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While I personally don't sag my pants, I can't really agree with a rule against it in public. It's free expression. It would be one thing to sag pants and not wear any undies, but that's not the case. I don't like limiting freedoms, where does it stop? I got annoyed when my old girlfriend got a reprimanded on the beach because she was wearing a thong with a gauzy sarong.

Besides this way my A**hole detector gets a break. I see someone sagging their pants, I can usually guess they are they aren't my kind of peeps.

Karon wrote:I won't go into my personal upbringing to prove a point. People shouldn't try to act like something they know they aren't.

I've seen a few of your "background" posts and honestly don't care if you are blacker than Michael Jackson, or more street than dizzy doggy (or whoever it is the kids are listening to these days). Culture is a living, changing thing that anyone is free to partake in. Do you have an issue with people going to medieval fairs and are knights, maidens and so on? People "playing" at being something they are not, and cannot in most cases reasonably represent as being "historical reenactment"? How about a poor black man from "the ghetto" who enjoys classical music, opera (not the woman on the TV) and so on? Is he allowed to partake in another culture or does he have to go round blinged up pointing guns at people making really crap "music" about all his bitches and how hard his life is while living in a big mansion with loads of money?

You can buy into a culture without being from it, or having the background that would usually lead you to "adopt" that culture.

Personally I hope that the "13 year old white gangsta' movement" helps change the "real" culture it apes into something better.

Word.

Albatross wrote:Word.

Powerpoint.

Your move.

Avatar 720 wrote:

Albatross wrote:Word.

Powerpoint.

Your move.

Excel-lent

Get an iLife you guys.

SilverMK2 wrote:

Personally I hope that the "13 year old white gangsta' movement" helps change the "real" culture it apes into something better.

Yes, these guys will change the world...

Kilkrazy wrote:Get an iLife you guys.

It's like being an Explorer learning about all these new things.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:Yes, these guys will change the world...

Indeed. They've made it a far more amusing place.

I don't think that fellow knows how to spell 'blood.'

SlaveToDorkness wrote:Yes, these guys will change the world...

I meant more through the "real" culture being too shamed to be associated with them and changing into something better

SilverMK2 wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:Yes, these guys will change the world...

I meant more through the "real" culture being too shamed to be associated with them and changing into something better

HAHA! I'm picturing Congress having an emergency meeting.

"I had to drive myself to work today as my chauffeur broke his leg and my butler was ill. I got lost in one of the suburbs, and you WON'T BELIEVE what I saw..."


To be serious though, those guys will absolutely change the world. You have seen idiocracy, right?

No, the gang culture being shamed at being associated with those idiots. It's like unintentional satire.

That would assume the Gangstas had a concept of "shame" or could even spell it.

Which is a bit of a long-shot, true. Idolising the concepts of greed and misogyny doesn't lie well with feelings of shame and social unworth.

Personally I think you should only be allowed to wear your jeans around your knees if you are also wearing this t-shirt:


The burning questions that I have is:
Question 1:
Is it REALLY that extreme a decision that people have to kick up a fuss about it, instead of simply hoiking up their jeans for the duration of the bus journey (which would be what, 10-30mins at the most)?

Question 2:
Are the people who were refused passage on those buses really that dumb that they didn't realise that by pulling up their jeans they would have avoided the whole problem? (and once the actions of question 1 have been resolved, can return them to their pre-bus-journey gangsta level)


The way I see it is that there are far more important things to ban on public transport, like chavs listening to music through s****y tinny sounding mobile phone speakers, the malodorous masses of the great unwashed filling the buses with the reek of a thousand groin-protectors and the infamous 'I pick my nose and wipe it on the seats'. Though saying that, I would rather NOT have to stare at your butt-cleavage and associated undergarments for the entire journey...

Well it depends on the butt-cleavage and undergarments in question I suppose...

Chicks don't really do the whole baggy-pants thing do they...

Love the t-shirt

SilverMK2 wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:Get an iLife you guys.

It's like being an Explorer learning about all these new things.

But once you have Access to them, they're invaluable.

If the whole idea behind the Sag'd look is to participate in the "gangsta' culture.....
Then just why would they be riding the bus?
There is something totally not "gangsta" about riding a bus. well to me anyway.

Maybe their "lowrider" is in the shop getting some big rims, spinners and window tinting done?

SilverMK2 wrote:Maybe their "lowrider" is in the shop getting some big rims, spinners and window tinting done?

Yo forgot the neons!

I know, right? I think if you own a mansion the size of a city block and a platinum plated, gold plated, platinum plated, solid gold Cadillac with baby seal-skin interior and 30" rims, then you can wear your pants around your ankles. In someone's opinion (not mine), you've earned that right.

If you're working third shift at Jack in the Box, you haven't. Stop smoking so much pot, and make something of yourself.

I would think that if you are making millions from selling records about how tough your upbringing was and how "unforgiving" the streets were, you would do more to help improve the standard of living there and help break people out of the cycle of violence and poverty, rather than spending all your money on ho's and bling.

Avatar 720 wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:Get an iLife you guys.

It's like being an Explorer learning about all these new things.

But once you have Access to them, they're invaluable.

Oh, Firefox sake....

Albatross wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:Get an iLife you guys.

It's like being an Explorer learning about all these new things.

But once you have Access to them, they're invaluable.

Oh, Firefox sake....

Yo's just jealous after Googling my Chromes.

SilverMK2 wrote:I would think that if you are making millions from selling records about how tough your upbringing was and how "unforgiving" the streets were, you would do more to help improve the standard of living there and help break people out of the cycle of violence and poverty, rather than spending all your money on ho's and bling.

Apparently, hypocrisy is another thing the do not subscribed to, along with shame. Or taste.

SilverMK2 wrote:I would think that if you are making millions from selling records about how tough your upbringing was and how "unforgiving" the streets were, you would do more to help improve the standard of living there and help break people out of the cycle of violence and poverty, rather than spending all your money on ho's and bling.

Generally, you would be wrong.

SilverMK2 wrote:I would think that if you are making millions from selling records about how tough your upbringing was and how "unforgiving" the streets were, you would do more to help improve the standard of living there and help break people out of the cycle of violence and poverty, rather than spending all your money on ho's and bling.

Well, what can I say? America: Land of hypocrite, home of the donkey-cave. More realistically, they know nothing of the streets and had nothing to do with any ghetto, and grew up in a upper/middle class suburb somewhere. Perhaps my naivety is showing, but I can't help but hope that if they were genuinely a part of something that horrible, trying to fix it once they had the means would be first on the list of things to do.

SilverMK2 wrote:I would think that if you are making millions from selling records about how tough your upbringing was and how "unforgiving" the streets were, you would do more to help improve the standard of living there and help break people out of the cycle of violence and poverty, rather than spending all your money on ho's and bling.

It's not that they're trying to be hypocrites. It's because 'charity ain't gangsta, yo'

Avatar 720 wrote:

Albatross wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:Get an iLife you guys.

It's like being an Explorer learning about all these new things.

But once you have Access to them, they're invaluable.

Oh, Firefox sake....

Yo's just jealous after Googling my Chromes.

You can't fault his Outlook.

biccat wrote:You can't fault his Outlook.

I might contact my Publisher about this thread.