I'm glad you remember Robbie. I'm starting to show the first signs of Alzheimer's.

Thanks for being part of my memory division, LetsShrug.

My wife said irregardless on our first date. I cringed, and she corrected herself. It was okay, partly b/c she corrected herself, but also b/c she's very pretty and more of a street fighter of getting-things-done world than an academic.

This isn't racism any more than price discrimination is racism. Why would a business want to encourage the thug mentality to frequent their establishments? I don't see anywhere on the sign which targets any ethnicity, just a manner of dressing.

Sign sign everywhere a sign...do this don't that, can't you read the sign?

Yes, it is veiled racism. It is describing the attire of the stereo-typed young black-male. I don’t think it is civil-suit worthy, but it is in poor taste.

The only problem I have is the part with the sleeveless undershirts. As a woman I wear those all of the time in the summer. Also, the athletic apparel thing is kind of weird. They can post whatever they want. Bar Louie sucks anyway.

PLEASE don't say irregardless, it is not a word! Sorry, it's just that if I were the wicked witch of the west that word would make me melt.

It is only offensive because people are looking for something to be offended by.

Maybe the heavy chains worn outside the shirt is the professional victim badge.

This is what the cancer of political correctness results in.

What was the song from the 60's? Long haired, freaky people need not apply?

I don't get it either. If they just said they didn't like minorities it would be enough for people to be embarrassed to go in there. I agree with the Technocracy that this is mostly people looking for something to be offended about.

Yesterday I said that I would call out racism when I saw it. This policy is right at the borderline of racist, but Rozar is correct in saying that the bar targeted the mutable characteristics. If they wanted to have a dress code, they could have worded it less offensively.

Not true.

Organizations get to discriminate all the time.

NAACP - whites not welcome
NOW - men not welcome

"Less offensively"... such as??? No, don't answer that (smilekins)... this is the WHOLE point... I'm sick of worrying about 'offending' someone... people need to grow up and if a business doesn't want you, or your clothing, appearance, smell, hair style....or whatever else in their business establishment, then for the life of me I do not understand WHY someone who falls under that description would WANT to go into that establishment. It circles right back around into an entitled attitude. As if the establishment OWES anyone who passes by entrance. Business owners don't owe anyone anything..it's THEIR business.

It is directed at a certain group of people---losers. It seems to me it would be easy to abide by this code irregardless of your skin color.

No it's targeting the clothes they wear because it's illegal to discriminate against a specific group of people with immutable characteristics. So they targeted the mutable ones.