Fads You Hate

There's a great song that mocks emo's, but I can't think who does it right off.

Big bangs.

We depleted the ozone in the 80's with all that aerosol hairspray.

So many fads to hate, so little space to list them...

Mall Hair
Goth
Swallowing Goldfish
Streaking!
The Macarena
Troll Dolls
Pet Rocks
Puka Beads

5. Roller derby

4. Text messaging

3. Rock and roll

2. MILF porn

1. Democracy

Chia Pets - People still buy these things
Dave Matthews
Pulp Fiction - Ohh… Quentin really knows how to utilize the word F***.
Sideburns - Except Colin Firth can keep his.
Mullets - They’re still out there

Reality Television

I love all fads.

Yeah, the flattened flock of Seagulls haircut's gotta go. Also, boys wearing girl's jeans. Holy crap that's awful.

I saw a kid the other day who had pants on (I use the term loosely) that were so baggy they were literally around his knees. Not just gangsta baggy. Baggy as in "I can see the bottoms of your boxers and the backs of your knees". I cracked up but my SO told me that was the latest thing.

Cellphone addiction. Seriously. You do NOT need to have your security blanket slash cellphone pressed against your ear 24/7 so that you're never, ever alone. You'll be okay if you can't hear your own voice or that of someone you know for the ten or fifteen minutes it takes to pump gas or pick up groceries. I promise.

Roger J Carlson said:

Reality Television

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Me too! And I don't even watch television. It just seems like such a key indicator of the end of civilized civilization.

Let's start an anti-fad fad

Women wearing a dress and jeans underneath. I've been told that some of what I'd consider a "dress" is actually a "tunic"-- f that. The whole trend must go.

Fads? You mean you people actually wanted me to pay attention?

Ultra said:

Women wearing a dress and jeans underneath. I've been told that some of what I'd consider a "dress" is actually a "tunic"-- f that. The whole trend must go.

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I generally HATE the pants-under-dress look, but I fear that with maternity looming that may be the only way to go. I plan to go with leggings ala Lindsey Lohan, meaning I'll look like a wanna-be trendy hipster. But those tunic tops/dresses are too great for bump-coverage to pass up. Yet they're sliiiightly too short to wear alone.

Sorry, I'm just not an overalls and conservative maternity clothes type-a-gal.

CBeasy said:

Yeah, the flattened flock of Seagulls haircut's gotta go. Also, boys wearing girl's jeans. Holy crap that's awful.

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They went unisex in the '70s. Girl's jeans used to zip on the side.

I agree with reality television - I don't even own a TV (connection.)

Explanation:
I have a TV hidden in my closet attached to a DVD player, but it doesn't even get local channels... that I know of... I haven't actually tried it to find out. DVD player works fine, though

Akuma said:

Post fads you hate--current or past!

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religion

Mammoth hunting is soooo last ice age....and white belts

Akuma said:

Myself, I can't stand this new "emo kid" thing.

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It's new? Seems to me my kids have been complaining about it for years.

If you are a homeschool mom then you must also do all your own baking and practically churn your own butter too. You also keep the house perfectly clean all the time. And if you don't do this then you aren't considered a good mom.

I'm not a homeschool mom. I'm not even a mom at all but I hope this trend passes by the time I become a mom or I'll be bound to get violent. I just had to stop reading the sites I was getting all this from before I said something I would regret.

I live in Maine. I think that those new silvery looking plastic snowshovels are a fad, as well as the LLBean men's plaid shirts in pastel colors. I dislike them both.

rosemerry said:

If you are a homeschool mom then you must also do all your own baking and practically churn your own butter too. You also keep the house perfectly clean all the time. And if you don't do this then you aren't considered a good mom.

I'm not a homeschool mom. I'm not even a mom at all but I hope this trend passes by the time I become a mom or I'll be bound to get violent. I just had to stop reading the sites I was getting all this from before I said something I would regret.

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Nonsense. You can always be an intellectually oriented homeschool mom who spends all her time taking the kids to concerts, plays and museums rather than the frontier/back to the land mom who bakes and gardens.

Those clacker things. I kept hitting my fingers.