Ask Max: The ugly sweater…

So today, while I was in the steam room, I received this e-mail:

Dear Max,

Since you’re the favorite brand of Buttars jam, I figured you’d have an amazing fashion sense.  Tell me, is it rude to mock someone behind their back for wearing a sweater stolen right off an extra in 16 Candles? I mean, the bitch has either had to be in cryo for the last 25 years or reek of mothballs.  But I digress.  Is taking pleasure from someone else’s misery wrong, or just good old American fun?

Thanks!
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Well featured Backstreet fan,
NO. Mocking people for their poor fashion sense is how America functions.  It’s the right, no, no the duty of everyperson to mock a sweater that may have been made in Cambodia in the 80’s.  It would be un american. UN AMERICAN if you didn’t.  DO YOU Understand?  I say don’t waste your insults for behind his or her back. Do it straight to their face.  They need to hear it!  If they hate you afterwards… Its probably for the better.  I mean who wants to be friends with anyone without an orgasmic fashion sense?  Lets be realistic. NO ONE LIKES UGLY PEOPLE!!!! i mean ugly sweaters… ugly people are hard to like as well.. conditioner people use it. 

Which may be why I have no friends.. hmmmm  Hope that answers your question and if it doesn’t pour yourself another martini and just look the other way. 

Max