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i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« on: October 05, 2009, 01:48:37 AM »
specifically the pants pulled down past your ass showing 6" of your boxer shorts, or like the dip#$%* kid i saw today wearing shorts pulled down so low that the hem of the leg was about 3" above his ankles. what the hell is the point? i suppose people my age said the same thing about teenagers fashions when i was a teen but we never wore anything so damn dumb. and what the hell is up with the kids wearing a visor, backwards, upside down?
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2009, 08:06:26 AM »
The more it bothers you, the more they like it. ;)


Now are you really trying to say that some of the fashions in the 80's weren't at least as dumb as that? 
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2009, 08:09:40 AM »
The pants around the ankles thing comes from prison, where they don't have belts and pants tend to sag.
yeah, I know makes no sense but what does these crazy days.

So maybe when you see one of these idiots ask him if he's advertising to be your #$%*.
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2009, 08:17:10 AM »
Quote from: Dukiedook on October 05, 2009, 08:09:40 AM
So maybe when you see one of these idiots ask him if he's advertising to be your #$%*.


Awesome.... :D
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2009, 08:49:41 AM »
Come on now, your age is showing!  ;)
I agree but we all wore strange crap back in the day! I remember monster bell bottoms tank tops and perms for men!
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2009, 08:54:01 AM »
I haven't seen anyone wearing an upside down visor in a long time. What is it, 1995? Jeeze.
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2009, 09:00:36 AM »
My main pet peeve, is hats with the brims completely flat, tags still on them...and the hat just a little cockeyed...

I just want to walk up rip it off their head, give the brim a nice curve, and put it back on the RIGHT way.
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2009, 09:25:07 AM »
A little bit cockeyed, hell they are spun way around.

And it kills me to watch them walking with the pants down but they have to hold them up with one hand. I watched one guy try and run that way, way crazy. Seems like you'd get a big time cramp in your hand/arm contantly holding your britches up like that.

But hey.........NOT MY PROBLEM.
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2009, 09:38:24 AM »
A few of us on here, are now of the age, that we NOW realized how our parents felt   :o   ;D

 Fr@!$ing kIdS these days..

 Dont know sh!t, from Dirty pudding..

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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2009, 10:17:32 AM »
yeah, some of the stuff people wore in the 80's was dumb as hell. i was a little hippy boy even then though. jeans, chuck taylor basketall shoes and flannel shirt when it was cold or a tee when it was warm. yeah the thing with the hat turned about 20 degrees off center is another one that bugs me lol. i cant imagine what 40 year olds said about our fashions 25 years ago. now, i have no prolem with piercing but one day my stepdaughter had a friend drop her off after work and this kid had, no exaggeration, about 15 pieces of metal stiking through various parts of her face. i couldnt help myself when i held up some jumper cables and asked if she needed a jump start. but then, i imagine there are lots of people that think i'm idiotic for having my arms covered in tattoos. gawd i'm turning into my parents  :D
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2009, 11:00:49 AM »
Can't say the '80s were much better, though. :D



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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2009, 11:01:41 AM »
That looks more '90's ala MC Hammer.
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2009, 11:04:49 AM »
I'm not really into the ear rings that make big holes by stretching the earlobe.  If one grows out of it, what do they do with their stretched out ears?

And it's frustrating as hell trying to talk to a teenager about waiting to do it to their ears... because they "know" they'll never grow out of it.   ::)  They want it, and they have to have it now.  Luckily it wasn't my kid that I tried talking to - I'd have went nuts.




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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2009, 11:11:54 AM »
The great thing is to wait 20 years and those same kids will be saying "i dont get some of todays 'fashions'!" about their own kids! 

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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2009, 02:58:46 PM »
lol @ the "right" way to wear a hat

When I was in the Army the "right" way was a helluva lot different than I wear mine now.  Then again I wear my hats flat-brimmed, with the sticker intact (no tag), and a little off to the side...
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2009, 03:22:52 PM »
Quote from: j squared on October 05, 2009, 02:58:46 PM
Then again I wear my hats flat-brimmed, with the sticker intact (no tag), and a little off to the side...

No no no...say it aint so...please...
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2009, 03:29:06 PM »
Quote from: ColinMc on October 05, 2009, 03:22:52 PM
Quote from: j squared on October 05, 2009, 02:58:46 PM
Then again I wear my hats flat-brimmed, with the sticker intact (no tag), and a little off to the side...

No no no...say it aint so...please...

hahahaha its just a hat :) 

Im wondering if everyone sees this:



The same as this:







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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2009, 03:31:42 PM »
Quote from: mgbgt89 on October 05, 2009, 08:54:01 AM
I haven't seen anyone wearing an upside down visor in a long time. What is it, 1995? Jeeze.

hahahaha
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2009, 03:33:59 PM »
marky mark was the first i saw wearing his pants around his @ss. but then i never went to prison either.

the difference between the dumb fashion of the past and now is that now one can hardly walk in the idiot garb of today. i read about a cop running after a hood with stolen property. but his pants kept falling down and thus was caught.

also, the odd fashions of the past (except for the weirdo l.a. stuff) rarely stuck out as so incredibly stupid at the time. only in hind sight did it look so blatantly ridiculous. with the homie look today you don't have to be an old fart to see the resemblance to circus clowns.

hardly anyone looked like mc hammer outside mtv... or calf.
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2009, 03:37:40 PM »
Quote from: Dukiedook on October 05, 2009, 08:09:40 AM
The pants around the ankles thing comes from prison, where they don't have belts and pants tend to sag.
yeah, I know makes no sense but what does these crazy days.

So maybe when you see one of these idiots ask him if he's advertising to be your #$%*.

Close,it does come from prison,California prisons and it is a easy access thing from the Big Bubbas and their hoes. Nice huh? Learned that in college and a study of the prison systems. if those idiots only knew what they were expressing ............ well maybe they do
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #20 on: October 05, 2009, 03:38:45 PM »
ROFL! J Squared...your disclaimer is EXACTLY what I was thinking when I was looking at those.
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #21 on: October 05, 2009, 03:40:10 PM »
Call me a skeptic, but I still think the prison explanation is presumptuous.  I dont think anyone really knows where pants sag came from, and are drawing connections where they see them.  Kinda like the Mayan prophecy, but more retarded.
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« Reply #22 on: October 05, 2009, 03:47:26 PM »
Quote from: j squared on October 05, 2009, 03:40:10 PM
Call me a skeptic, but I still think the prison explanation is presumptuous.  I dont think anyone really knows where pants sag came from, and are drawing connections where they see them.  Kinda like the Mayan prophecy, but more retarded.

in 2012 everyone will have their pants around their @ss.
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #23 on: October 05, 2009, 04:01:07 PM »
I remember the bandaid on the face fad not that long ago.  The first one I saw I thought, "Hey, that dude is cool; he cut himself shaving and he don't even care who knows about it."  Then I started noticing that everyone was shaving with dull razors.  Then it started looking stupid when I realized there was probably no cut under the bandaid.
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Re: i dont get some of todays "fashions"
« Reply #24 on: October 05, 2009, 04:46:15 PM »
Quote from: soichiro on October 05, 2009, 04:01:07 PM
I remember the bandaid on the face fad not that long ago.  The first one I saw I thought, "Hey, that dude is cool; he cut himself shaving and he don't even care who knows about it."  Then I started noticing that everyone was shaving with dull razors.  Then it started looking stupid when I realized there was probably no cut under the bandaid.

now thats one i managed to miss. i guess i'll just stay unfashionable in jeans, teeshirt or tanktop and cheap sneakers. i wear my hat with the brim curved and forward.
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