Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 29, 2012

A double whammy: a tank top?!?

He must be a parent, those shades are for the eyes in the back of his head.

or putting the sunglasses on top of the hat brim

Or sunglasses on top of the head (men and women), even at night or when it’s cloudy.

My rejoinder to kids with the hat turned around is: So if the hat points forward, you have to walk backwards?" Gets the same “uh” response as “If you put down a camouflage shirt, how do you find it again?”

I don’t get it: why is Rat still alive and apparently undamaged after saying that to the muscly dude?

Sunglasses look cooler hangling from ones shirt pocket.

You look stupid! Ha! Didn’t expect that, eh?

Students of mine complain about the room being “so dark.” Duh, idiot—take off the sunglasses, you’re inside.

Not good

…and Pastis’ excuse is what?

He’s right! It does look stupid.

Of course if you want to look through the periscope before torpedoing that Japanese Cruiser, turning your baseball cap backwards is a good idea. WWII probably predates the prison reference.

How about when your walking away from the sun and you turn it to cut down on neck burns? I’ve done that why hiking, it’s wasn’t shading my vision. Course I grew up a little and got a hat with a brim all the way around.

Rat is anti-hipster.

“30 days in the hole”

Since Pastis portrays himself as wearing his baseball cap backwards, I don’t know why he mocks someone who does the same thing with their sunglasses.

@f6f5Hellcatyou could also wear sunscreen

I assumed that Rat was talking to the back of the guy’s head, as if confused by the sunglasses’ positioning.

There’s rarely a pocket in a t-shirt that’ll fit sunglasses…sure, put them in your pants pocket…oh, but don’t sit down to eat something…they’ll break.

With our multi-possessions and fewer available pockets…must keep our slim silhouette! so what’re going to do? Oh, I know…wear the #$@*! sunglasses INSIDE the restaurant/bar/Aroma’s coffee…and be a blind jerk eating with them on? or tilt them somehow…backwards or forwards…on your head?

Blame the fashionistas for having jerked away our bushie pants with lots of pockets…and damnfools who criticize.

You too, Pastis. Least you can do is offer to put them in your purse awhile…sorry, manbag, I mean.

TMI, TMI

Thank You Rat. Somebody had to say it.

Worst way to “wear” glasses: Have them resting on your chin. I’ve actually seen people do this, usually old women. Do they have any idea how retarded they look?

Garry Shandling once said that when he sees people with the sleeves of a sweater tied around their necks, he thinks that they just don’t know how to put on a sweater; he usually looks to see if they have socks tied around their ankles.

Oh yes… An insult will work amazingly.

LOL xxx

Sometimes I put my cover-all sunglasses on top of my head when I go inside, then forget where they are :-$ .

New trend? I’ve been doing this for 10+ years. Maybe “new” in the Eastern US… I just need a place when I don’t have my cycling brain bucket on. Not enough hair top-of-head to keep skin smear off lenses, nor pockets that would protect frames.

On the back of your head you don’t get your Wildroot Cream-Oil on your sunglasses.

Cap on backwards (as a fashion statement)? I call it the “I’m cute configuration.”

Three day bread growth so popular with movie stars? I call it a “wino beard.”

‘…Look Stupid’ indeed.

Rat hit the nail on the head. Please PLEASE go confront some kids wearing their jeans strapped around their groin, asses hanging out !

This is a new trend? I know people who have been wearing them this way for 10+ years. Apparently they were ahead of the curve. And I saw some dude wearing them this way on an episode of Numb3rs 3 or 4 years ago.

Live in Florida and if I am running in and out of stores or working, it is much easier to rest the sunglasses on top of my head instead of taking them in and out of their case.

Please do a strip for the guys with their pants pulled halfway down. Even more stupid

You never know…. maybe they think there’s always a lion walking behind them sizing them up for dinner.

YES! Thanks for saying what we all feel, Stephen!

So, why bother telling people that they ‘look stupid’ in your opinion? They won’t care, and they shouldn’t care. There’s no ‘proper’ way to wear something, there’s just the accepted-by-society way. Think about ties. Why do people think they look good? Why do we hang this thing around our neck and say it makes us look nice? Because someone did it a long time ago, and now it’s just become normal, and we’re expected to think it looks nice.

tl;dr rant aside, I have a friend that does this with his sunglasses. I think we all know someone.

I totally agree with Rat!

I’ve wondered about the sunglasses on the back of the head, it is coming so close to going on my dealbreaker list. Very lame.

If I did that I’d spend the rest of the day trying to find them.