You. In the PJ bottoms at the mall. You look like an idiot.
—Tired of slumber wear
This article appears in Dec 31, 2009 – Jan 6, 2010.
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We have someone who wears them to work. Yeah, so you clean office buildings, the “uniform” t-shirt doesn’t cut it with plaid flannels.
Could be worse; could be a pair of sweatpants with “juicy” on the ass. I don’t know what makes an ass juicy except for anal leakage. That’s nasty, not couture.
Why you wearin your pajamas to breakfast?
Too bad these people wouldn’t start sleeping/lounging in lounge pants/gym pants instead of actual PJ pants…then they’d look less stupid going out in public in them…unless they wore uggs with them, which, is probably not an unreasonable assumption in this case. Not real uggs — ugg knock offs. Probably salt stained too. And lemmie guess: messy pony tail on the top of their heads? *shudder*
Side note: I don’t know how people can sleep in non-stretchy pants (or pants at all for that matter, least of all non stretchy ones)…Whenever I’ve attempted to do so they bunch up and ride up my ass.
I’m with dr fever on this one !!!! JUICY ? haha and it’s mostly on the well ample butts too !!!!
YES! Thank you! I hate that crap. Put on some godamned pants!!
Which of the hundreds of idiots are you talking about. LOL.
What do you expect? It’s a mall in Halifax. Were you expecting people to behave or dress normally?
Not everyone is into skate boarder sneakers and wigger jeans or lulu tights, folks.
Sodeypop, you see far stranger things in larger cities. For example, today I saw what might have been a woman wearing a black bedsheet over her(?) entire body, with just a little slit for her(??) eyes.
“Not everyone is into skate boarder sneakers and wigger jeans or lulu tights, folks.”
This may be true but I never really pay much attention to what other people prefer that I wear. I dress to please myself. Don’t like it? That is your problem! Look the other way!
wigger jeans??? i can make some stuff up in my brain…but its nasty…i love bizarro outfits i don’t want humans to dress like automatons
and pk…i don’t know how adults sleep with pjs on, its one thing to sleep in your clothes you probably have no choice
wigger jeans – the over sized hang off your ass kind where you show the world your underwear . Makes a statement forsure – it says ” noone taught me how to pull up my pants and get a job “
are you still allowed to say wigger; really can you still?
well i don’t think i’ll refer to them as such…perhaps crackpants no thats not good…i think i’ll just go with poopy pants
i’m gonna wear my dora the explorer jammies that i got from santa cause she cooler than a speeding bullet
I still say wigger. Fuck anybody who got a problem with it (for real). Then again I was growing up in the 90s when it was “cool” to make fun of wiggers. I refuse to acknowledge that “political correctness” for made-up terms like these.
PK, not just Ugg knock-offs… Wally-Mart brand Uggs.
lehova,those thngs are called burkhas.mid east females have to wear them in public,or their owner’s(HUSBANDS),will have them stoned to death,with granite rocks,not dope.but i do agree,you want funny,go to a mall on welfare day,some strange fucking sites then,for sure,hi paingirl,no answer yet?
scuse me,sights.
Just so you know, Andy deleted several of my posts and sent me a personal email a few weeks ago stating that the term “Wigger” is banned from The Coast. I was like… what the fuck! It’s such a perfect term to describe certain people.
Andy’s email:
We talked about it. Debated it. Few words are banned at thecoast.ca. Cunt: banned. Nigger: banned. Wigger – a bit too close to the former. Likewise, banned.
Sorry.
Andy Murdoch
Web Editor
The Coast
5567 Cunard St
Halifax, NS
(902)-422-6278 x130
andym@thecoast.ca
Those bastards!
ok so now – you bliggers with sunts for brains ……..does that work – obviously from the email these words are ok – lets make our own words and then own them haha
I don’t get why the c-word is banned. It’s just a good old-fashioned curse word, not a racial slur.
I think it’s because “the C word” is considered misogynist and offensive to many women. I guess. Don’t be a C word and we won’t have to call you a C word!
In other countries like the United Kingdom and Australia, it’s actaully not considered to be quite so derogatory, and could actually even be somewhat endearing, like “ahh Bazza, good to see ya again ya old ‘C word’.”
boceta – gailic for the C word – is that banned ?
Qp, that’s what I’m talking about. I’ve called some of my friends silly c**ts before, usually while affecting a really awful Aussie accent. I don’t see how it’s any worse than slut, whore, bitch, etc. It’s a word. The intent behind it is what we should be concerned with.
She wears them so guys will have easy access since she goes from bed to bed to bed to bed…all over the city.
“Sodeypop, you see far stranger things in larger cities. For example, today I saw what might have been a woman wearing a black bedsheet over her(?) entire body, with just a little slit for her(??) eyes.”
I once saw two women wearing bathing suits that looked exactly like this, at a beach here in Nova Scotia..
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com
That made my week.
about the rip off UGGS…..who the fuck would want to pay and enoumous price for such an ugly waste of the time it took to make…..if you are going to sport such nastyness you SHOULD buy the ripoffs…
Also I used to work at a university and there is definately some sort of contest going on in Halifax – Who can look the lame-est in their pj pants tucked into wool socks, wearing old man slippers/uggs/ripoffs/birkenstocks and a bench coat, carrying the biggest gaudiest bag they can find, all the while hiding behind enormous glasses……..
lehova and Life Sucks – do you two have to strive to be so ignorant, or is some sort of inherent gift you were born with?
lehova – unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, it shouldn’t be too hard to identify a burkha and realize why someone is wearing it. “Oh she’s wearing a sheet, it’s soooo weird!” …Grow up.
LS – don’t presume to know anything about Arab women or their culture. The majority of women wearing burkhas, hijabs, or other modesty coverings are doing so because of their devotion to their religion, not because they’re afraid or oppressed. Talk to a woman wearing a burkha and you’ll likely find that her reasons for wearing it are entirely her own, and she could care less what you or any other man thinks about it. It is a pact between her and her god – an act of devotion – and only a fool like yourself would deem his opinion worthy in such a context.
Those are certainly good points me0w, but there are those in the community that would use it to oppress, and it happens more than you might think. You’ve been watching too much Little Mosque On The Prairie.
Me0w, I’m fully aware of what a burkha is. I find the idea of a burkha offensive, and I think they look ridiculous, so I commented on it on an anonymous Bitch forum as a way of venting my frustration without offending the person wearing it. So, kindly take your self-righteous indignation and stuff it.
“”The majority of women wearing burkhas, hijabs, or other modesty coverings are doing so because of their devotion to their religion…”
Really?
Can you remind us of the part of the Qu’ran where it demands that women cover themselves from head to toe in a shapeless blanket, and look out of slits (I’ve seen where only one eye is open, and it’s “webbed” over)…
..because, although I’ve only really read paraphrases, notes and summaries anout the Muslim holy text, I don’t remember this part…just that both women AND men should dress “modestly”.
Also, why is there no full covered Burqas in Turkey? Are they not “real” muslims?
I think you’ll find that these are CULTURAL impositions, not religious…coming from desert tribes where women were coveted property, and needed to be hidden from view and kept under cover, as it were.
10th commandment, anyone?
Sorry meow, don’t mean to pick, but this:
“”Talk to a woman wearing a burkha and you’ll likely find that her reasons for wearing it are entirely her own,””
Of course she’ll say that? What is she going to say…”please, someone heeelpppp me!”
I bet many of the women who have had their clitoris amputated in Africa will say they’re happy with THAT too.
And what about the Canadian children that are currently being indoctrinated in churches…what are THEY gonna say? “I hate Jesus!”?
Of course not…but many many people have lasting damage from religion, not realized until adulthood. Especially Catholic/fundamentalist ‘christian’ ones where REAL harm is done…
There are MANY MANY accounts of (and by) women who have escaped the misogyny and chattel-owning oppression of these nations – many ARE muslim, not all…christians do it too, look at the polygamist compounds. In fact, that’s a great analogy, Meow….what do you think a 14 year-old married to an old 65 year-old Mormon would say if you asked HER?!….I bet she is “happy’ as well, lol…and the point is, she may well be! Humans are incredible adaptive…but that doesn’t make the horrific situations that they’ve been born into RIGHT or JUST.
UNTIL they make the break on their own, you will NEVER hear the truth.
Have you heard of Irshad Manji? read her book, and you may not look on many muslim men so fondly…
rant over
Fever, I’m not naive. There are those in any community that desire to oppress women, misogyny and abuse of women isn’t just a fundamentalist Muslim concept. Making broad generalizations about a culture and religion only further serve to alienate and oppress. I don’t watch Little Mosque, thanks, it’s a trite piece of Canadian tv drivel. I have friends in the Muslim community and the modesty issue is something I’ve discussed at length with many of them.
lehova, why play dumb then? If you wanted to make an intelligent observation or inject your opinion on burkhas into the conversation earlier, you failed miserably, so don’t be offended that I reacted to what was obviously a statement intended to provoke. So what if you find burkhas offensive or ridiculous? Your opinion on someone else’s choice of dress is irrelevant, but yes, you are certainly entitled to bitch about it in an anonymous internet forum. Definitely a better idea than actually speaking to an Arab woman and attempting to understand her perspective before passing judgement.
I already understood her perspective. It was pretty narrow. On account on of the small slit she had to look through.
Look at you making generalizations now. Who said she was an Arab? There’s a distinction between Arab and Muslim, you know. And who said I passed judgment on her? I said that I find the idea behind the garment, and the appearance of the garment, offensive. Nowhere near as offensive as sanctimonious speeches from tools like you, though.
Can I just add that in any religion, observance is always a matter of degree?
Just as there is a spectrum of practice and observance within Christianity—from utterly psychotic to reasonable and progressive, there is also a spectrum of practice and observance within Islam.
A hijab, or headscarf (which I have worn myself as part of respectful dress at certain events to which I have been invited) is in no way comperable to a burqa or niqab (face veil.) They represent very different situations.
Many very modern, very worldly, very smart Muslim women do choose to wear the hijab as an attractive and ordinary part of their everyday clothing. They feel it identifies them as Muslim women, and conveys modesty and dignity, and I have met many Muslim women who are truly not oppressed or abused by this.
On the other hand, I do not like to see any woman with her face covered. (Some radical Mormon women in the US have recently started wearing face veils while out in public.) I DO feel that covering the face is oppressive, and is usually imposed by husbands or parents, and there are many Muslims who dislike the face-covering as much as non-muslims. There are over 1 billion Muslims in the world; the majority of Muslim women do not cover their faces.
While there is MUCH to critique in ALL religions (and I am NOT a fan of most religion), and there is MUCH to be done in many parts of the world to free women and children from the abuse and brutality often JUSTIFIED by religion, it is essential to keep a clear distinction between all the issues, and look at the origins of each from an informed point of view.
Frosty, let me reiterate – I am not denying that oppression of women exists in Muslim culture. Not at all. Without going off on a diatribe, let’s be clear that I am well aware of the atrocities that exist in this world. The ONLY point that I have been trying to make is that it is incredibly ignorant to assume that simply because a woman is wearing a burkha, or is a devout Muslim, that she is automatically being oppressed and is too stupid to know any better way of life. I am not religious, nor do I have much love for organized religion, but I have respect for my fellow human beings, and do not presume to tell them how they should live or what they should believe, provided they are equally respectful. I would think that a libertarian like yourself could get behind my live and let live philosophy, Frosty.
As for Burkhas not being in the Qu’ran, it’s a moot point and you know it. How many religions being practiced today are cultural interpretations rather than literal interpretations of their respective written words of god? The point is, it’s their faith, it’s their business. Of course I stand against abuse or oppression of women and children by any religion, but beyond that, I’m not deluded enough to think I’m going to ‘save’ anybody or change anything by telling people that what they believe in is wrong.
It’s this pervasive attitude that “I’m right, and those (insert religious group here) are wrong, and it’s my duty to set them right” that has fueled some of the greatest atrocities in human history. There are no easy answers, but a little cultural sensitivity and respect goes a long way.
I don’t think the c word transposes well across the genders. In Newfoundland, a chap might say “how’s ye gettin’ on me ol’ cock?” to another fellow but could expect a slap if he substituted the c word when addressing a woman similarly!
Is there a list of The Coast’s officially banned words. I don’t use this language liberally but it sometimes best expresses an emotional response I wish to convey. I’d prefer though to not inadvertantly use a banned word.
To Ruby & the rest of you…covering your face in THIS COUNTRY is, except for a couple of instances where your outdoors in winter ,wearing a mask…which is what bankrobbers & other armed thieves do.
So to get rid of this ridiculous garment, simply make it against the law to cover your face with a mask…unless your snowmobiling or ice racing.
SIMPLE
Make sure this LAW is prominently placed & written where EACH & EVERY immigrant has no choice but to see it, in their language !
If you don’t like that law…don’t come here …again SIMPLE !
I’ve got no problem with head scarves, hats, caps, hoods, or any type of ear muff, but people walking into a store, a mall, or driving with their face covered needs to stop.
ITs not religious, that’s bullshit, it is 14th century thinking in a 21st century world.
“I already understood her perspective. It was pretty narrow. On account on of the small slit she had to look through.”
Oh-ho, aren’t we a witty little thing? It’s strange though, that your perspective remains pretty narrow, despite your lack of face covering. You accuse me of being self-righteous and sanctimonious, all the while proclaiming a woman wearing a religious garment as “strange”, “ridiculous” and “offensive”. You obviously know what’s best for these women, right?
You’re right in that I should have said “Muslim” instead of “Arab”, but it was merely a slip of the tongue and not ignorance on my part. In any case, you were obviously looking for a debate with your first remark and you got it. I felt the need to reply to both your and Life Sucks’ remarks because I’m tired of hearing negative commentary about Muslims. It was wasn’t intended as a personal attack, so now that you’re down to petty insults, I’m done now. Have a good night 🙂
Jesus Tapdancing Christ on a pogo stick. Me0w, you get one more response from me, as I’m sure you had to have failed basic reading comprehension in grade school.
It’s the GARMENT I find ridiculous, and it’s the idea behind the garment I find offensive. It wasn’t a negative comment about Muslims, it was a jab at one small facet of Islam, and it’s debatable whether the burkha is truly part of Islam.
I don’t come to LTWWB looking for a debate, I come here looking for a laugh. And it looks like I got one or two. You need to take this forum and yourself a little less seriously. But thanks for the good wishes, I hope you have a nice night too.
How do you go from pyjama pants to a intellectual-like discussion of 3rd world fashion/culture? kind of a leap there…
Where I live, people once were invited to wear their jammies to a club on a Friday night; most who showed up looked they had not been out of said same jammies in days(or even weeks ..EUUW).
Like jogging pants* (just to clarify bcoz I know there are some who like to READ into what gets written, I Don’t mean the ” I’ve just come from the gym and forgot I need yogurt for breakfast” jogging pants; I mean the “bought from Frenchie’s rag bin, threadbare, shown what you own, ratty legs, pockets out, holey” jogging pants..we clear???); wearing pyjama pants not a fashion statement. Tells me you lack self respect and are either too lazy or depressed to bother with the getting dressed in actual clothing to go out of your dwelling… perhaps the ‘actual clothes’ part in itself is a decision too difficult for you to decide which wardrobe option would be suitable for the chosen outing. I can reassure you that there is no outing that requires/expects/demands jammie pants. really. Plain color pyjama pants are not fooling anyone. Put on clothes people.. it’s winter in Nova Scotia.
p.s. new mothers… babies aren’t like dogs, cats, bears or foxes, they are not covered in fur, you have to put winter coats, hats, mitts and boots (all items in list) on your babies or they freeze AND because they little it takes less time for them TO FREEZE. No, jammie pants will not do but they look much cuter on the under 2 years old set.
More,
Just to clarify: while I was defending the right to wear a headscarf, I was not defending face-veiling. I don’t agree with it, and the majority of Muslims (in my understanding) don’t agree with it either.
As for laws about face-veiling, well, if circumstances justified it, I could support such a law ie, esp. re: drivers’ licenses, in the workplace, etc.) . . .
. . . but I would rather avoid the legislative approach at first, and try the educational approach instead. It may be too traumatic to insist that an older lady expose her face if she has never done so before, but schools can emphasize equality and personal rights when children are young enough to absorb the message.
sharia law…thats all i got…not cool
@miasmina: “How do you go from pyjama pants to a intellectual-like discussion of 3rd world fashion/culture? kind of a leap there…” That’s the beauty of LTWWB.
wow..that was quite the read….brains …its true they are out there!