Is The Scumbag Evolving Into The Teddy Boy?

DavidRamsay99

In recent years I have been watching the evolution of the scumbag.
For 20 to 25 years or so the scumbag has been wearing a tracksuit and runners as standard.
In the 1980s many scumbags wore a mix of torn jeans or suit slacks with a pattern jumper and a denim jacket or zip up windbreaker while sporting a mullet and Tom Selleck mustache.
Around 1990 or so probably due to the popularity of the World Cup and then in 1992 the success of Irish athletes in the Olympics and the spread of CCTV the scumbags started wearing hoodies, shell suit tracksuits and runners all the time.
In the late 1990s and 2000s the shaved head and the Keano style haircut were popular among the scumbags. The latter involved the head shaved on the back and sides while the top was combed and held down with gel toward the forehead.
In the past two or three years there has been a sudden evolution.
Hipster haircuits but not beards have leaped from the upper and middle class into the world of the scumbags.
Scummers slick their hair to the side or back from the head reminiscent of the hair styles of their teddyboy grandfathers and great grandfathers.
At the same time tracksuits trousers are increasingly monochrome grey and tucked into white socks with white runners as if they are on the cusp of simply buying grey trousers, white socks and white shoes.
The emergence of Conor McGregor who wears sharp suits with waist coats, ties and pocket hankies begs the obvious question.
Are the scumbags about to start wearing suits instead of tracksuits?
Are they about to make the leap into full blown teddy boys?

kfallon

Don't forget the blue Helly Hanson/Jack & Jones/North Face/Super Dry rain coat with hood!

super_furry

I want my 20 seconds back.

pablo128

Conor McGregor is a scumbag now? FFS.:rolleyes:

I think you're watching too much Damo and Ivor.

Menas

Honorable mention for the 1970s when they were called 'Boot boys' for their liking of Doc Martins.

Doubt we will see the local scrotes in suits though...how do you scale a fence with one of Louis Copelands best on you.

NachoBusiness

DavidRamsay99 wrote: »

..while sporting a mullet and Tom Selleck mustache.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV-kY9JuqDE

mikom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UngkJ2hdsgo

Saipanne

DavidRamsay99 wrote: »

In recent years I have been watching the evolution of the scumbag.
For 20 to 25 years or so the scumbag has been wearing a tracksuit and runners as standard.
In the 1980s many scumbags wore a mix of torn jeans or suit slacks with a pattern jumper and a denim jacket or zip up windbreaker while sporting a mullet and Tom Selleck mustache.
Around 1990 or so probably due to the popularity of the World Cup and then in 1992 the success of Irish athletes in the Olympics and the spread of CCTV the scumbags started wearing hoodies, shell suit tracksuits and runners all the time.
In the late 1990s and 2000s the shaved head and the Keano style haircut were popular among the scumbags. The latter involved the head shaved on the back and sides while the top was combed and held down with gel toward the forehead.
In the past two or three years there has been a sudden evolution.
Hipster haircuits but not beards have leaped from the upper and middle class into the world of the scumbags.
Scummers slick their hair to the side or back from the head reminiscent of the hair styles of their teddyboy grandfathers and great grandfathers.
At the same time tracksuits trousers are increasingly monochrome grey and tucked into white socks with white runners as if they are on the cusp of simply buying grey trousers, white socks and white shoes.
The emergence of Conor McGregor who wears sharp suits with waist coats, ties and pocket hankies begs the obvious question.
Are the scumbags about to start wearing suits instead of tracksuits?
Are they about to make the leap into full blown teddy boys?

An astute analysis or our nation's gutter classes.

rainbowdrop

pablo128 wrote: »

Conor McGregor is a scumbag now? FFS.:rolleyes:

I think you're watching too much Damo and Ivor.

I don't think OP is saying Conor McGregor is a scumbag, just that a lot of scumbags admire him and may want to copy his style of clothing.

Am I right in thinking the top-knot men's hairstyle fashion came from him?

DavidRamsay99

pablo128 wrote: »

Conor McGregor is a scumbag now? FFS.:rolleyes:

I think you're watching too much Damo and Ivor.

McGregor has emerged out of the slime and become a demi-god.

He has prevailed over his scumbaggery genes.

Hence he is NOT a scumbag.

RomanKnows

McGregor has done terrible damage to the Louis Copeland brand.

DavidRamsay99

rainbowdrop wrote: »

I don't think OP is saying Conor McGregor is a scumbag, just that a lot of scumbags admire him and may want to copy his style of clothing.

Am I right in thinking the top-knot men's hairstyle fashion came from him?

Whenever I go to buy my gel or a replacement comb the chemist or supermarket keep them behind the counter rather than on the shelves.
That is an indication to me that the scumbags are getting smart haircuts and spending hours slicking their hair in the mirror.

fatknacker

Scanda jackets and soveredin rings too.

pablo128

DavidRamsay99 wrote: »

McGregor has emerged out of the slime and become a demi-god.

He has prevailed over his scumbaggery genes.

Hence he is NOT a scumbag.

Keep digging that hole for yourself there.

L.Jenkins

DavidRamsay99 wrote: »

....The emergence of Conor McGregor who wears sharp suits with waist coats, ties and pocket hankies begs the obvious question.
Are the scumbags about to start wearing suits instead of tracksuits?
Are they about to make the leap into full blown teddy boys?

Sounds like our scumbag class, are becoming classier by the decade! Next thing I know, I'll be taking a stroll by the IFSC and asked what the fúck I'm looking at by a lad in suit.

dandyelevan

In my day (late '50s early '60s your average 'Teddy Boy' wore his hair in crew-cut style, drain-pipe trousers, skinny ties, three-quarter length coats, winkle-picker shoes, and carried a flick-knife or aluminium comb...the one with the nasty pointed handle.
They had that 'West Side Story' look about them.
Teddy Boys were commonly known in my neck o' the woods as Brylcreem boys or corner boys.

They haven't gone away you know!

DavidRamsay99

In the 1940s the Mexicans and Black youths in LA wore zoot suits - a style of suit with long tails and baggy pants complete with exaggerated floppy fedora hats with long feathers, spats - carried flick knives and stiletto blades. In the 1950s popularized by James Dean and Marlon Brando white kids started wearing tank tops, jeans and slip on shoes with their hairs greased back and wore leather biker jackets or zip up tanker or bomber jackets. This style migrated to Britain in the 1960s and 1970s and leaped the pond into Ireland. Since the heroin scourge began in inner city Dublin the scumbags have neglected their look and wear tracksuits all the time.
All I am saying is something is happening.
Something weird.
We are increasingly being robbed, bottled and sworn at by very well groomed aesthetic looking thugs.

Dyr

turning into teddy boys? No idea what you're on about daddyo.

Dyr

mikom wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UngkJ2hdsgo

tbh I'd associatie the shirt, suit jacket, dress jeans look, with **** in the 30/40s who work as digital sales managers or start-up directors that are trying to kid themselves that they're not just miserable, souless c**ts like their old bosses

Pointy tan shoes are mandatory

DavidRamsay99

Bambi wrote: »

tbh I'd associatie the shirt, suit jacket, dress jeans look, with **** in the 30/40s who work as digital sales managers or start-up directors that are trying to kid themselves that they're not just miserable, souless c**ts like their old bosses

Pointy tan shoes are mandatory

The point I am trying to make is that this style is on the cusp of migrating downhill to the scummer.

Hence the return of the teddyboy.

The gutter class have no changed their fashion in the last 20 to 25 years.

Limerick scum still wear Keano style haircuts circa 1994

Richard Hillman

Yes I have noticed that the scummer population are looking more and more like fun boys. Gym memberships, fade hair cuts, short-shorts, trips to Ibiza, drinking soft drinks in Night clubs with a straw. Definitely batty boys (in the Ali-G sense).

Barber-DJ is now a job title.

DavidRamsay99

DavidRamsay99 wrote: »

In recent years I have been watching the evolution of the scumbag.
For 20 to 25 years or so the scumbag has been wearing a tracksuit and runners as standard.
In the 1980s many scumbags wore a mix of torn jeans or suit slacks with a pattern jumper and a denim jacket or zip up windbreaker while sporting a mullet and Tom Selleck mustache.
Around 1990 or so probably due to the popularity of the World Cup and then in 1992 the success of Irish athletes in the Olympics and the spread of CCTV the scumbags started wearing hoodies, shell suit tracksuits and runners all the time.
In the late 1990s and 2000s the shaved head and the Keano style haircut were popular among the scumbags. The latter involved the head shaved on the back and sides while the top was combed and held down with gel toward the forehead.
In the past two or three years there has been a sudden evolution.
Hipster haircuits but not beards have leaped from the upper and middle class into the world of the scumbags.
Scummers slick their hair to the side or back from the head reminiscent of the hair styles of their teddyboy grandfathers and great grandfathers.
At the same time tracksuits trousers are increasingly monochrome grey and tucked into white socks with white runners as if they are on the cusp of simply buying grey trousers, white socks and white shoes.
The emergence of Conor McGregor who wears sharp suits with waist coats, ties and pocket hankies begs the obvious question.
Are the scumbags about to start wearing suits instead of tracksuits?
Are they about to make the leap into full blown teddy boys?

That one of the bizarre post the come up on boards now and the do you really spend that much time thinking watching and observing the clothes and hair styles ( all in great detail ) it comes across as almost creepy and odd.

DavidRamsay99

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Yes I have noticed that the scummer population are looking more and more like fun boys. Gym memberships, fade hair cuts, short-shorts, trips to Ibiza, drinking soft drinks in Night clubs with a straw. Definitely batty boys (in the Ali-G sense).

Barber-DJ is now a job title.

There are more openly gay scumbags since the referendum walking around holding hands. Is there are cultural shift going on?

The female scummer is also getting better turned out. Yoga leggings and high waisted jeans look very fetching indeed as those dreadful shapeless pyjamas are being binned.

DavidRamsay99

mariaalice wrote: »

That one of the bizarre post the come up on boards now and the do you really spend that much time thinking watching and observing the clothes and hair styles ( all in great detail ) it comes across as almost creepy and odd.

Now we know how you feel. Thanks for sharing.:D

Now are my observations wrong?

Are you going to be burgled by a scumbag with great hair and a shiny suit or a scumbag in a hoodie and tracksuit bottoms?

DavidRamsay99

DavidRamsay99 wrote: »

Now we know how you feel. Thanks for sharing.:D

Now are my observations wrong?

Are you going to be burgled by a scumbag with great hair and a shiny suit or a scumbag in a hoodie and tracksuit bottoms?

I would imagine the suit is a bit impractical for robbing the tracksuit allows more ease of movement, they are not really a lot of 'scumbags' around where I live the standard mode of dress for men here seem to be shorts, flip-flops and t-shirts.

testaccount123

Theres some right saddos on boards.ie

thisonetaken

pablo128 wrote: »

Conor McGregor is a scumbag now? FFS.:rolleyes:

I think you're watching too much Damo and Ivor.

McGregor is king of the scumbags. Listen to him speak for 5 seconds and you can see that.

ElvisChrist6

DavidRamsay99 wrote: »

McGregor has emerged out of the slime and become a demi-god.

He has prevailed over his scumbaggery genes.

Hence he is NOT a scumbag.

You're really sounding like the scumbag here now. From your username, I'm guessing you're only 16 (which is too old for this), so you have time to get a grip yet.

JohnnyChimpo

thisonetaken wrote: »

McGregor is king of the scumbags. Listen to him speak for 5 seconds and you can see that.

Sheer class snobbery, get to fuk with that Celtic Tiger bullsh1ttery my man

pablo128

thisonetaken wrote: »

McGregor is king of the scumbags. Listen to him speak for 5 seconds and you can see that.

Could you give us an example? Is it his accent? His elocution? Or is it because he has a Dublin accent?

Actually how do you define a scumbag? By their appearance, or their actions?

thisonetaken

JohnnyChimpo wrote: »

Sheer class snobbery, get to fuk with that Celtic Tiger bullsh1ttery my man

It's nothing to do with class. It's about how you act, mcgregor acts like a scumbag.

LDN_Irish

For our international readers and recent immigrants confused about this thread, for "scumbag" read: anyone from a council estate. You're welcome.

pablo128

thisonetaken wrote: »

It's nothing to do with class. It's about how you act, mcgregor acts like a scumbag.

Really? He robs people, burgles houses, and is involved in anti-social behaviour?

Or is it because he smack talks his opponents, like almost every other fighter does before fights, to promote the fight?

LDN_Irish

LDN_Irish wrote: »

For our international readers and recent immigrants confused about this thread, for "scumbag" read: anyone from a council estate. You're welcome.

The petty snobbery in Ireland must really confuse recent migrants to here.

Libadour

This thread is mental.

ElvisChrist6

mariaalice wrote: »

The petty snobbery in Ireland must really confuse recent migrants to here.

Boards.ie seems to just be a magnet for it, it's fairly uncommon in my circles or my locals. Middle class with delusions of grandeur, probably, and maybe a couple of teenage working class who think they're above it all.

Libadour

Libadour wrote: »

This thread is mental.

Its probably a bit of a wind up as well.

mikom

♫
If you go down to the street today
You're sure of a big surprise.
If you go down to the streets today
You'd better go in disguise.

For ev'ry knack that ever there was
Will gather there for certain, because
Today's the day the teddy boys have their picnic.

Ev'ry teddy boy who's been good
Is sure of a treat today.
There's lots of fried food to eat
And Xbox games to play.

Beneath the eaves where nobody sees
They'll drink and drug as long as they please
Cause that's the way the teddy boys have their picnic.

If you go down to the streets today
You'd better not go alone.
It's lovely down in the streets today
But safer to stay at home.................

melted_face

how is the op getting away with basically referring to poor people as scumbags ?

testaccount123

mariaalice wrote: »

Its probably a bit of a wind up as well.

If its a windup it has been going on for about 15 years here. Funny how you never meet these 'scumbag' obsessed weirdos in real life, they'd all **** themselves if they were forced to detail their views to a real person with a Dublin accent.

eternal

melted_face wrote: »

how is the op getting away with basically referring to poor people as scumbags ?

He's trolling around for ages. Just ignore the guy.

Heroditas

RomanKnows wrote: »

McGregor has done terrible damage to the Louis Copeland brand.

Roddy Collins beat him to that feat by over a decade!

Duvetdays

super_furry wrote: »

I want my 20 seconds back.

It would've only taken 15 if he'd have used proper paragraphs.