fads and phrases and annoying things we are sick of 2009

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

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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 . . . "