Yup, uh-huh. If you're not expecting to go swimming, you look stupid in shorts. And don't talk to me about heat, I came from an area where it pretty much stayed above 100 degrees 6 months out of the year and I did just fine in Wranglers.
In high school football, we had a mandatory 2 weeks preseason conditioning. The first week no pads or hitting, the second week, pads and hitting. The first week, we wore issued shorts and a mesh shirt, plus our helmets. Then we got our pads for the next week, including a full girdle of hip pads and thigh and knee pads. I see that most NFL players don't wear pads on their lower body. I never understood that, since one of the guys who was a grade under than me got calcified bruises in both of his thighs, which were as painful as they sound. We practiced those 2 weeks two time a day, and the afternoon practices in August here in Michigan it was usually in the mid to high 80's. The shorts made a difference, when you were out there doing conditioning drills and running through plays. I actually made the mistake my Freshman year of having such painful legs that before the afternoon practice the second day, putting Absorbine Jr. on my legs. It took all of 10 minutes doing calisthenics in 85 degree heat to have my legs start to burn. I could hardly wait until a water break to wash my legs off. It helped some, but they still burned until I got a shower. I never made the mistake of coming into conditioning not in super shape again.
They are cheap, offer better range of motion, makes the Texas heat easier to put up with, etc. Calf line shorts probably offer more decency than just basket ball shorts. Some guys just get fat and their pants don't fit, so they switch to stretchy cloths.
Jeans are of such low quality these days that they rip, they also cost too damn much to keep replacing. Even jeans several sizes bigger with relaxed fit will rip. It takes several pair to find a pair that doesn't rip and I have a literal pile of ripped jeans that are waiting for the trash or to be turned into rags. I switched to basket ball / gym shorts around the farm and saved myself the hassle. Been using the same three for around ten years now, mostly to workout in, but they have survived a year on the farm.
I still wear jeans out in town, summer included, although they get switched out immediately once back home.
I'm certainly not walking around trying to impress random fucks on the street. I wasn't comfortable showing my white legs off as a kid, but now it's comfort over looks. Every time. Feh.
Maybe if you wore a better quality of jeans? Wranglers, maybe? That's all I wear and mine don't rip, and that's with a 90 pound pit that loves to grab me by the lower leg and drag me around several times a day.
Where I grew up, only tourists wore shorts. And we hated them.
As for why #10's shorts go so far down his legs, to fit his waist the little pudge bought shorts for a man a foot taller. That's also why they got pulled down so easily - he has no waist. Not that I can talk about his physical condition, but my pants never fall off because I wear suspenders.
#9 A few years back there was a clip of a black reporter doing an outdoor segment. If you were blind, you would have thought he was White. Somehow, he ended up swallowing some kind of insect. Faster than you could say Amos and Andy, he went into the foulest ghetto dialect rant you ever heard. Every other word was fucking this or motherfucking that. Every time I see some so called educated, erudite black on TV, I remember that. It's a mask that they all wear.
#4 - Dumb Shit...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the laughs. I needed that..
ReplyDeleteGlad he was OK but I'd bet a paycheck there was a strong smell of shit for yards around his machine.
ReplyDelete#3 Escaped serious injury by being killed instantly!
ReplyDelete9) I always say that flies are going around just begging to be killed.
ReplyDelete#10: why do some guys wear “shorts” that extend from waistline to mid calf? I think they look stupid.
ReplyDeleteI think shorts of any length on any adult male look stupid.
DeleteKenny, does that include rugby players, Aussie Coast Watchers, pretty much the entire
Delete... entire royal military services?
DeleteYup, uh-huh. If you're not expecting to go swimming, you look stupid in shorts. And don't talk to me about heat, I came from an area where it pretty much stayed above 100 degrees 6 months out of the year and I did just fine in Wranglers.
DeletePeople with tender skin need to protect it.
DeleteI never wear shorts. I too think shorts on males are stupid and not safe.... Now on a nice chick is a different story.... hehe......
DeleteIn high school football, we had a mandatory 2 weeks preseason conditioning. The first week no pads or hitting, the second week, pads and hitting.
DeleteThe first week, we wore issued shorts and a mesh shirt, plus our helmets. Then we got our pads for the next week, including a full girdle of hip pads and thigh and knee pads. I see that most NFL players don't wear pads on their lower body. I never understood that, since one of the guys who was a grade under than me got calcified bruises in both of his thighs, which were as painful as they sound.
We practiced those 2 weeks two time a day, and the afternoon practices in August here in Michigan it was usually in the mid to high 80's. The shorts made a difference, when you were out there doing conditioning drills and running through plays.
I actually made the mistake my Freshman year of having such painful legs that before the afternoon practice the second day, putting Absorbine Jr. on my legs. It took all of 10 minutes doing calisthenics in 85 degree heat to have my legs start to burn. I could hardly wait until a water break to wash my legs off. It helped some, but they still burned until I got a shower. I never made the mistake of coming into conditioning not in super shape again.
They are cheap, offer better range of motion, makes the Texas heat easier to put up with, etc. Calf line shorts probably offer more decency than just basket ball shorts. Some guys just get fat and their pants don't fit, so they switch to stretchy cloths.
DeleteJeans are of such low quality these days that they rip, they also cost too damn much to keep replacing. Even jeans several sizes bigger with relaxed fit will rip. It takes several pair to find a pair that doesn't rip and I have a literal pile of ripped jeans that are waiting for the trash or to be turned into rags. I switched to basket ball / gym shorts around the farm and saved myself the hassle. Been using the same three for around ten years now, mostly to workout in, but they have survived a year on the farm.
I still wear jeans out in town, summer included, although they get switched out immediately once back home.
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I'm certainly not walking around trying to impress random fucks on the street. I wasn't comfortable showing my white legs off as a kid, but now it's comfort over looks. Every time. Feh.
DeleteMaybe if you wore a better quality of jeans? Wranglers, maybe?
DeleteThat's all I wear and mine don't rip, and that's with a 90 pound pit that loves to grab me by the lower leg and drag me around several times a day.
Where I'm from, they're 'little boy pants'. Any adult male wearing them wouldn't be
Deletetaken seriously...or considered a poofster.
Where I grew up, only tourists wore shorts. And we hated them.
DeleteAs for why #10's shorts go so far down his legs, to fit his waist the little pudge bought shorts for a man a foot taller. That's also why they got pulled down so easily - he has no waist. Not that I can talk about his physical condition, but my pants never fall off because I wear suspenders.
#9 A few years back there was a clip of a black reporter doing an outdoor segment. If you were blind, you would have thought he was White. Somehow, he ended up swallowing some kind of insect. Faster than you could say Amos and Andy, he went into the foulest ghetto dialect rant you ever heard. Every other word was fucking this or motherfucking that. Every time I see some so called educated, erudite black on TV, I remember that. It's a mask that they all wear.
ReplyDeleteI might talk the same way if I swallowed a bug, and I am pasty white.
Delete#9 - You will eat the bugs.
ReplyDelete#7 Snagged by a Mansfield bar.
ReplyDeleteReally, it doesn't have tits.
DeleteYa gotta be tough if you're stupid.
ReplyDelete#10 Boss, you're not gonna believe this. Just watch the camera footage.
#3. "Operator was not injured" Unfortunate. Stupid should hurt.
ReplyDelete#10: Just give up and go home man; this ain't your day.
ReplyDeleteFred Dibna could have shown them how to drop a chimney. Just a few blocks of wood and a pile of combustibles.
ReplyDelete#10 Tire vs man. That tire has some serious skills. Man should have worn some safety equipment- like a belt, working in such a dangerous environment.
ReplyDeleteWhen your waistline is gone, all a belt does is block your digestive tract. He should have worn suspenders - to hold up jeans, not oversized shorts.
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