Pachanga Diaries

Certainly, this last weekend rained a lot here in the city of Boulder. “It rained cats and dogs” (expression that might have arisen from the era of thatched roofs, when downpours would bring cats and dogs dozing atop houses down onto the occupants) like Europeans would say. Nowadays, we can see cats and dogs everywhere … specially, fights of cats and dogs.

Teen fashion has evolved, once again, into another daring transformation of “comfortable” (and not always so comfortable) … version “Supersize my pants“. Also, known as sagging (… I wonder). Have you seen those teen and not so teenagers wearing uncomfortably oversized pants? No, it is not that they used to be fat and suddenly lost 20 pounds and decided to keep the pants. They actually buy them like that, XXL. Mmmh, makes me remember those days when I used to use XL t-shirts because it was cool. I thought they were going to make my upper body bigger. So, if two plus one is three and we repeat the pattern, then to have bigger pants will make my “special tool” look bigger. I guess I’m getting closer here …

After some internet research I found out that this fashion of wearing pants with their waistbands around the hips was born in prisons. Some prisoners are provided with clothing a few sizes too large and no belts (many inmate bodies have been found hanging from them). That over sizing, coupled with the lack of belts in the big house, led to a great number of “fellas” whose pants were falling off their ass.

The fashion was adopted by a few rap singers to enhance their perceived tough-guy look and from there brought to teens. So, finally and explanation that makes sense. If you are a tough guy in prison you will wear the pants as low as possible because you don’t care about fighting or running away from anyone. You are just the meanest Moth*@ Fuc%*r in jail. If you are out of jail you either are a penguin or have an incontinence problem in which case I’ll recommend to use a pamper as underwear.

The truth is, it looks like there is “fight of cats and dogs” happening in the butt area. Isn’t that cool or what?