Pull your trousers up!!!

the art of sucking teeth is called shrupping you know the sound..

an everyday Caribbean oral gesture, kiss-teeth or (KST),
exploring previously-unresolved problems of meaning. Such forms are as examples of African cultural continuity across the Diaspora, often overlooked despite continuing interest
in historical links between Caribbean Creoles and African communication systems. Forms such as (KST) are typically treated as lexical items: dictionary entries provide overlapping lists of emotions or affective states (eg, “scorn, impatience”) for each of several entries
(suck-teeth , chups , etc.). Such approaches are inadequate, as the meaning of (KST) is not a
single semantic unit, while lists are incomplete, contingent and inadequate. We distinguish
ideophones from metalinguistic labels; consider geographical distribution and diffusion with
respect to both functions and particular forms; and analyze related signs as a set, with
reference to shared pragmatic function. (KST) is an inherently evaluative and inexplicit oral
gesture with a sound-symbolic component, and a remarkably stable set of functions across
the Diaspora: an interactional resource with multiple possibilities for sequential
organization, often used to negotiate moral positioning among speakers and referents, and
closely linked to community norms and expectations of conduct and attitude. It participates
in a system of indirect discourse, requiring co-construction of intention by speaker and
hearers. Moreover, it functions in personal narratives to mark both internal and external
evaluation, sometimes ambiguously. Each of the proposed functions is illustrated with data
ranging from historical to contemporary, oral to literary, monologic to interactional.


i just think its bollocks

I have noticed that these creatures also wear belts on their low slung jeans. I'd like to tighten the belts up, around their necks, to the point of death. I really do think its about time the government started a cull on these things. How is it legal to batter a seal cub around the head, yet allow 'hoodies' the right to roam? Might I recommend the following, which is cast iron guaranteed to work, and to result in lack of 'street cred' for the hoodie. Take a small plastic container, and mix about ten tablespoons of coffee with around 5 tables spoons of water. Put a lid on it, keep a spoon in your pocket and set off in search of your target. Once spotted, approach with caution, from the rear. Take a spoon of the coffee mix and discreetly flick it onto the matalan special Y fronts that will be on show due to the incorrectly functioning belt. It will now appear to all your targets 'bloods' that the hoodie has indeed shit himself. He will be forced to pull his jeans up, and possibly even to nob off home too. Jobdone, you are a hero.

It always gets me when they wear jeans that are way too long that they trail on the ground, through mud and puddles and become frayed.


I'm guessing many of these are designer jeans too, so not cheap.

Ha.. you know, it's infiltrated the 'rah' community at Edinburgh uni too. All these respectable looking boys from upper middle class families, sporting ralph lauren shirts under terribly proper crew neck jumpers, with their jack wills jeans artistically balanced on their manhood so that you get the waist band and top half of their boxers on display. I don't know who they're trying to kid, they'll never pass for 'street' when they drone in overly rounded vowels to each other.
It's quite annoying, I always feel like a perv when I see them but you can't help but notice that their bums are poking out in front of you!! I've often considered pulling them down and running off giggling hysterically but Edinburgh's too small for that, they'd know who I was straight away.

we've had the pricetag on shoes and hats for a while here in the US, but I haven't seen that fashion statement anywhere after or outside of high school.