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Wondering why boys nowadays have 1 hand down their pants??

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Honeypie80 · 28/07/2011 09:36

I'm not sure if this is a regional thing or nationwide, if its just up here in the North then count yourself extremely lucky that you don't have to witness a gang of young boys (I've seen as young as 10 at least), standing with their friends while they all have 1 hand down their pants, even walking around or standing in a queue, Its everywhere and i just dont know how it started or why. It looks disgusting and makes me sick when i see it....

It started off girls wearing their pyjamas out, then progressed to wearing their curlers out, now the boys have hit back with their own "thing".

Why, Why Why????

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TheSmallClanger · 28/07/2011 10:24

I can deal with the pants-flashing, but the self-groping is the pits.
The boys I teach have been getting progressively worse for it. At first, I tried to ignore it, but now, if they are in my office, I tell them I don't want their manky hands all over my office furniture, which embarrasses them sufficiently.

ilovedora27 · 28/07/2011 10:27

I am a woman and I always do it at home. Trying to stop in now my DD is getting older and she will be around. However I do it watching tv in bed, sitting on sofa with DH, reading a book etc. I dont know why I dont even realise I am doing it.

worraliberty · 28/07/2011 10:31

Tell me about it cricket I'm the only female in a house of 5...even the dog is male and sleeps with his paw over his nuts

cricketballs · 28/07/2011 10:35

that's why I got a dog that is female to give me some company in this place as I am waiting for the youngest DS to start making sure nothing has fallen off!

thefirstMrsDeVere · 28/07/2011 10:36

I feel your pain worra and cricket. Only female at home here too. Surrounded by willies.

When I was a teenager I used to get people saying things like 'you could be such a pretty girl. Why do you do that to yourself?'

I was being laughed at by a group of school kids on the bus once and one little girl said 'stop it, how would you like it if you looked like that?' with a concerned look on her face.

This was the early 80s so you will have to try and imagine what I looked like. When people stopped staring and taking photos when I was older (and more boring) it felt really odd for a while.

Now I have a perm and highlights and mostly wear Gap jeans

MoaningMcMyrtlepants · 28/07/2011 10:50

I also am a 1 among 4 males. My DH does not do this and neither does my 9 yo as yet, though I have seen him when I have been to check on him at night with his hands down his pyjamas. My other 2 are too young as yet.

My 4 yo wanted to know why the boy in front of us didn't wear a belt? andif he couldn't afford one could we buy him one.

DH says that at school he tells them that it is part of prison culture and that it means you are already someones bitch, they hitch their trouser up pdq.

Melly20MummyToPoppy · 28/07/2011 11:09

Im lucky, us women rule in our house :o there's me, our 6 week old DD and my female rabbit. DP says when we get a dog we have to get a male to even things up a bit :o

joric · 28/07/2011 11:09

Geraldine :o !!! I'm going to use crabs/hernia on the little gangstaaarrrs at my Sch!!! I usually walk straight past on the corridor and say 'Is everything ok down there?..' to which their grubby little hands leap out of trousers immediately... the trousers tucked in socks make me :) too - proves they're not carrying a gun.......apparently ....!

worraliberty · 28/07/2011 11:14

Oh there might be only one woman in this house...but still I'm very much the boss

I tend to walk through the lounge when they're all relaxed and watching TV and shout "Hands out!" Just to see them jump

JanMorrow · 28/07/2011 11:24

Urg it's horrible! I hadn't really registered it until we went to Thorpe Park a couple of months ago (I was coat holder so had a lot of time to observe them) and I was HORRIFIED. Every second teenager had his hand down in his pants, it made me feel a bit queasy to be honest. WHYYY?!?!?!

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Honeypie80 · 28/07/2011 11:35

TheMagnificentBathykolpian That is just Genius, where on earth would you find a picture like that and whose up for ordering a pair first. I know what your saying if we start doing it they will stop.... But who is brave enough, surely at my age i would get locked up for some kind of indecent exposure....

If i watch the tv in bed with my DP, Its on his side of the room so i have to lie sideways in bed, all i see sometimes s the quilts being moved as if there waves on the see just cos hes having a grope, i immediatly ask him if hes looking for it, maybe its under the wet towel you left on the bathroom floor...

I cannot wait to see what the next phase is they will have,

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thebeansmum · 28/07/2011 11:38

Do you remember in the 80's the crowds of lads with a big roll of old lino/carpet and a huge ghetto blaster (well, that's what they were referred to then!!) in hideous tracksuits, schlepping round parks/town centres and rolling the thing out doing break dancing? The less popular kid had to hold the cassette tapes! they thought they were the dogs bollocks, but in most cases looking just cringeworthy and fucking stupid?

I thought they were sooooo cool...

Melly20MummyToPoppy · 28/07/2011 12:29

Schlepping is such an ace word.

RevoltingPeasant · 28/07/2011 12:31

I had a student who did this, sitting in the front row of lectures.

One day, I was observing a colleague lecturing to the same group. She walked in, clocked him, put on her mobile mike, and shouted to the entire group (c. 200 people), 'John Doe! Palms on the table, please!'

He was a quivering wreck for the rest of the hour....

StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 28/07/2011 13:34

Maybe they are worried that their willies might drop off, and they are either keeping hold of them so they stay attached, or checking regularly to make sure they are still there! And the trousers tucked into the socks thing must be so that if the willy does drop off, it won't drop out onto the pavement and be lost forever.

RevoltingPeasant - your colleague sounds amazing!

alowVera · 28/07/2011 13:36

I think they do it to check it's still there.

megapixie · 28/07/2011 13:53

My dp says its because "balls are the warmest part of your body, that is why they are outside, megapix, we have hands down there to keep them warm" me "and in summer?" "women do it too!" not that i've seen!

joric · 28/07/2011 15:12

:( @ all of the grubby hands out there :(

Atwaroverscrabble · 28/07/2011 16:06

Its when they do a sly sniff of their hands afterwards..... yuk yuk yuk! Dh does it all the time and after i cleaned the leather sofa i specifically said to him that i didnt want any ball juice on it!!

Unfortunately ds (12 tomorrow!!) has started doing it so i juat tell him to stop masterbating in public!

TheMagnificentBathykolpian · 28/07/2011 16:07

Oh my, Atwar. I was a little bit sick in my mouth at that.

manicbmc · 28/07/2011 16:09

I saw one in his 20s eating a burger with his hand down his pants.

It is vile. I often wondered if they are just stimulating the flow to their brains? Then I reminded myself that they don't have any.

Miggsie · 28/07/2011 16:13

Well, to be utterly pedantic, a man's balls are NOT the warmest part of his body, his armpits will be. The reason men's genitals are on the outside is that sperm don't like body temperature, they want to be cooler so that's why testicles are external. By constantly fondling them all he is doing is killing his sperm by overheating them.
Balls get excited and active by having a COLD HAND on them...has he never noticed this?

OK, end of biology lecture.

Eglu · 28/07/2011 16:14

It is interesting that you started this thread, as a few weeks ago I was out with DH and I said to him, when did it become socailly acceptable to have your hands in your pants, as there were 4 teenage lads in a queue near us doing it.

I found it bizarre that they were comfortable enough/felt it approriate to do this.

dementedma · 28/07/2011 16:18

I can't say I've noticed this really - maybe the Scottish kids haven't caught up with this particular fad yet. They do the droopy trousers thing though.
At DD2s high school, there is a long walkway through the centre of the school - known as The Street. DD was walking along it with current BF when the headmaster bellowed from the far end - startling the entire school into silence - "Dementedchild. Tell that boy to pull his britches up!"

joric · 28/07/2011 16:18

Miggsie :o They just like a bit of a fiddle then don't they??!

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