I'm sure most have seen this video clip or have heard about the incident

 

http://news.uk.msn.com/video-clips/?videoid=2gvfcbt8

 

 

could have been handled better in my opinion but there you go, that's the US for you....

 

 

 

anyway this got me thinking about a recent 'social experiment' that I've been conducting over the last few months

 

I generally wear a hoodie (Sprawl or Caged Steel) to the gym, or whilst running, working on the zed and will regularly wear them on lazy days just because it's comfortable and a God send in the colder months.

 

If I'm conducting work, attending meetings or giving a brief I obviously wear a suit which kind of stands to reason.

 

but it just amazes me how much in recent years the 'hoodie' has been affiliated with yob culture

 

I'm sure that we've all come across scroat bags who do wear hoodies and cause trouble but to assume that everyone that wears one is a scroat and about to rob you at gunpoint is a bit obsurd

 

 

So part of the experiment was to determine what kind of reception I got when browsing in shops, chilling in coffee shops and generally going about my daily business and my God are the British public prejudice.

 

I ventured into a prestigious watch shop in Hereford town centre and the look that I got was unreal. The shop assistant looked down her nose at me as soon as I walked in as if I was something that had been dragged up through the gutter. The look on her face was a picture when the owner; who'd I'd bought a rather special limited edition Omega from just the year before recognised me after I elequently asked if they had an example of new model that I saw down at Cribbs Causeway,

 

incidentally our children actually go to the same school....

 

I'm not entirely sure if it's when they realise that you're not intending to rob the place or when they realise that you've got some money to spend that they suddenly don't see the hoodie and all of a sudden it's 'best friends time'

 

Some shops I suppose are just really snooty or maybe the media have just gone overboard on highlighting the menace that is 'the hoodie wearing yobs of today'

I dont like hoodies. never have and never will.

I dont like hoodies. never have and never will.

 

 

Are you more a T.shirt kind of guy then?

 

 

 

I don't wear hoodies, but do agree with you about people being prejudice.

I personally like it when you go in to a shop in your scruffs and it is quite clear the staff don't think you can afford their prices etc. it makes me want to buy it more. Lol

 

I also hate how in some shops the staff act as if they are higher class than you just because they work there.

People puzzle me!

I don't wear hoodies, but do agree with you about people being prejudice.

I personally like it when you go in to a shop in your scruffs and it is quite clear the staff don't think you can afford their prices etc. it makes me want to buy it more. Lol

 

I also hate how in some shops the staff act as if they are higher class than you just because they work there.

People puzzle me!

 

 

 

Very true mate

 

sometimes you just feel like pointing out a minor detail (ie. the reason that I shop here is because I can afford it....the reason that you work here and are serving me is because you can't!....now get your head from out of your own arse and let's start again shall we...)

maybe it was cause you had a baseball cap on and your hood up over it that did it. I think its awesome to conduct little experiments like this on the public you find out that a large proportion of society and mere sheep on autopilot just going along with what they are told.

should see peoples faces when i get out of my zed in my work cloths in the middle of summer.

 

As for hoodies the reasons why i dont like them is to many ****s wear them and its as simple as that,

maybe it was cause you had a baseball cap on and your hood up over it that did it. I think its awesome to conduct little experiments like this on the public you find out that a large proportion of society and mere sheep on autopilot just going along with what they are told.

 

 

My thoughts exactly

baaaaaaa baaaaaa I love sheep, why i moved to wales :lol::lol:

So true. The prejudice comes in pretty handy sometimes. When I go shopping I tend to 'dress down'. You get peace and quiet that way. I bought a new merc a couple of months back. Turned up in a hoody. Needless to say, the laid back, non prejudice salesman got the sale.

You think wearing a hoodie makes you typecast ??

 

Try driving an American pick up truck !!!

 

Every sod thinks you either loaded, as in "I wouldnt like to put the petrol in that thing ?" I aint fooking asking you too !!

 

Or,

 

You are a planet killer ! As in, and this is a true incident;

Fat wumin says as I am fuelling up, "Is that a big yank pick up ?" Yes, I reply. "Well no wonder its pissing with rain all the time, with ****s like you driving around in things like that, ****ing up the ozone layer !"

 

That was actually said to me in a petrol station by a right ugly overweight dog of a female !

 

She didnt reply to my wife who asked her how many of the kids in the car she had were to the same father !!

 

I just hate everybody !

 

Alan.............

 

 

Fat wumin says as I am fuelling up, "Is that a big yank pick up ?" Yes, I reply. "Well no wonder its pissing with rain all the time, with ****s like you driving around in things like that, ****ing up the ozone layer !"

 

That was actually said to me in a petrol station by a right ugly overweight dog of a female !

 

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I think I've met her.....and her sisters

 

 

 

mate see the amout of times i get asked why my nickname is hoody id be a very rich man and id have a ttzed,a 911 and a skyline in my big plush house

but i genaraly tell them its coz iv stabbed 20 ppl and sell drugs and get away with it...the actual worst thing is the ask really.....no you f00kin moron my second name is hood..

firstly did you have your hood up when you went into the jewellers? :gun_bandana:

The only thing that I don't like is when you see them using the hoodie to try and look 'gangster' eg putting the hood on when its sunny, wearing the hood in a car

when someone shows attitude putting the hood up and walking around like a cocky shite possibly with a 'gangster' walk. I have worked with young offenders and when someone puts there hood up it usually means there pissed off or want trouble.

hoodies don't bother me to much but what does cheese me off is the stupid walk and there joggings around there fooking knees whats that all about

its the most stupid's t thing i even seen

firstly did you have your hood up when you went into the jewellers? :gun_bandana:

The only thing that I don't like is when you see them using the hoodie to try and look 'gangster' eg putting the hood on when its sunny, wearing the hood in a car

when someone shows attitude putting the hood up and walking around like a cocky shite possibly with a 'gangster' walk. I have worked with young offenders and when someone puts there hood up it usually means there pissed off or want trouble.

 

 

 

I don't wear my hood up unless I'm out running in the hills, it usually acts like a neck warmer when rolled down

 

and when you say 'gangster' walk I assume by that you mean when the individual in question appears to be walking with a limp, looks like his shoulder is dislocated and has his trackie' bottoms tucked into his socks....

 

that look ^^^^^ might be quite common within a group of 15 year olds swigging 20/20 but not many in their mid 30's I dare say

I don't wear my hood up unless I'm out running in the hills, it usually acts like a neck warmer when rolled down

 

and when you say 'gangster' walk I assume by that you mean when the individual in question appears to be walking with a limp, looks like his shoulder is dislocated and has his trackie' bottoms tucked into his socks....

 

that look ^^^^^ might be quite common within a group of 15 year olds swigging 20/20 but not many in their mid 30's I dare say

 

:rofl: Thats a great description. If not tucked into the socks, one leg rolled up to the knee. :)