Runaway Bride in court today along with my RANT!

[Slim-Zippy]

Where did are society go wrong. All the garbage that kids and some adults wear to represent themselves in society is beyond ridiculus.

I remember when people gave a darn about what they represented and how they looked in public. Apparently they don't care any more. Some of my pet peaves are:

Men with earings; I understand why divers, sailors, and gay men wear them, but all the others should give it up. It used to be that if you wore an earing in your right ear you were a professional diver or sailor and if you wore it in your left ear you were a gay man. Now I ask, What are men who wear an earing in each ear?Gay sailors, men waiting for the "final solution" to being a man operation, or men who just want to feel pretty or they just cannot make up their mind about what gender they want to attract. Maybe I'm just too old and just don't understand the self -mutilation and feminization of men. Maybe I should ask Oprah? Well, forget that idea.

Women who show their underwear and more and have mulltiple tattoos and piercings. I recently returned to school and couldn't beleive how young girls dressed in public, now. I almost hurt myself laughing while watching the TV show COPS, when they were picking up prostitutes. They actually dressed like the girls I went to school with and some even dressed more modestly. We no longer have to worry about men debasing women and treating them like objects, the young ones have learned to debase themselves and apparently are proud of it.

I could go on and on about what people do and how they act. Miss Wilbanks mode of dress in court is just another sign of the times we live in now.I know that time and cultures change, but when does it start changing for the better in USA.

[PJgunner]

Well, she's received her sentence and if she completes as ordered, the felony conviction disappears. WHAT? I'll bet there are quiote a few convicted felons that wished they'd gotten that judge.
Was the sentence too lenient? I don't know. It wasn't a crime of violence, so maybe it was fair and right.
So, I have no problem with the sentence. What I do have a problem with is the felony conviction disappearing.
Paul B.

[Steverino]

I saw some footage on the evening news last night before retiring and man, that woman has some bulging wide eyes! There's just no other way to say it...she looks psychotic! She appears to have gotten her hair whacked a little shorter but I think that you fellas should give her a little slack on the jogging attire. I mean, c'mon...she is known as The RunAway Bride, right? (Insert rimshot here!)

To TD's point with respect to the earlobe contraption- if I'm not mistaken, I'd swear that I saw an episode of National Geographic years ago on PBS that dealt with this particular African tribe that engages in this practice. Perhaps the Subways should just begin remodeling their restaurants to include a thatched straw roof with a mud floor in lieu of the brick fascade!

My personal rant, while we're discussing the "yoot" (My Cousin Vinny"- I love that flick) of today are the girls that have those low cut Brazillian jeans with the short tops that cause their beer guts to spill out on display for all the world to see. I mean, I have seen better looking tradesmen at lunch hour at the local sandwich joint that have better looking guts than some of the girls that are literally hanging out and over their pants. Yuck!!! And this is supposed to look good??? Heck, I'm begining to fondly recall that 80's "Grandma" look with the long sweater pulled down over the tights!

In addition to the boycott of these Aboriginie(sp?) sandwich makers that have taken over this country's sandwich shops, I say that all of the portly men of middle girth unite and begin yanking those short, holy t-shirts out from under those drawers of old (the ones hidden away from the Mrs. during Clothing Donation Round-Up Week) and begin sportin' them in public (preferably with the matching "floods" that have "somehow" gotten a few inches tighter and shorter in the length!

We laugh but I really don't think that these kids realize just how ridiculous that they look.

This past Tuesday, I stopped into a Target Department store to look for a birthday gift for my nephew Kyle. I saw a pair of these low riders in an aisleway along with a couple rolls of insulation spilling out on all sides complete with (to my horror!) a thong pryed up high almost across the lower lumbar area of the back. This woman's hair was bleached, fried, and quite cooked to say the least so I couldn't immediately ascertain age (personally, I think that my minds reasoning functions were just plain trying to shut down at this point! ) but I became disgustingly shocked to see these woman wheel around with her shopping cart and discover the middle-aged pancake make-up face that greeted me! Think of a cross of Tammy Faye Baker and the Emperor from Star Wars and that about sums it up. It downright startled me. Anyhoo, that's my rant on the subject.

Evan Piccone, huh? I'll have to check them out as I've never heard of them but am admittedly not too up on fashion. Perhaps I'll install a door knocker on the side of my face over the weekend and then wear my boxers with my boots down to the ol' grocery!

[muledeer]

I totally agree with everyone's assessment of Wilbanks!!
Regarding our youth.......How about military service, yah the draft!! A little disipline never hurt anyone. Like the 60's, if you are in college, tech school, etc OK. If you're pissing your life away then 2 years of military service. I'll bet we would have a better group of youngsters after the military. Just my thoughts.


Steverino ....Great Post!!
muledeer

[8X56MS]

TreeDoc,
I try my best to just not pay any attention to all the weird crap like that. I don't watch Survivor, or American Idol, I don't watch the Michael Jackson trial, and I don't watch the "media circus of the week", like the so called Runaway Bride.
A pox on them all.

[LoneWolf]

Muledeer,
The problem is, even the army doesn't want them!

What does that say about this generation?

[TheeBadOne]