January 7, 2008
No Pants Metro Ride Planned for Jan. 12
For the last seven years, a renegade group of anti-pants New Yorkers have held an annual No Pants Subway Ride event, which last year attracted over 200 participants. In 2006, it even garnered several arrests. And now a Facebook group has popped up promoting a copycat event here on D.C.'s Metro this Saturday, Jan. 12.
The proposed event, scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, currently has 82 confirmed guests on Facebook and another 140 people who are listed as maybes. The organizers, Elizabeth Ody and Richard Julian, are asking anyone who'd like to ride Metro without pants this weekend to show up at 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Dupont Circle fountain (please wear pants to the rally point), where they'll get you organized into groups and send you off to different Metro lines in an attempt to blanket the rail system with the pantsless.
On the one hand, we're not so sure this event will be as popular here as it is in New York City, given this town's slight penchant for buttoned-up-ness. On the other, the social organizing possibilities of sites like Facebook mean there could be a lot more people without pants popping up on Metro this Saturday than we might normally expect. Either way, we hope at least a few of you DCist photographers will stop by to capture the event it all its bare-legged glory.
Photo by sgoralnick
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ugly city + pantsless event = NO.
On top of that, they picked the time of year when people's thighs are flabbiest and everyone's skin is pasty and blotchy. Not to mention, some women forgo shaving their legs this time of year. Yep, should be a lovely sight.
Please, DCers aren't attention whorey enough to do this. Give them the promise of mimosas, on the other hand, and they'll come out in droves.
Color me embarrassed: I thought this was today.
Heaven forfend that some women should forego shaving once in a while.
Give me a goddamn break.
mellbell, we'll give you a break as long as we don't have to see your pasty white gorilla legs
A. Washingtonians enacting an idea that was done by New York City, once again proving that we can't come up with any original ideas for things to do that either require a hipster-like sensibility or general stupidity (which I consider mutually exclusive).
B. While I'm against pants in general (RE: Homer Simpson's line, "Don't you hate pants?!"), these type of events are lame in the sense that the number of males is usually way too disproportionate to the amount of females. Not that I have a problem with men in their undies, but what's the point of joining up with lots of people if you're not going to mingle with the opposite sex?
C. Why not do this on an actual commute time instead of the weekend? If you're trying to freak people out, the tourists aren't exactly hard, much less worth the effort.
D. I like list format comments.
You just know it's not going to be the right kinda people who will be pantless on January 12. Sorta like how it's never the right kind of people who go topless or wear Speedos at the beach.
Why not kilted?
TLB = Absolutely Right
Also, this might be the most obvious "please give me attention because I never get any" BS I have ever heard of. I mean, the cause is to just get attention? That's it? Did I read it wrong? That's sad...And I will remember to bring an extra bottle of hand sanitizer riding the metro Sat.
What, only white people ride the subway without pants?
There's an Asian dude in there.
Add one more item to the list on 72hours.dc.gov.
I do NOT want to have to explain this to my 3-year old son on the way home from whatever museum I drag him to this weekend. Thanks for the heads up. I'll assume Metrobus is safe.
Agreed - this is lame, and a huge waste of time and energy.
Forecast is for a high of 47 degrees, just low enough to create some unsightly goose pimples.
high school antics
Crikey, when did you all simultaneously become my cranky grandfather and start commenting on DCist?
This no-pants thing is silly, pointless but most importantly, IT'S FUNNY! Relax and stop whining. If it's really that terrible just avoid the metro from 4-6pm on Saturday. And maybe stay away from the DCist flickr pool for a day.
What's the point?
note to any dude participating in this: make sure you wear boxers with a button or some kind of closure. please.
Forecast is for a high of 47 degrees, just low enough to create some unsightly goose pimples.
and shrinkage!
What emergency escape route should I use to avoid this?
Umm...thanks for the warning. I'm especially worried about those that choose to go commando.
Do not want.
ugly city + pantsless event = NO.
Wait a minute. Are all 8 million New Yorkers drop-dead gorgeous? I've certainly seen enough flabby gutter trolls on the New York City subway. I'd go so far as to say that the percentage of moderately attractive people in New York is actually much lower than here in DC, given DC's penchant for buttoned-up-ness and New York's penchant for embracing the multi-flavored tapestry of squalor that is 27,000 people per square mile.
But, as this thread has already proven, this will never work in the District. I could be wrong, of course. But I bet it draws a little bit of attention and a few participants, and then gets bitched right out of existence.
Yes, getting your daughter used to strange, pantsless men in public is a great idea. (just kidding!)
:P
boring DCist readers + internet anonymity = this comment page
Naysaying bitches. Seriously.
Well, don't forget to add in the fact that half of the District has a nasty cold right now so we're tired, sick, and cranky.
The link from gothamist indicates that there are seven regional events, including dc. while i generally think the city is cooler than the district, we're being encouraged to participate. i don't know if dc is cool enough to pull this off though. we'll see on saturday i reckon.
While D.C. is certainly far from it as well, New York is in no way a city full of beautiful people.
"i don't know if dc is cool enough to pull this off though. we'll see on saturday i reckon."
Sorry, for me "cool" has less to do with it than hot. Or, rather, hot and sweaty. The thought of multiple strange and (probably) unattractive sweaty legs on the vinyl everyone else sits on is revolting. I'm guessing some secrete coalition of drycleaners thought this stunt up.
But, hey, have whatever passes for fun in your life. I'll try not to dwell on it too much.
Every day is No Pants Day in maison monkeyrotica. If you look closely at the footage of the Hannah Montana ticket debacle, you can clearly see yours truly in a gorilla mask, no pants, and "Whoomp! There it is!" teeshirt. So many undersexed suburban hausfraus, so little time.
Well at least they wont be wearing skinny jeans en masse.
"i don't know if dc is cool enough to pull this off though."
thank god.
and could you pretend you're at the gym and put a towel down on the seat during your crazy/shocking/subversive pantsless metro ride.
i'm one of those uptight DCers who'd prefer not to sit in your butt sweat.
Ew.
I may stay aboveground on Saturday.
BORING
I'm Black, and I doubt any Black people in their right mind would participate in this.
SHOW ME SOME G--STRING !!!!!!
The event worked fine. The only thing stupid about the event were the the idiots from the press.