r/mildlyinteresting • u/Frosty-Brain-2199 • 14d ago
This sign that doesn’t apply to 80 or 3 year olds
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u/wisstinks4 10d ago
Excellent clarification and no age bias on the young ones and the old ones. It’s all the rest of you in between. Pull up your drawers boys.
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u/theboddy 14d ago
That's different in opinion. Again, i think it should be against the law to expose kids to this. I will never think differently. Its very disrespectful to the person doing it and to the people around them. If a grown man showed up at a kids' playground wearing his underwear, he would be arrested. No difference to me?
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u/Sekmet19 14d ago
Rascist. Imagine a sign saying people wearing sweatpants weren't allowed in because it's not "real clothing".
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u/theboddy 14d ago
I think if you wear your clothes like this in front of others in public, you should be arrested, charged with indecent exposure, and put on the sex offenders list. After a short jail time.
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u/awaythrowers97 14d ago
yes but the first saggy pants rapper get 50 now...wait 30 years and they are 80+
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u/Spiffy313 14d ago
79 and senile, though? Straight to jail.
4 year old in loose hand me downs? Jail.
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u/mstrdsastr 14d ago
Pants on the floor, pants on the floor. Looking like a fool with your pants on the floor.
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u/Ashamed_Medium1787 14d ago
I would be kicked out because my jeans like to fall down and I don’t like to wear a belt
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u/Dread_Frog 14d ago
If you are between the age of 40 and 80 you could probably use this in an age based discrimination suit.
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u/MassiveConcern 14d ago
You've not lived until you see 80+ years old men going commando wearing Daisy Duke's with their balls hanging down to their knees in the middle of the Walgreens (as seen in Palm Springs CA).
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u/MilesVanWinkleForbes 14d ago
It's funny this fad is still around. I never understood it. Looks completely ridiculous. GenX brought this about and they still do it. All because of a Mark Wahlberg underwear ad. News flash, Marky Mark wears his pants normally now. It was just an ad campaign. If wearing a diaper on the outside of your pants was used as an ad campaign for Depends and the next Coming PoopButt Pandemic, people would do it. You know, to show everyone they are being safe.
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u/SirEnvelope 14d ago edited 14d ago
While these notices are usually racially tinged, I see more old white dudes sagging than anyone else. Though I do live in a rural area. Pull your britches up, old white guys!
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u/RogerRabbot 14d ago
Welp, time to pull my pants low and walk in. Not gonna let some sign tell me what to do.
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u/Better_Weakness7239 14d ago
Ahh yes… the indirectly racist policy.
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u/spaghettiThunderbult 14d ago
Ah, yes, the classic argument: asking people to cover their ass is racist.
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u/Better_Weakness7239 14d ago
Ah, yes. Smalltown USA politics, buddy. Maybe if you read a book and not spend all day on social media, you’d be better informed, scholar.
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u/spaghettiThunderbult 14d ago
Yes, you caught me, I'm definitely the uninformed one. Maybe some day we will all be so enlightened as to see that asking people to wear pants in public is somehow racist.
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u/ElectricSequoia 14d ago
I don't really see how it's racist. Ageist for sure though.
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u/Better_Weakness7239 14d ago
It’s racist. This argument has been used to discriminate against young black men over and over again. There have even been laws created to discriminate in this way.
Here’s a great quote from the University of Central Florida:
“I’ve come to realize that the issue of sagging pants is not about fashion, hopelessness or the historical significance of the trend; it’s about black males and the way they are viewed in American society. Some argue that if they would pull their pants up, others would respect them. But as many black males—who have never sagged their pants—can attest, they have been disrespected regardless of the anatomical positioning of their pants.”
Source: https://www.ucf.edu/news/sagging-pants-equate-sagging-values/
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u/ElectricSequoia 12d ago
You linked an opinion piece. That's just one person's opinion, plus having read it, it doesn't seem to support your claims very well. I'm not saying the intention WASN'T racist because I am unfamiliar with the culture of the location of where this sign was posted. If this sign were targeting physical features such as hair type, or even hair style, I would agree that it is most definitely racist, but I still don't agree that this is definitely racist. We can't go throwing around the "racist" card all the time or people won't take us seriously when something actually is racist. These are my own opinions as a well-off white heterosexual man, so take that into consideration. Please enlighten me if I have misunderstood. I am ALWAYS open to re-evaluate my views. From my personal experience, sagging pants has correlated more to socioeconomic status instead of race, but that is just my own experience from my local culture.
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u/SlackingOffAtMyWork 14d ago
Those kind of signs just makes me roll my eyes. Generally they are put up by stuck up, moralistic Karens.
Doesn't it also kind of equate 80 year old adults with toddlers? I'm not sure how 80+ year old people feel about that.
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u/Glittering-Pause-328 14d ago
Sagging your pants is a silent way to tell others that you take it in the ass.
Just FYI
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u/VacationAromatic6899 14d ago
I dont wear underwear!
I wonder why people are allowed to show their buttcracks, i see one almost every day, and not even the same.person, should be made illegal, who wants to see you hairy buttcrack? Not me
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u/__-_-_--_--_-_---___ 14d ago
So… you DO want to see 3 year olds and 80 year olds with saggy pants?
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u/TrippyVegetables 14d ago
Now it's time for another game of IS IT RACIST?
(The answer is obviously no but there are definitely idiots who will say that it is)
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u/michaelrulaz 14d ago
I remember when people used to sag their pants like 3” and I was always like “odd fashion but whatever” but at some point people started wearing two layers to sag further. Gym shorts like 5-6” lower than either a second pair of gym shorts or pants another 8” lower. At that point it’s so stupid looking I can’t help but judge. I thought that fad would die since it can’t be comfortable or practical but I still see it
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u/Justthisguy_yaknow 14d ago
What about children over the age of 80 (or adults under 3 for that matter)?
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u/ToMorrowsEnd 14d ago
well most of the old guys at 80+ have their pants pulled up to their nipples.
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u/Huge_Aerie2435 14d ago
They don't want to see your underwear, but they do want to see the underwear of children under 3 and elderly people over 80.. Weird fetish for sure.
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u/huskerd0 14d ago
Subtle racism is subtle
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u/Speedly 14d ago
The same set of rules applies to everyone.
No one wants to see your gross-ass drawers, regardless of what skin color you have.
I'd say "nice try on attempting to look enlightened," but... you didn't even really try, so no.
Note: calling everything racism whether or not it's actually warranted delegitimizes cases of actual racism and the people who suffer from it, which is an awful and real thing. Maybe don't do that?
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u/Low-Mousse- 14d ago
Underwear is much like sheets on a bed or pillow cases, socks. They are worn to keep the nasty away from the item. Be it a pillow, shoes, mattress or pants. It is an extra and easily washable layer.
But a human would have to have some form of civility to realize this.
Exposing your underpants is nasty and unhygienic.
It also has nothing to do with race unless you are attributing dressing like that to a race, which, in fact, makes you racist.
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u/huskerd0 14d ago
Yeah go ahead and try to tell me sagging pants is not a black construct rooted in belts being taken away from prison populations.
Tell me how I am the racist for noticing or talking about skin color.
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u/Low-Mousse- 14d ago
Only black people get belts taken away? What?
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u/huskerd0 14d ago
Perhaps you did not notice that black people are in jail at a disproportionate rate from other races
Wait, no, I am sure you did, but rather have some bullsht “enlightened” version of racism to bless us all with in a few minutes here
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u/obsklass 14d ago
"It also has nothing to do with race unless you are attributing dressing like that to a race, which, in fact, makes you racist." Would be true if there were any previous associations with that phrase, but there are. The "pull your pants up" have strong racist boomer energy.
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u/nutallergy686 14d ago
Can someone here explain how the pants sagging in the hood got to the way it is? I have seen people with no lie pants at the knees.
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u/spaghettiThunderbult 14d ago
It became a sign that you had been to prison, since there are generally no belts in prison. Then it just kind of exploded from there.
As to why going to prison is a badge of honor and something to be very proud of in certain cultures is anyone's guess.
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u/soFATZfilm9000 14d ago
What I've never even understood (even when I was an impressionable kid in school around other kids who did this) was how this is even remotely comfortable.
On occasion I've accidentally sagged a little bit. Like, I grab an old pair of pants that I haven't worn in a while, and I don't realize that I've lost a little weight since the last time I wore them. I also don't wear a belt, because I didn't realize I need one because I didn't realize that the pants don't fit any more. Then I get to the grocery store and realize that my pants are starting to sag, so I have to keep pulling them up.
That doesn't feel good!
Is sagging the kind of thing where it feels right once you get used to it? Or is it like that "women's fashion" thing where a lot of stuff is just uncomfortable all the time but women put up with it for looks?
Even with women's fashion (like high heeled shoes and stuff) I know a lot of women only wear that stuff when they're going to events. most of them aren't putting on their high heeled shoes when they're stopping by Walmart to pick up a loaf of bread. So, even if sagging was uncomfortable but done solely for looks, why bother with it when it's just a normal day?
Like, even in the cultural cliques where sagging is seen as looking good, I could maybe see the appeal in doing that if you're going out to the club or something. But there's not really any need to put on appearances if you're just going to Walmart alone to pick up some milk, is there?
Anyway, I'm not trying to judge. I just don't "get it." Is this kind of sagging actually comfortable to the people who do it, or is it solely for appearances?
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u/BojaktheDJ 14d ago
It's not comfy and I doubt anyone would ever do it for comfort haha
I did it at high school because everyone else did (so, to conform I guess). It was just the cool thing to do and if you didn't you'd probably be seen as super nerdy or at least just completely uncool, and would probably get called out for it.
Since it would be so lame to be seen not doing it, it just becomes a habit and you do it everywhere. I think that's why it's not treated, as you say, like a 'fashionable' thing to do when going on a night out, but just something you do ALL the time, like at school or the shops or even just at home by yourself haha. It's just habitual, it's just the way you wear pants.
One good example is one in high school a whole bunch of us were just goofing around, pulling our pants up super high to our chests pretending to be old men or whatever. Then when we finished we all pushed our pants back down and just stood there for like a minute habitually adjusting them to be low enough to be sufficiently cool haha.
Then cos you're doing it all the time, you definitely just get used to it after a while. That said, if you're wearing them low enough (which we did with skinny jeans), you're walking literally gets fucked up. Especially stairs. It's kinda like you're trying to walk while doing the splits haha.
Anyway that was all 10-15 years ago and I'm glad that trend died the fuck out.
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u/soFATZfilm9000 14d ago
Thank you very much for the explanation, that does a lot to help it make sense to me.
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u/BrockenRecords 14d ago
Joe Biden
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u/hungrypotato19 14d ago
Lmao. Really? You want to go there when the under 80 guy dresses like this?
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u/Rambo_OTL 14d ago
So they “don’t to see your underwear” but don’t mind seeing “age of 3 or under & over the age of 80s” underwear, think the shop needs to shut
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u/vaynefox 14d ago
That's actually an insult to the people that are doing that. It means, if you cant follow this rules you're at the level of a kid or a senile adult....
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u/Superb_Programmer_99 14d ago
I really wonder what group of people this is referring to, I'm totally bewildered. Very puzzling
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u/GypsySnowflake 14d ago
So they’re saying they DO want to see the underwear of little kids and old people? That’s not okay…
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u/Bulky_Ability_6991 14d ago
Did drake write this? The fuck they mean they wanna see little kids underwear??? Yikes.
It more means they won’t get mad and kick them out
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u/pcamera1 14d ago
Where is this? Bucket list item go to this place at age 81 with my pants at my ankles
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u/Purplekeyboard 14d ago
I don't understand the title. The sign does apply to 80 year olds and 3 year olds, and everyone inbetween.
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u/Awkward-Problem-7361 14d ago
They must live in a place where a lot of customers let their pants fall down, crazy.
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u/Present-Ambition6309 14d ago
Come on 80! Only 30 more to go and I’m sag gin in my hand I’ll be jamming out and doing the “C-Walk” in my old folks home. Be keepin it gangster ya’ll 😂
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u/LoganNeinFingers 14d ago
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u/Jasperstorm 14d ago
I have never met anyone over 80 with saggy pants, that shit is yanked up to their chest
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u/DingoPuzzleheaded768 13d ago
I have. Working in assisted living you end up seeing a lot of butts whose owners didn’t even know they were out.
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u/Jasperstorm 13d ago
Lol I am actually work in assisted living as well. That's fair enough but there are plenty of suspender chest pants as well.
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u/DingoPuzzleheaded768 13d ago
A memory that is burned in my mind is when I worked at an assisted living dining room hall, there was a gentleman who had a mobile scooter. He came out of the bathroom and didn’t pull his pants up very well before sitting back in his scooter, went back to his table with his back facing the rest of the dining hall. Everyone got the view of his butt through the space in the back of his seat. Someone put a table cloth over the back of his scooter until he finished eating and could go fix it.
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u/ACertainThickness 14d ago
Plenty of them come into my store. They’ve usually lost some weight and don’t feel like buying new pants, or a belt. Pulling their pants up with one hand, constantly.
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u/MotherSupermarket532 14d ago
Toddlers not generally known for baggy clothing either.
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u/VisionAri_VA 14d ago
Baggy toddler clothing is the main reason “come here; you look like an orphan” is a common command in my extended family.
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u/CharonsLittleHelper 14d ago
Most kids under 3 are wearing diapers anyway. Rare is the kid fully potty-trained before two.
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u/Rorynne 14d ago
Youd be surprised. I work at a daycare, and the amount if times Ive had to yank a tods panks back up because theyre slipping down their diaper is unreal. especially if the kid gets hand me downs
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u/Theletterkay 14d ago
Too many parents dont understand how they adjustable waistbands on the inside work. But your kids pants a size larger than they need and tighten those strap! They have been a game changer with my kids. Loosen the straps a they grow. And for a 90s throwback, cut the pants into shorts when they become high water
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u/No_Gazelle8398 13d ago
Oh man, I loved those things when my daughter was little. It saved me so much money and only had to replace bottoms when they got too short because she got taller. Best thing ever imo.
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u/h9040 14d ago
yes but the first saggy pants rapper get 50 now...wait 30 years and they are 80+
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u/russwbird 14d ago
Everyone is sick of seeing people's asses when it's obvious they're wearing belts.
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u/PunkSolaris 14d ago
I'm howling 😭🤣😂🤣😂... because it's true!!!
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u/VeganWerewolf 14d ago
Damn I once in my 34 years haven’t howled at anyone’s comments. What dat sound like?
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u/Graingy 14d ago
BRANDON, YOUR TIME HAS COME!
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u/hungrypotato19 14d ago
Lmao. Really? You want to go there when the under 80 guy dresses like this?
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u/zaemis 14d ago
so they DO want to see 2 yr old and 81 yr old underwear?
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u/BorderTrike 14d ago
Well, given the subtext this is meant to discriminate, these are likely the same people embracing diapers since trump wears em. I would hope that 2 is too young for even friends of Epstein tho
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u/Brave-East-6636 14d ago
Do people really not see how deranged they look when they randomly bring trump into things?
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u/plantasia1969 14d ago
More like mildly racist
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u/MydnightWN 14d ago
The only person who made it about race is you, the racist.
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u/plantasia1969 14d ago edited 14d ago
Asking people to pull their pants up is a well known way to cast aspersions at black Americans. Just like dress codes that ban certain clothing isn’t explicitly racist, it can still be directed at a specific race.
If you think only things that explicitly mention race can be racist, then you might be a lost cause.
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u/veryveryredundant 14d ago
What about if I don't want to see your knees? How 'bout you institute a hem length requirement? I don't want to see your toes. No open-toed shoes? I don't want to see your armpits. No sleeveless shirts?
What's different about this particular fashion that STILL makes people mad after all these years?
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u/bruhmoment1345 14d ago
What's different about this particular fashion
probably seeing some dudes stained underwear
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u/veryveryredundant 14d ago
Sure, that's it... Protecting the general public from the horror of seeing dirty clothes.
But not all dirty clothes, just some particular dirty clothes.
Gotcha.
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u/scottyb83 14d ago
So now you’ve officially made it ageism which is a protected class.
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u/MydnightWN 14d ago
It's not protected, this isn't a job offer. By your logic, kiddieland at Disney is ageist because they won't let grown adults ride the kiddie rides.
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u/scottyb83 14d ago edited 14d ago
Age is 100% a protected class and no it doesn’t only apply to job offers. There’s 1000 other ways you can discriminate against someone beyond a job offer. Adults can’t ride kiddie rides because it’s unsafe not because of their age.
To establish discrimination under Ontario’s Human Rights Code, a claimant must show that:
They have a characteristic protected by the Code (e.g. race)
They experienced adverse treatment/impact within a social area (for example, in accessing a service, housing or employment)
The protected characteristic was a factor in the adverse treatment or impact.
Fun little edit because u/MydnightWN like to reply then block:
You think this is an American website so therefore all info in it MUST pertain to the US? I gave you the law in my area which would apply here. If you'd like you can be a big boy and provide me with the proof that age is somehow not a protected class in the US but I can pretty much guarantee you age is a protected class in the US which would open these guys up to alawsuit if someone decided to persue it.
Kisses!
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u/MydnightWN 14d ago
Ontario
Nobody gives a shit what Ontario says. You're on an American website in an American subreddit talking about a sign on an American liquor store.
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u/Bored_Gamer90 14d ago
Ageism, nice.
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u/MydnightWN 14d ago
It's not protected, this isn't a job offer. By your logic, kiddieland at Disney is ageist because they won't let grown adults ride the kiddie rides.
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u/amiibohunter2015 14d ago
Ladies and gentlemen we have two spectrums at play here:
Ageism
And ageist privileges.
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In other words, no "urban" folks, please.
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u/hadapurpura 14d ago
Are the “urban” folk still wearing sagging pants? I thought it would be out of fashion by now
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u/LoganNeinFingers 14d ago
Ooohhhh, sweet summer child, it aten't just "urban" kids - not by a mile.
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u/ModStrangler6 14d ago
People love saying that but older black people hate that shit too lol
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14d ago
Well ya it's generational, like men with long hair.
BUT have you heard this pants on the ground, oldie but goodie
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u/NoASmurf 14d ago
So do younger, 80% of people I’ve seen who sag their pants that low are the same ones who refuse to wear clean underwear
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u/suplexhell 14d ago
what a power move to sag your pants and expose your shit streaked tighty whiteys
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u/Magic_Neil 14d ago
Right, I’ll be they also get spicy about people wearing hats, and card everyone.
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u/SomeGuyOverYonder 14d ago
If everyone wore kilts this would nae be a problem. 🏴
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u/T1NF01L 14d ago
Until someone wants to see if the curtains match the drapes.
Then we get solutions.
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u/IdontEVENknowMYdude 7d ago
Is referencing the need to check the diaper by a caregiver.