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??

And speaking of Stereogum and Videogum (and I've seen this on other sites/blogs as well), I fucking HATE how they use the phrase "you guys" in their headlines as part of a kind of "hey, we're all buddies on the internet" casual thing.

for some reason it really bugs me when a blog written by one or two people constantly uses the editorial "we"

"I call bullshit"

i hate when people say it like "chee pot uhl"

mostly only my mom does this

My mom says cha-POH-dul.

i tease my mom by pronouncing quinoa "kwinn-oh-wa"

Also, I don't mind "foodie" because I feel like it captures a particular concept that goes beyond just "someone who's into food."

"I call bullshit"

there was a brief period of time in the late 90s when I would invoke this in conversations by cupping my hands around my mouth and fake-shouting "BUUULLSHIIIT! BUUULLSHIIIT!" I think that lasted maybe a week

maybe outside of the scope of this thread but

anytime someone does an "experiment" demonstrating or makes reference to McDonalds food decaying at a slower rate than expected

DO YOU SEE, THIS FOOD IS UNNATURAL

it was also a thing in the 90s to say "bullshit" preceded by a fake cough/throat clearing

which was related to the "loser" sneeze

oh yes, I remember that well

there was a brief period of time in the late 90s when I would invoke this in conversations by cupping my hands around my mouth and fake-shouting "BUUULLSHIIIT! BUUULLSHIIIT!" I think that lasted maybe a week

hahaha

i'm not defending McD's but come on ppl this fact does not prove what you think it proves

like, maybe this suggests that McDonalds has reasonably good standards of cleanliness? guess you'll never know because you did not follow scientific method

xp

still tired of terrorist fist bumps, esp. when my kids come back from spending time with a relative or friend of the family who has taught them this "awesome" gesture of solidarity. My kids don't know better, so obv. I bump back, but I'm annoyed with the adults for sure.

Do they say "terrorist fist bump" when they do it?? I am intrigued.

it's a dap, jesus.

threads i am sick of in 2010

clever

no, I am calling it a terrorist fist bump for the teeny bit of late 2008 amusement I get in saying it. My kids just do it, grin, & run away.

it's a dap, jesus.

2009 term

...this thread is weak sauce

people who say "shizzle dizzle" and stuff like that man that' sbeen out of style for like six years get wif it

Dude needs to get wif it

sorry if this has been mentioned already but i cringe whenever i hear "this is OUR TIME!" on the social network ad. i feel like irl people don't actually say that, just people on television.

you're right I saw the social network ad on television

it was also a thing in the 90s to say "bullshit" preceded by a fake cough/throat clearing

― sarahel, Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:11 PM Bookmark

I feel like this was an 80s movie thing.

maybe - i remember it from highschool - which was late 80s/early 90s - could very well have come from an 80s movie

I did get a mean laugh at the movie theater though when Sally Struthers came on in a pre-film commercial and said something like "I look and feel the best I ever have"

and I semi-ironically yelled out "BULLSHIT". I was more making fun of dumb humor than of Sally Struthers though.

maybe - i remember it from highschool - which was late 80s/early 90s - could very well have come from an 80s movie

didn't it come from "The Breakfast Club"?

people definitely still did the "bullshit" throat clear when i was in middle school in the early-mid 90s

its certainly in it

we also said "I Hearrrrrrrrrrrrd that!" when someone got dissed

and in elementary school there was "GO SUCK AN EGG"

"crazy talk" seems extremely lazy

:/ i say that all the time. i am extremely lazy tbf.

speaking of laaaazy ... it's almost the end of 2010

"crazy talk" feels almost like it might be a simpsons thing?

Indian: That's crazy talk!
Bart: No, it's true.
Indian: No, I know, that's my brother, Crazy Talk.

"tekkers", as propagated by soccer am twats iirc. cannot stand it.

"do work"
"hot mess"

"tekkers", as propagated by soccer am twats iirc. cannot stand it.

^ this. Also my husband has taken to saying it, presume he thinks because I watch Soccer AM that I think this is a thing. I don't.

there may be a new thread for this that i didnt find, but search sux:

really tired of people saying, like, "i luh dis" and "really doe." stop.

i basically mean "typing"

das wassup

critic Nathan Rabin apologizes for coining "manic pixie dream girl"

http://www.salon.com/2014/07/15/im_sorry_for_coining_the_phrase_manic_pixie_dream_girl/

Nathan Rabin RIP 1968-2007

Didn't even know who this worthless piece of shit was until I saw this thread today.

god rest his soul

never clicked on that thread before, assumed it was a different Nathan Rabin

can we use this thread to talk abt how played "that ____ doe" is

Bae

I had my kids do a last day of school activity where they made a poster correcting a common mistake they do in writing or see in their classmates'. One guy drew a giant frowny face and under it wrote "why does everyone write bae instead of babe?" like full of genuine confusion.

Wait I 100% legit thought "bae" was meant to represent "boy" said in a comedy Scottish accent