Where DID you get that?
  • yachris
    February 4, 2011

    Foamer? That’s a new one…

  • Johnboy
    February 4, 2011

    What about the cultural significance imparted by wear on an object in motion, neĆ© the “unfinished object” lamented before?

    The worn pair of shoes hints of a journey, where a new pair of shoes hints of a preference. Thrift store merchandise is a quick pawn at cultural cache. Raw denim, though, doesn’t break in that well sitting behind a desk.

  • tripleg
    February 5, 2011

    confused people like somethings

  • Lethargi
    February 5, 2011

    What about the bourgeoisie, what do they like?

  • John
    February 5, 2011

    Gawd. I didn’t know people actually used the word “foamer”. Or do they?

  • Leonardo Boiko
    February 5, 2011

    I had to check out urbandictionary too.

    > Foamer: A term railroad employees use to describe a railroad enthusiast / railfan and the railfan community at large. Most often used disparagingly.

  • Erika
    February 5, 2011

    I like free things. They mean I’m special. That is, they mean I have the special ability to find good junk by the dumpsters outside apartment buildings.

  • Eric
    February 5, 2011

    Every couple of months or so, a Cat and Girl strip happens to correspond with a lot of things I’ve been thinking about or discussing recently, and it makes them very memorable for me. This is one of those.

    Doess wanting to experience life as something more complex or honest than consumption make me anti-social? (Sorry. You don’t have to answer that. I wish my comments could be more witty and less self-absorbed, like the comic itself.)

  • ken
    February 6, 2011

    i can only imagine rail road workers saying to each other “fuckin foamers”

  • Mr Lapin
    February 6, 2011

    Never heard of “foamer.” Whatever.

    I know a guy who used to work for Amtrak as an engineer (he’s retired now). He’s always been a railroad enthusiast (or railfan if you will). He gets rail magazines, goes to the railway museums, takes pictures of locomotives when he’s traveling – the whole deal.

    He was like that when he worked for the railroad, too. It was his dream job. But he’s a big guy. If anybody had ever called him “fuckin foamer,” I’m sure he would have decked him.

  • BenK
    February 7, 2011

    In some socities, one is categorized by circumstance of birth; in others, by what he produces; or sometimes, by what he consumes. Are any of these more true to the individual than the other?

  • David Moss
    February 7, 2011

    Where can I trade my cultural capital for old things?

  • Jacob Adam
    February 7, 2011

    Doing a bit’o train spottin, are ye?

  • MaggieL
    February 7, 2011

    Holy Jebus, you mean there’s a cultural reference in C&G that I didn’t even have to Google that the 50th percentile C&Ger *didn’t* get? Take me now, Goddess, this foamer’s ready to come home…

  • Eric
    February 7, 2011

    David Moss: It involves writing an autobiography.

  • Craig!
    February 13, 2011

    OH GOD I’M MY GIRLFRIEND

  • Golux
    October 19, 2013

    Foamer: Fanatic so enthusiastic about his obsession, he talks about it til spit begins to fly. Foaming at the mouth.

  • Golux
    October 19, 2013

    PS: Apple Fanbois can be Computer and Phone Foamers, though now that Apple Acceptance is mainstreaming, it’s less “Authentic” to be such. Other Apple users tend to sidle away and deny association.

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