Crappy fads.

[jjcourtright]

What is the most irritating fad that you have witnessed?

I would have to go with "No Fear" shirts. Man, I despised those things and the people who wore them. It was always the skinniest little bastards that wore those. Not saying that I wasn't a skinny little bastard, but at least I didn't claim to have "No Fear". [censored].

[karmattack]

Cross Colours

I.C.P.

Pegged pantlegs

fluffy bangs

Nu Metal and Rap-Rock (of course excluding bands like Rage Against the Machine and, well, I'm leaving space for rent here. Biohazard was cool back in the day)

[JK]

Those friendship beads that were all the rage when I was in the fourth grade... You'd see some kids walking down the hall with their entire shirt covered with them- I got one- from my little sister no less. And the only reason she gave me one was because my mom made her do it.

Ah, crappy fads, the seeds of misanthropy...

[jjcourtright]

You can't tell me you didn't peg your pants in 7th grade. Everybody was doing it.

[karmattack]

Oh, you mean irritating AS you witnessed it?

Edit: I just realized that "pegged pants" was the only thing on my list that wasn't actually annoying as it was being witnessed. Point is moot.

[JIM]

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What is the most irritating fad that you have witnessed?


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I'm sure I'm going to add to this thread as time goes on...
Off the top of My head, those "M.A.D." and "Eight-ball" leather jackets back in the late eighties.
God, those things sucked and the people who wore them.

Edit: Oh yeah, Z cavaricci pants! Arrrrrgh!

[Remission]

Pacifiers back in the early 90's

[Dr3vil]

jncos, the pants so baggy you looked like a clown in small shoes.

[Hoffa]

I'd have to say all leather jackets, baseball caps and internet forums.

[RobinHoodDaffy]

White tennis visors worn upside down on little high school punks!

[Asteban]

<font color="green"> Pokemon, and pretty much any other fad, I hate them all. Especially the fact that the new fad is to dress punk. I hate posers. I can't go out in public anymore without some preppy [censored] walking by trying to look punk while they are talking on their cell phone saying "Oh my god!"

Its not that bad in my school thank god, I can go to school wearing my salvation army bought clothing without feeling like I just jumped on the bandwagon. I buy cheap clothes because I'm poor, not because its whats in. Damn sheep. </font color>

[Matt1]

During elementary school the fad I hated the most was pogs. I couldn't stand it. Everyone at recess would play pogs, except for me.

In Middle school it was, I shit you not, yo-yo's. I like yo-yo's, don't get me wrong. But everyone was walking around my school with one. It was annoying.

In high school... well, in high school I kind of stopped paying attention to everybody else. I'd given up. /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

[Sheriff]

The new jelly bracelets fad, how if you break them, depending on the color, you have to give a sexual favor, I cannot tell you how many blowjobs I have had to give this week...

I mean, gimme a break, I just want to wear my jellies in peace.

[Mighty_Wingman]

The old Yuppie sweater around the neck. More recently, men who wear scarfs.

[Knoob]

punk

[Mighty_Wingman]

You callin' me a punk ? Or are you saying punk is a crappy fad ?

[Omaru]

backwards jeans and clothing, lets all find out where kriss kross are now and go beat them up for that one.

And those little keychain digital pets that everyone had.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

<font color="purple">Condoms in your hair....</font color>

[Efexeye]

Anything "Big Johnson".

Spinning tire rims (it just distracts the piss out of me).

The word "metrosexual".

Dragon Ball Z.

The No Child Left Behind legislation. Whoa, that was vaguely political. I'd better stop.

[RobinHoodDaffy]

Wh-Wh-Wh-What!?! /forums/images/icons/confused.gif

[Asteban]

<font color="green"> Tons of stupid little freshman girls wear those at my school. I make note to call them whores everyday. Man . . . Freshman girls hate me. BAHAHAHAHA!!! Ahhh . . . I hate freshman girls. </font color>

[ILovePapaSmurf]

<font color="purple">I wouldn't like you much as well if you called me a whore for no reason...</font color>

[Asteban]

<font color="green"> I know, that was the intention. But they started it. I won't make a person hate me unless I have good reason. My good reason for making these freshman hate me is that they are snobs, think they're better than me. Wouldn't you find something to piss them off if they had said bad things about you? I would, oh wait. I did. Whore is just the tip of the iceburg, I usually get much more original. I'm a hateful hateful person. I don't know how I have any friends at all. Haha.</font color>

[EternalStrife]

I like freshman girls. Especially if they're cute and have huge......uh, intelligenace.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

yeah ummmm....Trying to be a punker with the tight pants, butt flags, some weird hair thing going on with the spikes and a wannabe core stance on everything. Ummmm this Straight edge fad too. I laugh at that one all the time. i still think pogs were the shit. The Trov pogs with DC characters, those kickd ass. Vanilla ICE. MC hammer. Kid Rock. and Those damn scooters!!

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Oh. AVRIL LAVIGNE ties. One pop punk girl wheres one tie around her neck and biggidy Bamm...ever high school girl is "Cool" because they're wearing a tie. If i was the creator of Dilbert, ide sue someone.

[HitParader]

WWJD
Abercrombie
Old Navy
ICP
Oh yeah, and the fact that people are trying to be "punks" now.

[Asteban]

<font color="green"> I'm glad people agree with me about that punk fad. My best friend saw someone with this pink fuzzy purse that said Punk on it. Preps who dress like punks = not punks at all. Just like Sheep who dress like ducks = not ducks at all.</font color>

[Dr3vil]

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The No Child Left Behind legislation. Whoa, that was vaguely political. I'd better stop.

[/ QUOTE ]Yes, but public policy that an effectively does the exact opposite of what it claims is enduring trend, though more in vogue now than usually. Sorta like leather, it pops up now and again, but never goes away.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

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I'm glad people agree with me about that punk fad. My best friend saw someone with this pink fuzzy purse that said Punk on it. Preps who dress like punks = not punks at all. Just like Sheep who dress like ducks = not ducks at all.

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<font color="purple">Ok, quick question Asteban. Now, before this Avril Lavinge 'punk' crisis came about, I used to wear skits with nylons and my 'chucks' almost everyday, now I don't consider myself punk or anything, I just choose to wear something because I like it. Now, here is my question. Do you consider me to be a sheep because I like to wear 'punk' items, because I like it. I am not one to follow someone's look or ideals. Because I know I am my own person and no one can change me. But, there are some items at hot topic that I really like to wear. Just asking what you thought. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif</font color>

[Robbo_the_Hood]

You know, I'm glad I got to experience the punk thing and got out of it before all this Avril Lavine (I don't care how it's spelled) and Good Charlotte stuff.

With that little Avril girl singing a ballad (there's no ballads in punk) about being the last girl in the bar with the line, "I don't know who you are but I'm with you," the punk movement has been industrialized like Hallmark with Valentine's Day. Both are now meaningless, except to stupid little girls and women who are incomplete without a husband.

Then again, I understand that every punk that grew up and left the movement feels that their time in the scene was the last reffuge of true punk and that punk has been too commercial ever since.

[jjcourtright]

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Anything "Big Johnson".

[/ QUOTE ] Good call. Just as irritating to me as "No Fear" was. Oddly enough, I was at the mall over the weekend, and I noticed that there is a "No Fear" store. What the shit is that about? I thought "No Fear" went out of vogue in like '96?

[JIM]

Yup, I hear that Robbo.
I used to go to all of the old NYC punk haunts and used to hear that shit all the time.
Love punk, but it died in the early eighties.
It's better that way...

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Yeah. Punk was never about getting girls or proclaiming how hardcore you are.

Rule One: If you're on the radio screaming about how much of a way of life this is for you, you're officially not punk. The same rule can be applied to Rap. If you're on the radio telling everyone you're from the streets, you're probably not from the streets. Watch CB4.

Rule Two: If all the girls in the club are up front during your set, you officially don't rock. It's always cool when there are two hardcore girls up front, but when all the girls in the club are trying to catch your sweat, then your credability has left the building.

Rule Three: It's never great to be in (insert town). Shut up and play your instruments, not the crowd.

Rule Four: Crowd surfing and moshing are dead now that they've been featured in beer commercials.

There are more rules, but punk for me was about a couple of differnt things: We couldn't stand what was playing on the radio, none of those bands came to our town anyway, we wanted to do it ourselves. In other words, we make bad music because what they play on the radio is even worse.

What's really cool is we've got a lot of kids around here taking those same principals and making some really good music around here. I believe in the Nashville (non-country) underground like some people believe in Jesus.

[TomHarrington]

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Rule Three: It's never great to be in (insert town). Shut up and play your instruments, not the crowd.


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Amen.

[jjcourtright]

I think that should be a rule for any type/style/genre of band.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Yeah, I think all of those rules can transcend genres. We should think of more rules.

[JIM]

Here's one:

When your band gets "famous", don't charge your fans the equivalent of a small third world nation's annual budget.

Here's another:

If your band did'nt have ballads in the early years, do your fans a favor and don't write one down the road.
It will most likely suck.

[Asteban]

<font color="green"> I wear things that are considered 'punk' myself too, sometimes, but its not because everyone else is. Its because that's what I like. Also, I was like that way before the whole 'trend' started. No I wouldn't consider you a sheep for that. Thats what you like, thats ok, its the people that think its cool because other people are doing it that bother me.

EDIT: I would also like to add. I only dress 'punk' one some days. I have also randomly dressed like a Pirate, and a Hobbit before. I would also like to add, that people that label themselves punk, USUALLY are not. </font color>

[Matt1]

Yeah, anyone who actually declares themselves punk is missing the point. It's kind of like the people who go out of their way to tell you that they have a gay friend, so it seems like it's not a big deal to them, when in fact, if it wasn't actually a big deal to them, they wouldn't even mention it at all.

[Glace]

Mo-hawks, dog clothes, excessive use of the word "like", constant variations of the Power Rangers, and as of recent, words such as "shizzle, sheazy, kronked" and so on.

[Omaru]

'n all dis stpd' sms talk that people have incorporated into their typing-based mediums. And on a similiar note, all that stupid elite (l33t) shit too.

[Asteban]

<font color="green"> Sometimes added all those Z's to words can be amusing. Not because we think we're 'cool' for doing it. Just to mock the people who do. Like "I have to take a pizzoop." A friend actually said this once. Laughed my ass off. Or my brother's most common one . . . "Dizzamn, I'm late for Wizzork." But when people actually think that they sound "cool" when they use this, they = stupid. </font color>

[Glace]

Eh, I was just noting, specifically, those who use this in every sentence that they speak (believe me, there are some out there). I, myself, may occasionally stick shizzle in a sentence every now and then. As for "l33t" and internet abbreviations, I hate them as well...

[Dave]

With that last statement, i think that Glace will make many new friends here.

[Asteban]

<font color="green"> Agreed. </font color>

[Sheriff]

The band rules are exellent, not only for punk but I agree that they pass beyond to all music.

Moshing died a while ago, I think I have seen it all, the last time I went to see a Metal band I saw someone put in a mouthpiece.

As for wearing 'Punk' clothes now, do your thing, just because mainstream finally decided that your clothes are in, don't not wear them. Just let another fad die and when people look at you and say "so five minutes ago" laugh at another sheep.

[jjcourtright]

What show was that at?

[karmattack]

I'm sure we could all tell some f'd up metal stories between myself, Razorback, and some others here.

[karmattack]

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and as of recent, words such as "shizzle, sheazy, kronked" and so on.

[/ QUOTE ] I would like to go on record as liking the words "shizzle" and "bizzle," and the phrase "ain't scurred." I also reserve the right to retract this statement in the near future.

[jjcourtright]

When "shizzle-speak" was just breaking through to the mainstream I had planned on shizzle-izing my voice-mail. Instead I went with George's voice-mail.

[Singing]
Believe it or not
Jeff isn't at home.
So leave a message
at the beep.
I must be out
or I'd pick up the phone.
Where could I be?
Believe it or not,
I'm not home.

[End Singing]

[Efexeye]

*scanning for improper Seinfeld reference*.........
*scanning complete*
No Anomaly Found! Nice, JJ!

[jjcourtright]

Unless you count the George -&gt; Jeff move...but, I think it would really confuse my callers if it said George.