Pull up your pants!

[Angcuru]

It was turned down....well, fine. Their moronicism is their own punishment.

The style has been popularized by hip-hop entertainers and favored by teenage boys. One delegate said the measure could lead to profiling of African-American males.

! It would lead to profiling of people who wear the stupid style in the first place. RACE DOES NOT ENTER INTO IT!

I am so sick of hearing about this African-American profiling business in rediculous examples like this. If a law targets people who do a specific thing, and people of a specific skin tone are statistically more likely to do this specific thing, they say the law is racist. It isn't. It's just what it says it is: a law that targets a specific activity. Does is say anywhere that it targets a specific 'race'? No. Now shut up and go home.

 

[Qlippoth]

Perhaps, then, you can help answer a long-standing domestic dispute in the Dyal household. My wife insists that the pronunciation of lawyer is loiyer, which I say is insane, because they practice law, not loy. Her uncle and also her sister's husband, who are both lawyers, dodge the issue by saying the prefer the pronunciation "attorney." My younger brother's still in his first year of law school, so we figure he doesn't know enough to ask. Besides, he grew up with me, so he has a potential conflict of interest in my wife's view.

Well, having no legal degree nor training, I declare you to be correct. Pending approval by Dicator Barsoomcore.

(a pity these Dictators couldn't co-Dicate with Barsoomcore

 

[Torm]

Torm: I didn't know you felt so strongly abt people with their pants falling off.......

Considering the origins of that particular fashion statement (prison innuendo), it implies all sorts of things that are inappropriate for a follower of Torm. But I am sworn to do my Duty to defend the essential rights, even for the heathen idiots.

Oh, and Googling a bit, I discovered that a similar bill was introduced in the Louisiana House not too long ago, but never made it. Wonder how long before one passes it entirely? Hopefully, the publicity on the Virginia attempt has put an end to it.....

 

[Impeesa]

"these young folks are expressing themselves at a particular time. Don't fine these young folks."

"You had your time," he said, referring to the bell-bottom and polyester-suit days of his fellow delegates. "Let them have their time."

Crap, that's brilliant. Someday, when my own (currently hypothetical) offspring feel the need to indulge themselves in the silly, 'rebellious' fashions of their day, I'm going to take them aside and give them a little talk. I'll tell them I understand they're just expressing their individuality, and that it's important to a young person's sense of identity. All kids go through this stage, after all - it's just the same as the kids with their pants down in my day, or kids with bellbottoms in earlier times. Then I'll show them pictures. If that doesn't snap them out of it, nothing will.

--Impeesa--

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Considering the origins of that particular fashion statement (prison innuendo), it implies all sorts of things that are inappropriate for a follower of Torm. But I am sworn to do my Duty to defend the essential rights, even for the heathen idiots.

Oh, and Googling a bit, I discovered that a similar bill was introduced in the Louisiana House not too long ago, but never made it. Wonder how long before one passes it entirely? Hopefully, the publicity on the Virginia attempt has put an end to it.....

Not that I recall seeing anything about "thou shalt not have pants hanging off your butt" as part of your doctrine......

Betcha Torm was rebellious, wore his hair long, decked out in a leather jacket and rode a Harley in his younger days.......

Although I find the style stupid and disgusting, m'self.

 

[JIMBOTHEBLACK]

Oppression sucks

As idiotic as it looks to wear your pants around your knees and pretend you're gangsta[like those idiots would last five seconds with a real gang],The government has no right to tell you what you can and cannot wear.What next,women are'nt allowed to show thier ankles?

 

[JIMBOTHEBLACK]

I agree totally!

Crap, that's brilliant. Someday, when my own (currently hypothetical) offspring feel the need to indulge themselves in the silly, 'rebellious' fashions of their day, I'm going to take them aside and give them a little talk. I'll tell them I understand they're just expressing their individuality, and that it's important to a young person's sense of identity. All kids go through this stage, after all - it's just the same as the kids with their pants down in my day, or kids with bellbottoms in earlier times. Then I'll show them pictures. If that doesn't snap them out of it, nothing will.

I dress like a gothic punk,not because it's cool or fashionable,because it's me.freedom of expression ROCKS!!!

 

[Felix]

The government has no right to tell you what you can and cannot wear.

And what about the terrible awful facist government oppressing you when it tells you that you cannot walk around naked, hmmm? God forbid they do that.

Freedom of expression ROCKS!!!

I agree. There is also a time and a place for it.

 

[Ranger REG]

! It would lead to profiling of people who wear the stupid style in the first place. RACE DOES NOT ENTER INTO IT!

Of course not. It discrimination against the labor profession, mainly plumbers. I mean they do a good service while bending down fixing your house pipes. At least allow them to work as freely as possible, butt-cracks and all.

Of course, if a pretty lady plumber happens to be showing her thong while fixing my sink pipes, who am I to complain?

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Just because they're fixing my house plumbing doesn't mean I want to see ugly butt-cracks from guys I don't know.