Next up: a ban on kites. And chewing gum.

I think the wanna-be gangstas that wear the baggy pants, or the pants hanging below their asses are complete idiots.

BUT (or is that butt?)

It's everyone's right to look as stupid, idiotic, or otherwise ludicrous as they want to. Besides, if we didn't have these asshats walking around looking like shiat thinking they looked "cool," what in the world would we make fun of? Religions? Nationality? Sexual preference?

One final note: as a former cop, I think that gangsters wearing these loose pants down on their thighs is a great idea. Have you ever seen one of these bangers try to run? ROFLMYLIVERHURTSCOPTER! It makes for an easy takedown.

How about we just ban clothes altogether. If people go around naked then there'd be no more worries about what they're wearing. Plus it would probably have a beneficial effect on the obesity rates (people would need to start exercising so they don't get stared at).

I think instead of a mandatory fine on the spot, the kids should have to outrun police for 3 minutes, beginning right then. I would laugh till I snorted coke out my nose watching some fool in uber-baggy pants run, holding the waistband of the pants up and trying not to fall down as the police jogged after them at a leisurely stroll. If they can make the 3 minute run, they don't pay the fine. They get caught or fall down? Pay up, Baggy-Boy.

I used to think segregation was a Southern thing until I moved to the Chicago area a year ago. I've never seen a more segregated city in my life. The south side practically doesn't even exist to white yuppies on the north side, or it's mentioned as if it's a single neighborhood as opposed to being half of the city.

I played racqetball against David Duke once. You should see his daughter. OMFGHOTBBQ!!!

Take Texas with you.

We'll just become our own country again.

AcadianSidhe: You will have teenagers one day. You can control them with Bermuda Shorts, a Hawaiian Shirt, Brylcream, Black Socks and Sandals. "If you don't stop it, I am going to go out with you for a month wearing this shiat and volunteer in your classrom".

/inspired by Dave Barry, I admit it.

I still pay with British currency, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

This is really stupid. The guys who wear these pants can't run from cops as fast, their pants will fall down and trip them.

A better solution is just to get all the old white guys in Louisiana to start walking around dressed with their pants down, and get the teachers and preachers to start doing it too. The gangstas will start dressing like Bill Gates. Should take a week.

No, they'd reach down further for something even uglier. Hip hop/rap is a reaction by ebonics blacks to the way blacks looked before the 80's - that is, looked at a certain way, you can look at the way blacks were presented, all the way from the cartoon, "The Cosby Kids" to blacksploitation films, etc. and you can feel like you might look ridiculous. So, the solution is to come up with some kind of culture that is so brutal, so ugly, so violent and intimidating that it couldn't possibly be seen in a light that would cause titters and giggling from an audience. It's similar to the phenomenong of a teen listening to rock instead of classical because, while he enjoys music, he's "too cool" for classical, or the psychology behind greeting someone with, "waddup" or "hey" because you're too cool to say, "hello" like a grandmother.

Hiphop/rap delivered the hope of being way too cool to ever be seen in a light that is ridiculous or funny, such as a guy in a giant fro and multi colored pants groovin to disco and shouting, "DYNOMITE!" Whatever else you could say about it, the hope being that that would only be, "it scared me", "it intimidated me", "I don't wanna be a racist so I'll agree yer music is a reflection of your neighborhood yadda yadda yadda"... what you COULDN'T say about it is, well, that it had those quirky, wonky, lame, waning qualities that black culture had in the 70's. Something as brutally ugly as rap is just too cool to be seen in such a light. Ebonics blacks find it "weak" to put in the sound track for, say, the movie, "The Wiz" in their car stereos, but something that is a guy yelling as if he were in a domestic dispute with loud drums in the back ground, whatever else you could say about it, it's too cool to be laughed at in the same way ebonics blacks think the world laughs at stuff like, "The Wiz".

Anyway...

Another huge win for the belt industry lobbyists!

The south side practically doesn't even exist to white yuppies on the north side, or it's mentioned as if it's a single neighborhood as opposed to being half of the city.

It is the baddest part of town.

mvfreeman
The proper way to wear jeans if you're a grown up:

The only problem with those examples is that the second guy is displaying the frat boy "font tuck", which I found to be as annoying in 2005 it was when the same type of guys were displaying 4 inches of boxers in 1998.

MooseBayou
I played racqetball against David Duke once. You should see his daughter. OMFGHOTBBQ!!!

So I hear.

Homeboy's still a douche :)

from TFA: or in dress not becoming to his or her sex

Way to be racist and anti-"them quares" in one dumbass swoop!

/(facepalm)

Land of the Free?!?

I'm sick to death of the "let's ban it" politicians and the malcontents they cater to.

Some of us are sick to death of a culture that is as ugly as a prison cell, a**hole.

/retarded thugs and their admirers don't get to be sick of stuff.

You sound like a "retarded thug" to me. Go move to Iran where your politics are actually mainstream, or stop hating freedom.

apeiron242: They can't run from the cops very well driving on 30" wheels and with their seat so far back it's in the trunk but it doesn't stop 'em...

loki see loki do: It is the baddest part of town.

If you go down there you should just beware of a man named Leroy Brown.

He's bad.

Bad Bad.

AcadianSidhe

Oh yeah, Brusly. I lived in St. Francisville for years (right across from Rosedown). New Roads was my first mardi gras (sad, i know) and was where I was told by several black families that I didn't belong there.

Mind you, I moved to St. Francisville direct from Queens NYC in 1980. And I swear to you there were always klan youth rally posters. I didn't even know what the Klan was until I saw these signs and asked my parents. When I finally made it NOLA, it didn't seem so bad. Mind you, I was in the tourist part, not East NOLA.

During my years there, race was always a big issue. At church, at school, and at work. Years later when I returned to LA in 2000 for a string of business trips with a new employer in Lake Charles, I was quickly reminded that race is still a very big issue. These are my experiences. YMMV.

FWIW, There are some aspects of LA I actually miss.

mvfreeman: We'll just become our own country again.

Bye.

slavename 2007-06-13 03:13:13 PM
LOL. They're just doing it to make whitey uncomfortable. It's well understood that it has become taboo to be seen as a racist, so it's FUN to get someone to feel like one, or try to struggle not to show disapproval or disgust at a black, because that would be racist. You walk into a public place with your pants down, and watch whitey try to ignore it, and it's a big laugh. HAW HAW!
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If you're a 'whitey' and you feel like you have to suppress your disgust whenever a black person enteres a room...

Nice reading comprehension skills. That bell curve is murder. No, I said anyone dressed in a way that is supposed to make people uncomfortable, like with your pants down and your underwear in plain sight. If I had kids, and they were with me, I'd call the cops (because having kids means I don't want to go to jail after stomping on the retard until he's a stain).

I mean, fark it. Just be disgusted. Why should we care? You're apparently too ignorant to vote of hire anyone.

That was coherent. Man, that bell curve...

If I were black, I'd have fun doing that to some red necks, or something like that; but why do it to everyone? Why indiscriminantly hurt people? The answer has to be that these are just dumb jerks.

/troll

So you are FOR huring people. Have you always been that way? Is it in the genes? Really, I'd like to know, because sometimes I feel like I'm being punished, and, like, I've never even farkin met you, and yet there you are, vibrating my skull with your subwoofer while I try to gas up because, apparenlty, it's your world and the rest of us just live in it.

For Xenomech

Atreyou40: I believe he was speaking metaphorically. Or at least I think he meant - "The only people who spend money in Lake Charles are Texans"... or as I say "The only people in the state of Louisiana with any money to spend are from Texas"

No, I think he meant that Lake Charles is butt-up against Texas and therefore, by propinquity, Lake Charlesians are ipso facto Texans. Or something.

I'm from Dallas. Now living in Baton Rouge. Son in Houston. Great-aunt in Sulphur. That's not how it works.

DROxINxTHExWIND: I think it's funny that no one responded to this post.

perhaps because everyone in the states except some idiots in LA thinks that the banning of baggy pants is idiotic.

I am not surprised that this comes from LA, but wow that's really, really wrong. I guess when the president (not just the current, pretty much most of those bastards) doesn't follow the law of the land, why would anyone else?

slavename: So you are FOR huring people. Have you always been that way? Is it in the genes? Really, I'd like to know, because sometimes I feel like I'm being punished, and, like, I've never even farkin met you, and yet there you are, vibrating my skull with your subwoofer while I try to gas up because, apparenlty, it's your world and the rest of us just live in it.

Man up. People who talk like this are whiney biatches. Getting all worked up about aesthetics! Pathetic.

Possibly NSFW

> It's well understood that it has become taboo to be seen as a racist,
> so it's FUN to get someone to feel like one, or try to struggle not
> to show disapproval or disgust at a black, because that would be
> racist.


Yeah, come try that in this town here and let me know how it works out for ya, buddy.

xselect

I'm sick to death of the "let's ban it" politicians and the malcontents they cater to.

Some of us are sick to death of a culture that is as ugly as a prison cell, a**hole.

/retarded thugs and their admirers don't get to be sick of stuff.

You sound like a "retarded thug" to me. Go move to Iran where your politics are actually mainstream, or stop hating freedom.

That you have to put such an obvious spin on things says something about yourself, doncha think?

I want to be free from being hurt by thugs. When you hold your crotch at me in public, you're hurting us. Why do you want to hurt us? Stop hurting us.

It's just like a natural born a**hole to oppress people and then tell them, "quit hating freedom", isn't it!

Look at history. From the days of ancietn Babylon until now, things have improved. Slowly, and sometimes halting and even taking a few steps backwards, but in general, always improving. Society is a nicer place now than at any time in history. There's no reason to think this trend won't continue. This means people like you, while you win in the short term, in the long term you lose. Peace.

Yeah, that song was about all I knew about South Chicago, too, until I moved to the area. I guess that illustrates my point, now that I think about it.

DROxINxTHExWIND: I think it's funny that no one responded to this post.

I responded, not to argue for this stupid ban, but to protest his tired ass "Iran-good, US-shiat" garbage he brings into just about every thread he can possibly bring it up in.

I guess persepolis is off today.

fenrael23
Oh yeah, Brusly. I lived in St. Francisville for years (right across from Rosedown). New Roads was my first mardi gras (sad, i know) and was where I was told by several black families that I didn't belong there.

Don't feel bad. My first Mardi Gras experience was Addis. But I've been to the New Roads parade, and I know exactly what you're talking about. We were kinda suprised that it didn't look anything like a mardi gras parade- more like a homecoming parade.

Mind you, I moved to St. Francisville direct from Queens NYC in 1980. And I swear to you there were always klan youth rally posters. I didn't even know what the Klan was until I saw these signs and asked my parents. When I finally made it NOLA, it didn't seem so bad. Mind you, I was in the tourist part, not East NOLA.

I guess that depends on where you are. Much of the first two decades of my life was spent in west baton rouge in general, and so that's most of my experience, but I don't remember anything like that. Of course, personal experience doesn't always count for anything :)

During my years there, race was always a big issue. At church, at school, and at work. Years later when I returned to LA in 2000 for a string of business trips with a new employer in Lake Charles, I was quickly reminded that race is still a very big issue. These are my experiences.

I've seen race be an issue, but largely in the workplace, and largely in VERY complicated ways. Also, keep in mind Lake Charles isn't really like the rest of Louisiana.

ANY CHANCE WE CAN GET A BAN ON THAT STUPID OVERSIZED HAT-TO-THE-SIDE SHIAT?


/wear the hat correctly or not at all
//flat brims are teh ghey
///take those stickers/tags off, too, jerkoffs

Why do I get the feeling the argument for this law started something like this:
"Why when I was your age back in 19-tickety-three, of course we had to use the word 'tickety' because the Germans stole our word for 'twenty', ..."

slavename: So you are FOR huring people. Have you always been that way? Is it in the genes? Really, I'd like to know, because sometimes I feel like I'm being punished, and, like, I've never even farkin met you, and yet there you are, vibrating my skull with your subwoofer while I try to gas up because, apparenlty, it's your world and the rest of us just live in it.

Man up. People who talk like this are whiney biatches. Getting all worked up about aesthetics! Pathetic.

Thank you. If I'm ever in prison, I'll have an understanding of the kind of b.s. and politics that is part and parcel of the crude, mean minded, depraved sociopathic inmate population.

It's kind of comforting to know these folks have no real problems to worry about.

Kilts for the modern man: Utilikilts

LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD...SHHH :

You're right, there's segregation up north, too. Here in the north, the issue is just as obvious and just as, well, unjust. Down south, at least in some parts, there can be a weird sort of civic identity and maybe even pride attached to the issue of segregation.


I lived in a small town in central Louisiana for 3 years. When work took me elsewhere, I put the house up for sale. Sold the house to a nice family from a city that was from a nearby town. The night after I accepted their offer the front windows of the house were broken out, mailbox torn down. Was told that I had ruined "what used to be a pretty clean town," so that of course I should have expected something like that to happen. "Kids," they said.

/the family wasn't white
//lived there, seen that

AcadianSidhe
Also, keep in mind Lake Charles isn't really like the rest of Louisiana.

Thankfully. All this talk about LA has given me a craving for some boudain. Dammit.

I don't really care about too baggy and too loose, how about too tight and too small on fat asses.