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Qua Bottle Lounge — White Gang Banger Hangout?

I was browsing the Austin Bloggers Metablog, where I found this post at Sounds Like Austin, where they are bemoaning dress codes at a new Austin bar/nightclub (Qua).

I’m not a fan of dress codes in general, but especially so in Austin. But if that’s what a bar wants to do, then so be it. It’s not my kind of place anyway; I’ve never been and doubt I’ll ever go.

In the Sounds Like Austin post they point out the “typical” demographic crowd of Qua — while thumbing through the Qua’s pictures from their New Year’s Eve bash, my first thought was, “damn that’s a lot of white people all in one place. Does their dress code also prohibit black people?”. (The Qua doesn’t allow anybody under the age of 25 in, either — which is something I actually think of as a plus in their favor).

But the real reason for this post is this picture:

white kid flashing a gang style

Is that whiter-than-white-bread kid in his off-the-shelf (Men’s Warehouse?) suit really flashing a gang sign? What is that?

Discussion

8 comments for “Qua Bottle Lounge — White Gang Banger Hangout?”

  1. Ha. reminds me of that jamie kennedy movie malibus most wanted. about a white rich kid who hangs out at the local coffee shop with his homies, and wants to be rap star.. he feels the pain of society while he drives his bmw around. ridiculous, but damn funny. what a dork in that picture.

    Posted by marc | January 20, 2008, 7:31 pm
  2. Just irony.

    Posted by Preston | January 21, 2008, 12:27 am
  3. Maybe, the guy in the pix is ridiculing gang bangers?

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2008, 7:59 am
  4. That’s the Bloods gang sign…see how the shape of his fingers (sort of) spell out the word “blood”?

    Oh, and it’s a joke. People do shit like that in pictures all the time.

    Posted by John Jarzemsky | January 21, 2008, 4:21 pm
  5. HEY!
    Aren’t those the guys from the “What are YOU doing!????” commercials???

    *snort*

    Posted by AFSister | February 8, 2008, 1:36 pm
  6. C’mon, he’s not being serious. It’s straight irony isn’t it?

    Posted by DC | October 8, 2008, 7:00 pm
  7. [...] a weekly house meeting with roommates. 17. Name pets after Middle Earth characters. 18. Jokingly flash gang signs while posing for wedding photos. 19. Give shout-outs. 20. Use numbers in place of words or [...]

    Posted by Things Men Shouldn’t Do After 30 « Mansionisms…Bona Fide Blasphemy! | April 14, 2009, 7:43 am
  8. damn wut a cracker. he aint even stakin it right

    Posted by from the streets | August 20, 2009, 12:14 am

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