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Post by: WarOne
So...
"Appearing in public view while exposing one's skin or undergarments below the waist is contrary to safety, health, peace and good order of the parish and the general welfare," according to the ordinance.
No bare feet and swimming trousers, much less skirts or shorts?
And this gem...
WWLTV reports that the local NAACP chapter wholeheartedly agreed with the ban . Jerome Boykin, the group's president, declared, “There is nothing positive about people wearing saggy pants. This is not a black issue, this is not a white issue, this is a people issue... Young men who were in prison who wanted to have sex with other men would send a signal to another man with his pants below his waist.”
Saggy Pants equals soliciting others to have sex with them?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9994539/Saggy-trousers-banned-from-US-town.html
The Parish Council overwhelmingly passed an ordinance last week that will impose fines for anyone who wear trousers below the waist that exposes their underwear.
First time offenders will be fined $50 (£32.60). If you are caught with low hanging trousers twice, the fine is doubled, and if you are cited a third time, you are fined $100 and ordered to do 16 hours of community services.
"Appearing in public view while exposing one's skin or undergarments below the waist is contrary to safety, health, peace and good order of the parish and the general welfare," according to the ordinance.
John Navy, a parish councilman introduced the measure, told Fox news: "I've seen extreme measures where they're actually holding their pants almost by their knees, holding it up and you see undergarments and other things.
He said he had received complaints from church and neighbourhood watch groups.
Jerome Boykin, president of the Terrebonne NAACP, expressed support for the law at a public hearing before the vote.
"There is nothing positive about people wearing saggy pants," he said. "This is not a black issue, this is not a white issue, this is a people issue."
The ordinance will now pass to the town president, who will sign it into law if he supports it.
In 2011, saggy trousers were banned on some buses in the state of Texas.
The look, which has been around for more than a decade, traces its roots to prison attire. It spread to the rap and hip-hop music community.
http://www.bayoubuzz.com/component/k2/item/408181-baggy-pants-law-will-fine-offenders-in-louisiana-town-huffington-post-huffington-post
Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish passed an ordinance this week to ban saggy pants in public . Their council voted 8-1 to pass the proposition despite divergent opinions in the community.
Offenders will be fined $50 for the first offense, $100 for the second offense and $100 plus 16 hours of mandatory community service for the third offense. A judge will determine the punishment for any further violations.
WWLTV reports that the local NAACP chapter wholeheartedly agreed with the ban . Jerome Boykin, the group's president, declared, “There is nothing positive about people wearing saggy pants. This is not a black issue, this is not a white issue, this is a people issue... Young men who were in prison who wanted to have sex with other men would send a signal to another man with his pants below his waist.”
Community resident Ida Moore disagreed at the council meeting: “It’s certainly not
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Post by: generalgrog
Its about time!
Hopefully this will start a trend.
GG
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Post by: Albatross
...of ridiculous 50s-style authoritarianism and social conformity?
I hope not.
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Post by: Frazzled
I'm ok with banning saggy pants. White guys trying to imitate a fashion started in jail because belts are removed is stupid and low class.
Taze them until they learn the error of their ways.
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Post by: djones520
 Frazzled wrote:I'm ok with banning saggy pants. White guys trying to imitate a fashion started in jail because belts are removed is stupid and low class.
Taze them until they learn the error of their ways.
I've heard that it was started in jail, as a way to show that you were willing to be buggered.
Anyone know if there is truth in that?
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Post by: WarOne
 djones520 wrote: Frazzled wrote:I'm ok with banning saggy pants. White guys trying to imitate a fashion started in jail because belts are removed is stupid and low class.
Taze them until they learn the error of their ways.
I've heard that it was started in jail, as a way to show that you were willing to be buggered.
Anyone know if there is truth in that?
http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp
Short version: False.
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Post by: djones520
Makes more sense, but still baffles the mind that a nation wide clothing trend came about because of people in prison. Just another reason I have a hard time finding anything positive that the "hip-hop" culture has provided to society.
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Post by: Steve steveson
Could be worse. The UK equivelent is tucking your tracksuit in to your (preferably white) socks...
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Post by: SagesStone
 Albatross wrote:...of ridiculous 50s-style authoritarianism and social conformity?
I hope not.
Sounds like they could make a movie about it.
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Post by: purplefood
This seems like a particularly odd act...
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Post by: Frazzled
djones520 wrote: Frazzled wrote:I'm ok with banning saggy pants. White guys trying to imitate a fashion started in jail because belts are removed is stupid and low class.
Taze them until they learn the error of their ways.
I've heard that it was started in jail, as a way to show that you were willing to be buggered.
Anyone know if there is truth in that?
No, but thats a good one.
Saggy pants - belts confiscated.
Shoes with open tops - shoelaces confiscated. Automatically Appended Next Post:
The one positive, its easy for the police to catch them when they try to run. 
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Post by: Gorskar.da.Lost
I wonder how many of the lawmakers who decided on this were greasers back in their day.
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Post by: Frazzled
WHats awesome is if you said that in the wrong area in the US, you would be dead. You might drop the term you used, as its heavily racist in some quarters and you probably didn't know that.
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Post by: purplefood
I honestly don't know another term for that particular group...
These chaps right?
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Post by: reds8n
I think given the meaning here we'll fine with the term in this instance.
One to bear in mind in the future, and people say Dakka isn't educational !
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Post by: Do_I_Not_Like_That
Have these people ever heard of the supreme court? 
If you're wondering what that clink of glass is, then it's lawyers celebrating another lengthy court case. Makes me mad to see money thrown at people like that.
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Post by: kronk
 n0t_u wrote: Albatross wrote:...of ridiculous 50s-style authoritarianism and social conformity?
I hope not.
Sounds like they could make a movie about it.
With a Kenny Loggins soundtrack?
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Post by: Hordini
This is just as stupid as baning 2-liters in New York.
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Post by: BlapBlapBlap
They baned my pants?!
What is this?!
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Post by: Do_I_Not_Like_That
That would be a great film 
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Post by: Gorskar.da.Lost
Your fashions were given to a powerfully-built supervillain, who wore them down through weeks of attrition by releasing all of their associated villains at once, before sneaking into their home closet and, when your pants came back, destroying them in one final, brutal showdown, ultimately breaking their seams and leaving them useless.
That's what this is.
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Post by: whembly
 Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:
Your fashions were given to a powerfully-built supervillain, who wore them down through weeks of attrition by releasing all of their associated villains at once, before sneaking into their home closet and, when your pants came back, destroying them in one final, brutal showdown, ultimately breaking their seams and leaving them useless.
That's what this is.
Wait... no one seen this yet?
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Post by: Ahtman
Eh, it would probably be a decent film that would have a heavy nostalgia factor after enough time had passed, enough so that people would think it was great, eventually.
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Post by: gorgon
It's some kind of awesome that it's actually the local government and not some individual old geezer telling the kids to pull up their pants.
Now, I think people should be allowed to wear their pants however they like, provided that the right things remain covered.
However, it needs to be said that handsome, refined, successful gentlemen of leisure wear their pants properly. 
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Post by: kronk
Not a good idea, whembly. The ones that would do it are the ones that you would rather not. 
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Post by: djones520
 kronk wrote:
Not a good idea, whembly. The ones that would do it are the ones that you would rather not.
When beer is already involved, does it really matter?
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Post by: kronk
Yes. It takes a lot for my beer goggles to kick in!
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Post by: Gorskar.da.Lost
 gorgon wrote:
However, it needs to be said that handsome, refined, successful gentlemen of leisure wear their pants properly.
Ah, but now that pant-wearing is regulated, how do you spot said gentlemen of leisure amongst the crowd now?
Will they have to up-gun to wearing actual suits in public, perhaps?
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Post by: kronk
Suit and tie or GTFO!
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Post by: hotsauceman1
I do think a suit and tie should be legal for all events.
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Post by: Dreadclaw69
Only if Brewer's Flop has kicked in
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Post by: Grey Templar
So...
Do the police carry around little Bane stickers and stick them on anyone with saggy pants?
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Post by: gorgon
Gorskar.da.Lost wrote: gorgon wrote:
However, it needs to be said that handsome, refined, successful gentlemen of leisure wear their pants properly.
Ah, but now that pant-wearing is regulated, how do you spot said gentlemen of leisure amongst the crowd now?
What a silly question. The nature of a gentleman means that he'll always be easily identified. Qualities to look for include:
- an impeccable taste in clothes, women, music, food and drink
- an effortless style and grace in his bearing, words and actions
- a sense of humor with just the right touch of refinement when in coarse company, and just the right touch of coarseness when in refined company
- a wisdom that comes from a life both learned and lived
You wouldn't confuse a child's crayon scrawlings with a Rembrandt simply because the former was framed, would you?
Ragamuffins with pulled-up pants are still ragamuffins. They've simply taken the first step toward becoming something more.
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Post by: Gorskar.da.Lost
gorgon wrote: Gorskar.da.Lost wrote: gorgon wrote:
However, it needs to be said that handsome, refined, successful gentlemen of leisure wear their pants properly.
Ah, but now that pant-wearing is regulated, how do you spot said gentlemen of leisure amongst the crowd now?
What a silly question. The nature of a gentleman means that he'll always be easily identified. Qualities to look for include:
- an impeccable taste in clothes, women, music, food and drink
- an effortless style and grace in his bearing, words and actions
- a sense of humor with just the right touch of refinement when in coarse company, and just the right touch of coarseness when in refined company
- a wisdom that comes from a life both learned and lived
You wouldn't confuse a child's crayon scrawlings with a Rembrandt simply because the former was framed, would you?
Ragamuffins with pulled-up pants are still ragamuffins. They've simply taken the first step toward becoming something more.
I duly stand corrected. My deepest apologies to you, sir.
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Post by: azazel the cat
Wait, wasn't this basically the plot of Footloose?
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Post by: Cheesecat
This seems like a bad idea cause freedom of expression and what not, even if it looks bad that being said I wear skinny jeans but because they're 1 inch too big around the waist (being a small person I have trouble finding things in my size) you can see my underwear when I sit down so I
guess I sag a bit too (not so much when standing though).
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Post by: CthuluIsSpy
I'm not sure that Bane would care about what some U.S town thinks of his saggy pants.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Though seriously, I'm not sure what to think. On one hand, a rather stupid fashion is getting removed.
On the other hand, social rights are being jeopardized, freedom of expression and all that.
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Post by: Sir Pseudonymous
 Cheesecat wrote:This seems like a bad idea cause freedom of expression and what not, even if it looks bad that being said I wear skinny jeans but because they're 1 inch too big around the waist (being a small person I have trouble finding things in my size) you can see my underwear when I sit down so I
guess I sag a bit too (not so much when standing though).
Have you never heard of a belt? Even when my pants fit perfectly I still wear one.
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Post by: MrDwhitey
In Canada they... ration... belts?
Am I doing it right?
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Post by: whembly
No... it needs to be completely unrelated.
Like:
"You know they ration Healthcare in Canada.  "
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Post by: MrDwhitey
 whembly wrote:
No... it needs to be completely unrelated.
Like:
"You know they ration Healthcare in Canada. "
You're an idiot Starscream.
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Post by: Cheesecat
Sir Pseudonymous wrote: Cheesecat wrote:This seems like a bad idea cause freedom of expression and what not, even if it looks bad that being said I wear skinny jeans but because they're 1 inch too big around the waist (being a small person I have trouble finding things in my size) you can see my underwear when I sit down so I
guess I sag a bit too (not so much when standing though).
Have you never heard of a belt? Even when my pants fit perfectly I still wear one.
Yeah, it helps but if I tighten it too much the jean's waist wrinkles too much and it feels uncomfy.
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Post by: Grey Templar
Whats really silly are baggy pants with belts.
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Post by: MrDwhitey
Cheesecat wrote:Sir Pseudonymous wrote: Cheesecat wrote:This seems like a bad idea cause freedom of expression and what not, even if it looks bad that being said I wear skinny jeans but because they're 1 inch too big around the waist (being a small person I have trouble finding things in my size) you can see my underwear when I sit down so I
guess I sag a bit too (not so much when standing though).
Have you never heard of a belt? Even when my pants fit perfectly I still wear one.
Yeah, it helps but if I tighten it too much the jean's waist wrinkles too much and it feels uncomfy.
Go eat in America* and your problems will fade away.
*Stereotypes, ATTACK
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Post by: Tazz Azrael
Next they should ban the skinny jeans (on guys that is)
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Post by: SilverMK2
I wear belts with trousers. Never worn a belt with pants though... none of mine have belt loops for a start
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Post by: whembly
 MrDwhitey wrote: whembly wrote:
No... it needs to be completely unrelated.
Like:
"You know they ration Healthcare in Canada. "
You're an idiot Starscream.
LOL... I guess you missed it... it's almost an inside joke.
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Post by: Cheesecat
I think they look good on some guys.
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Post by: Albatross
Oh, do you, young man?
Automatically Appended Next Post: I wear a belt without trousers or underpants.
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Post by: Cheesecat
What the feth is that?
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Post by: Albatross
That, dear boy, is the great Kenneth Williams, 'flamboyant' star of the 'Carry On..' film franchise.
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Incidentally, that is my favourite picture of him. It suggests sexual mania.
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Post by: daedalus
Another town I will not visit. Not for the pants thing, but simply because they identify as a parish. In this day and age.
I think that says a lot about your attitude in general.
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Huh. I guess it's a Louisiana thing in general.
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Post by: Cheesecat
Albatross wrote:That, dear boy, is the great Kenneth Williams, 'flamboyant' star of the 'Carry On..' film franchise.
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Incidentally, that is my favourite picture of him. It suggests sexual mania.
And it's extremely creepy/crazy looking.
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Post by: AegisGrimm
That's a bummer for my buddy. His pants keep sagging down even when he wears suspenders........though it might be the belly.
Maybe "Badasses" should start a new trend of leaving their zippers down.
...But then my buddy would be guilty of that, too.
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Post by: SilverMK2
 AegisGrimm wrote:That's a bummer for my buddy. His pants keep sagging down even when he wears suspenders........though it might be the belly.
Maybe "Badasses" should start a new trend of leaving their zippers down.
I like that you managed to get the words "bummer" and "badasses" into a reply to a thread about low flying trousers
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Post by: AegisGrimm
Wow......I did not even realize that.
Oh, and:
Bane says, "NO Sagging!!!"
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Post by: Frazzled
Albatross wrote:
Oh, do you, young man?
Automatically Appended Next Post:
I wear a belt without trousers or underpants.
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Albatross as always is an international man of mystery.  Automatically Appended Next Post:  daedalus wrote:Another town I will not visit. Not for the pants thing, but simply because they identify as a parish. In this day and age.
I think that says a lot about your attitude in general.
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Huh. I guess it's a Louisiana thing in general.
Er...you know at least one state doesn't have counties, but parishes right? 
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Post by: Kilkrazy
This is bad news for the plumbing business.
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Post by: Ouze
 CthuluIsSpy wrote:I'm not sure that Bane would care about what some U.S town thinks of his saggy pants.
Indeed, no one in the town even cared who he was, until he put the saggy pants on.
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Post by: Dreadclaw69
Yeah but if Mario gets arrested then Luigi might finally get his turn in the limelight
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Post by: kronk
daedalus wrote:Another town I will not visit. Not for the pants thing, but simply because they identify as a parish. In this day and age. I think that says a lot about your attitude in general. Automatically Appended Next Post: Huh. I guess it's a Louisiana thing in general.
Louisiana doesn't have counties. They have parishes. I grew up in LA and have lived in Texas for 15 years. No discernible difference between a Parish and a County.
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Post by: Grey Templar
 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Yeah but if Mario gets arrested then Luigi might finally get his turn in the limelight
Mario's a celebrity, he'll just get a slap on the wrist. Luigi is who will get in real trouble.
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Post by: daedalus
Frazzled wrote:
daedalus wrote:Another town I will not visit. Not for the pants thing, but simply because they identify as a parish. In this day and age.
I think that says a lot about your attitude in general.
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Huh. I guess it's a Louisiana thing in general.
Er...you know at least one state doesn't have counties, but parishes right?
Yeah, I saw that after the fact. The parish was never something I'd learned to be a still existing level of state organization. Looks like only Louisiana does it too. Alaska has something similar, but it's boroughs and census areas instead. Bizarre.
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Post by: gianlucafiorentini123
Steve steveson wrote:Could be worse. The UK equivelent is tucking your tracksuit in to your (preferably white) socks...
Don't forget your Burberry cap.
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Post by: Dreadclaw69
Or wearing your pyjamas to Tesco
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Post by: Monster Rain
I'm generally of the opinion that you look like an ass, if you'll pardon the expression, with your pants hanging all saggy and goofy looking.
Back in my day we wore JNCOs, and we were happy about it! We also walked to school uphill both ways, and, inexplicably, there was always snow.
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Post by: Cheesecat
 Monster Rain wrote:I'm generally of the opinion that you look like an ass, if you'll pardon the expression, with your pants hanging all saggy and goofy looking.
Back in my day we wore JNCOs, and we were happy about it! We also walked to school uphill both ways, and, inexplicably, there was always snow.
I just looked up JNCO's man those things are way too baggy.
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Post by: Monster Rain
The 90s were a strange time, young one.
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Post by: Cheesecat
I was born in 1993 so I got to see some of the 90's, but honestly I was too young to remember much of it.
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Post by: dogma
And now I feel old.
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Post by: Cheesecat
I do remember the baggy jean look being popular in 90's and early 2000's.
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Post by: Ninjacommando
Remeber your Baggy/Saggy Pants rules
That 2" is very very important.
Also we will finally find out if the following is true
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Post by: Grey Templar
I do wonder why cops don't catch more runners than they do.
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Post by: Goliath
Grey Templar wrote:I do wonder why cops don't catch more runners than they do.
Yay stereotyping!!
Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Or wearing your pyjamas to Tesco
I may or may not have done this at one point during a house party after running out of spirits.
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Post by: Steve steveson
 Goliath wrote:
I may or may not have done this at one point during a house party after running out of spirits.
I was going to defend your right to ware whatever you want when doing a "beer run" at a house party, but then I realised I may not have a problem with you wareing PJ's to the shop, but WTF were you doing with them on at the party in the first place.
Also, it's onesies outside that are the real problem. I saw two girls with them on last weekend. Seriously, how difficult is it to put on a t-shirt and pair of trousers?
I must admit that as a student I have been to the shop a few times in PJ's, but that was 10 years ago, and just roung the corner to get a paper and a bottle of OJ to kill the hang over. Not doing my weekly shop or whatever, and I was a student so you can get away with gak like that. They were probably the cleanest clothes I ownedm at the time.
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Post by: Medium of Death
Going to the shop in your pyjamas is just... no...
I mean it wouldn't be so bad if it was being perpetrated by underwear models, but it's grotty unwashed masses that do this kind of thing.
Most uncouth!
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Post by: Bullockist
Baneing saggy pants is only ok if you bane old men tucking their pants under their armpits.
I dunno what happens to your groin area when you get older but when taking the piss out of my dad and trying this oldman pants manoeuver myself there is a noticable bump, however i can't recall ever seeing such a bump on an old man wearing his pants at the same height.
Why do they do this? does your waist travel upwards as you get older?
I really don't know what i find more bizarre the "ill show off my ass pants" or the "I'll totally crush my nuts pants" .
Hopefully some of you old men will be able to tell me.
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Post by: Jihadin
Hopefully some of you old men will be able to tell me.
I'm glad/happy I'm medicated for your safety
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Post by: whembly
You serious? Bloomberg led the charge to ban the Big Gulp sized drinks... which incidentially, the drinks from Starbucks were exempted due to having "some" milk.
It's been overturned.
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Post by: MrMoustaffa
whembly wrote:
You serious? Bloomberg led the charge to ban the Big Gulp sized drinks... which incidentially, the drinks from Starbucks were exempted due to having "some" milk.
It's been overturned.
I live in Kentucky.
Do you honestly think I ever look up what's going on in New York on any given day?
Although I will admit that's a sign that there's some serious issues with New York state if laws against the size of soft drinks are making it into effect.
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Post by: Grey Templar
It was kinda all over the national news and the currant war people are waging on Obesity. And similar to the gun debate, they're pretty much barking up the wrong tree.
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Post by: wowsmash
While I do find saggy pants annoying and yes it does make me sound like an old person. Still I don't think this need a ban. We have dozens of important things to solve like bugets and road maintance and what have you but yes by all means lets waste time and money on some kids drowers. /sigh
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Post by: Manchu
Dreadclaw69 wrote:Yeah but if Mario gets arrested then Luigi might finally get his turn in the limelight
According to Nintendo, we are currently living in the year of Luigi.
So yeah not very exciting.
Also, next up for baneing: glasses frames without lenses.
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Post by: wowsmash
O How about skinny jeans on men, that annoys me too.
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Post by: Albatross
It doesn't annoy me as much as the Currant War.
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Post by: Jihadin
Fines= more money in coffer...
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Post by: Dreadclaw69
 Manchu wrote:According to Nintendo, we are currently living in the year of Luigi.
So yeah not very exciting.
Also, next up for baneing: glasses frames without lenses.
Is that their way of saying that the WiiU will be playing second fiddle to Microsoft and Sony's consoles?
I'd also like to voice my support for the banning of skinny jeans on men
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Post by: kronk
You can have my currants when you remove the jelly from my cold, running refrigerator! Give me currants, or give me apple jelly! I don't always eat currants, but when I do, it's currants I earned at the point of a gun! 
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Post by: Kain
Don't you just love Fashion Fascism?
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Post by: kronk
I prefer preservative wars.
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Post by: Dreadclaw69
More than I love seeing whether someone is circumcised because he's wearing skinny jeans
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Post by: kronk
You should probably stop staring at people's junk, then.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
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