| Author | Message | ||
     bobk Supporter Username: Bobk Post Number: 4454 Registered: 5-2001 |
It is easy to change clothes and hair styles grow out. Most piercings, I am told, will heal over if the jewelry is removed, although I know a couple of 20 something women who have noticeable scar tissue from abandoned eyebrow piercings. Probably half the SUV driving, latte drinking, cell phone addicted Soccer Moms around here have a belly ring and maybe a hidden tattoo to keep hubbie on the reservation (or so my 30 something niece tells us). However, I wonder what the college age kids with very noticeable and visible tattoos are going to do when they have to get a real job? | ||
| ffof Citizen Username: Ffof Post Number: 1855 Registered: 5-2001  |
they'll collect unemployment. Tom- if you get right down to it, I would have to say that any of these labels are "racist", but hardly worth over-analyzing. | ||
| Tom Reingold Citizen Username: Noglider Post Number: 1873 Registered: 1-2003  |
If anyone here is offended by the other labels, let him or her speak up. Now you know where I stand with the term JAP. I'll spare you the trouble of analyzing why. I think it suffices as enough warning once you know how to offend someone. Tom Reingold the prissy-pants There is nothing | ||
| United STRAWBERRY of America Citizen Username: Strawberry Post Number: 1847 Registered: 10-2001  |
To be honest if I were a teen, I'd wear my pants down below my hips as well. Must make it easier when you know..you're with a lady...  I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all. | ||
| algebra2 Citizen Username: Algebra2 Post Number: 1582 Registered: 5-2001  |
Oh, God. Is there an embarrassed icon? --  | ||
| United STRAWBERRY of America Citizen Username: Strawberry Post Number: 1848 Registered: 10-2001 |
I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all. | ||
| ffof Citizen Username: Ffof Post Number: 1857 Registered: 5-2001 |
Enough warning? Am I reading your post wrong or is that a threat . well, I'm not black but the term "ghetto" is pretty derogatory. And okay, jap is racist but it is still very much in use (in millburn)- just ask the teens there. I am not condoning the use of the word, just an observation. | ||
| Tom Reingold Citizen Username: Noglider Post Number: 1876 Registered: 1-2003 |
No, I'm not threatening that I'll do anything but get offended. Thanks for your clarification, though. My daughter used the term JAP, and she was REFERRING to kids at Millburn High, and I'm sure it's pure hearsay for her, so I gave her my view of the term. Tom Reingold the prissy-pants There is nothing | ||
| United STRAWBERRY of America Citizen Username: Strawberry Post Number: 1850 Registered: 10-2001 |
"JAP" when referring to a Jewish American Princess" is not racist. "Kike" on the other hand is racist... I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all. | ||
| ReallyTrying Citizen Username: Reallytrying Post Number: 261 Registered: 1-2003  |
Regarding those big, baggy, falling-down pants: I must have chnged too many diapers in my life, cuz those pants always remind me of a toddler who needs a change reallyreallyreally badly.  | ||
| happyman Citizen Username: Happyman Post Number: 96 Registered: 6-2001 |
During a recent moment of "testing" my preteen asked me if he could get his ear pierced. I said sure, let's do it now ...and pulled our a large sewing neddle ... he hasn't brought it up since! Also, last time he had his pants down around his tush I told him I was going to put on super large pants and hang them down on my tush next time I want to his school!! Me - - Him - -  | ||
| mem Citizen Username: Mem Post Number: 2689 Registered: 5-2001  |
Dave, happyman said tush! | ||
| Dave Citizen Username: Dave Post Number: 6222 Registered: 4-1998  |
THREE WEEK BAN!!! not really | ||
| SoOrLady Citizen Username: Soorlady Post Number: 326 Registered: 9-2003 |
0k Dave, help - I've searched, but cannot find, the commentary by (I believe) Socrates relating to youth in his time and how the world was doomed. If you can find it, please share. Thanks. | ||
| notehead Citizen Username: Notehead Post Number: 907 Registered: 5-2001  |
I cannot believe how offended adults are by the way younger people dress and decorate themselves. They are simply trying to establish identities and to differentiate themselves from their parents' generation. (And who could blame them, when everything they hear about the world is so negative?) I'd bet that virtually every one of you wore things that made your parents shake their heads in disbelief -- and those of you that didn't are probably reeeeally dull people. Extra-baggy pants may look very silly, but what's actually wrong with them? There are health concerns to consider when getting tattoos and piercings, but what on earth is actually offensive about them? They have NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the person's intelligence, creativity, or capabilities. Denying a qualified person a job because he or she has blue hair or a tat is stupid and small-minded. | ||
| mem Citizen Username: Mem Post Number: 2691 Registered: 5-2001 |
Note: Agreed, but the way those pants hang off are very funny looking. Just sitting here, thinking about how they look, makes me laugh. That's actually a good thing - it lowers the blood pressure. I say let em hang down to the ground. | ||
| ashear Citizen Username: Ashear Post Number: 929 Registered: 5-2001 |
SoOrLady I think you mean this: The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when eleders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. But it seems there is no evidence Socrates actually said it. http://www.qis.net/~jschmitz/afu/youth.htm | ||
| Waldo Citizen Username: Discowaldo Post Number: 30 Registered: 12-2003 |
I agree 100% with notehead, my parents wouldn't let me get my ear peirced when I was younger and they said I had to wait til I was 17. Well, I showed them because now I have 5 earrings. Sometimes I wear all 5, sometimes I dont wear any, and I dont feel that my intelligence level changes any depending on how many I am wearing. Why are earrings such a big deal? If I poked a hole in your ear would your IQ lower? Is my brain located in my ear? I mean I dunno, I do have a few holes in there, maybe at this point I'm too stupid to realize the coorelation between earrings and the ability to do a job well. I've seen men wearing hair pieces that are allot more offensive to my eyes then a few studs in someone's ear. Regarding wearing baggy sweatpants. Throw a pair on for a day, and you'll love every minute of it. But the fact that you enjoy wearing baggy sweatpants and shirts in a social context doesn't mean that you aren't able to also throw on a suit and tie. | ||
| mem Citizen Username: Mem Post Number: 2692 Registered: 5-2001 |
Waldo, I am not talking about baggy sweatpants. Baggy sweatpants are a necessity. I am talking about those crazy looking jeans with the butt where their knees are. They are specifically designed that way. It's hilarious. | ||
| mem Citizen Username: Mem Post Number: 2693 Registered: 5-2001 |
PS - I am not talking about bellbottom hiphuggers, which I wore as a teenager and I have started to wear again. |
