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Re: Anonymous/Burner Accounts and CD Etiquette

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If you wear another team's t-shirt you are representing their team, ...
This just makes me want to scream, "No! No! No!", in the most gracious and professional manner I can muster.

But I won't.

I understand that this is conventional wisdom, and that it is often repeated by many as if it were a fundamental law of the universe, like F = MA, but ... let me ask, "What makes it true?".

If you said many people might mistakenly decide that you, or any other individual in a team shirt, are always an authorized representive of an entire team; and that those people need to be reminded to avoid making that mistake, I would agree.

But a claim that you (or any random member of the team) actually represent an entire team, or other organization, simply because you have one of their old shirts on ... Nope, I don't buy it.

Can someone convince me?

Blake
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