TIL, and help me out young Oppos/parents of young folk

"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97) 09/04/2019 at 20:50 • Filed to: None

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TIL learned that one of the breweries in town does bingo in the early evenings. I wasn’t expecting that when I walked in, and the bingo was crowd was as old as you might expect. I decided that while I support beer and bingo as a concept, I’m in no way old enough to partake.

For the second part, I saw a couple of young teenage kids walking around in tan boat shoes, crew length black athletic socks pulled up and black gym shorts with T-shirts. This is not a look I’ve seen on the university campus. Were these a couple of weirdos, or is there a new trend among kids these days?

Mazda 6 in a field for your time.

DipodomysDeserti > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/04/2019 at 21:07

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I’ve seen late teens early twenties kids dressed like this. The one’s I’ve known who did so were all shitheads.

The boat shoes were sometimes substituted for those shitty foam sandles.

I call the look prisoner chic.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/04/2019 at 21:11

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Given both cases...you are in deep shit ...it appears your current locality has time warped back to the late 1980s. 

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/04/2019 at 21:12

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Ive seen the youts do this though ussually paired with the brightest neon sneakers they can find.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 09/04/2019 at 21:15

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Admittedly, this is not a brewery I usually frequent,  but I like to spread my beer drinking around on occasion.

ToyotaFamily > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/04/2019 at 21:15

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Crew socks with boat shoes are a thing for some reason. I’ve seen it on  teens up to college frat bros. 

shop-teacher > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/04/2019 at 21:23

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The middle schoolers for quite some time have been sporting black socks pulled all the way up and flip flops ... Errrrr , slides. They call them slides. I still find it bizzare, and I’ve been seeing it long enough that some of those kids are college age now.

Some friends of mine in college used to frequent the local Friday night church bingo before we'd hit the bars. It was actually pretty fun.

smobgirl > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/04/2019 at 21:23

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It was a couple of years ago, but some of my band kids (relatively cool ones, even) had taken to wearing crocs with socks. I’ve given up understanding the youths.

Svend > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/04/2019 at 21:24

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Bingo used to be an older womans game, now here in the U.K. all ages and genders enjoy it.

But ye’, beer and bingo doesn’t go down for me.

Here we have a bar and hair salon.

and ‘cakes and ale’ cafe in the back of a book shop.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > shop-teacher 09/04/2019 at 21:24

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Flips and socks seems contradictory to me, but what I would I know.  I'm am old at 34.

shop-teacher > DipodomysDeserti 09/04/2019 at 21:25

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The first kid I asked about the socks and sandel s thing years ago, started showing back up in the school field drunk/high last school year. He died this summer, he was 19. He was a nice enough kid, but never could pull his shit together.

shop-teacher > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/04/2019 at 21:27

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I’m old at 38 , but when we were kids wearing socks with sandels was exclusively the domain of old men. The world has turned upside down!

AestheticsInMotion > shop-teacher 09/04/2019 at 21:32

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Yeah that seems pretty normal. Now throwing boat shoes into the mix is a bit strange... 

shop-teacher > AestheticsInMotion 09/04/2019 at 21:36

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Yeah, the boat shoes  are a new twist.

facw > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/04/2019 at 21:40

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I’m not with it, but I’ve heard no show socks are out and crew socks are in (no way I wear long socks unless it is less than 50 out, and probably not even then).

No idea about the rest.

arl > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/04/2019 at 21:45

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My teenage son walks around in socks and Birkenstock’s. The world is truly upside down. 

SiennaMan > shop-teacher 09/04/2019 at 21:47

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My wife has criticized me for going out in “crocs with socks”.

At 40(ish) I'm apparently on trend!

SiennaMan > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 09/04/2019 at 21:49

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If that’s the case, does that mean he’ll have access to some sweet targa top and pop up headlight sporting vehicles?  This might not be such a bad thing..

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > SiennaMan 09/04/2019 at 22:15

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I do happen to have a pop-up headlight vehicle in my garage, although there is white vinyl covering the headlights.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > SiennaMan 09/04/2019 at 22:15

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I suppose if you stick with a look long enough it will be on trend at some point.

DipodomysDeserti > shop-teacher 09/04/2019 at 22:26

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Fucking rough. Coming to school drunk/high is a good indicator that home life fucking sucks.

shop-teacher > DipodomysDeserti 09/04/2019 at 22:30

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Yeah, that was most definitely a factor.

shop-teacher > SiennaMan 09/04/2019 at 22:32

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Alarmingly, yes ;)

Chuckles > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/04/2019 at 23:03

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I went to a bingo hall when I lived in North Carolina on a Friday night and that shit was intense. In areas without gambling, people try to win money playing bingo. Most of the regulars would play at least 4 or 5 bingo cards simultaneously, and games were rapid fire. The place was very smoky, and the crowd was all over the place in terms of age.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Chuckles 09/04/2019 at 23:26

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Interesting.  Out here there is gambling on reservations nearby, so that itch can be scratched with more than bingo.  This didn't look serious.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > shop-teacher 09/04/2019 at 23:34

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So my wife hates it when I wear ( normal) socks with shorts. Can I tell her this is acceptable nowadays?

shop-teacher > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 09/05/2019 at 07:03

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Yep, you sure can.

Don't expect that to work though ;)

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > shop-teacher 09/05/2019 at 09:29

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Sock and sandals is a little different from socks and slides.

Slides started off as just something to wear on the way to the basketball court or soccer field, before you put your shoes or cleats on, so it makes perfect sense that you’d have your socks on, ready to go.

But yeah, socks with anything that shows your sock-covered toes/ankles seems really weird to me, too.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/05/2019 at 09:29

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Sweeet...

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > shop-teacher 09/05/2019 at 09:30

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Damn... has to be tough to stomach as a teacher.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > smobgirl 09/05/2019 at 09:34

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Intentionally uncool = cool?

I’ve noticed old-school huge glasses becoming a thing, too.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > arl 09/05/2019 at 09:35

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Everything old is new again.

shop-teacher > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/05/2019 at 10:39

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It was.  This was a tough summer.  I had another former student get murdered ... by his own mother.

shop-teacher > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/05/2019 at 10:40

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They’re not on the way to the field/court.  That’s what they wear all day.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > shop-teacher 09/05/2019 at 11:00

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Shit. I’m sorry.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > shop-teacher 09/05/2019 at 11:01

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Yeah, I get it. Just saying with slides it’s marginally more acceptable, due to the history of those type of sandals.

shop-teacher > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/05/2019 at 11:35

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Thanks.  I’m hanging in there . The service for the one who got murdered was actually quite moving.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > shop-teacher 09/05/2019 at 12:14

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I honestly can’t imagine.

Closest I’ve come to something like this is a couple years back, in a neighborhood about a mile from ours, two teenagers killed their parents and some of their siblings (two sisters survived). I hate that I’m going to have to reveal the full extent of how much evil there is in the world to my kids at some point... I’m waiting as long as I can.

shop-teacher > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/05/2019 at 13:00

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“I’m waiting as long as I can.”

Me too.  

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > shop-teacher 09/05/2019 at 13:52

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I’m just afraid it’s going to get worse before it gets better...

shop-teacher > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/05/2019 at 14:16

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Time will tell.  All we can do is the best we can with our own.