Being judged for having your hood up?

IDencI

Today I was just walking through town, minding my own business. I had a baggy tracksuit on and my hood up. I noticed that every few people who drove past were looking at me as if I had done something wrong. It was a cold day and I was freezing me boll*x off, so I put my hood up. Whats so wrong with having your hood up?? Why judge people for the way they dress?

efb

Does a hoodie keep yer boll*x warm???
Maybe it was the way you were wearing it that had people looking strange....

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

What were you expecting them to do? Stop, shake your hand, give you a wave? Paranoia will destroy ya man!!

Call Me Jimmy

Were ye throwin' shapes at all?

NotCominBack

efb wrote: »

Does a hoodie keep yer boll*x warm???
Maybe it was the way you were wearing it that had people looking strange....

Actually it would, as the majority of heat is lost through your head, so Yes, hoodie would help keep your tads warm

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Having learned to my cost when I was 67, I'm afraid I give anybody between 15 and 40 in a hooded tracksuit a wide birth. No offence but you have to abmit that that particular look carries a stereotype with it.

biko

Start dressing better and it won't be an issue.

IDencI

The Cunning Linguist wrote: »

What were you expecting them to do? Stop, shake your hand, give you a wave? Paranoia will destroy ya man!!

Noooo... Drive on by and mind your own business!

mikom

IDencI wrote: »

I had a baggy tracksuit on and my hood up. I noticed that every few people who drove past were looking at me as if I had done something wrong.

Time for a circumcision, methinks.

Uncle Ruckus

Just be apathetic and you'll be grand.

Macavity.

Are you sure you're not imagining that? I'd wear hoodies sometimes and have the hood up if it was cold or raining, don't notice anyone looking at me strange.

Xenji

Unless your a kid/teenager or going training, then wearing a hoodie and a tracksuit around town says a lot about you to some people.

kerry4sam

People can see someone walking down a street with a balaclava on over their face and it's deemed okay as they are wearing lycra cycling clothes also;
however,
some see someone wearing tracky-pants and the hood of the jumper/jacket up over their head, with their face completely visible, & fear and paranoia kicks in.

I wear hoodies sometimes. Put the hood up when cold but don't notice anyone looking any different at me.
I've been privy to discussions and debates with others commenting negativley at people wearing hoodies, but once I say that I also enjoy wearing hoodies the odd time, they just go silent and end that conversation.

Everyone will be different,
Just wear what you are comfortable in,
kerry4sam

anncoates

Warm ears are more important than a craven need to have strangers rate your wardrobe.

NotCominBack

IDencI wrote: »

Today I was just walking through town, minding my own business. I had a baggy tracksuit on and my hood up. I noticed that every few people who drove past were looking at me as if I had done something wrong. It was a cold day and I was freezing me boll*x off, so I put my hood up. Whats so wrong with having your hood up?? Why judge people for the way they dress?

Just a heads up given that you appear to be new to boards - this site is full of people who rarely venture outside their front door, and a side effect of this condition is the over-emphasis on stereotypes - hoodies, travellers, teachers, nurses and even students - all of these get a hard time on here due to the condition - dont take it personal

Diabhal Beag

What did ya rob anyways?

Cantona's Collars

What I find odd is lads driving sh1tebox cars around with their hoods up.Kinda hard to be 100% observant while driving when a hood is blocking part of your peripheral vision.

IDencI

Its probably worth mentioning that i really dont care what people think of me, its just something i noticed. Could just be where im from

the evasion_kid

I nearly always wear my hoodie up don't get to many looks apart say if you meet someone in the dark and they can't quite make you out

wendell borton

NotCominBack wrote: »

Just a heads up given that you appear to be new to boards - this site is full of people who rarely venture outside their front door, and a side effect of this condition is the over-emphasis on stereotypes - hoodies, travellers, teachers, nurses and even students - all of these get a hard time on here due to the condition - dont take it personal

Once bitten, twice shy.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IDencI wrote: »

. Could just be where im from

Aah! That explains it!

Saipanne

What about those dopes who wear the hood halfway across their head? What's that about?

Sofiztikated

NotCominBack wrote: »

Actually it would, as the majority of heat is lost through your head, so Yes, hoodie would help keep your tads warm

No, no we don't.

7 - 10% maybe, not majority or most.

Tombi!

I wouldn't really care if people think of me as a skanger; it's cold and I have warm clothing on.

NotCominBack

Sofiztikated wrote: »

No, no we don't.

7 - 10% maybe, not majority or most.

Actually more like 20-30% - and when you combine all the heat loss = 100% of a persons body, and divide that by the number of places where heat is lost, then I do believe you will find the majority of that heat loss comes from the head

Cantremember

IDencI wrote: »

Today I was just walking through town, minding my own business. I had a baggy tracksuit on and my hood up. I noticed that every few people who drove past were looking at me as if I had done something wrong. It was a cold day and I was freezing me boll*x off, so I put my hood up. Whats so wrong with having your hood up?? Why judge people for the way they dress?

You couldn't have been freezing your bollox off. To finish the look you must have had both hands down the front of your trackies rubbing like you were trying to start a fire.

Cantremember

NotCominBack wrote: »

Just a heads up given that you appear to be new to boards - this site is full of people who rarely venture outside their front door, and a side effect of this condition is the over-emphasis on stereotypes - hoodies, travellers, teachers, nurses and even students - all of these get a hard time on here due to the condition - dont take it personal

For a newbie you seem to have a well established stereotype of boardsies.

BlatentCheek

IDencI wrote: »

Today I was just walking through town, minding my own business. I had a baggy tracksuit on and my hood up. I noticed that every few people who drove past were looking at me as if I had done something wrong. It was a cold day and I was freezing me boll*x off, so I put my hood up. Whats so wrong with having your hood up?? Why judge people for the way they dress?

That reaction might depend more on the town than anything else.

IME, while its grand to go around most places either wearing trackies or having your hood-up doing both together after a certain age makes most people think you're a scrote. I'm not saying it bothers me but clearly it does most people.

SEPT 23 1989

hoodies go hand in hand with rampant drug taking,joyriding and thuggery of the highest oirder

DEFTLEFTHAND

Hate walking past gangs of hoodies on street corners, sometimes they say things like hey mister you dropped your gay card.

Sofiztikated

NotCominBack wrote: »

Actually more like 20-30% - and when you combine all the heat loss = 100% of a persons body, and divide that by the number of places where heat is lost, then I do believe you will find the majority of that heat loss comes from the head

Yeah...no.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130708-is-most-heat-lost-from-your-head

Head accounts for 9% of your bodies surface, and accounts for at most 10% of heat loss.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

NotCominBack wrote: »

Actually more like 20-30% - and when you combine all the heat loss = 100% of a persons body, and divide that by the number of places where heat is lost, then I do believe you will find the majority of that heat loss comes from the head

That was debunked years ago. It's between 5 and 10%. Blood flow and mass to surface area etc come in to play as well.

RonanP77

I wear tracksuit bottoms if I'm going running, I occasionally wear a hooding to work and I put the hood up if it's raining. I wear a hat when it's cold.

When I see lads walking around town wearing a tracksuit with the hood up I have to admit I automatically think they're a scumbag. It's based on the fact that I knew older members of their families a few years back that dressed the same way and they were definitely scumbags in most cases.

RobertKK

Hoodies are practicable clothing, something for your head if it rains or if you feel cold, keep the wind out.
ok I live in a rural area so no one cares.

NotCominBack

Sofiztikated wrote: »

Yeah...no.

bbc.com/future/story/20130708-is-most-heat-lost-from-your-head

Head accounts for 9% of your bodies surface, and accounts for at most 10% of heat loss.

In one of Pretorius’s studies, volunteers were given drugs to stop them shivering, which the body does involuntarily to stem heat loss. Then they were lowered with a hoist into cold water. In some trials they were entirely submerged. In others they were not lowered as far: their heads were left exposed above the water’s surface

I stopped reading at this point

Capt'n Midnight

Were you wearing a baseball cap too ?

looking_around

NotCominBack wrote: »

Actually more like 20-30% - and when you combine all the heat loss = 100% of a persons body, and divide that by the number of places where heat is lost, then I do believe you will find the majority of that heat loss comes from the head

Actually you're wrong,
it only accounts for about 7%
http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Myth-Most-body-heat-lost-from-your-head-4109456.php

Edit: took too long to reply xd

catallus

Judge not, lest ye be judged.

Birneybau

NotCominBack wrote: »

Actually it would, as the majority of heat is lost through your head, so Yes, hoodie would help keep your tads warm

Common misconception. If you had your head covered and your arse sticking out, the majority of heat would be lost through the aforementioned arse. :pac:

NotCominBack

looking_around wrote: »

Actually you're wrong,
it only accounts for about 7%
sfgate.com/health/article/Myth-Most-body-heat-lost-from-your-head-4109456.php

Edit: took too long to reply xd

Actually we can all pull links off the Internet

healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/heat-loss-through-head

so now we can all agree to have our own opinions, and that I am right

Birneybau

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Hate walking past gangs of hoodies on street corners, sometimes they say things like hey mister you dropped your gay card.

That's just a ruse to get you bent over.

Molester Stallone II

NotCominBack wrote: »

Actually it would, as the majority of heat is lost through your head, so Yes, hoodie would help keep your tads warm

Incorrect, top of your head loses no more heat than any other like sized exposed part of your body

Ted_YNWA

Birneybau wrote: »

Common misconception. If you had your head covered and your arse sticking out, the majority of heat would be lost through the aforementioned arse. :pac:

maybe the OP's tracksuit bottoms were at half mast & thus why the afore mentioned bol!ox were frozen.

catallus

Molester Stallone II wrote: »

Incorrect, top of your head loses no more heat than any other like sized exposed part of your body

What if your wearing a hat but no socks?

Molester Stallone II

catallus wrote: »

What if your wearing a hat but no socks?

I presume you're wearing shoes?

Timberrrrrrrr

NotCominBack wrote: »

Actually it would, as the majority of heat is lost through your head, so Yes, hoodie would help keep your tads warm

An urban myth debunked already

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/dec/17/medicalresearch-humanbehaviour

catallus

Molester Stallone II wrote: »

I presume you're wearing shoes?

Naturally. But the laces are not tied.

IDencI

IDencI wrote: »

Today I was just walking through town, minding my own business. I had a baggy tracksuit on and my hood up. I noticed that every few people who drove past were looking at me as if I had done something wrong. It was a cold day and I was freezing me boll*x off, so I put my hood up. Whats so wrong with having your hood up?? Why judge people for the way they dress?

Yeah yeah likely story.:rolleyes:
Now now tell us, just who were you planning on clipping? :pac:

Oink

Imagine a baboon in the forest. If he notices that everytime he gets sh!t from another monkey, it's always from a chimp, he's going to keep an eye out for chimps. It may not be fair on chimps, but the baboon certainly gets a lot less sh!t flung at him.

I'm not a baboon, but I certainly do my best to avoid poo-poo.

Molester Stallone II

catallus wrote: »

Naturally. But the laces are not tied.

You'll trip and give yourself brain damage...and and up arguing on this fckin thread indefinitely

Molester Stallone II

Oink wrote: »

Imagine a baboon in the forest. If he notices that everytime he gets sh!t from another monkey, it's always from a chimp, he's going to keep an eye out for chimps. It may not be fair on chimps, but the baboon certainly gets a lot less sh!t flung at him.

I'm not a baboon, but I certainly do my best to avoid poo-poo.

Chimp poo, pig poo, it all tastes the same man!!