People to go pantsless on the T at 2

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I felt the same way. What was a spontaneous, funny bit of harmless whatever has seriously jumped the shark. Ferchrissakes, think of something new and original to do. I agree with whoever said it, but if it was done for charity (like the speedo run or various winter ocean dips) then sure - some shenanigans for a good cause, but if your reason-for-being is to be a creative "performance art" kind of thing, does it make sense to turn it into a predictable, same-time-next year kind of event?

And keep off my godammned lawn you little fuckers. harumph

It should just be announced and done for fun. Nothing wrong with that, either.

Kind of like SCUL missions are.

you'll tell us the same thing my grandma used to tell us about using public restrooms.. you could get creepy crawlies from them!

Boxer shorts, no.

Got it.

How could you get a skin disease unless you weren't wearing pants, either?

Your skin is your largest organ in your immune system. Sure it doesn't get a lot of recognition like the lymph nodes swollen with diseases for eradication or marrow stem cells pumping out white blood cells. But in your dermis layer there are a huge number of defensive cells and mechanisms to keep out all the toxins and disease agents that we bump into every day just walking around in the air.

Your skin is really good at catching stuff...and stopping it before it ever gets into your body. It's way better than our lungs at doing so. This is why you often get a respiratory infection (a cold) about once a year, but you don't get hepatitis or HIV every time you use a common toilet seat (it's also just not easy for a hepatitis virus to live on the toilet seat or MBTA seat at all, they die pretty quickly without a host).

...it's an Orange Line car full of furiously masturbating freaks.
Remember kids: wear eye protection and watch where you step!

The mission is to introduce some random levity into an otherwise mundane January day. The original Pantless Subway Ride was in NYC as part of Improv Everywhere's missions to spread a bit of humor and spontaneity. They got started back in the days when flash mobs were really big. The idea was that they staged people all along a specific subway line in NYC so that everyone else on the train would slowly start to notice that the train was getting full (on a day when it usually wouldn't) and that all the extra people were missing their pants. They filmed reactions and posted the video as another successful "fun thing to do" that everyone enjoyed.

It took on a cult following of its own from there and every city wanted to do it and it didn't matter that it was announced ahead of time any more, etc.