…of wearing a baseball cap backwards. It’s still not quite as stupid as pants with the belt below your butt, though. Each of these fashion atrocities reduces my estimation of the IQ of the offender by twenty points or so.
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ROFL!!!
Rand is more generous than I…
My estimate of the IQ of somebody with their belt below their ass drops to the 20’s, not by twenty points. Though, given where some of those dolts start, that’s the same thing. 🙂
Fashion has always trumped utility – and this emulates the natural world as well when it comes to communicating sexual or herd messages.
Pants with ass hanging out do convey a sexual message…but I doubt if it’s the one they intend.
As far as wearing baseball caps backwards, it makes sense if you have eyes in the back of your head.
I agree with the sentiment here, but the rally cap should be a limited exception to the rule.
Another exception would be when traveling fast in a bass boat. Then you can claim you are only accounting for the aerodynamics. As soon as you stop, you have to turn it back around, though…
While we’re on the subject, I think it’s pretty obvious, when you see a guy wearing his baseball cap backwards, which political party he’s in.
This is the reality of the Democrat Party: vile street thugs eager to show their contempt for polite society.
The only time wearing a ball cap backwards makes sense, is when you need to wear a face shield over it. Any other time, you can hear the brain cells dying.
Those were some funny pictures.
I get the feeling there are a lot of posters here who want the kids to stay off their lawn.
If so, I’ve been wanting kids to stay off my lawn for decades, since my youth. It was stupid then, it’s stupid now.
I have to say I wear my cap backwards when I’m taking pictures. It’s really difficult to look through the view finder of a DSLR with the bill in front when it’s too cold to take the hat off. That’s especially true if you’ve got the external flash attached.
That’s the primary reason I wore my cap backwards through high school and college.. When I got 100% on a test people would say stuff like “wow, lucky!” and no-one ever approached me to do their homework or 3rd year projects for them. My fellow students would tell me their thoughts and theories without intimidation. Although there was also a number of manipulative assholes in college who thought they could get the better of me due to my appearance. I’d happily lead them on while subverting their power base.. it was great fun screwing with both the Marxist morons and the young Liberal morons.
The droopy drawers is a street-thug fashion statement. No belts in jail, so the wearer is doing us the favor of letting us know that that’s the place he’d rather be, or at least where he belongs.
As for the backward hat, just ask the wearer who’s the best they ever caught for.
Another fashion atrocity is “shorts” that go below the knee. (They look like shorts rather than long pants, despite their length.) Once I saw a guy wearing “shorts” that reached his ankles. He had his baseball cap on backwards, too. I suppose I should be grateful that at least he didn’t have his belt below his ass. That would have been a trifecta.
As someone who has been wearing his ball cap backward (since before it became cool, I was an out cast back then) anyway, ball cap backward, for 40 odd years, with shorts year round, all 4 seasons (from the Mason – Dixon, going south), AND, with (no kidding) tie dye t-shirts, …what’s your POINT!!!
Why, I even had a tie dyed BALL CAP at one point. And I wore it backward too.
Having said that, I am smart enough to turn it around if it’s raining or the sun is in my eyes. PLUS, from me to that dude with the sunburned ‘arch’ on his melon, buddy I’ve got four words for you
Copper
Tone
Sun
Screen
…and judging from that burn, SPF 30 will probably do you.
Another fashion atrocity is “shorts” that go below the knee.
Yes!!!
That, too, was always fashion for the stupid to me. (Of course, is there really any other kind of fashion…?)
Visiting mainland China with various (chinese) relatives about 13 years ago, I’d flip my cap back to use my SLR camera, then notice the apprehensive looks of the locals. (This was pretty far west and very rural though slightly touristy, like, say the Black Hills of South Dakota.) The look of relief on their faces when I put the camera down and returned the cap to its God-given position was priceless.
and since I was shooting rocks, not people, I’m pretty sure it was the cap and not the camera that was the problem.
Don’t get me started about shorts that are too high above the knees. Guys who wear those kind of shorts are creepy. Women on the other hand…
“Lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground…”
Guys, it’s fashion. Seriously, you’re all sticks-in-the-mud. The picture is dumb (because obviously he has a sunshade sitting on the back of his head), but most of the time wearing it forwards or backwards is just a choice with no obvious benefit either way. As other posters have mentioned, it’s frequently more practical to flip it to the backwards position (such as when shooting – cameras or rifles).
What gets me is wearing it sideways. That’s not even comfortable.
Agreed on wearing it sideways.
Backward I have no problem with for reasons some have already stated. Heck, I do it myself when I’m peering through my telescope.
Brock, I don’t think anyone questions the utility wearing a cap backwards for certain situations. However, fashion is for women and children. Men’s attire is normative. When I see a kid dressed like a gangster, I know that he either is a) an gangster b) fronting or c) camouflaging. None of those are indicative of a healthy community. Further, when I see a guy at the supermarket wearing a tank-top or perhaps a t-shirt with a Pooh-bear on it, corduroy shorts and flip-flops, I know I’m witnessing a man un-prepared to deal with life.
When I am not at work or church, I prefer to wear t-shirts, gym shorts and snaekers every place. Why? I want to be comfortable, and I could give a rat’s *ss for men’s fashion. I love verbally demolishing the “Dress for Success” types in the malls who think that because of my penchant for Warhammer themed t-shirts I still live in mom’s basement. They freak out when I show them my latest pay stub. Talk about shooting fish in a barrel…
I agree about baseball caps, but I prefer an all around brimed hat myself. Baseball caps, as well as all pro sports in general, bore me to tears.