Dallas is full of stupid people & saggy pants

Here's the latest in this thriving metroplis...

The war against saggy pants will intensify Tuesday as Dallas City Hall kicks off its ad campaign against the fashion faux pas.

The first of more than two dozen billboards advising people to “Pullem’ Up” will be unveiled in parts of Dallas.

The first two signs are scheduled to go up at the intersections of Interstate 45 and Lamar St., and Interstate 35E and Illinois Ave.

The billboards will come in at least three different formats, including “Don’t Be Lame Elevate Your Game,” “Represent Yourself Like You Present Yourself,” and “That’s Not Hip-Hop That’s Flip Flop.”

After this, I think we'll do a campaign for throwing your money in the toilet. Because that's what this is. So frustrating. And that creative? Don't be lame elevate your game? Are you fucking kidding me? We're changing lives in Dallas people. How? By speaking the kids' language. Or at least by speaking the language of 40 year-old yuppie dumbasses pretending to speak the kids' language. Fuck.

Maybe we could have spent the money on EDUCATION.

At least they didn't just ban saggy pants altogether. Yet. This all just makes my head hurt.

Comments

[Sean Howard]

“Represent Yourself Like You Present Yourself,”

I don't get it.

Um. Can someone explain it to me? Or maybe that's in the budget. A lot of people handing out pamphlets beneath every billboard??? ;)

[captain flummox]

I might have gone with something like "You can't run with your crotch at your knees."

[Tim Jackson]

You can't legislate morality, just like you can't legislate "style"... I hate the whole droopy drawers look as much as the next aging hipster who thinks he knows better... but I think I have to agree with you Paulette- sure seems like a waste of money to me.

Oh well... maybe next they'll go after canned, boy band music... I'd kick in a few busk for that one.

[Tim Jackson]

I meant to say "bucks"... damned sausage fingers of mine.

[Lewis Green]

Another example of government getting into our pants to screw us.

[Cam Beck]

Tim - Legislation does little else but these two things: Legislate morality and waste money. Both are certainly in play here.

[jen_chan, writer SureFireWealth.com]

Personally, I do not like seeing baggy and ultra-low pants on anybody. Actually, it's amazing how people can still walk around wearing them. Still, isn't the idea of actually banning them too much? I know there's this show called Fashion Police but I had no idea this concept could actually be implemented.

[Ryan Karpeles]

I'm all for it. Baggy pants must go. They're ruining our society, and they're ruining our ecosystem. Where the heck do you think all that extra fabric comes from? You guessed it - endangered polar bears.

The days of regular-fitting trousers have come and gone, swallowed whole by this heartless jean-covered beast. If we're not careful, we'll end up drowning in our own treacherous sea of flappy blue denim. Quite frankly, this campaign might be our last remaining hope.

[Scott Baradell]

I like the Argyle spaghetti strap controversy even better than the baggy pants controversy. For your viewing pleasure: http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/uploaded_images/media-orchard-chalkboard-sl-746783.jpg

[captain flummox]

What disturbs me more than the actual look is the origin of the below-the equator waistline. I read that it comes from the fact that jail personnel remove belts from inmates, so they can't use them to hang themselves or as weapons. That people would emulate that look is sad to me.