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Adults are so lame

Friday, March 14th, 2008

I have German and French newsfeeds in my RSS reader in an attempt to prevent my language education from atrophying… with questionable success. Today, Der Spiegel features an article about how lame adults are.

Hosenpolizei: Schluss mit Schüler-Schlabberlook (Pants police: Out with student “slobby look”)

Okay, so they’re talking about baggy pants. First… kids are still wearing their pants around their knees?! Le sigh. Second, check out the rationale grown-ups are using to support a law in Florida banning baggy pants:

“Wir müssen den Jugendlichen bewusst machen, dass sie keine Arbeit finden, wenn ihre Unterwäsche aus der Hose hängt”, sagte Senatorin Larcenia Bullard, die sich für das Gesetz aussprach.

(”We must make it known to the young people that they will not find a job if their underwear hangs out of their pants”, says Senator Larcenia Bullard, who argued for the law.)

Ihr demokratischer Senatorenkollege Gary Siplin ergänzte, der Lotter-Look habe im Gefängnis seinen Ursprung genommen und solle von Jugendlichen nicht kopiert werden.

(Her democratic fellow-senator Gary Siplin added, the “Lotter-Look” originated in prison and should not be copied by young people.)

“You won’t get a job!” “Prisoners wear their pants like that!” Come on. Why does anyone think this line of reasoning will mean anything to kids?

You know why kids wear baggy pants? Because they think it’s cool. You know why they shouldn’t? Because it’s dumb!! Sorry kids, it’s stupid and it makes you look stupid. Do you really want to go to school looking like an idiot? (Somehow I doubt the kiddies will care about that line of reasoning either. I’m glad I’m not a teenager anymore.)