fads and phrases and annoying things we are sick of 2009

might just be me bitching, but what the hell

1) 'local-organic-sustainable' / reference to michael pollan

2) plaids

3) 'oh i can't eat that i have a gluten sensitivity(/celiac disesase) i just learned existed yesterday and self-diagnosed'

4) miniature dogs in purses

"foodie"

5) comedy Scandinavian message board regulars

6) http://c0424321.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspaceclouda.com/hipsters.jpg

7) "I love it so much, I want to have its babies"/"take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant"

jaymc otm

8) lyfe

9)

10) "fail"

:)

11) tea parties, teabaggers, tea anything. please let tea revert back to its traditional role as a soothing hot or cold drink.

TBH I like that they call themselves teabaggers, seemingly oblivious to the phrase's other meaning.

"@you"

12)"in these tough economic times"

I thought only other people called them teabaggers

#12 = best so far

10) "fail"

i can't even begin to explain just how much I hate the way this is used these days. add "epic" for ultimate fury and anger from me

13) autism cures

14) complaining abt hipsters

15) FTW

16. whatevs

17) "OH NOM NOM"

om not oh

18) skinny jeans ugh

19) dressing up like an insect and then taking pictures of yourself and putting them on facebook

is that a thing? i do not know this thing

20) leaving the toilet seat up

21) not taking off your hat when a lady enters the room

that is the worst!

22) really big plastic eyeglasses like the state used to issue the kids with Downs syndrome

usually i take a toilet seat off when a lady leaves the room, which is more or less the same thing.

23) failing to lace up your petticoat in a manner which befits the etiquette of the times

24) worrying that ones favorite tv show is on the decline

25) people who own yachts

26) not being able to afford a yacht

1) not taking off your hat when a lady enters the room

<3 Ronan

27) "I Can Haz..."

27) ray ban wayfarers everywhere

(28)

wayfarers + plaid + skinny jeans = extremely tired fashion choices, but I'm still ok with skinny jeans in other contexts

29) indie anything

30. synth-punk

Yeah I'm over terrible 80s retro fashion especially because kids are taking the WORST PARTS OF IT (bad sunglasses, horrible fluro colours, ill fitting tight jeans, stupid hair) and ignoring all the fine 80s new wave stuff that looked awesome, but I am hating kids that age getting defensive and stroppy at me for mocking them, even more so.

31) Bacon

32) things i've been doing for years becoming irritating fads

what is the 'fine 80s new wave stuff that looked awesome' that they're not taking??

33. Oh no! Julie Tweebody found a purple piglet with one leg on her farm. Join Farmville now or we'll shoot it in the face.

I dunno, I'm thinking about things like pirate shirts and velvet knickerbocker pants... the more elaborate, elegant side of the new wave stuff. Duran Duran/Human Leage/David Sylvian kind of thing. Yeah there's people doing that too but not many.

Oh I do wear bad sunglasses still. But with reasonable hair and muted colors!

many xposts

what is the 'fine 80s new wave stuff that looked awesome' that they're not taking??

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Needs a new thread really, but - wearing chintz curtains?

http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/T/theads_creaturesb.jpg

34. Cupcakes.

on that note

35. way too many boutique ice cream shops

I'm still ok with skinny jeans in other contexts

did they used to look better? were they cut different? i was wondering about this because i don't remember earlier iterations having quite the same ghastly effect (i.e. making skinny people look like famine victims and everyone else look like spongebob).

I am pretty sure that if the hip young things dressed like that today, they would be a number on this list

36. Facebook Petitions "Ten Million Strong For/Against Blah Blah Blah"

37. acronyms

Bobblehatcunts

22) really big plastic eyeglasses like the state used to issue the kids with Downs syndrome

― as they say in Finnish: "lihaperäpukamat (remy bean), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:04 PM (30 minutes ago)

this

And yeah the Foodie thing is the most horrible thing going today by far.

39) people bragging about how they're not on facebook

33. Oh no! Julie Tweebody found a purple piglet with one leg on her farm. Join Farmville now or we'll shoot it in the face.

Farmville was why they invented the 'Hide' option, imo.

40. banning cankles

I'm actually ok with the cut of, say, the Levis skinny fit jeans, it's just the combo with the sort of oversized untucked plaid shirt (and the ray bans when outdoors) that I don't need to see anymore.

39) people bragging about how they're not on facebook

is this a fad?

I wear skinny fit jeans because I think I look really dopey in straight fit, which I used to wear. Too much fabric flapping around!

41. 'curators', 'curated by...' etc

42. Annie

43. Being made redundant and all the fucking bollocks that goes with it.

...don't know if it's a fad though.

44. Skinny jeans on guys that are deliberately designed with a saggy, hanging-down arse area, worn so the entire underpant butt area is visible.

WHAT IS THIS.

a form of natural selection, be thankful for it

is this a fad?

more of an annoying thing than a fad, but it's another way for luddites to be all smug about how much they "don't need" technology. (nothing against luddites, just don't like the smugness. i don't "need" facebook either and i'm not impressed that you're not on it.)

45.) Slate's weekly article about how amazing the last Mad Men episode was

and 46.) "Mad Men" becoming the universal reference point for anything mid-century modernist.

47. juice/smoothie bars

i actually am guilty of and oftentimes kind of like most of these "fads and phrases and annoying things"

48. max

; )

not the jeans thing though, rite??

I hope 47 doesn't mean Jamba Juice, because that is a trend that still has a lot of life left for me and everyone I know.

max u have a yacht?

45.) Slate's weekly article about how amazing the last Mad Men episode was

It's a series of blog posts GOD

max likes foodies and bacon

not the jeans thing though, rite??

fyi i am wearing skinny unfit jeans rite now

what i am guilty of enjoying or participating in:

1) 'local-organic-sustainable' / reference to michael pollan
2) plaids
5) comedy Scandinavian message board regulars
14) complaining abt hipsters
16. whatevs
18) skinny jeans ugh
20) leaving the toilet seat up
21) not taking off your hat when a lady enters the room
23) failing to lace up your petticoat in a manner which befits the etiquette of the times
24) worrying that ones favorite tv show is on the decline
26) not being able to afford a yacht
27) ray ban wayfarers everywhere
29) indie anything
30. synth-punk
31) Bacon
32) things i've been doing for years becoming irritating fads
34. Cupcakes.
35. way too many boutique ice cream shops
37. acronyms
41. 'curators', 'curated by...' etc
42. Annie
and 46.) "Mad Men" becoming the universal reference point for anything mid-century modernist.
48. max

I never actually clicked on the link!

xpost re: mad men articles

if u hate these things u hate me

think about that

the only one that really bugs me above is 46.

tbh i didnt really know what that one meant, but i like mad men, so

lol xpost

im guilty of doing/liking a bunch of these but i am kind of sick of myself so

just thinking about it because the chronicle had an article about a building which they described as being in a Mad Men style. It's just a building from the 60s.

it makes it hard for people w/o cable to understand wtf u mean

haha mad men style

espcially since "Mad Men" buildings look pretty sane

xp

can we still use "mad men" as a universal reference point for drinking in the office?

lol xpost

im guilty of doing/liking a bunch of these but i am kind of sick of myself so

― Lamp, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

49. People saying that Animal Collective are overrated, even though probably 99% of the population hasn't even heard of them yet, and then going "but the Panda Bear record was good".

wait i thought of something im sick of

50) disliking things due to the narcissism of small differences, sublimated and explicit self-loathing and kneejerk distaste for things other people feel earnest and enthusiastic about thanks 2 ones own total inability to feel joy

51. people caring about whether animal collective are overrated or not

I still kinda like that for 2009 actually.

xpost

apt 51 there imo

wtf is wrong with things being organic and/or sustainable?
i don't know who michael pollen is really tho.

basically max and #50 otm

50) disliking things due to the narcissism of small differences, sublimated and explicit self-loathing and kneejerk distaste for things other people feel earnest and enthusiastic about thanks 2 ones own total inability to feel joy

pretty guilty of this 2 lol

51) rugby shirts

i don't think there is anything wrong with it per se just ppl going on and on about it and general 'greenwashing' of things imo

xpost

I'm more or less with max. I wish there were a few boutique ice cream shops around here, too.

yeah but just wait until there are too many

i feel ok without them

something i'm not sick of is the pinkberry/red mango/assorted knockoffs sour-yogurt fad, because that stuff is good.

xxpost I love ice cream. I don't care if the douchiest person I know is walking around with a cone of rose petal ice cream and that douchey person's s.o. is walking around with cardamom ice cream in a little cardboard cup, I'm still going to love these places and I'm not going to say, "But they were good when . . . "

52) the senate

52)a.) joe lieberman

cardamom ice cream is pretty good

ice cr?m shoppes

My friend sent me an email about Urban Outfitters selling fixies now. I don't ride a fixie, but I do ride a trendy single-speed bike, and when she sent the email, I thought, Well, the next time I break my frame or my rim is ovalized maybe prices will have come down.

ice cram

<3 fancy ice cream of all kinds theres never enough imo

if you can't laugh at too many cupcake shops, i feel sorry for you

Sometimes I'm just jealous of hipsters. I want their girlfriends and their clothes and shit.

i want their lissom frames but not their girlfriends or their shit

My old boss's sweet 18 year old daughter has been making boutique type cupcakes for a couple of years now and I would feel bad saying she's dumb to be doing so.

I want electricsound's record collection.

on a local level:

53) bridge failures/closures

I just don't have many well-fitting clothes.

54) atheism

i kinda think the bridge failure/closure thing is exciting.

Talking about an imminent bridge closure put my friend in a bad mood for a whole day.

wait, you're sick of atheism in general? or just the recent in-you-face atheism of dawkins, hitchens, etc. ?

Well, because we were talking about this parkway that would be needlessly extended and all the houses that would be torn down for it. And that relating to the bridge closure.

55) talking about urban planning with people

it made me wonder if it was closed for a significant period of time whether the hipsters of SF and those of the East Bay would become distinct from one another.

Well kind of exciting, but kind of a logistical nightmare, although I didn't have it as bad as some, since I take BART counter-commute. Not a bridge-failure, but the recent truck crash was just pretty lousy.

xpost

56) explanations

atheism is sorta past its prime imo, was way better in like 2003-2004

Some of the things on this list are not especially 2009.

i'm guilty of 55)

57) chumbawumba

Ok, now 55 definitely has my name written all over it. I've got a million badly-informed amateur opinions about urban planning.

ha 55 can rly bother me too sorry

so do most urban planners

xp

58) garfield as a shorthand reference for all that is boring and unhip

59) "sent from my iphone"

60) Offence and people talking about offence and people including it on internet lists

maybe bc my bff is an irl urban planner though, makes everyone else's opinions look like crap xposts

So am I re: 55 and it makes me embarrassed for myself.

61) the beatles

not gonna stop me from pontificating. Really don't regret it either re: 55

harbl's bf:

http://www.comedycentric.com/files/2009/03/parks-and-recreation-schneider.jpg

as a sorta small business owner in an "up-and-coming neighborhood", i end up confronting urban planning to a significant degree.

not bf, bff

Also I love Garfield references and I never hear them!

oh didn't see that 2nd f

I think it has a lot to do with being overly self-conscious about space. I don't need cheese for my existential mousetraps.

62) faux-familiar ads and packaging for consumer products

63) unmade beds

64) saying really socially inappropriate things during dinner parties or staff meetings (e.g.) in a confrontational way and then just staring at everyone else in the room until they change the subject to amateur urban planning (e.g.)

64) excessive parental comments on facebook profiles

65) buy nothing day/church of stop shopping - self-righteous anti-consumerism

well, just my profile actually. don't mind it elsewhere

66) the letter e

walls, books etc.

67) verbification of nouns

20) leaving the toilet seat up

― Ronan, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

21) not taking off your hat when a lady enters the room

― Ronan, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

xpost Dude, functional shifts are normal and not more 2009 than previous years.

I know I shouldn't call you dude.

68) sadness

xp - you're right. i have this argument with myself all the time. but some of them just really rankle, like when there's a perfectly appropriate "real" verb that could be used instead.

69) FUCKING ELECTRONIC BILLBOARDS

^^ the insanely bright ones?

nah the electronic ones with like 100 programmed ads on them

I hate the bright ones. There's one on Colonial that probably causes wrecks.

Its flashing always makes me think there's an ambulance behind me after I pass it. Then I remember, Oh, just the electric sign.

^^ there's one as you go over the Bay Bridge from SF to Oakland that is bright enough that you don't need to have your headlights on to see. It exudes this blue glow for miles, it seems.

uh oh I'm having a fantasy is all like, I'm writing an oulipo book, my pals.

you guys sure do like to complain

There's another bright horrible sign on 880 North, around Hayward I think. It's pretty ridiculous.

I read half of a void and I didn't even realize it was "the book"

xxpost We're bonding.

i think a lot of what bugs me about the verbification of nouns is the corporate context of "productivity" - everything has to be turned into an "action" word. And it ties in with a sort of action-for-action's-sake type of mentality, where sometimes deliberation is the best course of, er, action.

oh, that bright sign is on 880 right as you hit San Leandro.

the only positive thing i have to say about that excrutiatingly bright sign, is once i was driving home from my parents' house and it was pouring rain and i could barely see with the wipers and defroster at full blast, and that sign enabled me to see the cars around me.

The anti-plaid thing is so tired. People have been wearing plaid for ages.

Then again I guess when the 90s revival fully hits there can be an anti-plaid revival also.

plaid is the new trucker hat*

*not really new

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Mmbdevilsnightout.jpg
can't wait til this is cool again

My mom bought me a plaid shirt a couple of weekends ago and I like it. It suits me.

I thought plaid was the old trucker hat.

Or has 1991 been collectively wiped from everyones memory?

plaid was more 1992/1993 where i was actually -

i still love it!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Uja7HbHJnMk/Sb8VwslJW7I/AAAAAAAAAGo/QCLQtU5RXjw/s320/neil+young.jpg

NEVER FORGET

never had a problem with it, really.

In most of the places I grew up, plaid if a timeless look so its really hard to see the "fad" aspect of it.

fuck
if = is

There's just a specific look that I'm ready for people to move on from, and it looks kinda like this:

http://images3.chictopia.com/photos/BrandyAlexander/4304980821/4304980821_400.jpg

but replace flip flops with black converse or topsiders or something

It's just time for change!

you guys all missed the *NOT ACTUALLY NEW* part of my post jesus

post-jesus

so sick of post-jesus freaks

Hahah nah I didnt miss it! I was just bein' ornery ;P

I never listened to DC Talk, post-"Jesus Freak."

right-wingers being given the time of day

damn if i'll show a tea-bagger my watch

combination of "tea-bagger" and your display name made me lol.

:D

"[insert name of douchey friend] just tweeted that to me."

Tweet/twat/twoot/twote...just the use of the word 'twitter' in a sentence is so awkward and irritating it makes me want to throw punches. I don't hate Twitter...I just hate the tweeting twats who talk about it.

were i involving myself in this thread i might say something like what do you want ppl to say exactly?

Messaged is too simple?

eh i mean say what you want about the world we live in but messaged isn't really specific enough in a lot of situations

and 46.) "Mad Men" becoming the universal reference point for anything mid-century modernist.

i watched a short film online that was filmed in the streets of manhattan in the late '70s. one of the commenters was like "omg it's all so mad men." no. no, it's not.

maybe they were talking about mad men season 14

55) talking about urban planning with people

being part of that field, it's something i often end up talking about w/ people whether i feel like it or not. i don't mind so much except when they're all "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO FIX TRAFFIC" -- i want to say "when you stop driving so much."

a quiality riposte

I've lost my englsh ;_;

idk what number we're at but here's a serious entry:

people complaining about socialism without a concept of what socialism actually entails

it's just... it works both ways. "fixing traffic" often means cultivating multimodal transportation (cars/buses/trains/complete streets), but multimodal transportation also needs support from the people if it's going to get any funding/political traction. if you use the roadways, you contribute to traffic. so think about your own part in all of it.

xpost

I wasn't being sarcastic! It is just especially amusing to me bcz I don't have a car.

same here! i don't really want to drive, but i'm finally giving in and getting my license because i'm tired of people treating me like i'm the town drunk because i ride the bus.

using phone cameras to take pictures of mundane stuff. if the subject is not a three-headed baby or a ufo put that shit away.

i'm skeeved out by that chivas 18 commercial -- "chivalry," "gallantry," coldplay, white men

using phone cameras to take pictures of mundane stuff. if the subject is not a three-headed baby or a ufo put that shit away.

― Josefa, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 7:05 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalin

i can get behind this

posts very much in blah blah blah

70. "Pop-up" shops and "Pop-up" exhibitions

71. jack white

72. Jack Black

73. blackjack

74. jack bauer

75. the phrase "tl;dr"

76. never meeting anyone called Jack

that's not really true, i know two people called jack

77. Ostentatious austerity chic

78. Dalston

79. Riding bicycles with baskets on the front in built-up urban areas

80. "Electro"

81. Pretending that voting for David Cameron will make you a social progressive

82. getting the 80s wrong

83. fixed gear bikes and everything that goes with them, including the complaining when your £2000 stolen bike gets stolen.

80. "Electro"

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:37 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

84. Doing really mundane household tasks for the first time ever because you have an iPhone app to assist you

12)"in these tough economic times"

85. "It feels like we've turned the corner"
86. "We used to make things in this country"

87. "Trending topics"

88. Broadsheet news stories about Stephen Fry using Twitter

88. "green shoots" stfu

89. Anything which is "increasingly" doing something when it obviously isn't "increasingly" doing it. Or "ever increasing".

90. Hoodie horror flicks
91. Nostalgia for 80s football hooliganism

keep it up dudes, we're only about 120 posts away from a lucrative book deal

u guys electro is never going away sry

92. Liking Girls Aloud in an arch and ironic manner/writing an essay about it to everyone's shock and amazement

22) really big plastic eyeglasses like the state used to issue the kids with Downs syndrome

Can I just raise this to the whole "apparently trying to look retarded" fashion among hipster kids today? Because the Downs glasses are often coupled with a really awful Goodwill chic outfit, in my experience. Essentially, trying to look like a second grade class photo ca. 1984. Let's just stop it.

I don't hate Twitter...I just hate the tweeting twats who talk about it.

OTM. I don't know if this is just my experience or what but it seems like the only ppl that say this are in TV news commentary or tacky commercials. Mainstream douche bags trying to seem 'with it'. It has always felt like this is a manufactured from-the-top down trend. Or do ppl really check what random ppl think about pop culture events on twitter?

xp - Deric - my friend calls this aesthetic - "rockin' the group home look"

I remember in middle school in the early 90s when kids were doing the grunge thing it was also mixed with grandma/grandpa aesthetic, which I always thought was awesome. I don't think that's gonna come back tho.

trying to get a job/losing a job/how people are overqualified for jobs/graduate school

76. never meeting anyone called Jack

Aren't all babies in the UK named Jack these days?

Yes. It never sticks tho.

93. the new wave of big corps (walmart/best buy/target) running ads about how they are really just out here trying to be our buddies and help us out with low low prices.

i know a jack! but i haven't seen him since...2008 i think.

22) really big plastic eyeglasses like the state used to issue the kids with Downs syndrome

Can I just raise this to the whole "apparently trying to look retarded" fashion among hipster kids today? Because the Downs glasses are often coupled with a really awful Goodwill chic outfit, in my experience. Essentially, trying to look like a second grade class photo ca. 1984. Let's just stop it.

Dear God, X-post.

76. never meeting anyone called Jack

Aren't all babies in the UK named Jack these days?

In the US, too.

93. the new wave of big corps (walmart/best buy/target) running ads about how they are really just out here trying to be our buddies and help us out with low low prices.

this. see also: the GOP. they really care about the little guy.

94. commercials paid for corporate lobbyists/astroturfers that appeal to the "little guy" ("tell your congressman you can't afford those extra pennies for a tax on soda!").

95. "Hot Stove" w.r.t. baseball offseason moves

overheard an older woman say "omg" out loud the other day :-(

96. "No worries".

don't ever visit australia/NZ bill

overheard an older woman say "omg" out loud the other day :-(

this is great imo

this thread is fucking ridiculous.
i think you all need to stop being so upset all the time.

xp - no worries - is that really a 2009 thing? I remember hearing it a lot in 2005 and being mystified as to its origins, and it's been an ongoing expression since.

96. "Thank you!"

97. "Thanks"

98. "Hello!"

99. "Beautiful day, isn't it?"

100. Trees

101. jazz

102. orgasms

103. jazzgasms

104. sardines

"take it down a notch"

105. notches

106. anything rad and fun

107. taking walks

108. breakfast

109. brick oven pizza

110. panini sandwiches

111. THIS THREAD loloololol

que otm all those things are terrible

112. Whiney being banned while this thread is going full steam

haters gonna hate

113. fresh air

114. horrible barking dogs next door that just need to stfu

111. THIS THREAD loloololol

115. Ouroboros

i hate how i go outside and there are CARS driving down the road! like, who told them that was cool?

que i had to look that up

OH EM GEE MY BURGER PHONE IS RINGING BEE AR BEE EL OH EL!!!

cool img tho:

http://deadangleshow.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/300px-ouroboros_1.jpg

116. the internet--what's the big deal anyway

107. the phrase "over-sharing"
108. people who still loudly say "have you seen The Wire?" to their friends in Toronto bars
109. Vietnamese Subs (these are garbage, mainly)

110. Wire Subs

111. Garbage bars

110. "cloud computing"

110. "x-post"

I'm already planning on eating some garbage for lunch today.

109. vinyl

108. coconut milk

109. quinoa

108. "iirc"

108. fine display names

still don't know what cloud computing is

109. that Downfall-Hitler clip on YouTube where's ranting about the list getting stuck

harbl it's basically a network of actual clouds that rain data on you

111. puns

i want a cloud computer

112. new computers

113. trolling

114. cash ruling everything around me

115. war 8[

a network of actual clouds that rain data on you

― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:38 PM

http://static.open.salon.com/files/lobot1233612137.jpg

clouds rain everything around me

116. clouds

i'm only happy when it rains

117. garbage

118. recycling

117. cloud sex

109. Vietnamese Subs (these are garbage, mainly)

suggest banh

172. people who can't count

173. grabage

174. grab bags

never know what u gonna get. so annoying.

175. http://www.rodhull.co.uk/emu/imgs2/grotbags205.jpg

176. stuff

177. negativity

178. list threads on ilx

179. numb3rs

180. serial killers

i love negativity

and serial killers

181. that crap you like

182. vinyl being more expensive than cds

why don't you go start a subboard about it, harbl

182. blink

183. that crap you like, coming back in style

request for board i love serial killers and negativity?

184. does mr que even know spanish?

185. people not understanding my name

186. people confusing my name with Manuel from Faulty Towers

i do ;)

yo habla espanol un poquito

187. the "Wazzup" guys reunion tour

188. leggings

Senor What

189. people from Barcelona, who know nothing

190. Rad Bromance

191. RT

192. Pretending you aren't a RTer with (via @someotherchod)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/443608419_63193089fb.jpg?v=0

190. H1N1

191. movie stars what never want to get naked no more

109. Vietnamese Subs (these are garbage, mainly)

just file this under "foodie" imo. nothing wrong with the food - people have been eating it for decades - everything wrong with food trends and the people who propagate them.

i love any thread that allows me to show my true curmudgeonly ways, so here are mine:

192. the fact that 1 our of 4 people who are in their 20s/30s and live in a metropolitan area is a "DJ". Add to that the fact that these self-proclaimed DJs often play music that can't be beatmatched, so they are basically just crossfading new age, krautrock, or whatever the latest bargain bin music fad is) in front of an audience of 20 people and walking around claiming to all their friends that they are a DJ.

192. Twitter and all associated verbs

193. Acceptance of trashy reality television by people who know better.

194. Beards. And it sucks, because I wear a beard. I have had a beard for most of this decade, and I feel naked and weird every time I try to shave it.

I love krautrock djs who don't beatmatch, but oh how I wish it was a bargain bin fad!

I wish I lived in a metropolitan area. I would go to these bars with DJs playing bargain bin music. It sounds funny.

I had a friend who grew a beard over the summer between eighth grade and ninth. We were awed. I bet all the young dudes with beards have all the same excuses for wearing beards that you have.

195. Mott the Hoople references

I love krautrock djs who don't beatmatch

And I like DJs with good record collections, too, and don't give a shit if they can beatmatch or DJ well. I like music nerds.

Mr. Que totally making this thread.

What's an RTer? Maybe I am one of those.

182. vinyl being more expensive than cds

― GEDDY LEE JAZZ MINT (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Was always this way. Ten years ago it would just be sold at a slimmer profit margin.

Mr. Que, I will never say your name in my head as Mr. Queue.

naw when cds first came out they were like 25 bucks

192. the fact that 1 our of 4 people who are in their 20s/30s and live in a metropolitan area is a "DJ". Add to that the fact that these self-proclaimed DJs often play music that can't be beatmatched, so they are basically just crossfading new age, krautrock, or whatever the latest bargain bin music fad is) in front of an audience of 20 people and walking around claiming to all their friends that they are a DJ.

10000x worse if the "DJ" happens to be a celebrity of some kind

it's pronounced queue

xp - as opposed to people that get paid to crossfade top 40 pop songs, alt rock, and whatever else gets played on the radio? Those people are called DJ's, aren't they?

194. coffee and coffee culture
195. health-care reform

man i wish viet subs were more popular than they are

xpost to carne asada: so otm.

79. Riding bicycles with baskets on the front in built-up urban areas

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:36 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

versus

83. fixed gear bikes and everything that goes with them, including the complaining when your £2000 stolen bike gets stolen.

― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:40 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

Plus I take pictures of all kinds of mundane shit on my phone. I've embraced it. A couple of days ago I took pictures of a couple of chairs by the side of the road. Just chairs. And I can remember what they look like, too, so I don't even need a picture.

but are you a photoblogger?

196. "Wait for it..."
197. facebook updates from supposedly sharp thirtysomethings that look like text messages fron 14 year old morons

it's pronounced queue

― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

I know.

naw when cds first came out they were like 25 bucks

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:51 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

You mean in 1985? The CDs were $25? Or the records? And that's not ten years ago. I guess I should clarify by saying that I'm talking about records on labels that I tended to buy from ten years ago (Matador, T&G, Merge, &c.).

194. coffee and coffee culture?????????????????

Coffee? Is this like those MarkCL & Mr. Que parody entries?

Sarahel, I still say your screen name as Sara Hell, but like it's one word. I'm not a photoblogger.

200. people who take pictures who aren't photobloggers

I don't get your "????????????"

taking pics on mundane shit is cool as long as you post them here Cellpwn Pics

Coffee is 2009? Coffee bothers you?

how can you be sick of coffee

pffft

some of us have just started to understand coffee

xxxp - that does not bother me in the slightest.

i wish i had the dumb cable that allows me to transfer my mundane pictures from my phone to my computer. It's almost decaying billboard season, and I think I want to document it.

xxxxxpost Yeah, I just send them to a friend, usually. I usually take pictures of the sky and traffic and traffic lights and roadside signs. All in one picture, I mean.

you have to email the pictures from your phone

It's okay, Granny.

yes, cds were 25 bucks when they came out in 1985. was not "always this way"

Yeah, you mms them from your phone to another phone, or to email.

xpost But that doesn't suggest a 2009 trend. Saying that records have gone up in price in the last few years because of higher demand or whatever would be a trend.

Coffee is crazy popular now. And it's fucking nasty shit and everyone is all jacked up for the morning and then crashes at noon and turn into crabby mofos. Cafes/coffee culture is totally egregious and a blight on my generation. I'm only being slightly hyperbolic. The fact that someone is "omg wtf???????????????????? how can you hate coffee" proves my point.

^^^^^^ stone him

Like, "OMG everyone's buying records now and it used to just be me and now the prices have gone up."

for a while i was taking pics of subtly o_O signage at Whole Foods, but i never sent them to anyone

coffee is good for you

ask your local nutrition nazi

i bet J0rdan hates this thread now.

i only started drinking lattes this year

i can see how you, as an individual, can hate coffee

I sort of agree with Granny in that people really do sort of have a problem with using coffee too much as mood moderator.

no they don't, people have a problem with drinking coffee so they have an excuse to be dicks

i look at those people like i look at people who drink shitty beer just to get wasted.

xp: and that is not coffee's fault, that people are dicks

coffee rules

coffee is the best, but i am not sure what "coffee culture" is...therefore it must be suspicious and wrong!

i like coffee because it is one of the very consistent joys in my life. IS THAT SO WRONG?

if someone's a dick, don't blame coffee, blame the penis

xxxxxxpost But it's not 2009. And cafe culture in the US isn't new, either. At least one could argue that it's a nice change from meeting and talking with people in bars.

80. "Electro"

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:37 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― Roger Sánchez Broto (vain_bowers), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:46 (7 hours ago)

Uh...

How long until the term "electro" becomes a dirty word?

Jesus fuck.

2187. dogs speaking latin

i should fix granny one of my strong cups of fresh oaxacan coffee

coffee culture = when you leave the pot out for several days and it gets that "film" on the top

I didn't mean that people act like dicks because of coffee. I meant that I have friends who get really tired from not drinking it, and then get really buzzed accidentally sometimes and stay up all night. They're not dicks, they're just tired or wired.

1488. third person plural

i like that places are taking coffee seriously rather than just serving up swill, which is also why i appreciate places that serve up interesting beer and know their shit rather than just the usual half dozen boring brews.

i think i'm becoming a coffee snob.

your friends being dicks has nothing to do with coffee, get new coffee, get new friends

Yeah, coffee shops aren't . . . I don't know. They serve coffee! They could practically be McDonald's sometimes, but with more laptops and fewer ballpits.

1489. ball pits

Coffee is crazy popular now. And it's fucking nasty shit and everyone is all jacked up for the morning and then crashes at noon and turn into crabby mofos. Cafes/coffee culture is totally egregious and a blight on my generation. I'm only being slightly hyperbolic. The fact that someone is "omg wtf???????????????????? how can you hate coffee" proves my point.

you sound like someone in 1994 who thinks friends is trying to be trendy by having the characters hang out in a cafe, not a bar.

no you guys i have met people that use the word "coffee culture" and they are despicable, trust me on this

Who said anyone's friends were dicks!

how do you get tired from not drinking coffee; that does not strike me as a particularly exhausting act

the smell of coffee makes me want to gag. the person who sits behind me at work took up the habit a few weeks ago and that's all I smell from 9-11am. my attempts to get her to quit have so far been unsuccessful; her pusher is winning out. (mind you she's said she wants to quit, it's not like I just go up to her out of the blue and tell her STOP THE MADNESS or something).

Not that I wouldn't like some new friends.

1490. The Dicks (the punk band from Texas)

2188. oaxacan invasion of popular cuisine

ok granny you are sounding like a crazy person

"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH I am just plum tuckered out from not drinking all this coffeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...."

i think u are the problem yes xp

At least one could argue that it's a nice change from meeting and talking with people in bars.

what a shitty argument that would be!

it's called withdrawal

Tired from not drinking coffee - I don't drink it, but I always thought, and people anecdotally confirm this to me, that you can possibly develop a chemical habit and can feel run down without it.

Jesus, that post got in there at a lucky time. Too fast!

Coffee is the greatest.

i am in a 'coffee shop' that also serves beer and wine and it rules

coffee is high in antioxidants

1066: the battle of Hastings

300: This is Sparta!

I don't like the smell of shitty coffee, either, or the coffee smell in break rooms.

Granny's not crazy, he's just acting a little like cutty or somebody.

you people are making me hate coffee more by the second. well played.

816: Granny Dainger

196. referring to other posters to describe another poster.

http://www.girlsgunsandghouls.com/coffy.jpg

don't hate

Sorry, Granny. You are not him.

too many people use coffee as fuel when it should be used as a leisure-time drink imo

^^^^^yes

Pam Grier does not belong on a list of annoying things.

You are Granny and you hate coffee and some people on this thread think your opinions about coffee are a little cantankerous-sounding and eccentric.

coffee is versatile, imho

1814. Rhythm Nation

so you like to save your gagging for leisure time?

What about David Alan Grier?

1812: overture

Haha.

2001: people that forget

^^^^ never

What about Rosy Grier?

Who?

Do I have to google RTer? What's an RTer?

really don't understand how disliking coffee is "eccentric"! being cantankerous on purpose because, hello, EVERYONE likes cofffee and if you don't you are ECCENTRIC AND INSANE.

150. pizza

but being annoyed by local/sustainable/organic, yeah that's totally sane and normal

Granny I don't think you're eccentric or insane. You're fine. I would probably hang out with you in person and we wouldn't drink any coffee at all.

whoops - spelled it wrong - him:

http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krsgtkIzOV1qa6k0mo1_400.jpg

And I don't think anyone on this thread agrees with everything on the list, even with the parody entries taken out.

He's an endorser, then.

coffee is awesome and fwiw i expressed disdain that ppl could be annoyed by local/sustainable/organic.

he played pro football, then was on tons of commercials in the 70s

local/sustainable/organic

^^^not annoyed at all by this, i am however annoyed by the carl's jr/hardee's style of smug "show them you don't give a fuck: eat this and die early" advertising

199. eccentric, insane people

Re-Tweet? Is it Re-Tweet? I can't figure this out.

i want to know when things are local/sustainable/organic

xxxp ^^ not a 2009 trend

I have drunk coffee before.

I'm totally annoyed by pizza, because I don't have any

Maybe we as ilx don't have a handle on the zeitgeist.

I'd eat pizza now, too.

zeitgeist = wanting pizza now - i think ilx has a handle on it

If someone would tell me what an RTer is I would start my homework.

201. the fact that we are the 21st Century, people, and yet there is no such thing yet as "pizza coffee"

That's like the last 60 years, Sarah.

Gross.

http://www.zazzle.com/b_b_pizza_coffee_mug-168444958909435502

pizza coffee makes indian pizza sound appetizing.

b_b

b_p

I would try palak paneer on a pizza

a_c

e_m

really want coffee now

Robot Taxonomy

indian pizza is fucking awesome

202. being on a boat, shawtey-ey

indian pizza is fucking awesome

Seriously one of the best things.

indian pizza is fucking awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG4zV0euo1E

o rly

i like pizza and i like indian food but i don't like indian food pizza.

you know the first thing I want to put on a pizza is a shit-ton of cabbage

I didn't.

don't hate

What?

you didn't what?

wasn't talking to you

Que?

Oh, pizza coffee. Yeah, that sounds gross.

203. microblogging
204. microbrew

or you

http://zantespizza.com/images/menu/109_0982indpizza300.jpg

But in a coffee cup.

okay yes that looks awesome

i like sauerkraut on pizza ok but plain cabbage sounds bad

I didn't know Dan wants to put cabbage on his pizza first thing.

That pizza looks good.

i've already been thoroughly chastised by Dan about my taste in pizza.

Micro-anything sounds kind of fun. People like tiny things.

213. tiny things

214. micropenis

micro-poop