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Trends I can't stand

TV announcers not waiting until the end of the credits - oh for the day when someone is employed to talk over them.

24 hour news, reporters and readers who think The Day Today is a training programme, news and weather people who like to have a little chat, describing every situation as 'fluid'...

Got a programme, bung Celebrity in the title and you've got two.

Grandad knitwear - shawl collars, elbow pads..., women's shoes - take a style of footwear and attach high heels, horizontal stripes, the 70s...

Chunky watches.

The idea the Liberal Democrats won the General Election.

Music - people who only have the download. DAB radios.

Ring-necked parakeets.

Supermarkets are for everything.

It's your patriotic duty to spend, spend, spend. The idea rising house prices are good. Low base-rate. The national sport, banker bashing.

Lard arse children and their lard arse parents.

Sepp Blatter.

People who moan on forums.🙂

And so on.

Cheers,
OW
 
The unnecessary use of word "gay" and "fag", Beliebers, getting a plain T-shirt with just the brand name logo on for $50+, MP3 compression on FM radio (are they 128kbps or something?), hard autotuning with so much(little?) vibrato that sounds like chipmunk, Jersey Shore.
 
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Abstract said:
Skinny jeans can look good.......on skinny people. 😉 They fit those people.
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Not necessarily. If you're a stick figure skinny jeans make you look really stick figure-ish, and the shirts with the really short sleeves don't help.

Being blessed with a nice big butt, I happen to hate the trend of skinny jeans because they've made almost all the other jeans "skinny" jeans AND low rise. I wear size 42s, and lately I've noticed that even the "regular" jeans are starting to get really tapered and have low waists, which is killing me! Finally for the first time in maybe I year I ordered a pair of levis and they fit friggin' AWESOME.

To the guys like me, go get some Levi 560s, you'll love em.

I know you're out there. 😀


so other things?

* That funny blue plaid. At first it was kinda neat but I've seen it way too much lately

* Hetero couples where you can't tell who's the girl and who's the guy. Funny, because fundamentally I'm all for that.

* UFC wannabes. Dude it looks like guys humping the hell outta each other. You think THAT is badass? Yikes!

* Trying to make every last car on earth look like a BMW 3 series. I hate Nissan and Mazda for starting this trend, especially the hoffmeister kink in the rear doors. Even the new Charger (not the current one, the 2011) has the *@#% kink. WTF?!

* Widescreen TVs. Because not everyone watches only Blu-Ray DVDs

* 3D TV

* TV/Internet/Phone providers nickel and diming us to death. I'm not @%*# paying $85 for 200 channels of crappy reality shows because Disney thinks ESPN is worth $60.

* Wall mounting your TV above the fireplace and giving everyone a neck ache. XD

* Stainless steel refrigerators belong in morgues. Oh.. I get it.. dead meat! hah.
 
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The baggy pants thing hanging below your butt can't really be considered a "trend." Hip-hop fan kids have been wearing their pants like that since the early 90's. I've always hated this style and still do. But...this style has been around for 20 years now...ugh.

I pretty much hate any fashion or trend started by hip-hop culture.
 
Aside from the pants thing, I think I prefer the trends started by hip hop culture to the trends started by most other cultures lol. Call me biased, I grew up around it.

I once was talking to an old guy at Wal-Mart and he said that the trend started because back in the day prisoners were given pants without anything to hold them up, and thus they'd sag like that. Weird trend. Why the heck would you wanna show your underpants to the world?!

Then again, I always wonder how the ladies feel about exposing their bare legs (and almost butts) to all sorts of public benches/car seats/whatever when they wear those super mini micro skirts/shorts.
 
1) Ghetto trash who throw stupid 30 inch rims on $500 cars, who meanwhile are also on welfare and unemployed.

It's really just the rims that I hate, but 9/10 times it goes hand in hand with the rest of the above. Even if it didn't, it's still horrendously stupid.

2) All things Jersey Shore and reality tv of all kinds, and the simpletons who follow that garbage religiously. The people on all those reality shows are nothing more than 25+ year old losers who never amounted to anything and just go out and get drunk and used up, and who obviously don't have much going on in their lives in terms of jobs/careers/educations/responsibility to be able to just go waffle off someplace and be on a tv set for X months filming reality trash.

3) All that skinny jean/hipster/emo/goth crap. Grow up, nobody cares if you're an emo sack of crap--you're pathetic. You and the other 5,000,000 "non-conformists" who look/act/dress/talk just like you do.
 
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Pants are never sold or worn, one leg at a time - yet we always use the plural.
Trousers. Slacks. I can't brain this. I've tried.

Plumbing - we stopped with the lead pipes.... a few centuries ago - we should be calling it Cuming by now. Where are the professional Cummers?
 
Big-TDI-Guy said:
Pants are never sold or worn, one leg at a time - yet we always use the plural.
Trousers. Slacks. I can't brain this. I've tried.

Plumbing - we stopped with the lead pipes.... a few centuries ago - we should be calling it Cuming by now. Where are the professional Cummers?
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The word "trousers" is a plurale tantum, always used in plural form— like "slacks", "breeches", "pants", "scissors" and "tongs". The form originated with the Scots "trews", which were divided, and every other term for leggings has followed suit. (Pun intended)

As for plumbing, there is still plenty of leadwork done, and pipework can be in lead, copper, PVC, nylon, polypropylene, iron, steel, stainless steel, and the rest: why limit it to copper? Next you'll be saying we should stop calling the alphabet by that name because we don't speak Ancient Greek any more.
 
You might like Nike, they started a trend of calling everything singular. I hate hearing a pair of socks being referred to as a "sock". One day, I asked my bro what he bought at the mall and he told me "a sock and a shoe lace."

*headpalm*

My car has 18" wheels, the SRT8 comes with 20"ers that I'd trade for in a heartbeat, and there are some chrome 22" SRT8 replicas I'd love about as much, albeit heinously expensive rubber.

You wanna see weird? In my town we've got ricers on humongous wheels - about the strangest one I've seen is a pink Lexus with the loud Folgers(tm) exhaust and 24" pink and yellow wheels. A hybrid in terms of ghetto and ricer. Yikes!

Almost all forms of car modding to the extreme can be annoying, it's fun to watch this thread actually. Imagine if everyone was perfectly rational in their decisions, the world would get boring!
 
Actually Skunk... now that you mention it... 😉

I'd actually favor a generic term along the lines of molecular-transfer media, just not plumbing.

With the type of education (or lack thereof) I was exposed to - especially with strict (borderline OCD) english teachers instructing students with zero tolerance - I have some expectation for the mechanics of the language to follow suit. It all started back in 2nd grade - when I learned the spelling of Arkansas... My brain has been stuck in a loop since that day.
 
I just can't think of any trends that tick me off enough to have that strong an opinion of, what people do is their own business and sounding off on a group due to a shared trait just seems to feed potential prejudice.

"It's just a fad" works both ways.
 
JoeG4 said:
You might like Nike, they started a trend of calling everything singular. I hate hearing a pair of socks being referred to as a "sock". One day, I asked my bro what he bought at the mall and he told me "a sock and a shoe lace."

*headpalm*

My car has 18" wheels
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Presumably that should be "My car has an 18" wheel".
 
Guys who wax everywhere and leave clown hair under their arms. Either leave it all or wax it all! (Applicable to toned guys)
Emo/goth same difference
People with tattoos everywhere. A few hidden are ok, but I see 17 year old girls with sleeves. I mean come on!
Internet speak. It's like a new language. Can't people learn to write English properly?
People who say epic, win etc etc
 
8 year olds with cell phones...im 19 in college and barely have a need for mine except if the car would break down on the way home so what would an 8 year old need one for?
 
tjb1 said:
8 year olds with cell phones...im 19 in college and barely have a need for mine except if the car would break down on the way home so what would an 8 year old need one for?
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Their bicycles might break down. You never know.
 
skunk said:
Their bicycles might break down. You never know.
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Oh I got another one, dont know how many people this applies to buy Chinese restaurants that have someone that cant speak/understand english on the phone...I might be a little bit biased because it took them 96 minutes to deliver 2 things of fried rice.
 
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