This happened a few years ago, when I guess Pete Doherty was in the public eye a bit more often than he is these days.
I was walking down Mile End Road near where I lived at the time, wearing a black hat and a blazer-type jacket. Now there is a certain sort of fuckhead who seems to think that Pete Doherty somehow invented wearing hats, so that any male wearing a hat consequently looks like, and perhaps even has deliberately chosen to emulate, the smack-addled former Libertine.

Anyway, this guy walking past me yells something which I think was intended to be "Oi mate, you look like Peter Doherty!" But what he actually said was "Oi mate, you look like Pete Burns!"

Oh dear, I've accidentally left the house looking exactly like Pete Burns! How on earth did that happen?!?
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Mon 16 Dec 2013, 15:27, 7 replies)

were you wearing a fedora?
you probably deserved to be ridiculed in the streets, tbh
( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 15:39, closed)

Well I suppose not all of us
can look like the living epitome of 21st-century urban cool at all times.
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Mon 16 Dec 2013, 16:04, closed)

But it was the double inaccuracy of the heckle that really jarred.
Doherty's 'trademark' hat is a sort of porkpie/boater thing, which looks nothing like a fedora. What people tend to call a fedora these days is actually a trilby, in any case. And Pete Burns is associated with being an absolutely terrifying male-to-female transsexual, rather than with any particular type of hat.
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Mon 16 Dec 2013, 16:10, closed)

Yeah, totally not a fedorian at all, there.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 21:55, closed)

"fedorian"?
Is that next year's hot new Linux distro?
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Mon 16 Dec 2013, 22:50, closed)

i am very cool

( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 16:27, closed)

But as The Doveston, I'd have thought you'd have abandoned your pipe for snuff?

( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Mon 16 Dec 2013, 16:30, closed)

Snuff would be way more ironic and cool, it's true.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 16:38, closed)

Do you also have an ironic moustache and refer to females as "m'lady"?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 15:53, closed)

Nope, a wholly sincere set of lambchops
and my mating call is "Yo, biatch".
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Mon 16 Dec 2013, 16:29, closed)

or "mademoiselle"
*shudder*
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 22:11, closed)

To be fair, you do look exactly like Pete Burns.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 16:20, closed)

Oh yeah, there is that.

( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Mon 16 Dec 2013, 16:25, closed)

What's frustrating is that I was going more for the Genesis P-Orridge look.

( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Mon 16 Dec 2013, 16:27, closed)

did you go down the street shouting "Zykloooon! Zyklon! Zyklon Beeeee! Zombieeeee!"?

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 20:20, closed)

Has been known.

( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Mon 16 Dec 2013, 23:11, closed)

But, DO you like Pete Burns?

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 17:08, closed)

Heh, whoops.
He's OK I guess.
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Mon 16 Dec 2013, 23:11, closed)

That cock in your mouth didn't help matters.

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 17:09, closed)