Comments on: Flickr user gandibacardi takes pictures of himself wearing cardigans and photoshops heads of models over his own face

Flickr user gandibacardi takes pictures of himself wearing cardigans and photoshops heads of models over his own face

Kattullus — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:15:47 -0800

Flickr user gandibacardi really likes women's cardigans. So much that he takes pictures of himself wearing cardigans and puts heads of models over his own face. He then writes (presumably) fictional mini-stories in the captions. He also likes to talk about cardigans. Sometimes he posts links to his pictures asking people what they think of his pictures. Sometimes he gets answers, but most often not.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:19:46 -0800

From his profile: I'm Paco, and in this group my name is Gandi Bacardi. I have a strong obsession with sweet looking feminine cardigans since as long as I can remember. Cardigans with a roundneck and buttons on the left. I like to see beautiful women wearing them and wear them myself too, also in public, which can be confusing as I'm not a beautiful women. When I realised that this was some kind of crossdressing, I started experimenting with some more crossdressing, with some sensational results. I'm also a father, a songwriting guitarplayer, a bit of an artist and a traveller. I'm Male and Taken. Also, this might be inauthentic, but if it were I'd find it more interesting.

By: ericb

ericb — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:24:44 -0800

Cardigan wool sweater fetish?

By: ericb

ericb — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:27:04 -0800

Mustn't forget our friends across the pond -- Wooly Jumper Fetish!

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:27:04 -0800

Everyone needs a hobby.

By: Koko

Koko — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:43:03 -0800

I like the ones where it's a cardigan over another cardigan. I also liked this comment: It was so sad to see a loose thread on the cardigan snag on a briar not far fron the Andes. Not the high Andes but the lonely ones which are lower down. As the snag grew the cardigans unravelled and left a wool trail that wild beasts could follow back to the camp. Did anyone remember to light the camp fire? This post reminded me that I need to buy another cardigan. Thank you!

By: Happy Dave

Happy Dave — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:43:10 -0800

Eh... What the fuck? Dude, read the posting guidelines. This is seriously not what Metafilter is for.

By: drstein

drstein — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:47:15 -0800

"This is seriously not what Metafilter is for." Would you rather that we go back to our regularly scheduled Bush bashing? You know, that's not exactly "Best of the Web" either. At least this was lighthearted and amusing.

By: MrLint

MrLint — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:51:07 -0800

1) You are talking about mandatory limits not 'guide lines' get over it. and 2) no where does anything say 'best of the web'

By: carsonb

carsonb — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:51:50 -0800

Everyone needs a hobby. Not everybody needs to share their hobby with the world. Paco, however, obviously does need to share. And for that, I thank the Internets. Thank you, Internets.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:52:08 -0800

This is seriously not what Metafilter is for. Actually, I like stuff like this more than the usual political agenda shit that gets posted here. And anyway, you should flag it and/or take it to metatalk if it riles you up that much.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:55:55 -0800

Man hands.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:56:01 -0800

Everyone needs a hobby. or a fetish.

By: grobstein

grobstein — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:11:42 -0800

I was expecting to like these but I have to admit they kinda creep me out. Good post though.

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:11:57 -0800

this is bizarre. not in a cross-dressing kind of way. but in a he's managed to show that certain types of faces seem to go spot on with certain types of sweaters kind of way.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:21:10 -0800

Flickr is a weird, weird place.

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:21:18 -0800

I love the comments he gets on his stories. I can't tell if some of the commenters are sincere or not, but he stays in cardigancharacter in his reply.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:29:51 -0800

Nobody's mentioned Ed Wood yet?

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:33:06 -0800

Eh... What the fuck? Dude, read the posting guidelines. This is seriously not what Metafilter is for. Neither is that comment. You're supposed to snark and flag the post.

By: synaesthetichaze

synaesthetichaze — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:39:08 -0800

This is seriously not what Metafilter is for. Yes it is. Good post. Also, Katullus has been around a while and has made many excellent posts in the past (quite a lot recently, actually), so he knows his way around the place.

By: fallenposters

fallenposters — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:39:49 -0800

I think I have a newfound respect for the cardigan. My view of Fred Rogers will never be the same.

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:43:33 -0800

Isn't this how that psycho who liked to wear women's body parts got started? Cardigans are the gateway apparel.

By: nola

nola — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:50:31 -0800

No , ask Ed Wood.

By: Partial Law

Partial Law — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:53:53 -0800

Um.

By: furtive

furtive — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:56:06 -0800

That photo set was pretty fun to look at.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:11:31 -0800

fantastic post !

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:36:08 -0800

I quit browsing shortly after I started getting aroused.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:48:59 -0800

The badly-pasted-on girl's faces totally weird me out. I'm reminded vaguely of an old cartoon where a mortorcycle cop is yelling at a lady "Pull over!" and she yells back, "No, stupid! Cardigan!" But mostly I'm confused.

By: CKmtl

CKmtl — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:50:30 -0800

Would it be more or less creepy if the guy went in the other direction... pasting his head onto each and every member of The Cardigans?

By: tellurian

tellurian — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:51:24 -0800

"You look too pretty in that cardigan." Nice line.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:26:00 -0800

Freaky, in that wearing a full body cartoon suit staring at you with those immobile eyes rocking slowly back and forth to some '50s b-side as David Lynch masturbates in a corner frantically kind of freaky. To each his own, &c.

By: biscotti

biscotti — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:17:58 -0800

Eh... What the fuck? Dude, read the posting guidelines. This is seriously not what Metafilter is for. This is exactly what MetaFilter is for! I get some fetishes...this one...not so much. I mean, I like my cardigans and all but...

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:13:00 -0800

I feel this post is in the finest tradition of cat-scan :)

By: spiderskull

spiderskull — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:42:05 -0800

Um. posted by Partial Law How did fetishists ever interact before the internet?

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:23:48 -0800

Eh... What the fuck? Dude, read the posting guidelines. This is seriously not what Metafilter is for. These are the desperate pleas of a man who's just seen his "hobby" linked on the MetaFilter front page.

By: kcds

kcds — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:10:58 -0800

My hed is pastede on yay!

By: aliasless

aliasless — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:27:24 -0800

Harmless weirdness. I've been trying to figure out his user and group name: gandibacardi. It's obviously a rearrangement of c-a-r-d-i-g-a-n with the remaindered letters d-i-b-a. Thoughts?

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:01:32 -0800

Well, gandiba is the name of a legendary bow in the Bhagavatam Purana, but somehow I doubt that's where the name comes from. But other users in gandibacardi seem to use the -cardi suffix, e.g. alexacardi. I wouldn't read too much into it.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:50:00 -0800

...and next comes the killing rampage.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:28:43 -0800

Eh... What the fuck? Dude, read the posting guidelines. This is seriously not what Metafilter is for. Oh, right, it's apparently for links to copyright-violating George Carlin standup on YouTube. Tool.

By: quarter waters and a bag of chips

quarter waters and a bag of chips — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:50:25 -0800

MetaFilter: This is seriously not what MetaFilter is for.

By: vorfeed

vorfeed — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:32:28 -0800

huh, weird. Reminds me of that "Roy Orbison in cling film" guy.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:48:46 -0800

Blast from the past. One of my faves ever.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:51:05 -0800

I was also reminded of the Roy Orbison in Cling Film thing... even though that was clearly a joke... I'm still not sure on gandibacardi.

By: Happy Dave

Happy Dave — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:14:19 -0800

Apologies for the snark everyone, including the OP - I misread the sentiment as 'LOL perverts' after one too many beers and responded slightly strongly.

By: bitter-girl.com

bitter-girl.com — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:33:29 -0800

How I feel about cardigans: http://www.nataliedee.com/100606/natalie-and-cardigans-BFF.jpg This guy, though? Whoa.