The general decline in standards today

[dh66]

Since this phenomenon has been discussed at length here, I thought I would share this story. Some here may be entertained by it.
This afternoon I was just hanging out on the front porch with my daughter, age 6, watching the world go by and enjoying an afternoon off. Two young fellas, I'd guess 12 or 13, came strolling down the street, doing their best to look as urban gangsta as they could, pants sagging and all that. My daughter just starts squealing with laughter, like wicked witch of the west cackling laughing. "Your underwear is showing!!" She yells at them. Then she yells for her older sister to come look, "Hey! This guys whole butt is showing!" Of course the other one comes running to see and is snorting and cracking up. Both boys were visibly embarrassed and couldn't get out from in front of our house fast enough. The younger of the two even pulled his pants up.

 

[jamespowers]

Since this phenomenon has been discussed at length here, I thought I would share this story. Some here may be entertained by it.
This afternoon I was just hanging out on the front porch with my daughter, age 6, watching the world go by and enjoying an afternoon off. Two young fellas, I'd guess 12 or 13, came strolling down the street, doing their best to look as urban gangsta as they could, pants sagging and all that. My daughter just starts squealing with laughter, like wicked witch of the west cackling laughing. "Your underwear is showing!!" She yells at them. Then she yells for her older sister to come look, "Hey! This guys whole butt is showing!" Of course the other one comes running to see and is snorting and cracking up. Both boys were visibly embarrassed and couldn't get out from in front of our house fast enough. The younger of the two even pulled his pants up.

:rofl: Good!

 

[LuvMyMan]

Since this phenomenon has been discussed at length here, I thought I would share this story. Some here may be entertained by it.
This afternoon I was just hanging out on the front porch with my daughter, age 6, watching the world go by and enjoying an afternoon off. Two young fellas, I'd guess 12 or 13, came strolling down the street, doing their best to look as urban gangsta as they could, pants sagging and all that. My daughter just starts squealing with laughter, like wicked witch of the west cackling laughing. "Your underwear is showing!!" She yells at them. Then she yells for her older sister to come look, "Hey! This guys whole butt is showing!" Of course the other one comes running to see and is snorting and cracking up. Both boys were visibly embarrassed and couldn't get out from in front of our house fast enough. The younger of the two even pulled his pants up.

I should not tell on my Husband, but....a few years ago when some young guy was infront of us waiting to check out at the local grocery store, his pants were all half down....my Husband took an ink pen from the side shelf and let it drop down in the crack.....said "opps, seems I just dropped something"....later he told me he wanted to just shove those pants the rest of the way off that young guy, but then you have a real legal problem. The "trend" of the hanging pants, pants on the ground, is baffling. But then anyone that is just showing "half-assed" can't have all their marbles.....right?

 

[Stearmen]

Since this phenomenon has been discussed at length here, I thought I would share this story. Some here may be entertained by it.
This afternoon I was just hanging out on the front porch with my daughter, age 6, watching the world go by and enjoying an afternoon off. Two young fellas, I'd guess 12 or 13, came strolling down the street, doing their best to look as urban gangsta as they could, pants sagging and all that. My daughter just starts squealing with laughter, like wicked witch of the west cackling laughing. "Your underwear is showing!!" She yells at them. Then she yells for her older sister to come look, "Hey! This guys whole butt is showing!" Of course the other one comes running to see and is snorting and cracking up. Both boys were visibly embarrassed and couldn't get out from in front of our house fast enough. The younger of the two even pulled his pants up.

I am surprised, around here, the trend seems to be dieing out. I have seen a couple of young men holding onto their crotches, then it dawned on me, they probably have been wearing the saggy pants for the last several years, and it is just an old habit, to hold up their pants!

 

[LuvMyMan]

Barley is something else. That stuff is nasty.

Wait....Barley is in Beer is it not? arty:arty:arty:arty:

 

[Cookster]

I don't have a hat shop in my area and photos can be deceptive: Can anyone tell me the difference between the new Stetson Premiere Stratoliner 'Mink' color and the new Bosalino Alessandria 'Brown' color? Thanks ...

 

[jamespowers]

Wait....Barley is in Beer is it not? arty:arty:arty:arty:

That is how you FIX barley---that and further fermentation to make scotch. Just ask Daniel.

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

I should not tell on my Husband, but....a few years ago when some young guy was infront of us waiting to check out at the local grocery store, his pants were all half down....my Husband took an ink pen from the side shelf and let it drop down in the crack.....said "opps, seems I just dropped something"....later he told me he wanted to just shove those pants the rest of the way off that young guy, but then you have a real legal problem. The "trend" of the hanging pants, pants on the ground, is baffling. But then anyone that is just showing "half-assed" can't have all their marbles.....right?

We have that trend here in the UK too. I heard that it was started by youths in the Southern States of the USA. Not sure why though.

 

[Matt Crunk]

We have that trend here in the UK too. I heard that it was started by youths in the Southern States of the USA. Not sure why though.

Although some will argue to the contrary, I've always heard the trend came from the U.S. Prison system as a secret way for some prisoners to let the others know that part of their anatomy was "available" for certain considerations. Why self-styled street toughs on the outside would want to emulate such a look is beyond me.

 

[1mach1]

That is how you FIX barley---that and further fermentation to make scotch.

Indeed. Barley any other way.....*yucky*

Boy, do we owe it to the monks.

 

[Edward]

Although some will argue to the contrary, I've always heard the trend came from the U.S. Prison system as a secret way for some prisoners to let the others know that part of their anatomy was "available" for certain considerations. Why self-styled street toughs on the outside would want to emulate such a look is beyond me.

This is a popular story, often used to embarass the kids who adopt that style into pulling their trousers up (a tactic which largely plays on the perceived homophobia of such groups). I'm told, though, that this is infact an urban myth. The style does, however, ape "prison chic" insofar as inmates of American prisons, their belts confiscated in order to prevent them from forming a weapon or means of suicide, have trouble holding their trousers up. Cheap romanticisation of criminality, ultimately, which has become common in the mainstream of hip hop in more recent years (oddly so, as it is very much the opposite of how that started out, and there are all sorts of theories as to how this happened).

 

[Zombie_61]

This is a popular story, often used to embarass the kids who adopt that style into pulling their trousers up (a tactic which largely plays on the perceived homophobia of such groups). I'm told, though, that this is infact an urban myth. The style does, however, ape "prison chic" insofar as inmates of American prisons, their belts confiscated in order to prevent them from forming a weapon or means of suicide, have trouble holding their trousers up...

The prohibition of belts in prisons is part of it, the other part being that most prisons aren't as well-stocked as your local department store, so new inmates are often forced to wear clothes that are one or two sizes too big for them.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Don't most prisons wear jumpsuits or elastic-waisted scrubs these days?

Meanwhile, in the Charity Begins At Home Department, here's the big news around my area:

Head of Local Community Fund Embezzling Donations For Seventeen Years.

Not that there's anything particularly new about "respectable" people dipping their bills in other people's money -- Richard Whitney, head of the New York Stock Exchange, went to prison for exactly the same thing in the 1930s -- but I seriously doubt that this gentleman will be stamping out license plates any time soon. Damn shame about that.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

As hiding behind respectability is nothing new, pot growers have in recent years taken to buying or renting houses in upscale neighborhoods for use as grow houses because who's going to suspect a massive pot farm right in the middle of Nouveau Riche Meadows gated community? But the dead giveaway is that these operations use huge amounts of electricity so when they rack up unusually high electric bills, that tends to send up a red flag.

 

[jamespowers]

Meanwhile, in the Charity Begins At Home Department, here's the big news around my area:

Head of Local Community Fund Embezzling Donations For Seventeen Years.

They came to do good and they did very well.

 

[Edward]

Don't most prisons wear jumpsuits or elastic-waisted scrubs these days?

I believe so (at least for those fully incarcerated - may be different for those on remand for short periods), but that's not an image that has yet been romanticised...

 

[ChiTownScion]

Meanwhile, in the Charity Begins At Home Department, here's the big news around my area:

Head of Local Community Fund Embezzling Donations For Seventeen Years.

Not that there's anything particularly new about "respectable" people dipping their bills in other people's money -- Richard Whitney, head of the New York Stock Exchange, went to prison for exactly the same thing in the 1930s -- but I seriously doubt that this gentleman will be stamping out license plates any time soon. Damn shame about that.

Best part of reading these regional articles always are the comments made by the local people. Journalists tend to play by the rules and try to couch things in terms that can't be construed as defamatory... but the local folks aren't so likely to pull punches. And that doesn't mean that all those commenting want to lynch the guy, either: the cry to be fair, not judge until all the evidence is all in, place blame where it belongs, etc., is there as well. It affirms my faith in the common man and woman: at the end of the day, (s)he wants to see that the wrongdoer gets what's coming, but due process isn't going to be thrown under the bus, either.

 

[Edward]

Best part of reading these regional articles always are the comments made by the local people. Journalists tend to play by the rules and try to couch things in terms that can't be construed as defamatory... but the local folks aren't so likely to pull punches. And that doesn't mean that all those commenting want to lynch the guy, either: the cry to be fair, not judge until all the evidence is all in, place blame where it belongs, etc., is there as well. It affirms my faith in the common man and woman: at the end of the day, (s)he wants to see that the wrongdoer gets what's coming, but due process isn't going to be thrown under the bus, either.

Fascinating comparison between jurisdictions, too - here in the UK, comments on an ongonig case would never be published, unless the website owner wanted to risk not only secondary liability for defamation, but criminal contempt of court.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The commenter who said "if he spent the money on his current wardrobe he *ought* to be in jail" is right on the button.

In all seriousness, I've known this guy for years, and he always struck me as a two-faced weasel. We've had an epidemic lately of bookkeeper-level embezzlements, so it's nice to see one of the big fish get netted for a change.

The funniest thing about the whole business is that the paper that first broke the story is a freebie shopper. The real papers are only just now picking up on it, and the fur is starting to fly.

 

[Stearmen]

The commenter who said "if he spent the money on his current wardrobe he *ought* to be in jail" is right on the button.

In all seriousness, I've known this guy for years, and he always struck me as a two-faced weasel. We've had an epidemic lately of bookkeeper-level embezzlements, so it's nice to see one of the big fish get netted for a change.

The funniest thing about the whole business is that the paper that first broke the story is a freebie shopper. The real papers are only just now picking up on it, and the fur is starting to fly.

What is sad, is how many so called legitimate charities, only give away 10 cents or less of each dollar they receive!