# Would you have mentioned the naked butt showing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 15, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894 "2012-03-15T20:15:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/21 "2012-03-16T02:02:29Z")
Parking my bike in it would give her the message. > [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > “I see London, I see France, I see Asscrackistan!” I know people say this so much that it doesn’t mean anything any more, but when I read this I did genuinely snort what I was drinking up my nose. It was Berocca, and it stung. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/22 "2012-03-16T02:08:16Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Parking my bike in it would give her the message.I know people say this so much that it doesn’t mean anything any more, but when I read this I did genuinely snort what I was drinking up my nose. It was Berocca, and it stung. [hijack]I had to look up Berocca; it sounds good and I guess it’s available in the US some places. Thanks for broadening my horizons, **jimm**.[hijack] ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/23 "2012-03-16T02:18:30Z")
Say nothing unless you’re one of those very, very rare people who have the knack of imparting embarrassing information without seeming judgmental. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/24 "2012-03-16T02:30:04Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > [hijack]I had to look up Berocca; it sounds good and I guess it’s available in the US some places. Thanks for broadening my horizons, **jimm**.[hijack] [more hijack] It’s expensive but it’s my little boost every morning. Could even be placebo but I don’t care - makes me feel refreshed. Particularly good for a hangover. [/mh] ---
**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:** [March 16, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/25 "2012-03-16T03:42:24Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > Yeah, [yoga pants](http://yogacloset.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Yoga-Pants.jpg) are all the rage amongst the floozies and harlots today. I’m blushing just looking at that image. > > You’re a gem. > > Now _that’s_ a person who truly embodies maturity and class. Hopefully the Yoga Pant Skanks can learn something from you. Glad I could give you such a good time. Maybe this woman was so involved with something else she didn’t know she had that much showing. Maybe I was judging a situation based on what I see on the street every single day, and jumping to the wrong conclusion. Maybe butterflies were flying out of her butt. I don’t know. Neither do you. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/26 "2012-03-16T04:10:10Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Since I am male, anything I say about a woman’s attire is almost certainly wrong, or will be taken that way. That’s my position as well; a woman would pretty much have to be on fire before I said anything about her clothes. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/27 "2012-03-16T04:19:31Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > That’s my position as well; a woman would pretty much have to be on fire before I said anything about her clothes. Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/28 "2012-03-16T05:46:21Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Since I am male, anything I say about a woman’s attire is almost certainly wrong, or will be taken that way. > [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > That’s my position as well; a woman would pretty much have to be on fire before I said anything about her clothes. > [@TriPolar](#): > > Ditto. Good grief. What in the world are you people saying and how are you saying it? I have complimented many women–some total strangers–on their clothes or hair many times over the years; I have **ALWAYS** gotten a positive response. ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/29 "2012-03-16T06:37:03Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > Good grief. What in the world are you people saying and how are you saying it? I have complimented many women–some total strangers–on their clothes or hair many times over the years; I have **ALWAYS** gotten a positive response. I think they mean something negative about her clothes. I think fat doesn’t have as many nerve endings. Maybe she couldn’t feel the air on her ass because of that? ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/30 "2012-03-16T07:15:39Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > Good grief. What in the world are you people saying and how are you saying it? I have complimented many women–some total strangers–on their clothes or hair many times over the years; I have **ALWAYS** gotten a positive response. Perhaps you are exceptionally good-looking. Attention from good-looking people is welcomed in a way that the exact same attention from unattractive people is not. Or, maybe it’s been socially ingrained into women that they should always smile and nod at an unsolicited compliment, even if it makes them uncomfortable, and under no circumstances should they let that discomfort show to strangers, lest they seem unladylike. You decide! ---
**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:** [March 16, 2012, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/31 "2012-03-16T12:47:59Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > I would toss pennies at it. Ninja’d! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/32 "2012-03-16T13:00:28Z")
I would have lightly traced her crack with the tip of a pencil, walked away quickly, and not looked back. That’s what I do to my daughter when her ass crack is showing, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/33 "2012-03-16T13:09:19Z")
> [@Susie\_Derkins](#): > > I would have lightly traced her crack with the tip of a pencil, walked away quickly, and not looked back. That’s what I do to my daughter when her ass crack is showing, anyway. And then thrown out the pencil, I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/34 "2012-03-16T13:14:32Z")
I would have borrowed one of hers. I would, however, have kept any spare change that I knocked loose. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/35 "2012-03-16T13:28:28Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Ninja’d! 😛 I was hoping you’d notice that! 🙂🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/36 "2012-03-16T13:40:21Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > Well, to be fair to the gal, her clothing wasn’t really trashy - it was just yoga wear; however, her pants were hitched down on one side of her bum almost to where they were touching the chair she was on, and the top on that side was hitched up a bit - the other side was fine which is why I thought it may have been accidental; however, there was still a LOT of bum showing and I can’t imagine how she didn’t feel it. If it wasn’t even on both sides I don’t know why anyone would assume it was on purpose. I would have simply said, “Ma’am, your pants have pulled down a bit on one side” and if she said that she knew I would have just smiled and been on my way. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/37 "2012-03-16T13:53:21Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Burns also said\*: > > Them young women are a-dressin’ lyk hoors! > They dinna do this when I was a lad. > \*not really That’s from his poem “Gie aff ay Mah Green!” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/38 "2012-03-16T14:47:16Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > If it wasn’t even on both sides I don’t know why anyone would assume it was on purpose. I would have simply said, “Ma’am, your pants have pulled down a bit on one side” and if she said that she knew I would have just smiled and been on my way. Yeah, yoga pants do that, which is why I never wear them in public. That changes the situation a bit, and I would have said something. Imagine if she _didn’t_ realize and didn’t want to show her ass off. Sometimes your mind is telling you things but not loudly… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/39 "2012-03-16T15:18:51Z")
How difficult or embarrassing would it be to say, quietly: “I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the back of your pants have slipped pretty low.” Unless she was a total psycho, I expect the answer would be either “Yeah, I know” or “OMG, thanks for telling me.” Or maybe I’m just living in a fantasy world… ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894/40 "2012-03-16T15:33:33Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > And then thrown out the pencil, I hope. That’s what you’d call a real number two pencil. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-mentioned-the-naked-butt-showing/615894.md?page=3)