# BROAD BRUSH ALERT - Moseying Teens **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 19, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350 "2006-04-19T19:56:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/21 "2006-04-20T05:35:28Z")
> [@tiny ham](#): > > AND PICK UP YOUR FEET WHEN YOU WALK. The shuffling, my god the shuffling. Is life so fucking exhausting that you can’t PICK UP YOUR FEET WHEN YOU WALK? > > When I’m behind a thicket of teen girls shuffling in their flip flops I want to kick them in their knees and walk right over the backs of the fallen. Argh! No kidding. I’m not even 20 and this one gets my blood boiling. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/22 "2006-04-20T07:35:27Z")
I agree with everything. the flip-flop shuffling drives me insane, the pants-around-the-knees, the people crossing in the middle of the street (especially when there’s a stoplight five feet away :rolleyes: ) and the people wandering out into the middle of the street when they have a red light. Although on the other end- when I have the green light and I’m crossing the street and I have the right of way, kindly do not mow me down in your car. This goes for flying around the corner as well as that lovely little not-deciding-to-stop-until-you’re-in-the-middle-of-the-crosswalk trick. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/23 "2006-04-20T12:39:56Z")
I’d just like to say that I love the thread title- Moseying Teens- it’s so descriptive! But since this is the pit, let me work up some rancor: what gets me is the fashion trend of baseball hats with perfectly straight and flat brims- when I was growing up if you wore your new hat like that, you were a dork. You had to curl it so it looked like it wasn’t brand new. Now they not only wear them with flat brims, like the hat of a state police trooper, but with the tag still on them, and crooked- like it just accidentally got whacked by a revolving door- it makes them look dorky, clueless and clumsy all at the same time, yet it is supposedly fashionable. Harrrumph. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/24 "2006-04-20T12:41:37Z")
Dern whippersnappers. Wouldn’t matter if you beat the hell out of your horn, they have their i-pods so damned loud, blasting that noise they call “music” into their ears, they wouldn’t hear ya. Even if they did, they would just continue to mosey. They’d flip you off too. No respect, these kids. None atall. I hate the moseying. God, I hates the moseying. Chao. 34 going on 64. ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/25 "2006-04-20T15:26:14Z")
Get off my law…road!!! ROAD!!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/26 "2006-04-20T16:26:12Z")
> [@The Chao Goes Mu](#): > > Dern whippersnappers. Wouldn’t matter if you beat the hell out of your horn, they have their i-pods so damned loud, blasting that noise they call “music” into their ears, they wouldn’t hear ya. (snip). And this behavior can be [fatal](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/19/BAGIPIBFUS1.DTL&hw=railroad+tracks&sn=003&sc=505) in some circumstances > [@](#): > > A 13-year-old boy cutting across train tracks with four friends on his way home from school was hit and killed by a passenger train in Burlingame on Tuesday afternoon. (snip) > > Caique said he did not know whether Fatih, who he said liked listening to rap and hip-hop music, was listening to music when he was killed. (sorry, kind of a downer in an otherwise fun thread). > [@Kambuckta](#): > > They invented STOVE PIPE JEANS, so even though the Calvin Klein jocks (and the stinky skidmarks) are still exposed, I’ve never seen jockeys or skidmarks exposed. Around here, all the teens are so modest as to wear brightly colored boxer shorts over their CKs, and that’s all you see above the baggy draggy trousers. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/27 "2006-04-21T14:16:27Z")
> [@abbeytxs](#): > > Word!!! (oh wait, no one but old farts says that anymore) > > I live with one of the aforementioned shuffling teen girls and the shuffling has driven me to insanity. Its not just the flip flops, the child appears to be completely incapable of tying her Vans too! (Vans, not Airwalks, only losers wear Airwalks :rolleyes: ) I swear it wasn’t that long ago that she was so proud of herself for learning to tie her shoes all by herself and now… > > I really am old and farty. I remember doing this when I was a teenager. My mom used to always hiss at me, “_pick UP your FEET!!!_” Broke me of the habit real quick. Now, whenever I hear anyone doing it I want to bust them over the head with a clue by four. I also want to mow down them gosh darned moseying teens. I revved my engine at some of them one time and they just stopped in the middle of the street and glared at me. So I punched the gas and jumped towards them. Amazing how quickly one goes from being a bad-assed, don’t-give-a-fuck teen to a scared widdle boy thinking the crazy lady is going to run him over. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/28 "2006-04-21T14:19:46Z")
> [@lezlers](#): > > I remember doing this when I was a teenager. My mom used to always hiss at me, “_pick UP your FEET!!!_” Broke me of the habit real quick. Now, whenever I hear anyone doing it I want to bust them over the head with a clue by four. > > I also want to mow down them gosh darned moseying teens. I revved my engine at some of them one time and they just stopped in the middle of the street and glared at me. So I punched the gas and jumped towards them. Amazing how quickly one goes from being a bad-assed, don’t-give-a-fuck teen to a scared widdle boy thinking the crazy lady is going to run him over. 😃 :eek: Bwahahahhahahaha!! You’re my new hero. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/29 "2006-04-21T14:27:56Z")
Git off my lawn!! I remember being in a mall with some friends, I saw a guy walking nearby with his pants hanging low. I laughed and the guy came up to me and asked me if I was laughing at him. I said matter-of-factly, “Yes”. He started to say something, then looked at me and my friends ( I’m 6’ 2", 220, and I’m the smallest) and said, “Fuck you”, and walked away. I and my friends laughed some more at that. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/30 "2006-04-21T14:32:55Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > The boys _have_ to shuffle. See, their pants are slung half-way between their bum and their knees, so shuffling (legs akimbo) is the only way to move forward without dropping their dacks completely. > > Although, given that their arses are already exposed, I can’t see why the prospect of losing their pants should matter to them really. > > 😉 I’ve seen this around, and wonder why. I mean, it just makes me want to take a Singaporean-prison bamboo cane, and _ **WHACK** _ these people right on the fleshy part of their arse. I mean, what the hell are they thinking?!? Tripler I’m not quite old & fogeyish, but getting a little closer every day. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/31 "2006-04-21T14:36:33Z")
Years ago, I was sitting in a doctor’s office with my young son (he might have been three at the time) when a teenager came in wearing huge pants that were sliding off his ass. My previously quiet boy burst into noisy laughter and cried, “Look Mom! He’s wearing _clown pants_!” The teenager glared and I gave him a big “kids-whatcha-gonna-do” grin. ---
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/32 "2006-04-21T16:00:25Z")
Damn moseying teens! Jasper: The sidewalk’s for regular walking, not for fancy walking. ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/33 "2006-04-21T16:16:42Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > The boys _have_ to shuffle. See, their pants are slung half-way between their bum and their knees, so shuffling (legs akimbo) is the only way to move forward without dropping their dacks completely. > > Although, given that their arses are already exposed, I can’t see why the prospect of losing their pants should matter to them really. > > 😉 Is Australia really that far behind in “current teen fashion”? Big, baggy, boxers-hanging-out pants went out of style here about… oh… 7 years ago? At least. I haven’t seen teen boys wear their pants like this in ages. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/34 "2006-04-21T16:50:33Z")
> [@Squee](#): > > Damn moseying teens! > > Jasper: The sidewalk’s for regular walking, not for fancy walking. The OP is confused. A mosey is not a saunter. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/35 "2006-04-21T17:53:50Z")
_moseys into thread_ _shuffles flip-clad feet_ _blasts Loud Obnoxious Kids-These-Days-and-their-hippity-hop music_ ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/36 "2006-04-21T17:59:23Z")
Bah. I’m two years older than God, but I wouldn’t tradeja a herd of shuffling, mumbling, be-earringed, multi-illustrated, über-ironic slow-moving slackers for one smug, entitled, dismissive chino-boy who won’t interrupt the flow of communication from his Borg earpiece for the split second it would take to say “thanks” for finding him the last copy of _Make Meetings Work_. koee, from the book-floor ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/37 "2006-04-21T20:12:28Z")
We saw a kid yesterday whose pants were not only hanging down below his butt, but clear down at his knees, being held up only because he had a firm grip with one hand. And he’s not the only one I’ve seen who had to do that. Damn kids. You know, we wore some stupid shit in my teenage days, but at least we didn’t wear clothes that wouldn’t stay up on their own. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/38 "2006-04-21T20:37:23Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > Years ago, I was sitting in a doctor’s office with my young son (he might have been three at the time) when a teenager came in wearing huge pants that were sliding off his ass. My previously quiet boy burst into noisy laughter and cried, “Look Mom! He’s wearing _clown pants_!” The teenager glared and I gave him a big “kids-whatcha-gonna-do” grin. Out of the mouths of babes–your son is my hero! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/39 "2006-04-21T21:51:42Z")
Would you believe they’re _actually on my lawn_?! They step on my crinums! Seriously! Damned corner lot! I never catch them at it, either. I wouldn’t yell, I’d just throw things. But I do love it when the boys with the pants down around their asses have to run or do stairs - they pick up folds of their pants just like a lady lifting her skirts, and it’s sooo dainty! Makes me smile every time. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350/40 "2006-04-21T23:02:30Z")
**koeeoaddi** , I don’t know about any of these whippersnappers, but I for one am an old fogey who loathes BOTH those types of people! They’re just deserving of their own Pit thread. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broad-brush-alert-moseying-teens/353350.md?page=3)