baggy pants law

This is a bad thing?

 

FUCK THAT. I am not wearing anything that isn't armor based that is going to squeeze my nuts together and pack them up inside my scrotum.

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If we are banning things that piss us off, I've got a few.

Ugg boots.

Girls that wear cowboy hats that have never seen a cow. Also, cowboy boots.

Capris, wear shorts or pants, nothing inbetween.

Aviator sunglasses unless you are a pilot. Also, those HUGE sunglasses girls love.

Emo hair cuts, strip club owner's ponytail, combovers.

All of these things offend me and therefor should be banned.

*holds hand up to ear*

This just in... Oh... I was mistaken. I'm apparently not old enough to have a say in what is indecent in public.... Wait, what's the age limit.... Old as balls? Ok, got ya.

Get back to me in 20 years and then we can finally ban Ugg boots.

 

Idk about making a law vs it. But youth walking around picking up there pants off the pavement every 2 steps is a little crazy. If I had kids I would never let them leave the house wearing jeans that fall off. I mean is a belt to expensive? I have seen kids walking along and there baggy jeans just fall completely down. It seems crazy to me. When I grew up I would of never been allowed to wear jeans like that. I never wanted to tho.

 

(taps fingertips together quickly, rocks forward and back in chair, laughs maniacally)

Eden, your rants are A+ solid gold.

 

There aren't enough cardigans to go around.

 

it started cause a couple of months ago. someone was walking down the street and their pants fell to the ground leaving nothing to the eye but his tighty whities, and there were several kids around and started asking questions.
I understand that point but i also understand individuality.
where do you draw the line?
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Things like this make me want to be wealthy. So that I can go there, sag my pants past the allowed limit, (I wouldn't normally, I think "sagging" is uncomfortable as hell) get cited, get a good lawyer, and appeal it to higher courts to get this silly law thrown out. I wonder if the ACLU would take this on.

 

I would think local law enforcement would hate this law. It seems like I'm forever hearing stories about people running from the cops and getting caught when their baggy pants fall down and trip them.

 

I would think a good place to draw the line is when the pants wont stay on. Wear jeans 10 sizes to big with a belt!

 

Personally: I grit my teeth and acknowledge that our notions of underwear are local to a certain culture and era. I am so used to not seeing underpants, but my instinctive 'Oh Stop It!' must give way to "C'mon, Zen, just get over it, in a couple of years it will look no stranger than burkas".

Politically: Both can be linked with social positions I detest, but I liken them unto gauges, and prefer to see resources deployed in the heart of the areas that are being measured. Then sensible pants and open faces will be an accurate rather than a forced reading.

Systemically: Above, I'm saying 'The petrol warning indicator gives indication about the the health of the car and where to attend. Don't ban petrol warning indicators.' Here, I mention trousers, and alsothe frequently accompanying hoods. Both are messages about stuff ... statements of identity. As far as I can see, only trousers are just message advertising the 'subversive purpose', whereas hoods directly enhance it by serving not only as visible message/sign, but also as an effective disguise whilst performing subversive activities. I definitly believe the Law should drop pants, in favour of exploring hoods. Though that would invoke, IMO, the same principles of concern that apply to the extensive use of CCTV.

Sarcastically: The baggy pants and no shoe-laces are a statement of solidarity against the police-restraints imposed on their bros? OK, then let them complete the outfit with handcuffs. /Marie Antoinette



I'll finish with a story, so, er ... Yo, dogs! Listen up! (Runs up to the camera and sticks my face in your monitor screen with a complex finger signal).

A few months ago, I observed a group of youths. The closest they had ever been to street was ... was boulevard or avenue. All shoe laces were untied, and the one with the lowest-hung trousers was the pack leader. Prowling around and mouthing off and gesticulating wildly, he was a stunt juggler, but instead of power-saw, axe and egg, he juggled rhetorical gesture, pack-identifier hand signal and .... his trousers.

Someone offered a complex question; this elicited from the leader a Simultaneous expression of rhetoric and pack-identity signal, therefore he lost ... his trousers. A skinny man, his trousers did not 'catch' at his knees, but instantly trammelled his ankles. Thus hobbled, he went down splat.

His friends froze, he rolled around in agony a bit, picked himself up and pulled up his trousers, continued his speech, and his friends unfroze Without Comment on what had happened. It was as if their batteries had been pulled and the moment had, for them, not existed. It was a moving expression of solidarity to a principle or image which survived the failure of its reality. The infallibility of their leader, a necessarily perfect embodiment of their aspirations.

 

next it willbe tats and piercings, just wait. a friend of mine applied for a teaching job and was told he had to keep the tats on his arms covered up by the school officials

 

I blame Gloria Vanderbuilt
Those of us old enough too remember she was the one who made 'designer' clothes available to the masses. Granted her Designer clothes were just jeans and granted her designer jeans were just jeans with embroidery on the back pockets, she demonstrated to the designer houses that simple clothes with some famous persons name attached would sell.

They turned to rappers who didn't design crap but attached their name to some carpenter jeans with graffics on them. It didn't take off until not a rapper or even rap group made them popular. no it wasn't one of those guys, it was a R & B group and they sang love songs (of sorts).

On stage and in videos they wore the uniform of the recently released.

the beltless and shoestring-less prisioners looked like this when freed

Jodeci wore boots that had no strings and looked as thouhg they would step out of the if they weren't careful and pants that had to be attended to if you took more than a couple steps

Now as to legislating a ban against them is rather silly
Is there a municapality that has the resources to attend to a problem as massive as this? Kids are walking the streets either having to adjust their outfits every 9.2 seconds or walking in such a way that innocent little boy scouts are standing at street corners upset and confused not knowing if they should offer help or look away in horror.

It's a dumb assed fad
Wouldn't you rather know who the dumbasses are?
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In the privacy of your own place undo your belt
let your pants hit the flo
and walk across the room
now how big of a dumbass did you feel like?

 

This is a ridiculous law, that is probably unconstitutional.

It's funny, the first baggy clothes were just baggy, with maybe an inch of underwear showing. It was no big deal. It was kind of cool looking. But like most trends in fashion, the edges kept pushing at the boundaries.

Before too long, what were just oversized clothes became clothing constructed specifically to emphasize things like a low crotch or low back pockets. Like collar points in the 70s reaching clown-like proportions (look it up kids), these "gangstas" were now buying clothes that became increasingly extreme from their origins -- to the point of parody.

People who are upset about fashion, really need to get a hobby.

 

This discussion makes me think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx-dUsh6OT8

I turned it off after the first verse, but I think it's probably apropos.

I don't think that it's the point of the trend. Even if it were, you are actually feeding into it by getting offended. I think that if saggy pants seriously piss you off, you don't have enough shit to worry about. Or you have too much shit to worry about and you're riding the knife's edge between making it through another day and going on a killing spree.

 

94.7% of the people that complain about this fashion trend are middle-aged white males that wear white socks with loafers and really awkward short-shorts.

 

To me it's an eyesore but so are piercings.
Outlaw it? I don't know. Choose your cultural standards carefully.