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Those images are a bit OTT, more often this is what one would see...

"DAMN! 80% OFF??!!! Hurry, grab your pants and lets get in there!"

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

"DAMN! 80% OFF??!!! Hurry, grab your pants and lets get in there!"

...Nice one.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:I'm waiting for the first cry of discrimination. I used to love watching the Fort Worth city council meetings on public access tv

To say that it is discrimination is to admit that you think "saggy pants" is only done by a certain race. Which is Racist.

Discrimination covers a far broader spectrum than just Race.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:Makes it easier for the cops to catch them though...

I have a theory that there is a group of rich and powerful people that pay urban role models to dress in the most ridiculous manners (sideways flathats, saggy pants, one pants leg pushed up, etc.) so that those with the mentality to emulate such idiocy can be more easily identifiable.

Just a theory...

"Urban" role models? What are these, my racist friend?

Those pictures are exaggerated greatly, but y'all can live in your fantasy world all you want.

It was, at first, a fashion for the thugs and the gangsters, made public to white people by the Hip-Hop community.

White kids see this as cool, make it a fashion, ruin the whole point of it as it was originally.

I wish these fathers would beat the white kids who act like thugs....they just piss me off.

Karon wrote:
I wish these fathers would beat the white kids who act like thugs....they just piss me off.

How does physical abuse solve your perceived problem?

Should we also wish fathers to beat their sons for wearing "skinny" jeans?

What about daughters who have piercings, tattoos and dye their hair unnatural colours?

Should we result to violence to "solve" perceived problems with how others express and represent themselves?

The only problem I have viewed here is narrow-minded bigotry and an apparent mis-understanding that violence* solves your problems.

*Yes, I understand my audience is comprised of grown adults who play with dolls that pretend to go pew-pew and kill eachother.

FITZZ wrote: Those images are a bit OTT, more often this is what one would see...

Less OTT and more UTK

Guess Texas is outta bounds for me?

metallifan wrote:It made me lol, but in reality, I say good on Fraz-er-Texas' part! I'm sick of seeing kids wearing their pants around their ankles. Someone has the right idea :thumbsup

Too bad they wouldn't outlaw fat red necks with beer bellies hanging out of "wife beater" t-shirts, but then I guess the bus companies would have to declare bankruptcy...

Have to say it, That "style" ...isn't it really just advertisement for wanting some "manly loving"? I mean, think about it, It's instant access, pretty much, isn't it?

Thanks for that image of gangstas playing Brokeback mounting!


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Is that why they call each other homies?
just wondering cos I never understood the expression, not being down wid da kidz, yo.

AvatarForm wrote:

"Urban" role models? What are these, my racist friend?

Their word, not mine.

Oh yeah, I'm racist (by the common definition of the word).

helgrenze wrote:Have to say it, That "style" ...isn't it really just advertisement for wanting some "manly loving"? I mean, think about it, It's instant access, pretty much, isn't it?

Considering it originated in prison, probably.

So showing their underwear is disrespectful?

What about club area on a saturday night when young ladies emerge with 'skirts' that are actually glorified belts and their underwear is visible? Why is no one crying for their blood?

Phototoxin wrote:So showing their underwear is disrespectful?

What about club area on a saturday night when young ladies emerge with 'skirts' that are actually glorified belts and their underwear is visible? Why is no one crying for their blood?

... actually, there are people that do that...


That aside, most people think that such skirts are pretty distasteful/disrespectful too here, unless you're at a specific event where it's called for.

I mean, it's like going to a nude beach . It's okay to be nude there, but you damned well better be clothed until you get there.

The kids in school do this with their trousers, it looks ridiculous. Though in terms of stuff I want them to stop doing on the bus, it's well down behind:
1. Playing music on their goddamned phones.
2. Taking up more than their share of seats.
3. Talking so loudly everybody on the bus can hear the details of their sordid, grotty lives.

I know, I'm a grumpy old person now. I'd love a sonic screwdriver so I could break those damn phones when they start with that awful fething music. Headphones! They work!

If you had a sonic screwdriver couldn't you use it to break the little tykes instead?

Mewiththeface wrote:I don't why people care that much about seeing underwear. There are some massive prudes out there. There is a point when it does look bad but more often then not its about comfort, not style.

Its called I have class and a brain. People who let their underwear hang out, don't.


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Avatar 720 wrote:I don't want a face-full of your arse when i'm already forced to sit with people who seem to be incapable of understanding the concept of courtesy.

I don't care if you want the world to see your buttocks; you're wearing a belt for heaven's sake, so damn well use it until you're off the bus.

Exactly. Now get a job you bum!

Da Boss wrote:The kids in school do this with their trousers, it looks ridiculous. Though in terms of stuff I want them to stop doing on the bus, it's well down behind:
1. Playing music on their goddamned phones.
2. Taking up more than their share of seats.
3. Talking so loudly everybody on the bus can hear the details of their sordid, grotty lives.

Also:

4. Swearing like it is going out of fashion.
5. Being generally abusive.
6. Using up my oxygen.

Karon wrote:Those pictures are exaggerated greatly, but y'all can live in your fantasy world all you want.

It was, at first, a fashion for the thugs and the gangsters, made public to white people by the Hip-Hop community.

White kids see this as cool, make it a fashion, ruin the whole point of it as it was originally.

I wish these fathers would beat the white kids who act like thugs....they just piss me off.

No no no. The Baggy pants style was first used by Dick VanDyke during that musical number with the penguins in the Mary Poppins movie back around '65 or so. Everything went downhill from there.

snurl wrote:

Karon wrote:Those pictures are exaggerated greatly, but y'all can live in your fantasy world all you want.

It was, at first, a fashion for the thugs and the gangsters, made public to white people by the Hip-Hop community.

White kids see this as cool, make it a fashion, ruin the whole point of it as it was originally.

I wish these fathers would beat the white kids who act like thugs....they just piss me off.

No no no. The Baggy pants style was first used by Dick VanDyke during that musical number with the penguins in the Mary Poppins movie back around '65 or so. Everything went downhill from there.

Dick Van Dyke=Original Gangsta...

FITZZ wrote:

snurl wrote:

Karon wrote:Those pictures are exaggerated greatly, but y'all can live in your fantasy world all you want.

It was, at first, a fashion for the thugs and the gangsters, made public to white people by the Hip-Hop community.

White kids see this as cool, make it a fashion, ruin the whole point of it as it was originally.

I wish these fathers would beat the white kids who act like thugs....they just piss me off.

No no no. The Baggy pants style was first used by Dick VanDyke during that musical number with the penguins in the Mary Poppins movie back around '65 or so. Everything went downhill from there.

Dick Van Dyke=Original Gangsta...

i almost fell out of my seat laughing! good one FITZZ!

@ alarmingrick..

Just doing my part to make Dakka a happier place my friend.

I'd sooner have them ban people with BO from Buses

Thanatos_elNyx wrote:I'd sooner have them ban people with BO from Buses

Yeah, I'll take a bunch of kids with their underwear hanging out over some smelly slob any day.

FITZZ, thanks for making my life there I loved that scene as a kid. The faces that guy could make...

FITZZ wrote:

Thanatos_elNyx wrote:I'd sooner have them ban people with BO from Buses

Yeah, I'll take a bunch of kids with their underwear hanging out over some smelly slob any day.

Agreed! i can always look away.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

AvatarForm wrote:

"Urban" role models? What are these, my racist friend?

Their word, not mine.

Oh yeah, I'm racist (by the common definition of the word).

Not by the common definition, but by your racial inferences.

Mewiththeface wrote:Not really. Rudeness is a term made up by prudes to explain their awkwardness.

So if I walk up and spit in your face, it isn't rude and you would be a prude if you got upset?

Somehow I doubt you REALLY meant what you typed...

Jake

CptJake wrote:

Mewiththeface wrote:Not really. Rudeness is a term made up by prudes to explain their awkwardness.

So if I walk up and spit in your face, it isn't rude and you would be a prude if you got upset?

Somehow I doubt you REALLY meant what you typed...

Jake

Well c'mon now Jake, there is a big difference in having to look at a bit of underwear and someone gobbing in your face...
But I get the point your trying to convey.