fads and phrases and annoying things we are sick of 2009

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.

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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.

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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