fads and phrases and annoying things we are sick of 2009

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??

― iatee, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:23 (54 seconds ago) Bookmark

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.

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