other sources so that way folks who read the review will have an idea of what to expect…
Noel Schornhorst
And now the review is gone. I feel foolish. 😛
ALostProphet
It’s back now. I asked David to delete it because MS Word ate the breaks between the paragraphs. It’s less of a Wall-Of-Text now.
Vabolo
In-jean-nuity?
Rex Hondo