fads and phrases and annoying things we are sick of 2009

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.

xpost

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.

― Josefa, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 7:05 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalin

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

that's not really true, i know two people called jack

77. Ostentatious austerity chic

78. Dalston

79. Riding bicycles with baskets on the front in built-up urban areas

80. "Electro"

81. Pretending that voting for David Cameron will make you a social progressive

82. getting the 80s wrong

83. fixed gear bikes and everything that goes with them, including the complaining when your £2000 stolen bike gets stolen.

80. "Electro"

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:37 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

84. Doing really mundane household tasks for the first time ever because you have an iPhone app to assist you

12)"in these tough economic times"

85. "It feels like we've turned the corner"
86. "We used to make things in this country"

87. "Trending topics"

88. Broadsheet news stories about Stephen Fry using Twitter

88. "green shoots" stfu

89. Anything which is "increasingly" doing something when it obviously isn't "increasingly" doing it. Or "ever increasing".

90. Hoodie horror flicks
91. Nostalgia for 80s football hooliganism

keep it up dudes, we're only about 120 posts away from a lucrative book deal

u guys electro is never going away sry

92. Liking Girls Aloud in an arch and ironic manner/writing an essay about it to everyone's shock and amazement

22) really big plastic eyeglasses like the state used to issue the kids with Downs syndrome

Can I just raise this to the whole "apparently trying to look retarded" fashion among hipster kids today? Because the Downs glasses are often coupled with a really awful Goodwill chic outfit, in my experience. Essentially, trying to look like a second grade class photo ca. 1984. Let's just stop it.

I don't hate Twitter...I just hate the tweeting twats who talk about it.

OTM. I don't know if this is just my experience or what but it seems like the only ppl that say this are in TV news commentary or tacky commercials. Mainstream douche bags trying to seem 'with it'. It has always felt like this is a manufactured from-the-top down trend. Or do ppl really check what random ppl think about pop culture events on twitter?

xp - Deric - my friend calls this aesthetic - "rockin' the group home look"

I remember in middle school in the early 90s when kids were doing the grunge thing it was also mixed with grandma/grandpa aesthetic, which I always thought was awesome. I don't think that's gonna come back tho.

trying to get a job/losing a job/how people are overqualified for jobs/graduate school

76. never meeting anyone called Jack

Aren't all babies in the UK named Jack these days?

Yes. It never sticks tho.

93. the new wave of big corps (walmart/best buy/target) running ads about how they are really just out here trying to be our buddies and help us out with low low prices.

i know a jack! but i haven't seen him since...2008 i think.

22) really big plastic eyeglasses like the state used to issue the kids with Downs syndrome

Can I just raise this to the whole "apparently trying to look retarded" fashion among hipster kids today? Because the Downs glasses are often coupled with a really awful Goodwill chic outfit, in my experience. Essentially, trying to look like a second grade class photo ca. 1984. Let's just stop it.

Dear God, X-post.

76. never meeting anyone called Jack

Aren't all babies in the UK named Jack these days?

In the US, too.