Pull Your Pants Up, Boy
Tagged as: Oct 05Alright so we had a fire drill the other day. And it was annoying. The sirens were piercingly loud. I guess that’s good because you don’t want to have your earphones in and listening to music so that you don’t hear the alarm when it goes off. Nevertheless the fact of the matter was that there wasn’t a fire and it did hurt my ears.
When you go down the stairs for the fire drill, it’s mild because nobody is actually trying to get away from a fire. I can only imagine that some people would panic in the case of a real fire and try to run by people. These are probably the same people that need to learn what I have to say On Driving. They’re the ones zooming by, cutting you off, and still getting to the destination not a minute or two faster than you. In a fire drill they’re gonna run as fast as they can, knock people over, and cause general pandemonium. Great.
But those thoughts weren’t the most disturbing of the day.
Many people exited the building (it’s a 5 story one with multiple companies), and as we’re standing in the grass I see someone (from my company) who is standing there with his arms raised. They’re resting on his head. Maybe he was stretching. Maybe he was subtly trying to get someone’s attention. Maybe he was trying to touch the sky. How do I know? But whatever he was doing, all I know is that his shirt was too short (so it raised along with his arms), and his pants were sagging too much. And there was a great view of his man hair (if you know what I mean, pubic hair if you don’t) if you’re into that. But I’m not into that. Not at all. And I don’t know too many people who are. So that made me unhappy and disgusted.
So remember, kids, to pull up your pants. Especially if you’re at work. Especially if you’re raising your arms up and trying to grab birds out of the air. You know who you are.
Just curious, how would you feel if the person showing the, uh, pubes were a woman? Sometimes the entire arm-raising thing is not even necessary! I saw some celebrity female shot and the woman had jutting hipbones, her panty-straps were showing and the tops of her fruit of the looms were showing! Eeee! I guess I’m more conservative than I thought because I found the display a bit, well, trashy to me. Although the infamous “J-Lo” dress (I think double-stick tape was involved) was fine by me.
I’m also not into seeing young men shlopping around with their knees splayed so that their pants don’t fall any lower. I dunno - I guess if young women found this attractive, go for it. I’m not seeing how this works Darwin-wise. These men would be easy pickins on the African savannah. But maybe the point is that these men want to fall victim to young women?
But back to PDPs (Public Display of Pubes) - not into them. Hope you’ve recovered from the sight by now. Eeeee.
It used to be all you had to worry about was the sight that is created when middle-aged men proudly state they “wear the same pants size” but don’t mention that the front of the pants is obscured by a “fatty overhang” which pushes the pants down and when sitting, gives people behind him a view of his uh, crevice.
@Ms. Q
I would feel pretty disgusted if the person were a woman also. I can imagine what you’re describing and it strikes me as pretty gross as well. Was it in one of those celebrity gossip magazine? I wouldn’t have guessed that you read those things since you don’t even have a TV right?
Haha I like your new acronym (PDP). Hopefully it won’t have to be used too often!
Oh it’s definitely gross when people are wearing pants that are too tight for them. Sometimes ignorance might be bliss for the person, but it’s not doing them any good in the eyes of other people!
My mom loves celebrity news and sometimes I’ll flip through her massive stack of magazines if I’m waiting for her. She’s big on dawdling. I may have seen such an image (I know it was B. Spears) in one of those. Those magazines can suck you in. I get aghast and each example of personal excess and yet…keep flipping. Generally I “just say no.”
All I can think is “ick.” Just “ick.” That’s worse than “plumber’s butt” any day of the week.
@Ms. Q
Ahh I see how you could see these pictures then. So there must be some part of you that’s interested in these things since you can’t turn away? Or is it more akin to being unable to turn away from a car accident? I usually don’t really read or spend time following celebritys’ lives because I feel like I have my own life to live already. Still I must also admit that sometimes if I find a magazine lying around and pick it up, it’s rather interesting to see it all.
@This Eclectic Life
Long time no comment! (Probably goes for me too, on your blog. It’s just been hard to comment on things like the SAS stuff. I’ve still been reading though!) In any case, the so described sight was seriously was not pleasant to see. At first, I couldn’t turn my eyes because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Then when I realized that it really was what I thought it was, I could do nothing BUT turn away!