What trends do you find absurd?

[Truthspeaker]

And my own...Ball caps with straight bills...I was a rancher's son and a baseball player and we curved our bills so the sun would stay out of our eyes. now they keep them factory straight and to the side.

I coach baseball. It's annoying enough when teenage punks do it. To see grown men doing it makes me wanna vomit. It's so phony! Who the hell do you think you're intimidating? Especially when they wear it low and barely over their eyes.
Freakin Clowns

 

[DiveCon]

Like this?

Aaaah! My retinas are burning!!!

I want to know where the hell that was and whose idea it was to do that!

it must have been some place WARM

 

[Cecilie1200]

Texting.

Calling a small coffee "tall"...**** THAT!

I agree on the texting. Unless you're somewhere that you have to be quiet - in which case, you're probably not allowed to use a cellphone at all - it's faster and easier to just call and talk. And I hate that everyone assumes that everyone ELSE is as into texting, so it never occurs to them that not all of us have unlimited text messaging.

 

[KittenKoder]

Government funded babysitters for adults ...

 

[Truthspeaker]

Moonwalking.

Hula Hoops.

Vomitoriums, public baths, and gladiator battles.

I don't care about the others but what's cooler than moonwalking? Are you crazy?

 

[Truthspeaker]

I sell clothing for a living in san francisco. I'm in the know as far as fashion.
I hate:
skinny ties
suits with no ties
crocheted hats(some weird fashionista thing all the art students wear)
tight as hell pants on men.
flooding suit pants
color contact lenses
square toed shoes
holes in jeans
shirts with diamond checks on them.(just keep the freakin normal square checks. You look like a doofus)
rolled up shirtsleeves
sunglasses at night.
shaved eyebrows of any kind.
Muffin tops on women
tramp stamps(even though they are sexy sometimes. They literally make you look like a ho)
bobbed haircuts on women
bald heads on women
combovers(the trend has never gone away.)
tongue-rings
robin hood boots(usually worn with really tight dark jeans. Hideous)

Overused and annoying phrases like "giving back to the community"
"special needs children"
"make the world a better place."
"legendary icon" to describe a celebrity.
"significant other" (what are you afraid to admit)
"Let me talk to my better half."

Women who aren't willing to take their husband's last name
Men who marry them


I'll have more later

 

[veritas]

Women who aren't willing to take their husband's last name
Men who marry them

Really? Why?

 

[KittenKoder]

Blaming corporations for what our government forces them to do (or for the game they are forced to play by the government).

 

[Truthspeaker]

Women who aren't willing to take their husband's last name
Men who marry them

Really? Why?

because I'm really old school and close minded I guess.

I think women should be women and men should be men. Not reverse roles.

 

[DiveCon]

Women who aren't willing to take their husband's last name
Men who marry them

Really? Why?

because I'm really old school and close minded I guess.

I think women should be women and men should be men. Not reverse roles.

what about the hyphenating of names?

 

[Truthspeaker]

Really? Why?

because I'm really old school and close minded I guess.

I think women should be women and men should be men. Not reverse roles.

what about the hyphenating of names?

I'm liberal enough to tolerate that. But it is kindof annoying and wordy

 

[DiveCon]

because I'm really old school and close minded I guess.

I think women should be women and men should be men. Not reverse roles.

what about the hyphenating of names?

I'm liberal enough to tolerate that. But it is kindof annoying and wordy

yeah

mary green marries john blue
their children become james green-blue and alice green-blue
they meet and marry cindy yellow-brown and glen white-black
their kids become greg green-blue/yellow-brown and alicia green-blue/white-black

it gets confusing

 

[Truthspeaker]

Everybody is trying to be this phony type of independant stylista. It's tired. Just be yourself. I don't think these people are being themselves at all when they go to extremes. It's just a cry for attention.

 

[froggy]

reality shows

 

[Cecilie1200]

Women who aren't willing to take their husband's last name
Men who marry them

Really? Why?

because I'm really old school and close minded I guess.

I think women should be women and men should be men. Not reverse roles.

I can see keeping your maiden name, or hyphenating, for career purposes if you've already achieved a certain amount of fame under that name. Otherwise, I'm a traditionalist, and think the family should all have the same last name.

 

[American Horse]

Here are some trends growing in common usage, all in the language

1) Referring to or calling social monsters “gentlemen”
A news report about some perpetrator of a heinous crime like rape, murder, or even a gunning with multiple dead victims, is often referred to as a “gentleman” by a media spokes-person.

This trendy practice seems to have flowed out of the legal correctness of never calling someone a “suspect,” to the extent of even calling an obvious criminal act “alleged” for fear of pre-judging and acknowledging that a vicious murder was actually a crime, or that a person who is at large and is as yet remains unidentified could be a “gentleman” suggesting a person of "gentle" impulses.

2) The increasing frequency of making hard “g” sounds in words that have what should be a silent ‘G’ in the middle or at the end. “winging” becomes “win-Gin-G”. I think this trend comes from a recent influence from the Middle East, where hard ‘Gs’ are more common in the language; increasingly people who hear the hard “G” assume it must be correct and then pick up the same usage.

3) The increasing tendency for people to not understand the usage of the verb (of being) "have," unnecessarily introducing the word “would” in the place of the past perfect participle "had," resulting in people saying things like:

“If I would have done the right thing...” or
“If you would have done the right thing...”

when the correct grammar and word usage in such instances would be:

“If I had done the right thing....” or
“If you had done the right thing....”

 

[AVG-JOE]

Well, about people covered in tattoos - got nothing against that and actually, I love good-creative-tattoo-covered boys/girls... Actually, I want my boyfriend to get a full sleeve - come on, nice, lean, muscular arms covered in awesome tattoos? What IS better and hotter? Not much else I think on some it looks beyond hot (on others not so much). I myself would love to have a half-sleeve or a large back tattoo... (once I can afford it and know exactly what I want, I'm going for it, btw.)

One trend that is actually a bit annoying here in Sweden, although I couldn't say I 'hate' it, is the weird stripper-shoe trend. All of a sudden it is really 'in' to wear these huge 6-9 inch heel platform stiletto-heel shoes. Not only is it extremely uncomfortable to walk in, but it does look like a part of true prostitute's uniform... it's hard to take a girl/woman with these shoes on seriously. Of course, fetish-club situation is different... stilleto shoes are part of the fetish scene... that's where I'd like to keep them.

What actually disturbs me a little about this trend is the underage girls wearing them... I wonder what their parents are thinking buying them these things.

How do you KNOW, Neser?

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[KittenKoder]

Global warming!

 

[DiveCon]

Well, about people covered in tattoos - got nothing against that and actually, I love good-creative-tattoo-covered boys/girls... Actually, I want my boyfriend to get a full sleeve - come on, nice, lean, muscular arms covered in awesome tattoos? What IS better and hotter? Not much else I think on some it looks beyond hot (on others not so much). I myself would love to have a half-sleeve or a large back tattoo... (once I can afford it and know exactly what I want, I'm going for it, btw.)

One trend that is actually a bit annoying here in Sweden, although I couldn't say I 'hate' it, is the weird stripper-shoe trend. All of a sudden it is really 'in' to wear these huge 6-9 inch heel platform stiletto-heel shoes. Not only is it extremely uncomfortable to walk in, but it does look like a part of true prostitute's uniform... it's hard to take a girl/woman with these shoes on seriously. Of course, fetish-club situation is different... stilleto shoes are part of the fetish scene... that's where I'd like to keep them.

What actually disturbs me a little about this trend is the underage girls wearing them... I wonder what their parents are thinking buying them these things.

How do you KNOW, Neser?

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maybe she has worn them once or twice



yes, pics are a must for THIS one
LOL

 

[tigerbob]

Using the term 'Diva' to describe an R&B singer nobody had heard of three months ago.