Is The Scumbag Evolving Into The Teddy Boy?

DavidRamsay99 · 27-07-2015 12:22PM #1

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 · 27-07-2015 12:25PM

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

super_furry · 27-07-2015 12:25PM

I want my 20 seconds back.

pablo128 · 27-07-2015 12:25PM

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

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

Menas · 27-07-2015 12:27PM

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 · 27-07-2015 12:29PM

DavidRamsay99 wrote: »

..while sporting a mullet and Tom Selleck mustache.

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

mikom · 27-07-2015 12:31PM

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

Saipanne · 27-07-2015 12:32PM

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 · 27-07-2015 12:35PM

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 · 27-07-2015 12:36PM

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 · 27-07-2015 12:38PM

McGregor has done terrible damage to the Louis Copeland brand.

DavidRamsay99 · 27-07-2015 12:39PM

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 · 27-07-2015 12:39PM

Scanda jackets and soveredin rings too.

pablo128 · 27-07-2015 12:39PM

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 · 27-07-2015 12:40PM

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 · 27-07-2015 12:44PM

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 · 27-07-2015 12:47PM

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 · 27-07-2015 12:48PM

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

Dyr · 27-07-2015 12:51PM

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 · 27-07-2015 01:07PM

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 · 27-07-2015 01:08PM

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.

27-07-2015 01:22PM

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 · 27-07-2015 01:23PM

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 · 27-07-2015 01:26PM

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?

27-07-2015 01:34PM

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 · 27-07-2015 01:35PM

Theres some right saddos on boards.ie

thisonetaken · 27-07-2015 01:40PM

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 · 27-07-2015 01:40PM

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 · 27-07-2015 01:45PM

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 · 27-07-2015 01:46PM

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 · 27-07-2015 01:49PM

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.

Is The Scumbag Evolving Into The Teddy Boy?

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