What trends do you find absurd?

[Cecilie1200]

Preschool age kids with makeup, high heels, toenail polish, flaming skulls, and dyed mohawks.

Does anyone know what's up with the trend of parents letting their little boys' hair grow down to their asses? I mean "little boys" here as in toddlers and kids in elementary school. Are they TRYING for gender confusion and being teased mercilessly, or what?

 

[DiveCon]

Preschool age kids with makeup, high heels, toenail polish, flaming skulls, and dyed mohawks.

yeah, that IS disgusting

 

[goldcatt]

Preschool age kids with makeup, high heels, toenail polish, flaming skulls, and dyed mohawks.

Does anyone know what's up with the trend of parents letting their little boys' hair grow down to their asses? I mean "little boys" here as in toddlers and kids in elementary school. Are they TRYING for gender confusion and being teased mercilessly, or what?

I've seen enough of them I doubt they're getting teased mercilessly, especially at that age. But why? I have no idea. My kids were in preschool with two boys, not brothers, one of whom had a hot pink mohawk and the other a buzz with black and yellow stripes. If parents really have to get freaky with their kids' hair, I'd prefer the long locks to that stuff.

 

[tigerbob]

I'm not dissing automatics, but try and get a manual. The one manual I have, maybe one in 20 were manuals, and they had to be ordered.

Manuals save gas.

In Britain it's almost a mirror image to how it is in the U.S. Manual trans dominates the market over there.

 

[tigerbob]

The words "Edgy", and "pop".

Saddling kids with ridiculous first names.

Or worse, old familiar names spelled random and bizarre ways. Like that makes it original.

Her: My name Cydne (not Sidney)
Me: Your parents were fucktarded assholes, sorry you had to live with that.

I remember getting in trouble when a friend introduced me to his new girlfriend:

Him: This is Anita.
Me: This is a what?

She gave me a filthy look. Cow.

 

[veritas]

What's wrong with toenail polish?

 

[William Joyce]

Men who wear baseball hats while eating in a restaurant.

Women who wear sweatpants to go shopping.

Corporate types who say "going forward" a lot.

Academic types who say "narrative" a lot.

 

[Neser Boha]

Preschool age kids with makeup, high heels, toenail polish, flaming skulls, and dyed mohawks.

Does anyone know what's up with the trend of parents letting their little boys' hair grow down to their asses? I mean "little boys" here as in toddlers and kids in elementary school. Are they TRYING for gender confusion and being teased mercilessly, or what?

Or maybe they're just letting their son grow his hair... What is wrong with boys having long hair? During communism long hair on men was seen as anti-government - the commie bastards also for some reason despised expressions of individuality ...

 

[Cecilie1200]

Men who wear baseball hats while eating in a restaurant.

Women who wear sweatpants to go shopping.

Corporate types who say "going forward" a lot.

Academic types who say "narrative" a lot.

How about men who wear ANY hat in a building? If you're not covering the scars from your recent brain surgery, take the stupid thing off.

Never mind sweatpants. Has anyone else seen women walking around in PAJAMA PANTS in public? And fuzzy bedroom slippers? If it's not 2 am and you're running frantically to the drugstore for medicine for your sick baby, put some frigging REAL clothes on.

Anyone whatsoever who uses the phrase "phone tag" or "touching base".

 

[Cecilie1200]

Preschool age kids with makeup, high heels, toenail polish, flaming skulls, and dyed mohawks.

Does anyone know what's up with the trend of parents letting their little boys' hair grow down to their asses? I mean "little boys" here as in toddlers and kids in elementary school. Are they TRYING for gender confusion and being teased mercilessly, or what?

I've seen enough of them I doubt they're getting teased mercilessly, especially at that age. But why? I have no idea. My kids were in preschool with two boys, not brothers, one of whom had a hot pink mohawk and the other a buzz with black and yellow stripes. If parents really have to get freaky with their kids' hair, I'd prefer the long locks to that stuff.

When you genuinely can't tell if that first grader is a boy or a tomboyish girl, there's a problem.

I can't even imagine seeing a kid that young with a mohawk and dyed hair. Holy crap!

 

[Neser Boha]

Does anyone know what's up with the trend of parents letting their little boys' hair grow down to their asses? I mean "little boys" here as in toddlers and kids in elementary school. Are they TRYING for gender confusion and being teased mercilessly, or what?

I've seen enough of them I doubt they're getting teased mercilessly, especially at that age. But why? I have no idea. My kids were in preschool with two boys, not brothers, one of whom had a hot pink mohawk and the other a buzz with black and yellow stripes. If parents really have to get freaky with their kids' hair, I'd prefer the long locks to that stuff.

When you genuinely can't tell if that first grader is a boy or a tomboyish girl, there's a problem.

I can't even imagine seeing a kid that young with a mohawk and dyed hair. Holy crap!

I'd say it's the norm that during early ages, it's rather hard to distinguish boys from girls... unless you put little pig tales and skirts on the girls and baseball caps on the boys. I for one think little mohawks look uber cute on the little rascals ... as long as they themselves enjoy having that haircut (the dye is a bit too much - because it is potentially dangerous). I also don't think it's necessary to impress on them how much different they are by being of a different sex so early on - simply because there is really not that much difference beyond the physical.

 

[AllieBaba]

There's non-toxic temporary hair dye.

I think it's asinine to project your own desire to be cool on your kids. They're supposed to be kids...they aren't supposed to be making a statement with their attire and their hairdos. Not only that, it teaches them to put way too much emphasis on appearance.

 

[Cold Fusion38]

Beauty pagents for little girls. Can you say vicariously living through your daughter?

 

[Cold Fusion38]

I'm not dissing automatics, but try and get a manual. The one manual I have, maybe one in 20 were manuals, and they had to be ordered.

Manuals save gas.

In Britain it's almost a mirror image to how it is in the U.S. Manual trans dominates the market over there.

That's cause Europeans know how to drive.

 

[Cold Fusion38]

Or worse, old familiar names spelled random and bizarre ways. Like that makes it original.

Her: My name Cydne (not Sidney)
Me: Your parents were fucktarded assholes, sorry you had to live with that.

I remember getting in trouble when a friend introduced me to his new girlfriend:

Him: This is Anita.
Me: This is a what?

She gave me a filthy look. Cow.

One morning my room mate came down stairs with some girl he picked up at the bar. He introduced her as Irish.......She corected him and told me her name was Iris! LOL!!!

 

[Cold Fusion38]

If their parents let them have their OWN self expresion then there is NOTHING wrong with it.

 

[DiveCon]

Beauty pagents for little girls. Can you say vicariously living through your daughter?

i can go one better
its borderline child abuse

 

[PixieStix]

What trends do you find absurd?

Citing "Rules for Radicals" from Saul Alinsky

Using Alinsky rules for to "debate"/ignore and deflect

 

[garyd]

The trend of the left beginning with Stubbs and continuing on through Ted Kennedy and for God alone knows how many more to lionize any leftist political hack who dies in office no matter how damn useless they actually thought he was.

 

[goldcatt]

Trying to turn all the fun lighthearted threads into more partisan garbage.

Coffee that takes longer to order than it does to pour.