“This is a fakery. If they care at all about their children or grandchildren, and sometimes I doubt that – I think, you know, grandchildren now don’t write a thank-you for the Christmas presents, they’re walking on their pants with the cap on backwards listening to the enema man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg, and they don’t like them!”
Alan Simpson, scolding old folks for complaining about possibly having their Social Security funds reduced, quoted by Politico.
It’s assumed he means Eminem and Snoop Dogg. I’d say Simpson has regularity problems. This is the asshole President Obama had co-chair his deficit commission.
20yrs ago as a high school kid I worked as a life guard. Some nice old guy that would come in and swim laps would turn vile if I had my cap on backward. It drove him crazy, he actually knocked it off my head once. I didn’t quite get what his problem was until one day he berated me, telling me I looked like a wanna-be black kid. I remember wearing my hat backward everyday for a couple of years after that, not because I especially liked hip-hop or hip-hop culture, but because I loved the idea of pissing off old guys that had a problem with something different than their view of the world. This post made me think of that obviously. Old men do not care for backward hats, even today apparently.
I have no problem with backwards baseball caps, on white people or black people.
Until you turn 22. Anyone wearing a backwards baseball cap after that age is subject to my immediate mental dismissal.