Open Letter to the 15 year old with the Run DMC T-shirt

Dear 15 year old with the Run DMC T-shirt:

I saw you this morning, while I was driving my 6 year old to school. You had the usual teenage attire: Weird looking hoodie, straight leg jeans, and skate shoes.

All of this is a-ok, and normal. In fact, you wouldn’t have even registered on my radar, except for the fact that you had on a RUN DMC T-shirt. Now, i’ll spare you the old guy “It was 1 degree C at the time, you should probably do up that hoodie”, and we’ll skip straight to this:

“What the hell are you doing wearing a RUN DMC T-shirt?” Nothing else in your appearance expressed a 80′s retro vibe, nor did you dress like a fan of Hip Hop in any way. You’re 15, so when they were at the top of the game, you were minus 9 years old. In fact, you were only 2 when “Crown Royal” came out, and that was waaaay past the sell by date. I’m cool with you digging their songs, they had a lot of great stuff back in the 80′s.

So it comes down to this.

1)You’re wearing the shirt to profess your love for the Kings from Queens, which makes you awesome. If this is the case, throw out those stupid looking jeans, and get something loose and big. And get rid of the skate shoes, or at the VERY LEAST, make sure they’re old school Adidas.

2)you’re wearing it “ironically”, which makes you the worst kind of person in the world. Hey hipsters, here’s a tip: The only people wearing something ironically are knights in the middle ages, or possibly Iron Man. You’re just fucktarded. Take off the stupid trucker hats, shave, and lose the air of superiority that you decided one day you’d like to have.

In closing, RUN DMC is awesome, but only for the right reasons. Embrace the coolness, or stop wearing the shirt.

Admin Rock.

10 Responses to “Open Letter to the 15 year old with the Run DMC T-shirt”

1. Tbinns says:

   September 22, 2010 at 2:03 pm

   Don’t mess with that kid. He’s Tougher than Tough

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2. Crash says:

   September 24, 2010 at 2:39 am

   Really? You’re relegated to calling out young children on their fashion trends? The kid probably hasn’t even hit puberty, who cares what his tastes in music are or what he wears? I’m sure next year he’ll be wearing all black and the year after he’ll be wearing polos and khakis.

   Is that where this website is going?
   Next week are we going to get a lesson on how to a cool/hip father?

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   • admin_rock says:

     September 24, 2010 at 10:43 am

     Tbinns is about to become a dad, and I’ve been one (or two) for about 7 years, it’s not unlikely that lesson is forthcoming.

     I think you missed the point a little.

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     • Crash says:

       September 26, 2010 at 5:08 am

       Your point as far as I could tell was that some kid you have no prior knowledge of should or should not wear a shirt based upon his tastes in music.
       I’ve seen kids that go up to my waist wearing Nirvana shirts but you don’t hear me bitching about how they probably couldn’t pick out Kurt Cobain in a line up. But it’s whatever. He’s just a kid and I just hope that when he does grow up he finds music that is enjoyable to him whatever it may be.

       But yall are right. I should probably just move on and find a new website to frequent.

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       • admin_rock says:

         September 26, 2010 at 6:26 pm

         Yep. Sounds about right.

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       • Perryn says:

         October 4, 2010 at 10:48 am

         I remember this one time when I saw something that was funny and I was going to make a humorous comment on it in a manner abstracted enough that nobody would know who I was really talking about so that it didn’t directly offend the person who inspired it. Now I’m so glad that I didn’t. Now I understand that funny is never an acceptable reason to do something, especially when it involves something potentially offensive to an anonymous person who wouldn’t even know it was about them even on the off chance that they somehow heard about it.

         Thank you, Crash. Thank you for helping me understand the sin of my laughter.

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   • Tbinns says:

     September 24, 2010 at 6:20 pm

     Where is this website going? That seems to imply we had a kind of integrity somewhere along the way. I’m sorry I missed that.

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3. Elmock says:

   September 24, 2010 at 8:09 am

   all I can tell him is “you be illin”

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4. SeriouslyAGeekGirl says:

   September 26, 2010 at 9:49 am

   Omg! Is this website turning into the kind of place where people post comments asking if this is really where this website is going?

   I mean really? Really really?

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5. NotVictoria says:

   October 3, 2010 at 11:47 am

   (I think your friend Crash was the 15 year old in question)

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