re: "And this new law they made here for all these punkA$$ kids walking around with their pants hanging halfway down their butts. Friggin slobs, and it makes me sick, looking at them LOL."
I'm not sure if you're serious - you DID end that post with "LOL" after all!
But I agree with the excerpt more than you might think.
While I could never support a law to regulate how people dress, I do think the baggy pants, tattoos, piercings, T-shirts with offensive messages, general crudeness (in our written and spoken language, in our TV shows, in our movies), and even the music (rap? grunge?) reflect poorly upon our status as a nation. Where we were once a great nation with people who were proud of themselves and striving to be better still, we aren't anymore. Where we once modeled ourselves after class, we no longer do.
The baggy pants you mention originated as PRISON GARB. Baggy jeans were general issue in some prisons partly because fewer sizes needed to be stocked, they made prisoners easy to recognize, and they made it more difficult for prisoners to run. Prisoners who were released continued wearing the baggy jeans because they'd become used to them and because they liked the "tough" message it gave to their gangs. The style caught on.
Contrast that with the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s, when men generally wore suits - not just to work and church, but any time they were out in public.
We're definitely an empire in decline - but, again, it's frog-in-the-saucepan syndrome. The decline is so slow relative to the pace of our lives that most of us aren't even aware that it's happening.
Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months
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