Most annoying current or upcoming trends?

CHANGEinWAVES

Cinnamon Girl wrote:

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I'll post pics later

Please include the one of the dogs getting it on!! :P

mrvedderson

lip piercings,
tattoos on girls arms
blackberry phones

CHANGEinWAVES

mrvedderson wrote:

lip piercings,
tattoos on girls arms
blackberry phones

Hmmmm you've just about described me! (Trade lip ring for a nose stud)

JaneNY

scb wrote:

Rick-rolling. Seriously - what the fuck is up with that? Why would anyone find it amusing??

Well no one finds it funny NOW. In 2007 it was good for a laugh or two, but its kind of ancient history. Some of the things listed are not current or upcoming trends. I mean lip pierces? Those have been around for years. Manson's had one since the 90's. Crocs? At least 3 years. Blackberries? years. The most annoying thing I can think of that's current is Lady Gaga. A talentless entity.

dangeringravity

JaneNY wrote:

scb wrote:

Rick-rolling. Seriously - what the fuck is up with that? Why would anyone find it amusing??

Well no one finds it funny NOW. In 2007 it was good for a laugh or two, but its kind of ancient history. Some of the things listed are not current or upcoming trends. I mean lip pierces? Those have been around for years. Manson's had one since the 90's. Crocs? At least 3 years. Blackberries? years. The most annoying thing I can think of that's current is Lady Gaga. A talentless entity.

i agree. particularly the song "poker face"...terrible, in my opinion!

CB206820

Crocs are cool for kickin around the house or pool... They really are comfortable...

EquallyWorthless

how am i the only one who has said ed hardy, seriously the ugliest fashion trend in the history of man, possibly. looks like my 3 year old kid brother ate a bunch of glitter and pastels and barfed on a t shirt.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

most annoying current trend???

Has anybody else notice the increase of people who are running down the street chasing after U.P.S. drivers???

It has really gotten out of hand, and needs to be stopped.

Somebody is going to get injured.

xavier mcdaniel

layoffs, pay cuts, furloughs..

iamsam_pj

Cinnamon Girl wrote:

Thanks to a certain miss CIW I went into an American Apparel for the first time ever this week and....It looked like the eighties threw up in there!!

http://www.americanapparel.com/rsac307.html
http://www.americanapparel.com/rsa0301lw.html
http://www.americanapparel.com/rsald503.html
http://www.americanapparel.com/rsand301mw.html (stone wash....are you shitting me??)

Please no....it's horrible...because the ACTUAL people who wear these clothes sure as hell wont be models!

THAT is the most annoying upcoming trend IMHO.

i sell the mineral wash shorts at my store...we've actually sold out of them!!

i'm a big fan of american apparel...and won't lie when i say that i own 2 pairs of these in eel skin and mauve/black dots: http://store.americanapparel.net/rsac349.html#i

they're amazing and i love them i can't pull off a lot of the things that they have in there...most things were not made for anyone w/ hips!!

BinFrog

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

most annoying current trend???

Has anybody else notice the increase of people who are running down the street chasing after U.P.S. drivers???

It has really gotten out of hand, and needs to be stopped.

Somebody is going to get injured.

Hah

rrivers

smithnic wrote:

Twitter

I know Twitter will be said a million times on this thread, but I have to vote for it too.

Great thread by the way!

rrivers

Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

Faith No More suddenly being 'cool' again because they've reformed and are touring.

Some of us have liked them for f'in years. :evil:

This is not a new annoying trend, but people that love to tell you they have been into something longer than other people is and has always been annoying.

rrivers

Flagg wrote:

Any and everything to do with Twilight. My wife and her friends are ridiculously obsessed with this drivel meant for 15 year old girls. Good God! If she wasn't such a big PJ fan (and a wonderful person otherwise), I would have to think about making a decision.

You are so right about "Twilight". I read the first book because my wife bought and said it was really good. I read it and hated it. The writing is absolutely horrible. The Harry Potter books aren't as good as a lot of people make them out to be, but at least they are well written.

rrivers

kevinbeetle wrote:

threads that can be answered by going to google
threads that have part of a topic in the title, enticing you to read

Next to threads about pictures of band members being hot or rankings of songs/albums, these two are the most annoying things here.

The worst thing about the new board is not being able to put the mouse over a thread topic to see if it is worthwhile because there are a lot that aren't.

rrivers

ChasingDogma wrote:

Green. Green is a good idea until it becomes a fashion trend sewn together in Indonesian sweat shops, and packaged and sold at Walmart.

Yeah I've always hated it. Just say recycle! "Green your home!" Green is not a verb you hippie freak!

rrivers

LongRd. wrote:

metsfan wrote:

aNiMaL wrote:

Seattle Newspapers stopping print after 146 years

i heard bout the PI going under, sorry for your loss. my local paper is hurting badly to


internet killing the newspaper industry and fucking young people for not reading the paper. thats what annoys me

I don't think young people not reading the papers have that much to do with the failure, it's basically the Internet. The print industry should have seen it coming ever since Ebay started to become a huge trend back around the late 90's. Then Google came along, later craigslist, and so forth....basically these sites sucked all the advertisements away from the newspapers. That's where the papers make their money, from the ads.

:(

Bill Simmons on ESPN had an interesting debate with Chuck Klosterman the other day about this.

Here it is if anyone is interested: http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/pod ... id=2864045

It's the one on 3/13.

Simmons argues that one reason is that writers in newspapers had unions representing them so a writer basically got tenure there and didn't have to worry about losing his job so he wasn't doing the best work. I don't think this had anything to do with it.

They both did point out what you said that it is just the internet and that papers saw other papers put their paper online for free so they would put there's on to try to keep up. But people stopped buying what they could get for free. You are right about craigslist. That's something Klosterman pointed out that I hadn't thought of.

It's a bummer especially for my parent's generation. My dad reads the paper every morning and I know it will really suck for him.

rrivers

http://www.americanapparel.com/rsa0301lw.html

So that's where the bat wings went!

pearljgirl2010

rrivers wrote:

http://www.americanapparel.com/rsa0301lw.html

So that's where the bat wings went!

um. i have that in silver.










(not really-ew)

LONGRD

rrivers wrote:

LongRd. wrote:

metsfan wrote:

i heard bout the PI going under, sorry for your loss. my local paper is hurting badly to


internet killing the newspaper industry and fucking young people for not reading the paper. thats what annoys me

I don't think young people not reading the papers have that much to do with the failure, it's basically the Internet. The print industry should have seen it coming ever since Ebay started to become a huge trend back around the late 90's. Then Google came along, later craigslist, and so forth....basically these sites sucked all the advertisements away from the newspapers. That's where the papers make their money, from the ads.

:(

Bill Simmons on ESPN had an interesting debate with Chuck Klosterman the other day about this.

Here it is if anyone is interested: http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/pod ... id=2864045

It's the one on 3/13.

Simmons argues that one reason is that writers in newspapers had unions representing them so a writer basically got tenure there and didn't have to worry about losing his job so he wasn't doing the best work. I don't think this had anything to do with it.

They both did point out what you said that it is just the internet and that papers saw other papers put their paper online for free so they would put there's on to try to keep up. But people stopped buying what they could get for free. You are right about craigslist. That's something Klosterman pointed out that I hadn't thought of.

It's a bummer especially for my parent's generation. My dad reads the paper every morning and I know it will really suck for him.[/quote]
Thanks for the link. That was a good debate there. I find that interesting they compare a writer's position to that of a teacher's tenure; it does seem like once you're in you're there until you retire and not much hope for the new kids.

I guess in a way the older writers/editors never gave Internet that much credit when it first started out. Now, it came back to bite them in the ass and the print industry is dying.