Posted on 10/22/2007 2:36:26 AM PDT by Caipirabob
As cousins Travis and Chuckie Jones stroll off the South Broward High campus on school days, they're "gooned out."
Wearing oversized T-shirts and low-riding jeans, they mimic the hard core look that gangsta rappers first popularized in the 1990s.
The Jones boys' jean shorts, held up by belts, are hanging around their thighs and sag so low that you can't help but see the gym shorts they wear underneath.
"I like saggin'," said Travis, a 15-year-old sophomore.
For him, wearing baggy, ill-fitting jeans, is cool — and makes a strong statement. It's all about attitude.
"It tells everybody to kiss my a--. There are a lot of haters out there," Travis said.
Our "little darling" struts his "stuff" for the boys in the pen...
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Well, Travis, it's not hatred, it's just that most people tend to despise idiots.
I see these fools around a lot in some areas of Fort Lauderdale. Each time we drive by them we look for the clown car they escaped from. I do have to say I'm fascinated by the cultural trend to "advertise idiocy".
I guess it's just one of those things. Hard to tear your eyes away from a train wreck and all that.
It's also great attire for job interviews.
Gee, travis must have such a special mother...
I liked the quote by the one guy who said in prison, sagging pants can mean you’re a prison bitch.
The truth is that teen aged girls have the most control over this. If they would point and laugh, this would end real quick.
It’s stupid, but laws against it (like we have in some towns here in GA) are stupider.
It makes a strong statement - “I’m a Moron”.
” “It tells everybody to kiss my a—. “
Another example of the illiterate youth being turned out by our Public School System —
The correct verb in this sentence would be ‘kick’........
“It tells everybody to kiss my a—
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yes it really does. it sure makes it a lot easier...
Otherwise the cycle of bad behavior just escalates.
BUMP
The up side of this is when they try to rob you, their baggy, low rider pants make it hard to them to run away....
When I see pictures like this it says to me these kids do not have a lot of self respect and therefore would not show others any respect.
If I were an employer would not hire people dressed like this, no wonder they can’t find jobs.
Saves interviewers a lot of trouble, imo.
Another example of a failed culture.
How can anyone look at these idiots and blame their failures on white racism?
Trouble is you see some white kid with the same sort of pants and his oversized ball cap walking into some resturant with his parents.
You want to smack both of them..
Then again the father probably has his ball cap on at the table and his mother has a tank top with...
regards - red
I know someone who likes the pants like this....
My niece’s husband is a sheriff’s deputy. He says this style of dress makes it easier to catch the delinquents.
Tatoos and certain dialects also speak (no pun) volumes.
I say this as someone who interviews perspective employees.
Although here in Raleigh, NC the unemployment rate is so low, you just about have to take what you can get.
That is all part of the idea. REmember -we are raising up the 2nd or third generation of welfare whores - and they have learned that anything they can do to give prospective employers a reason NOT to hire them - the more likely they are to get taken care of by our big government nanny-state.
Kiss or kick?
Precisely.
“It tells everybody to kiss my a—. There are a lot of haters out there,”
Actually it tells everybody, “I’m a LOSER.”
Yeah, wedgie.
However, I’m surprised all those “haters” out there Travis is worried about don’t yank the pants down instead, they’re already a third of the way there.
Not to mention his father. (I'm sure Travis never mentions him.)
Another thing they like to do when they’re walking around is to hold their damn crotch all the time.
That's right, Travis...you and your mates' hatred for civilized standards comes through loand clear!
...loand clear...
Loud and clear, of course!
More coffee!
Or that your not very fast.........
The laughable part is, Travis doesn't see the utter hypocrisy in this statement. But then, I suspect there are a lot of things Travis doesn't see.
I’m not a young woman, but I still like to point and laugh. If i’m in the car, I definitely do. If it’s in person, I just snicker a little bit. Leave ‘em wondering.
I saw a very nice and well-dressed black family at the airport. They were being met by, I assume, some younger relatives.
One older lady instructed a kid -— grandkid or nephew -— to carry one of the women’s bags to the car.
He could hardly walk. The crotch of his pants was about at his knees. He had a jerky, short-stepped walk and had trouble handling the luggage.
I wished his grandmother would have smacked him.
The TV show “The Wire” had a scene where a kid is walking by a police car with his baseball cap turned sideways. Two policemen in the car motion the kid over to them and ask him a question. “Where did you get that cap…I’ve been looking for one with the bill on the side for months.”
The kid never knows they’re playing with him and explains how it’s just a regular cap but turned sideways. I fell out of the chair laughing so hard.
I believe I read on FR some time ago that the fad was to show solidarity with their friends and relatives in prison.
Thankfully we’re not hiring general labor type employees currently, but I must say that you were a little more “diplomatic” than I think that I might have been. I don’t know if I would have lost it & told him what I really thought or simply laughed the entire time I showed him to the door.
I guess there are people too stupid to put their pants on properly. Kindergarten should be mandatory.
Why can't a community define its own standards of decency? Should Macon, GA permit the kinds of pornographic displays tolerated in S.F. "pride" parades? Showing underwear under one's pants is indecent, and I fully support laws and hefty fines to stamp it out, if that's what the community wants.
I wish his grandmother would have let me smack him.
LOL
You must be a racist /sarc
I’m sure poor Travis is suffering from the effects of ADHD - Absent Dad/Husband Disorder.
I call those Minnie Pearl hats...straight out the box with a flat bill and the price sticker hanging off.
Hater. :)
That's what keeps the pants from sliding all the way down. There is a silver lining here: the little darlings can't carry as much stolen loot while running from the cops.
Nothing like mimicking prison behavior for popular culture is there? First it was the untied shoes look, now its the “I am available to be violated” prison bit** look. Wonderful!
At the take-out counter, the young man slinging the pizzas was exposing his boxer undershorts close to the hem. It seemed unhygienic to me, but upon consideration I concluded that it was probably not any moreso than if his underwear had not been exposed. Sometimes it's best not to focus on hygeine.
At another fast-food takeout, a young man ahead of me in line also had most of his underwear exposed. He perceived my reaction, a mixture of amusement and disapproval I suppose, and pulled his trousers up. I appreciated this courtesy.
Do you suppose these people will make a shift to jocky underwear? What after that?
I think it started that way in some inner-city schools, but since then the phenomenon has really "jumped the fence" and spread far and wide (including crossing class and racial boundaries).
These are not the sort of people who look for meaningful employment.
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