Hoodies

I expected young men in hoodies to turn up at the back door, furtively holding out plastic bags to be filled in exchange for a fistful of used notes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Urban black music is hugely influential round here - the kids love to dress up in hoodies and baseball caps and baggy trousers. ❋ Newmania (2007)

As we know, banning hoodies is a ridiculous knee-jerk reaction to a perceived rise in anti-social behaviour, driven by a Daily Mail agenda and a longing for a lost golden age of low crime, which never of course existed. ❋ Laban (2005)

Thus, I encourage everyone who is dismayed by this trend of idiots in hoodies to have two bowls waiting for them next year: One brimming with real, good candy from a reputable company, and the other overflowing with gag candy. ❋ Robont (2004)

However, there's a new and ugly trend this Halloween: kids showing up in hoodies and T-shirts, with no efforts made at all to costume themselves, stuffing candy into their gym bag. ❋ Robont (2004)

As well as the classic Prague landmarks - such as Charles Bridge - Jo Thompson has seen some more unusual sights She also encountered a group of fashionable young men - 'hoodies' - with whom she posed for a photograph in the centre of Prague A detail from the Sedlec Ossuary chapel in the Czech Republic ❋ Unknown (2009)

Everyone else put on a mask, bought the outfit at Target, swirled the cape around these shoulders - but these assholes in hoodies showed up as if candy was their fucking birthright, muttered a surly "Trickatreat," and shovelled treats into their bag like it was going out of style. ❋ Darlox (2005)

Everytime I saw a group of black men in hoodies crowded around a car, my skin jumped, thinking we’re too obvious, something’s going on, I hope we make it out okay. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Emoting over hoodies is no substitute for a policy: Cameron’s love-laced rhetoric on law and order makes no mention of prison, sentencing policy or funding Well one would imagine not given that he was speaking to the Centre for Social Justice. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2006)

The cygnets were very adolescent - their feathers, turning from grey to white, looked like drifted snow with highways department salt dumped on it - and gave the impression they would be a happier in hoodies. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A taxi driver there, Mohammed Nasar, said many of the people he saw roaming the streets were youths wearing hooded sweatshirts, a group known as "hoodies" in the UK. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"I'm thinking of the time when teenagers - I believe they have to be called hoodies now - are sitting on fence posts, forming their own ideas about themselves and the world around them, while their parents watch TV." ❋ Unknown (2008)

If you're unfamiliar with the project, the story follows a group of hoodies which is British for mischievous youths in hooded tops, who the media believe are responsible for a wave of muggings, that are interrupted during a street robbery by a flying saucer crash and alien attack. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think this has something to do with the concept of "original sin," which refers to the time when Eve convinced Adam to pluck a "tight whip" from the Fixie Tree of Knowledge and they suddenly became embarrassed that their "hoodies" were not expensive enough. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

The papers frequently carry stories about mentally ill people who have harmed themselves and made up stories about being attacked by 'hoodies'/'barack obama supporters'/whatever bogymen are currently being talked about in the press. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fears of baseball-cap wearing youths and 'hoodies' have sparked a huge drop in the number of pensioners visiting the new-style Discovery Centres, even as overall visitor numbers rise ebrary to replace its reader plug-in, seeks beta testers ❋ Unknown (2007)

Thinking this film glorifies "hoodies" is totally missing the point this side and that side of the pond. ❋ Unknown (2009)