Skangers

nobodythere

Overheard a bus conversation today where one person said that it's unfair to judge people by how they look and that if some skanger is walking down the street towards you it's biased to presume that they're any more threat to you than anyone else (even though most of them are just trying "ta bee hard beys").

I'm not the kind to intrude on other peoples conversations so I'll have a wee rant here. The way I see it we grow up into a culture that is based on image, fashion, style and elitism because whether we care to admit it or not we're divided into social groups (at least among the young'uns, it's less apparent as we grow older).

If someone grows up in our culture and sees all these "hard beys" with their daz white caps and their denim jeans stuck up their arse, pants tucked into the socks, walking around all day just causing a lot of **** and they see this and choose to replicate that behaviour then in my books they're off the VIP list for the gene pool. This isn't prejudice about things people are born with. These are conscious decisions that they make and it tells a hell of a lot about the person you're dealing with.

</rant> Thanks for listening

StupidLikeAFox

grasshopa wrote:

If someone grows up in our culture and sees all these "hard beys" with their daz white caps and their denim jeans stuck up their arse, pants tucked into the socks, walking around all day just causing a lot of **** and they see this and choose to replicate that behaviour then in my books they're off the VIP list for the gene pool.

But what if theyre BROUGHT UP with this? They see nothing wrong and dont understand why people hate them so much. Its sad, i feel sorry for the losers more than anything. That might sound arrogant but i really do

nobodythere

ColHol wrote:

But what if theyre BROUGHT UP with this? They see nothing wrong and dont understand why people hate them so much. Its sad, i feel sorry for the losers more than anything. That might sound arrogant but i really do

Yeah there are some of the more extreme ones that have been bad from day 1, and I know this because I've been through 8 years of primary school with them, and before primary school your only influence is your parents so I have to blame the parents in that case. It doesn't necessarily mean though that it's impossible to escape your mindset.

I don't think it's a case of intentionally doing wrong, I think that they just don't think about what's right, and they do what their instincts tell them, which is fend for themselves and **** everyone else. A little social conditioning ain't always a bad thing as long as you can decide what's right and wrong.

Slutmonkey57b

skanger thread #3388712399212DF alpha kicks off in earnest.

nobodythere

Ok, point taken, shutting up :rolleyes:

The Fitz

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=234453

Mercury_Tilt

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Tha Gopher

Jesus, another fukin skanger thread! The only topic that gets repeated more is (and is infinitely more boring) is when a 15 year old boards user, just into his house after smokin a few drags off a joint for the first time, starts yet another "do ya think weed should be legalised? I think so, its just a good, peaceful way of bein laid back and chillin out. Nobody fights when theyve been smokin" despite the fact that

a- You were most probably smoking hash, not weed, to be pedantic tbh son
b- As if every stoner in this world is some sort of Mahatma Gandhi meets Bob Marley figure


Anyway, to add post 103,247 to the "way skangers dress" topic
For me, wearing a tracksuit is a comfort thing. I dont like jeans, I never have, my mam used to always buy me them when i was yunger and i hated them,way too constraining if you ask me. There seems to be an attitude among many here that everyone in a tracksuit bottoms and a top that has Nike on the front is a scumbag. Its bollix. Where I live, its just what people wear. Im able to seperate scumbags imo just by looking at them. Not everyone wearing x and y brand with short hair is a scumbag. However, anyone wearing a burberry hat or an orange tracksuit bottoms and matching top with hood most probably is. Ditto people with their hood pulled over their baseball cap. Seperating out and out scum from the general tracker wearing public is relatively easy. Besides that, its a fact that in certain areas of Dublin you are more likely to get robbed if you stand at a bus stop dressed like a trinity science student as opposed to a general Joe Local. Dont get me wrong- if a gang of 8 skangers can catch a fellow skanger on their own, theyll rob him. But its still less likely.

Actually, this whole uppity anti tracksuit prejudice raises one or two issues of hypocracy. A fair amount of this lot will claim to be smokers when the next legalise hash thread pops up in....oh,Id give it 3 hours till theres a new one. Who do you think brings in your hash? 99% of the time its some criminal gang, not some jolly boys Howard Marks adventure. For all your talk of scobes, every time you smoke your funding their industry.

ClareBear

I'd prefer to chat to a northside skanger than a D4 snob..... (loike)

lee_baby_simms

ClareBear wrote:

I'd prefer to chat to a northside skanger than a D4 snob..... (loike)

be careful what you wish for...

Pigman II

Always makes me wonder if the skangers are meeting up in car parks, pulling a few donuts in their nissans and then rounding off the night by holding ernest debates on what to do about all these dorks on the internet who have nothing better to do than to act all superior from behind the safety of their computers.

Somehow I doubt they're even worried about you.

dearg_doom

This thread is great, more please:D

Actually PAL!

While we're judging people, you've got to love those guys who quote themselves in their own sig...

eirebhoy

People with something against someone for wearing a tracksuit is a down and utter snob and there are plenty on this forum. I'm 22 and still were tracksuit bottoms and tops on a day to day basis. It makes a change from every single person in Dublin who were nothing but blue jeans and a t-shirt every day. If I was to wear a pair of jeans I'd be asked where I was off to.

It doesn't even matter what you wear. Put me beside someone from Blackrock college (of course there's expections), put both of us in the same clothes, with the same hairstyle, etc. and you'd still notice the difference in social class. I don't know how, I'd also spot a dressed up traveller from a mile. Its this very fact that makes it very tough to get a job in the industry I want to work in.

I have a couple of nephews in their teens. They were tracksuits, as does everyone in the area i live, you wouldn't meet nicer people though. If your average boards user walked by them in the street they'd categorise them as skangers though. There's very few young people in my area that would get away with being called a skanger tbh. Some of them are scumbags but a lot of them aren't.

/edit - and btw, I don't see what the difference is between a northside skanger and a southside one. I'm from the southside and don't see the difference.