No fun of any kind until all the world’s problems are solved!

3,000 is approximately 1/100,000th of the US population. There are plenty more than that who fight for important causes. I don’t think it says anything whatsoever about Americans that a couple thousand of us got together to have fun one Sunday afternoon.

I love “messing with people,” but I feel like large scale public actions like this can be applied to more important causes – like human rights.

Where was I just reading about that? Oh yeah… right here.

I can’t help but feel what Improv Everywhere does undermines other public actions attached to social causes. Are the participants of events like these also the street protest types? How do they feel about doing both? And what about the “street protest types?” How does Ben Shepard feel about IE?

Does anyone even remotely agree with this? Or will it be like last time.

One purpose of Art is to wake people up.

And thank you BoingBoing for never disappointing!

Yes, naked weenises would be interesting-ish. kmoser is right. If you live here this is not interesting, it is not even annoying.

(aside: My captcha words: Mr. Godwin – oh noes, Godwined before posting…)

It’s a bunch of strangers sitting alone in a subway car without pants on.

I’m not an American and I know all this. Where do you come from?

That said, the pants-less train riders would seem to agree with you on the exclusivity–apparently they’re choosing the train ride and not the protesting

Perhaps there were no protests this particular 3000+ people felt compelled to attend on this particular day? Maybe every single one of them is attending a protest for something very important next week, but that’s unlikely as it’s unlikely that all 3000+ of them share the exact same views. In fact I’d say the only generalisation you can make about this particular 3000+ people is that they all believe it would be fun to ride the subway without pants on for a little while and it would be even more fun to do it in a group.

Really, just lighten up and enjoy things. There is a time for being outraged and now is not it.

That said, the pants-less train riders would seem to agree with you on the exclusivity–apparently they’re choosing the train ride and not the protesting. That stands out to me. Such organizational power, such free time, being used in another way could speak to people across the country about something important. Particularly when over 3,000 of them are meeting in a city the national media pays attention to.

#18: I think it says something about these Americans, which is what I posted. Their percentage in the population is big enough to make a statement that could be carried to many others should they choose to do so (see above). But since you want to talk about Americans in general: as far as mainstream American media goes most Americans aren’t expressing objections in any organized way regarding their eminently repairable collective ills.

http://london-underground.blogspot.com/2010/01/inaugural-no-trousers-on-underground.html