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@Skülly
Ha ha ha I Always laugh at this.
Back in the 80s there was this 'fashion' among grem/victim skateboarders to wear your rector kneepads round your ankles... as if you were only skating for transport on your way to some rad ramp or bowls or something. Then generally the grem in question would be pissing about at southbank trying to ollie cokecans on the flat and hang up on all the little pebbles that the tramps used to spread everywhere to piss us off... and then the grem would fall on their knees hard... oops pads in the wrong place. Doh.
I would imagine part of it was the same reason, being pussy whipped by mom to get knee pads but not wanting to look cissy.