worst fad of the 21st century so far. it's steampunk, right?

or is it kale? or the kale backlash! planking?

anyway...

http://cdn.totallycostumes.com/images/sbe-20641-men-s-steampunk-shoulder-harness-armor___5_FOR-75196.jpg

kale is pretty bad

it tastes like something that should be purely decorative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcI7jgkwdCM

i like kale soup a lot!

at least it's not arugula. I have some minor allergic reaction to arugula? a little mouth and throat itching

kale isn't that bad cooked with stock and garlic, but even there I'd rather have collards. In salad I'll take p much any other green over kale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05-jeYSPQZ0

I like arugula

me too, therein lies the rub

Kale, eh? I ate kale decades before it was cool. I steam it until it is fairly soft and eat it with a bit of mayonnaise, which is not at all as foodies seem to like it nowadays. I find it goes well in some soups, but only if it is cooked through. I don't really favor it raw in salads or undercooked, even at the cost of looking uncool. When the kale fad passes, I will be happy to leave it behind, although it will be harder to find it in produce aisles again. /garrulous grandpa

https://youtu.be/guJYc7gkV_U?t=250

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guJYc7gkV_U&feature=youtu.be&t=250

well that's supposed to be huell howser looking at a 'steampunk treehouse' at coachella 2008

oh jeez I don't remember that but I was there

portuguese kale soup with sausage....the best really. or italian kale soup with sausage and white beans. either/or. so good.

I feel like there are 50 people who talk about kale being popular for every person who actually eats kale. Kale is just another dark green vegetable and deserves no opprobrium. It's not like it's fucking steampunk or something.

"steampunk treehouse"

elaborate treehouses definitely a thing still. but i guess everyone loves treehouses. the small house movement should be something i support but i'm kinda sick of it. mostly cuz i don't believe a lot of the people buying/building small houses are living in them all the time. more like having another car or a winnebago. i could be wrong though. maybe everyone is living in them. just feels like some decadent american thing. look we have a tiny house behind our huge house!

everyone has eat kale bumper stickers where i live. and bernie stickers. there's also a guy around the corner with an I Love Vagina bumper sticker on the back of his truck. i don't know if he eats kale though.

Even still, any mention kale always reminds me of the "Veggie Boy" episode of Cheers.

mention of

steampunk can only be embraced by fairly wealthy people with more time and money than good sense, and it is based in an utterly false, fantasy version of history, so it gets my vote until something worse is mentioned.

Raw kale is kinda poisonous, actually.

Steampunk is stupid. I lump it in with burlesque and roller derby, it seems to be all the same people.

Worst fad tho, I'm gonna go with autotune vocals.

who started the whole punk roller derby thing anyway? ex-swing dancers of the 90's?

Ha, probably - thats another thing the same groups are into.

(theres a goth crossover somewhere betwixt, too)

soylent as a category. stupid "tech" hacks that replace things that were working fine before, like solid food.

yessss

I could write a mini-memoir about my days around roller derby women but I like my life and don't want to

there's very little burlesque/roller derby overlap here at the minute but there's an affinity for sure.

The salad place I like has kale as a default option in a lot of its salads, although I feel like that's finally waning.

i saw a guy with a top hat, a curly mustache, jodhpurs, and a giant 19th-century bicycle in front of the Twitter building earlier this week.

when you have the bad experience of living with someone who went from childhood ballet to local theater productions to swing dancing to roller derby there is a lot of baggage and please keep me away from all

also on an unrelated note what is with banjos and people who are suddenly into them and old-timey banjo right after there was an upswing of bad pop banjo acts? "oh, I'm not into Mumford whatever, I just chose this decade to really love this instrument and it's historical roots"

I feel like any dude doing a particular look in San Francisco is another burner casualty

generalized neo-Victorianism seems arguably worse than steampunk.

is there really a diff

the kale fad is good because kale is good for you

you gotta problem, go eat a cheeseburger

i think the perceived burlesque-roller derby connection might just be women with tattoos

the weird obsession with Betty White
"zombies"
Rocky Horror Picture Show shadow casts (this 'fad' is several decades old yes but it's 2016, find another cult classic ffs)
GIF memes with a pic of a celebrity and some text that they may or may not have said in comic sans
the saying "I just threw up in my mouth"
whining about Firefly getting cancelled (ok, I like Firefly, but it's become a meme at this point: "8 seasons of According to Jim, 1 of Firefly?"
Condescending Wonka meme
Deconstructed cuisine
Hookah lounges
Fireball whiskey shots being on special at every fuckin' bar
Man-buns
Hating Nickelback
Selfie sticks
Escape rooms
"Laser tag" with military-esque weaponry (srsly what was wrong with classic laser tag)

Hot Stampers

everyone else seems to think selfie sticks are inherently loathsome but i don't really care about them

back in my day you had to hold the Polaroid *just right*

Macklemore

back in the day you just had to say "excuse me will you take our picture" and hope the person wasn't a thief

this might actually give steampunk a run for its money.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7XNHCDOed6g/maxresdefault.jpg

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

xxpost it ain't a selfie if someone else takes your picture!

"Hot Stampers"

also: vinyl revival in general. keep waiting for it to die. 7 years is a long time to have people coming in my store to say: i hear they're coming back! and then leave without buying anything.

No bronyism, no credibility.

Furries

Twitter

loooooooool

horrified @ "chap-hop", good god I wanna crawl under a rock and cover my ears for all eternity

Thread swiftly turning me into Dr. Morbius as regards what inconsequential shit you folks get wound up about.

I have actually seen Mr B in the flesh - his previous band Collapsed Lung played a gig with Bis recently. They were not really my thing, but definitely made more hilarious by Jim Burke (Mr B) still wearing his moustache - as it's a non-removable requirement of his day job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz-XiweyDVs

Chap-hop is the lamest bullshit ever, don't think anyone was claiming it was consequential or not shit

has anyone been to an escape room game? i just heard about them. seems pretty harmless..
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/05/01/art-escape-room-323150.html

― slam dunk

my spouse had do one as a work activity, you know, "enforced recreation".

Some friends of mine have done these occasionally. They all have fun. It doesn't sound like my idea of fun, but hardly "worst fad".

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/960155_705015892858394_1549084023_n.jpg?oh=0b44b8d7b17e6a84aac5b5ddb16233ee&oe=584A926C

I get that yoga is the new preferred stretching/strength-building/fitness activity but ppl calling themselves yogis and gurus is pretty messed up

I just call everyone who does yoga a yogurt. Seems to work ok.

I did a really fun escape room, got out with seconds to spare. It was kind of steampunky I guess.

looks fun to me

like real life MYST

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/05/luxury-camp-at-burning-man-festival-targeted-by-hooligans

calling the actual cops smdh

I didn't realize there were these exclusive, private parties at Burning Man. This is pretty gross and goes against the spirit of the event. Hardly an example of a gift economy!

i think the worst fad is the proliferation of whatever kind of music this is. sub DMB 'reggae' tripe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxTu9bVcwU0

I agree but would point out that this is, in fact, jazz.

Twice in the last week I have seen groups of young people repeatedly dropping large filled water bottles. The first time it was on the tube, and continued for some time with a lot of uproar that would suggest it was a game, although there was no indication as to what the rules might be. And the second time just now at the bus stop - another group fixated by the same activity.

Is this an emerging trend and if so, does anyone know what it means?

means you made some enemies

water bottle games a big fad. my 11 year old is constantly flipping seltzer bottles around the house. check youtube.

Oh jesus. My kid does that too. *thunk* *thunk* *thunk*

Thank you for clarifying this! I was starting to think that the meaning systems had all shifted at once. Is it like an elaborate hacky sack?

As far as I know it's just trying to get it to land upright after flipping it. Bonus points for showmanship?

I was scared to ask, but was pretty sure it was about sticking an upright landing. whew, I'm not as out of touch as I thought.

I agree but would point out that this is, in fact, jazz.
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you justifiably probably didn't make it that far into the video, but there's a section with like reggae guitar and toasting. it's horrendous

i never clicked on that yt

you know there's a wookiefoot thread right

I think that's one of those things where I'd see it and my brain would protectively remove it from the listing somewhere between the optic nerve and consciousness such that I could never click on it

there was this long article on john mayer's career that someone posted on facebook and i actually read most of it and there were a million video embeds and the thought of actually clicking on one of the videos honestly never even occurred to me. i thought about that later. it's kind of that innate thing like knowing that you should wait for cars to go by before crossing a busy street.

ok the horrible video reminds me, where on ilx or the web did I see that video that was ripped from a local access show of yesteryear with a few kids playing a really off-kilter song about being all out of ganja

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jYMP1tz02Q

that's one of the best videos

running out of ganja is a serious problem tbf

which is why jill stein adopted that song as her campaign anthem.

bless you, goole

i just want to reassure the bass player in his public image limited t-shirt that life gets better

Shortly after the release of "Cooky Puss", iirc.

Escape rooms can be worthwhile. More so if you, yes, were a fan of Myst

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this local bar is doing something called a "silent disco" where everyone on the dance floor wears headphones that the dj transmits to, no actual sound in the room space. horrifying.

^^They're doing that tonight at ACL Fest.

it would be of great value to me, personally, if someone here could report on whether or not these are as bad as they seem

I went to a spirit halloween with my kid and was shocked at the amount of steampunk stuff they had, I kind of forgot that was a thing.

I have no idea who would be buying it, like the Sexy Covid Nurse constume buyers would hate that stuff and the hardcore steampunk typs would be building their own brass google / top hat contraptions.

A friend and I witnessed a bunch of teenagers and 20-somethings at the water’s edge dancing silently with headphones to a DJ set-up on China Beach when we were out walking a couple of years ago. When we came back later they had all taken their headphones off and were gathered around a guru.

It was probably some cultist Christian ministry thing, but walking among young people dancing silently on the beach was an unexpectedly sweet experience

it makes complete sense if it's outdoors or in a public place. but this is the basement of a bar - the perfect place for a sweet sound system. i think they must be trying to get in on the gimmick? people in my city are so ... ugh

Silent Discos have been about since the 90s, surely?

They've been putting those on for awhile in downtown Houston at fading indoor concert venue.

The fact that the bass is more a physical sensation than an aural one makes me think this could never be great

Yeah, silent discos have been around for a while. I always hated the idea but one year at Supernormal they had to finish the music early so compromised with one of these - it was reasonably fun, and quite amusing when you weren't participating watching people bop around to nothing.
However, if you don't *have* to do a silent disco, I have no idea why you would actively seek to do one.

A friend used to run them - one feature which was interesting was that there were separate channels so people were dancing to 3 different sets of music indicated by colour rings on the headphones. If you wanted to dance with someone you could switch to their stream so you were both hearing the same thing.

that sounds really nice