RANT - Pull Your Friggin Pants Up, You Moron

Dan in Pasadena · Dan in Pasadena's Garage

Just got back from the grocery store and this "Future Rocket Scientist" is walking around with a few grocery items and his jean shorts are LITERALLY below the bottom curvature of his butt. His gray boxer shorts are completely exposed because his T shirt is shrunken short. Now this was on the heels of being at the Pomona swap meep earlier (also a gathering place for the Future Supreme Curt Justices of the World Club) and there is a young guy, maybe 24/25 with his pant SO LOOSE that he has to walk around with one hand HOLDING the waist band so they don't fall off his azz.

Okay, I'm 52. That's geriatric in terms of relating to current fashion styles, I freely admit but c'mon! Your pants are off your dumb$hit a$$ and you haven't got the smarts to buy smaller pants or at least pull them tigher with a belt? I guess add it to the style of untied shoes, holes voluntarily poked in your own face and you have some of our "youth" today. Geez

There must be a parallel to the old expression, "If it's too loud, you're too old" here. I am apparently too old.

Dave L · 04-22-2007, 02:33 PM

I'm 32 and must be too old as well because that stuff drives me crazy.

Dan in Pasadena · Dan in Pasadena's Garage

Thank you Dave. If a couple of other 32 year olds say the same I'll consider myself at least a little less of an old duffer.

Joeaksa · 04-22-2007, 02:40 PM

Feel exactly the same way. Am a couple of years older but dammit even when we wore something different looking, it was worn correctly and not dragging the ground.

There is nothing wrong with kids like this that a couple of years in the Marines would not cure.

AFC-911 · 04-22-2007, 02:44 PM

It's not about age! I'm 24 and I can't stand it.

This and people dragging their feet are near the top of my pet peeve list.

onlycafe · 04-22-2007, 02:49 PM

don't forget the sideways hats.

Tervuren · Tervuren's Garage

Twenty one, and some of the ways people choose to "express" themselves are just plain dumb...

K. Roman · K. Roman's Garage

Awww...I feel so bad for you guys. It must be so difficult to deal with such important matters.

get over it. you guys are old and...nerds.

Dan in Pasadena · Dan in Pasadena's Garage

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Originally posted by AFC-911
It's not about age! I'm 24 and I can't stand it.

This and people dragging their feet are near the top of my pet peeve list.

Oh, its about age alright...at least more than you'd care to believe. I've not (yet?) seen a 40 or 50 year old man with his chones draggin off his azz. (Oops, sorry. "Chones" is Spanish slang for undershorts)

As for the hats? I've gotten used to the ballcap on backwards. I still think it looks kinda stupid but even sideways (dumb though it is) isn't QUITE as stupid as the bill of the cap just an inch or so off the front of your head. That looks like you're not sure where your nose is or you're just stupid. But the true "fave" with me is the ball cap with the brim PERFECTLY flat (and with the size sticker still on it

!). In my day that screamed, "Beat me up, take my lunch money I'm a dweeb".

Zeke · 04-22-2007, 03:23 PM

Hey Dan, I think the same principle goes for girls in low rise jeans and a too short top, but nobody's complaining.

Frankly, I've seen some weird fashions in our time and in times before us. In our time, bell bottoms dragging on the ground were as bad as today. Each cycle things have to be more extreme. How else does one view the idea of doing airborne flips on a motorcycle? Isn't is enough to just ride one really well? I guess not.

Back to clothes: Ever seen the "Zoot Suits" from the pre WWII era?

trekkor · 04-22-2007, 03:24 PM

It looks sloppy.

Desperate attempt to "fit in".

No sense. If the first kid that tried this got a chorus of, "you're an idiot"!
It would have been stopped.

To me it says: "I don't care about myself or anything, and I'm too lazy to dress myself".

I don't understand why looking like a slob would appeal to anyone.

KT

onlycafe · 03:33 PM

it's a reet pleat. real gone, daddy.

as to the head gear , has anyone seen the sun visor worn backwards , and upside down, so as to resemble either a bird bath or a partial satellite dish look?

Jims5543 · 04-22-2007, 03:33 PM

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Originally posted by K. Roman
Awww...I feel so bad for you guys. It must be so difficult to deal with such important matters.

get over it. you guys are old and...nerds.

Actually its a 10 year old style that the biters are grabbing onto now. So really when I see someone dressed like he has his 400lb grandfathers clothes on I am thinking, " Hey! the 90's called and watn their clothes back!".

Nerd wear pocket protectors and I have not wore one of those in 4 motnhs.

Oh, BTW - the "style" these guys are wearing is modled after prisoners. Great role models.

K. Roman · K. Roman's Garage

Ok. Let's see how you guys dress...I bet it is also a desperate attempt to fit in...I myself don't dress like that, but I don't seem to mind. every now and then I'll see someone in a 5X T-shirt and think it looks funny, but not enough to be upset by it. And who gives a ***** how someone wears their hats...look at Milt's avatar!

Joeaksa · 04-22-2007, 03:45 PM

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Originally posted by Dan in Pasadena
As for the hats? I've gotten used to the ballcap on backwards. I still think it looks kinda stupid but even sideways (dumb though it is) isn't QUITE as stupid as the bill of the cap just an inch or so off the front of your head. That looks like you're not sure where your nose is or you're just stupid. But the true "fave" with me is the ball cap with the brim PERFECTLY flat (and with the size sticker still on it !). In my day that screamed, "Beat me up, take my lunch money I'm a dweeb".

Sorry for the slight hijack but while on the subject of hats... Dan, you and I are about the same age. Would your Father have worn a hat, any hat inside a building, or even thought for a minute that any man of that generation worn a hat during dinner?

The answer is no, and why in the hell is is now ok for these kids (and some are not so young) to put on a ballcap when they wake up (hope they do not sleep in it) and wear it every waking minute of the day, no matter what they are doing?

Sorry but I grew up in an age when a man took his hat off when he went inside a building, and was nice enough to do the same at dinner or when sitting with someone.

Rick V · 04-22-2007, 03:48 PM

I kind of let it go a while back. I'm 42 and I detest the "look" of the trendy people today.
I figured out why they are wearing those way too big pants. They know they are going to be the overweight people in the future and now they won't have to replace thier cloths.
They are thinking ahead.

Aerkuld · Aerkuld's Garage

Joeaksa,
The way I look at it is this - Gentlemen still remove their hats when entering a building. Anyone under the age of five who chooses not to I just look on as ignorant.

Joeaksa · 04-22-2007, 03:55 PM

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Originally posted by Aerkuld
Joeaksa,
The way I look at it is this - Gentlemen still remove their hats when entering a building. Anyone under the age of five who chooses not to I just look on as ignorant.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

That was the way that I was brought up as well and just shake my head at the people not like this. My Father would have slapped any hat off of my head indoors and IMHO he would have been right to have done so.

VINMAN · 04-22-2007, 03:58 PM

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Originally posted by Joeaksa
Sorry but I grew up in an age when a man took his hat off when he went inside a building, and was nice enough to do the same at dinner or when sitting with someone.

Joe, it boils down to one word: RESPECT.

Something that is seriously lacking these days.

Jims5543 · 04-22-2007, 04:00 PM

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Originally posted by K. Roman
Ok. Let's see how you guys dress...I bet it is also a desperate attempt to fit in...I myself don't dress like that, but I don't seem to mind. every now and then I'll see someone in a 5X T-shirt and think it looks funny, but not enough to be upset by it. And who gives a ***** how someone wears their hats...look at Milt's avatar!

I mostly wear Puma shirts and shoes with standard blue jeans mostly American Eagle or Old Navy or Gap jeans.

Since I live in Florida, its mostly baggies tank top and flip flops though. If I am running out somewhere casual the clothes first mentioned work for me.

If its nicer, a pair of nice slacks and a nice shirt maybe a button up or a nice fitted pullover. Especially since I lost 20 lbs and I have a 6 pack now, I like wearing fitted shirts and nice slacks. They compliment all the hard work I put in at the gym.

No XXXXXL pants and shirts for me.