Blindone's Blog

The next few “pages" came directly out of my journal; and as you can see from the date it’s been almost a year since I penned them. I am posting these I response to JoquanDaHooligan's Blog . Dude you are wrong, yes you have a right to say what you did. But the bottom line has nothing to do with wearing baggy pants, it’s the fact that having your rear end hang out is offensive. That's the real issue: what's offensive.

The only thing that’s racial (your reference to the KKK) about the whole issue is your comments: “I'M SORRY, I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA. OF COURSE IT'S AMERIKKKA WITH A BIG FAT K.” “YOU SIR ARE THE TERRORIST FOR THIS ACT OF TREASON AGAINST MICHIGAN'S YOUTH.”  These comments were not necessary; pure hatred.

YOU need to get a life ! All you’re trying to do is stir things up just for the sake of arguing.

02/28/07 & 03/01/07

Those once so popular cartoons of “Calvin” peeing on stuff offend me: whether it was a Ford, Chevy or Chrysler symbol. The similar cartoon of the “Calvin” grabbing his crouch and flipping you off offends me. I’m offended by the cartoon that depicts a bare assed man pointing to his bum (with a lip print on it) (no explanation should be necessary) or how ‘bout the ever popular “how’s my drivin? Call 1-800…….” I’m offended by those narrow minded knuckle dragging rednecks who find it necessary to hang a pair of “dingle berries” off their trailer hitch (on their 4x4 trucks). It offends me to see you lazy ass kids out there walking all over God’s green earth with you pants hanging half off your rear ends! How freakin stupid can you be?!?!?!? You can’t walk two steps w/o your pants falling down around your ankles…………..that’s why you have to hold them up with one of your hands! DUH! Fashion statement you say? Ok, how about this for a fashion statement: “I’m too stupid/lazy to buy or use a belt!” That’s a statement alright. Do you really think that anyone in their right mind wants to see your underwear? For years (still even) people have made fun of “plumber’s butt cracks”. However no one finds it funny when you’re too dense to understand how to properly dress yourself. Actually I kind of take that back; I find it sad to think that the youth of today think that this is an acceptable way to dress. I will admit that maybe it’s just the complete opposite of the tight pants that we used to wear when I was young, but at least our cheeks weren’t hanging out in the breeze! ‘Course you couldn’t breathe or sit down, because your pants were to damn tight to! But hey no butt cheeks!

Side bar: what’s up with kids these days paying upwards of $50 (or more) for jeans that look old, faded and ripped ? Now granted they have the right idea (sorta), but our jeans didn’t look that way until we made them that way; by then they were old friends! When you first got them they were DARK blue and really stiff; it was only after countless washing, and trashing that they started to show their worthiness. The wear was kind of like a badge of honor. And if you did rip them out, you patched them! Some of my favorite jeans had more material in patching than denim! Guess kids today are too impatient to earn their faded jeans!?

It offends me to be abused by the sound of your “music”. But lets be honest, that ain’t music; all it is, is noise! And should be not be heard ½ mile away!

Another sidebar: Have you heard any of the “music” that our youth of day listen too? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear it already; “our parents used to complain about our music too.” Yeah, but (eww a yeah but!) this is different; all I hear is screaming. I will admit that occasionally I hear some decent cords in the background, but the vocals are all screaming. Who can understand it? How can you appreciate it? It’s all noise! Doesn’t sound anything like “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas, or “On Broadway” by Genesis: actually the closest comparison that I can think of would be “Inagadadavida” by Iron Butterfly; but at least you can understand what is being said! I guess AC/DC “All Night Long” isn’t too far off either, “Hell’s Bells” even.

My point is simply this; where are the police concerning these violations?

A few years back a young man was fined and had to serve jail time for cussing while canoeing. Yet it is not uncommon for anyone to be exposed to any of these other examples: and nothing is done to these folks! Now I ask, does this make any sense? NO!

There was a T shirt vendor in the mall this past Christmas who displayed several shirts of very poor taste, and some of the locals got upset about it: did any of these same complainers say any thing (ever) about the above examples: I doubt it very much. So what’s the difference? Offensive is offensive, you shouldn’t be wishy washy about it

June 13th, 2007

It’s about stinking time! If you’re a regular reader, you already know my feelings about this sort of thing!

Saggy Britches………….

The Associated Press reports that in Delcambre, La if your britches are sagging; you’ll be hauling out some major greenbacks and / or spending time in the hoosegow. About time is what I say. It ought to be something repeated all over this country. I don’t have a problem with “kids” expressing themselves through their cloths; that’s been done forever. But this trend of wearing your pants damn near around your knees is not only dumb, but just plain tasteless. I don’t’ want to be looking at your shorts.

And if nothing else how stinking dumb do you having to walk around with one hand tied to the waist band of your pants; because otherwise the fall down around your ankle?! Matter of fact I saw just that happen the other day at the local grocery store. Some dumb butt walked right out of his pants because (1) they were too big, and (2) he wasn’t wearing a belt. When he went to open the door his pants fell down around his ankles! Oh I guess that I should mention that he DID hike them up ever so slightly as he approached the door; only just enough so that the belt line was high enough for him to hang on to.

Can’t say as I have ever seen anyone “jewels or parts” as it is described in the article; but then again I don’t go around looking either. This whole mentality of wearing (?) (more like hanging) pants that are so dang baggy that you can’t keep them up is beyond me. Furthermore the idea of having to walk around using one hand to keep them up just smacks of stupidity.

I spied a young gal at the high school last night: as I was waiting to retrieve my son from

football practice; who was wearing sweat pants down around the lower part of her hips. This practice also made it possible to see that she was also wearing boxers as well. Guess it was the daego T shirt that topped of her look; that was the killing stroke. Not a bad looking gal (from what I could tell) but to me her whole appearance screamed BLEEP. Aka, someone who had no concern about appearance: or the image that she was projecting. Ok, I’m an old fashioned kind of guy; but I don’t find this attractive or darn I say it? Ladylike. The image that I get is “easy”; you older folks know what I’m talking about. SO I’m wondering is this the type of message that she really wants to project?

Opps I strayed, sorry.

I can remember wearing pants so tight (back in my HS days) that you’d get nose bleeds. You couldn’t hardly sit down for fear that you’d split out the rear end. Then we got smarter and started to wear pants that were more reasonable, but kids today have gone too far. I think that its time that the fashion statement changed; at least when we wore baggy pants we used a belt, or suspenders!

AS I have said before, its not the pants, its the fact that we can see your underwear. You feel the need to wear "Fat Alberts" knock yourself out. Just don't be broadcasting your Foot of the looms in my direction. You don't want to see a 51 year old walking around with his bum hanging out, well I don't want to see yours. The offense goes both ways.