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namedafteracartoon2 t1_j3xxumd wrote

Oh lord, I don't understand how any sane, sanitary, and self-respecting person would ever sit their half-naked ass cheeks on a subway seat. You have residue of piss, shit, and God know what else on those seats. You'll leave with a staph infection on your tush... this tradition should die 🤢

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bklyn1977 t1_j3xz3h6 wrote

stop making subway riders a "hostage audience" to your stupid performances.

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elizabeth-cooper t1_j3y1m2t wrote

A scheduled event is the opposite of the spirit of improv; the organizer is riding his own coattails. Maybe he should try coming up with some new ideas that are actually clever? Considering the way people dress nowadays, there's barely any difference between pants and no pants. I saw a guy in shorts today.

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mowotlarx t1_j3y22jq wrote

Is this it? Have flash mobs finally died? Are we free?

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TheNormalAlternative t1_j3y2p7f wrote

Improv Everywhere tired of being shown up by unwell people who wear no pants on the subway on any given day.

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PorchHonky t1_j3y2wn1 wrote

Show me you're a transplant without saying you're a transplant.

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drpvn t1_j3y3k7l wrote

Dude, what if we got a whole bunch of people and took the subway without pants on. That would be so hilarious.

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WasherDrye t1_j3y6i1z wrote

On another note, the beloved tradition, Pants Subway Ride, continues into its 43,175th consecutive day.

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virtual_adam t1_j3y7nst wrote

They’d probably fit the pre requisites for forced hospitalization

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LunacyNow t1_j3y92w5 wrote

Can this be cancelled permanently?? This was funny the first time but it's really lost its novelty. Go find something else to do.

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mastermind_loco t1_j3ypu5h wrote

Dumbest shit ever. As dumb as Santa Con. NOBODY CARES.

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museumstudies t1_j3yqcqi wrote

This is somewhat of a philosophical question but how tattered can a pair of pants be to still be considered pants?

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JayMoots t1_j3yssjp wrote

I feel about this the same way I feel about SantaCon. It was a fun idea in the beginning, but it ran its course after a year or two, and is definitely overstaying its welcome at this point.

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ike_tyson t1_j3ywx9w wrote

Can you blame them for not having it?

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karmapuhlease t1_j3yy1ih wrote

Replying to TonyzTone (#1,335,936)

Eh, it's not that weird. For the first time ever, it was very easy to coordinate anonymously with an unlimited number of strangers for free. In the past, if you had wanted to do that, you had to put up posters and take out ads on the radio, but the internet made it free. People were bound to experiment with it.

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Rottimer t1_j3yyhcf wrote

Replying to PZeroNero (#1,337,015)

Oh yeah, I remember that one, because it was right before Christmas and I was like, how the fuck am I supposed to shop for everything (yes, I was waiting until the last minute). This was back when I only used Amazon to order books.

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ECK-2188 t1_j3yymag wrote

Oh no… “how will we ever recover?!”

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SpagetAboutIt t1_j3z0j8j wrote

Like I need some organization to give me permission to take my pants off on the subway

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_Maxolotl t1_j3z3bto wrote

If we let this get cancelled, the terrorists will have won.

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NatLawson t1_j3z8bl0 wrote

Oh man, no one told me. I was so embarrassed.

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Cordcutter77 t1_j3z8pk7 wrote

There are folks that celebrate this every day on the subway so… 🤷🏻‍♂️

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citydudeatnight t1_j3zb52l wrote

Jokes on them to place their bare asses on those nasty seats.

I hope they're not anti-vaxxers in general because they're gonna need them with a dollop of penicillin

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onlyhalfrobot t1_j3zk4ok wrote

This troupe peaked when they handed out fliers on April Fools that said In-N-Out was coming to Union Square. It almost caused a joyous riot, they will never top that.

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srpokemon t1_j406k5s wrote

holy fuck is this thread a honeypot for bitching

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cmc t1_j40ubp7 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,339,609)

I’m not gonna trauma dump on you, but… a lot has happened in 9 years. I don’t really have the zest for life anymore, now I just happen to still be alive.

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LWSNYC t1_j40yi6f wrote

How will we survive?

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imlavanow t1_j41c8gc wrote

Good please don’t ever bring it back. You can do that any day anyway.

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Dryanni t1_j41ce5e wrote

Wouldn’t that be the 3rd consecutive year? Unless they did no pants in 2021??

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MarketMan123 t1_j41uiga wrote

The pity isn’t the end of No Pants Subway Ride, it’s the demise of all the other funny stuff Improve Anywhere used to do.

It seems like it slowed to a trickle by the end of the 2010s. This is just the tap totally being shut.

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zachotule t1_j42mgt6 wrote

Replying to Rottimer (#1,336,952)

Were any train operators on duty moving trains around that day? And if so do we know if they wore pants that day? If both were the case, technically it’d still be 43,175 consecutive days because the holiday is not exclusive to just passengers.

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Rottimer t1_j42uwvm wrote

Replying to zachotule (#1,343,552)

I think that would be up for debate. If the train operators got to work via the subway then you would have a point. However if they were on the clock I wouldn’t consider that a “subway ride.”

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JohnnnyCupcakes t1_j46ak28 wrote

Replying to karmapuhlease (#1,337,021)

It’s weird how something like this couldn’t help people organize anonymously to form unions. When you think about it, a “silent protest” (kinda like “quiet quitting”) could potentially be more crippling for a company versus a traditional strike and picket line. Picture a bunch of executives sitting around asking each other, “where the fuck did everybody go?!”, kinda like how workers have no clue what’s going on right up until the last second when the executives finally tell everyone (usually on a Friday afternoon).

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CaptainJZH t1_j47129r wrote

Replying to JohnnnyCupcakes (#1,349,945)

Tbf it's a lot easier to coordinate with a ton of random people than people whose lives all depend on their employment - so you get some who don't want to risk it, some who drank the Kool Aid and think unions are bad, etc

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