DEAR MR. RUDE PUKE HATHEAD BASKETBALL FAN
You are everywhere, BDG, The Pit, Pepsi, upper and lower, and you're very big in Liberty.
I am talking to all in your species. Did your mother ever tell you that it was rude to wear your hat indoors? Did it ever occur to you that the short woman sitting behind you, who paid for her ticket just like you, is having trouble seeing over you and even more trouble seeing over your lovely, adjustable, high crowned, Skoal logo cap? Does it really mean that much to you, at a school basketball game for you to tell the world, with your ball cap, that you're a Carolina Panthers' fan? Have you considered that the little boy you brought along to the game (presumably your son --must be your visitation weekend) is learning something from watching your rude, self-absorbed behavior? Or perhaps that thing is just stapled to your head.
Or maybe it's much simpler. Maybe you're just so stupid that the idea of removing an outdoor accessory INDOORS just never gets onto your radar screen. Or maybe your bulb is so dim that your radar screen isn't even illuminated. You really don't look that stupid. You're clean, have most of your teeth and seem to have dressed yourself. If you are that stupid and if you represent the new, emerging America, this would mean we need a whole new level of remedial signage at the area Gyms. It would be like "Gym behavior 099". A start would be:
NO PEEING IN THE HALLS--PLEASE USE THE RESTROOMS
NO SMOKING IN THE CROWDED GYM WITH THE GUY IN FRONT OF YOU WEARING A SWEATER THAT'LL GO UP LIKE KINDLING
CONCEALED CARRY IS DISCOURAGED ON SCHOOL PROPERTY
PLEASE REFRAIN FROM GROPING OTHER FANS
TAKE YOUR FREAKING HAT OFF IN THE GYM!
Should we really have to tell people stuff like this?
Labels: PORCINE BEHAVIOR
posted by UMRBlog @ 04:52
19 comments
19 Comments:
The World has turned Uncle Tony
Should the 5 min rule be enforced on a SLOW night ?
The level of rudeness is at an all time high !
How about going before the city and forcing a ban on wearing a hat indoors ??
Anon 1612,
Nope. Law should be used to enforce the minimum conduct necessary for a society with ordered liberty. This is just a matter of human decency and courtesy, which mrbasketballfanhathead lacks.
I was moved to write about it by a particularly egregious hatheadfathead incident, with visitation child, where the "vicitm" was a lady about four feet ten.
Not all antisocial behavior is illegal and not all illegal behavior is totally antisocial.
OTOH, there is no cure for dork!
TYFCB
Let me get this straight...wearing a ballcap, inside at a sporting event no less, is rude and antisocial? Unless I fail to remove said hat during the National Anthem, I don't see where it is any concern of yours. Frankly, I find your attitude boorish and antiquated, and if my wearing a cap at an indoor sporting event so offends you, I suggest you only attend outdoor events.
Let me get this straight...wearing a ballcap, inside at a sporting event no less, is rude and antisocial? Unless I fail to remove said hat during the National Anthem, I don't see where it is any concern of yours. Frankly, I find your attitude boorish and antiquated, and if my wearing a cap at an indoor sporting event so offends you, I suggest you only attend outdoor events.
Stutterer 2103,
There's nothing antiquated about blocking someone ele's view when it could be avoided.
BTW, watch beginning sentences with "Frankly", "Candidly" or "Truthfully". That either means you're about to lie or you usually lie but, this time, you're honest to God being truthful.
An excellent judge once told me that he never took seriously anything someone said when the sentence began with "Frankly".
Frankly, I thank you for coming by.
Did you ask the gentleman to remove his hat? Since it was evidently blocking someones view, perhaps that would have been a simple solution.
First, in the episode that inspired this post, I was not at ground zero to say anything. I watched it from a distance and then was inspired to count the hatheads similarly inconveniencing others. It was about two percent of the crowd in my section. None of them gave any sign of being on chemo.
Second, I don't know how much clearer I can make it that I'm commenting on a whole species and not any one incident.
TYFCB
I wore a hat indoors at the last Funions show.
Come to think of it, I was wondering why my drummer was ticked off and said he couldn't see ....
7:19
That would be like asking a smoker to stop smoking, Yikes! You'd hear a 30 minute irrational speech on pvt property, choice, rights to spread toxins because that's how the owner makes his money from mixing addictions, etc.
Rodney,
That's like the Twins wearing hats at the HumpDome. It's a recognized exception to the hat-indoors rule, along with being armed and playing pool. You're safe, as long as it wasn't on backwards. That's an automatic reduction of 15 IQ Points.
TYFCB.
What about a basketball game played in a dome normally used for football?
Hat OK or not OK?
Asking someone to remove a baseball cap could be dangerous.
Let's review...
Cardinal Cap...a little cocky, yet well mannered if asked to remove the cap.
Cubs cap....an eternal optimist, who will remove the cap
John Deere cap...Country fed that will kick your tail if asked to take off his cap
Bears cap...Your dead.
1638,
I yield to Coach Bryant who ALWAYS coached in a hat but WOULD NOT wear it in the Sugar Bowl @ the Super Dome.
My own view is the manners and concern for others part of it is more important than the protocol. Unless the person behind you is about 6'8'', you can pretty much assume you're blocking his/her vision and the hat isn't helping.
Bear's Hat was HOUND's Tooth !
And he was cut from a mold that the modern era wouldn't accept !
I had a straw hat on at the Charlie Daniels concert at the Adams Co fair, and a guy behind me asked me to remove it, and I did, no problem.
Hats at ballgames are one story. How about the guys who wear them while having dinner in a restaurant and I mean something nicer than Hardies?
My wife and I enjoy going out to eat. I don't know how many times we have gone to someplace like The Patio, Applebees, etc. and find some guy in jeans and a tee shirt sitting at the next table with his feed, baseball, etc. cap on. Often we have a contest to see who can most closely guess the number of patrons wearing headgear while eating during that visit.
I had a professor many years ago who told a student in one of my classes that the hunting cap my classmate wore to class in the fall was a condom for his brain.
Thanks for letting me vent for one of my pet peeves.
If PETA knew Bear's hat was hound's tooth, theyda spray-painted him!
Close your eyes and imagine that one! Wonder whether Auburn woulda sided with the radicals or the Southern institution.
I've been wearing my 2006 Cards WS Champs hat, but only in cheap resturants that still serve trans fat. Soon, you won't be able to smoke, eat, or wear hats in resturants (NYC). Rightfully so to ban smoking, but let us still wear Cards hat and eat food that will kill us one day.
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